The Female Rogue:

A Memoir of Living Fiercely

by Jacquelyn L. Jackson

Publication Date: November 11, 2025

Publisher: She Writes Press

Distributor: Simon & Schuster

The Female Rogue: A Memoir of Living Fiercely was inspired by hundreds of female eyes, locked in oil and clay, that latched onto my body as I 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 ignited full-blown panic attack in my body.

I swear I heard them beg: Set us free. Be all we could never be.

Two months later, a dream shook me awake with a question as insistent as the female eyes: Where is my rogue? In my dream I searched, unsuccessfully, for my rogue along New York sidewalks and Montana meadows. I must find her. When I awakened, I knew my search was inspired by the female eyes in the Uffizi. The truth the eyes demanded I know is that rogue energy lies inside not outside. She is me.

My rogue-quest demanded I escape three-dimensional time to go truth-searching through history. I found a host of female rogue-models who convince me that female agency is inside of me, imprinted by female-rogues throughout history who embody courage, sexuality and strength. My DNA, despite centuries of focused effort to frame and freeze female existence, shimmers with agency that is mine to express.

Rogue is the siren song of my passion and soul.

“Be fierce,” rogue commands. “I am your body, soul, intellect and self.”

I say yes. The eyes have it.

The eyes have it.

From the Author

The world needs female rogues. Fiercely.

Male rogues are typically described as “dishonest or unprincipled,” while female rogue-energy expresses itself differently. Female rogues carve paths forward with passion and curiosity. They reject cultural obsessions with external appearance and live strong and confident in their female bodies. They stubbornly battle cultural norms, laws, mandates and dogma intent on controlling female bodies and behavior.

Female rogues envision and fight for a world where girls and women are no longer covered, controlled or contained.

Rogue-energy is body-deep and every female controls her own rogue-levers. Female agency awaits us inside our bodies. Rogue-truth whispers: You got this. Forge a different route forward. Refuse to quest only for beauty and thinness. Know your body. Live your truth.

Rogue is the voice in our bellies that urges us to trust what we know. The pound of our hearts that leads us off paths worn-deep by centuries of legislated and regulated female appearance and behavior. The pump of our blood that propels us to live the truth of our soul and self. The pulse of our passion, sin-free and sizzling. Rogue speaks to us through dreams, instinct, imagination and intuition.

Listen. Go deep. Root your feet. Know and trust your body. Fiercely claim every ounce of your female creativity, soul and self. Be inspired by women throughout history who dared to live rogue lives. Go Rogue. Now.

~ Jacquelyn L. Jackson

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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The Female Rogue:

From the Author

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.

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.

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.

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