Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area

$16.95 at de Young Museum.

Why are there so few public monuments honoring women? Unsung Heroines shows it's time to claim that space! Women are grossly underrepresented in all of the Bay Area's public spaces, but not because they didn't exist! Did you know about Charlotte Brown, a Black woman in San Francisco who in 1863 took the city's transportation system to court for forcibly removing her from a streetcar, and won her landmark case? How about the first Chinese-American woman to register to vote, Clara Chan Lee, who went on to start…