An extraordinary journey from the nineteenth century to the present that goes back over the history of photography with different eyes, because, as Clara Bouveresse puts it, there is no single female gaze but a great many. Edited by the journalist Laure Adler and the art historian Clara Bouveresse, the book is a carousel of images, names and voices belonging to the artists who took hold of photographic narrative and who often came up against the prejudices aimed at women artists. Women took an active part in the development of this language from its very beginning: photography was at first a young, agile trade, not necessarily prestigious or exclusive, a creative activity. Employed at the start above all in portraiture, after the First World War women used photography more and more as an instrument of social and political enquiry precisely because it was a free, pliable, unstandardised language. In a selection of sixty-eight faces and pictures the two editors tell of women photographers, from indispensable pioneers to forgotten figures and young new voices. Some were engaged in politics or militant feminism, others ventured into war zones or broke norms and conventions. All took risks, freed themselves from settled contexts and invented untried ways of being and working. They are dangerous women because they called into question the expectations and the assumptions around their profession and their standing, and because they invite us to imagine new worlds with them.