Jackson is a skilled writer who effectively connects her personal experiences to a powerful message: Going rogue, the author asserts, "assures us we hold the power and tools of change inside our mysterious, wondrous female bodies." A compelling memoir of female resistance, resilience and agency. — Kirkus Reviews

The Female Rogue:
A Memoir of Living Fiercely

Hundreds of female eyes, locked in oil and clay, latched onto Jackson’s body as she wandered the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Frozen in frames and on pedestals as virgins and victims, the female eyes were scattered among a sea of images of male kings, conquerors and gods. The intense female gaze urged Jackson to set them free and ignited a full-blown panic attack. Two months later, a dream shook Jackson awake with a question as insistent as the female eyes:  Find your rogue, the dream insisted. In the dream Jackson searched, unsuccessfully, for her rogue along New York sidewalks and Montana meadows. When she awakened, she realized rogue was not to be found in the outside world but inside of her body eager to spring to life with agency and power.

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Advance Praise

  • A beautiful writer, a shaper of words and dreams. The whimsy and logic and history, both personal and book learned, take my breath away. You have a winner here.

    Susan Fifer Canby, Vice President Emeritus, National Geographic Society

  • Jacquelyn’s journey to claim her “rogue” traces centuries of female sexualization and subservience that women continue to experience today. This beautifully written memoir reminds us that the stress and grief we carry is handed down through generations. The Female Rogue urges us to reject this collective trauma by claiming our inner rogue.

    Ellen McDonnell, Retired Executive Director of NPR News Programming

  • Both brilliant and embodied, Jackson has a voice that’s desperately needed and instantly relatable. Jackson's work is so needed and so critical to add to the growing chorus that believes as she does—that actually it’s good to be human, innately good; from soul to skin, from bones to breath.

    Meggan Watterson, Feminist Theologian, M.DIV., M.T.S., Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Mary Magdalene Revealed

  • Jacquelyn Jackson’s memoir offers a full-throated, fully human, fully divine voice that brings to life the opportunity to reclaim the truth of our beauty.

    Jeanne Marie Mudd, Founder and CEO, Watershed Ways

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