women’s soccer team won the World Cup Academy Awards are received with equality speeches and next year, women will be allowed to the front lines of combat in the U.S. Hillary Clinton’s viability as a presidential candidate is a given A U.S. Beyond the unpalatable acerbity that defined second and third-wave feminism came the charge to “lean in ,” secure the right to “have it all” and fly through the glass ceiling. Now as the movement for women’s equality gains momentum, the women’s landscape looks increasingly different. Each demonstrated an unprecedented commitment to move the race forward-documenting everything from the Civil Rights Movement to the effects of drought in the African Sahel, 90s male hustlers to Native American issues-sometimes unpaid and off the books. They were some of the world’s greatest visionaries and strongest image makers, from Alice Austen to Ebet Roberts, Eve Fowler to Deborah Turbeville. Many female photographers of the past decade remain in the footnotes of history’s conversations, their contributions fizzling into relative obscurity while their male counterparts were the stars. The world has not always included women in its narrative. This International Women’s Month, TIME honors, with this non-exhaustive list, some American female trailblazers who challenged the accepted conventions of the time and paved the way for today’s image makers.
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