These are the women who fought back when people tried to tell them what to do with their bodies this year.

Oklahoma high schooler Rose Lynn was sent home from school and told to change her outfit: a white top, a long gray cardigan and black leggings. Her response? Awesomely mocking her teacher's complaints - "It doesn't cover your crotch" and "You'll distract the boys" - by scrawling them on the oversized t-shirt she changed into. "Once again, society has failed to advocate young ladies, by confining them in a box where they are stripped from their sense of self respect and self expression, rather than teaching young men to respect the boundaries of young ladies," Lynn wrote on Facebook.

Ashley Kaidel was nursing her child in a restaurant when she was shamed by another woman. Her response? She posted a photo of herself staring down her shamer on Facebook. Kaidel said she shared the post to combat the mentality of breastfeeding being something women should do in private. "There is nothing weird about this and there's no difference in me feeding my baby with my breast than you feeding yourself with a spoon," she said.

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Brittany Dykstra was an excited expectant mother when she posted a pregnant selfie on Facebook. The comments were extremely hurtful. Instead of people being happy for her, they told her how much weight she had gained and how her baby would be ashamed of how fat she was. She hit back by in a viral photograph by Natalie McCain's Honest Body Project.

Australian model Robyn Lawley is no stranger to baring her body for fashion, but she took this selfie for a different reason. When Lawley fell pregnant, she discussed the impact on her busy career and also her pro-choice stance. Gossip mags thensuggested she was considering an abortion to avoid stretch marks. She hit back by posting a picture of her "tiger stripes" which she said were "some badass tiger stripes. And [she] earned them."

Giorgia Lanuzza has psoriasis. She developed the condition as a child, and was ostracised and bullied for years because of it. "While other girls would dress in strappy tops and go to parties, I spent my teens wearing long-sleeved t-shirts," she said. Her condition is still triggered by heat and stress, but she decided to stop hiding. She began a project of photographing her body, in a bid to raise awareness of the condition and give hope to others.

Sylva Stoel was two weeks into her job with US department store J.C. Penney when her boss told her that her shorts were inappropriate and asked her to go home and change. The clincher is that the shorts were from the stores own "career" section. Stoel had witnessed male employees violating the dress code without consequence, so she quit on the spot.

Brooke Birmingham chronicled her weight-loss on her blog Brooke Not On a Diet. She was approached by Shape magazine to be featured as a "success story". Birmingham sent in a photo of herself posing in a bikini and shorts, however the magazineasked her to cover up. Birmingham rejected their offer and wrote: "My body is real, not photoshopped or hidden because I feel like I should be ashamed. This is a body after losing 172 pounds, a body that has done amazing things, and looks AMAZING in a freaking bikini."

Carey Burgess is a student at South Carolina's Beaufort High School who was sent home for wearing a skirt that was deemed unacceptable. Burgess wrote a viral open letter to her school. "Yes, I am a woman. I am woman with thighs, a butt, and a brain. I am bigger than Beaufort High School. All of us are. Maybe instead of worrying about my skirt, Beaufort High should take notice of its incompetent employees, and sexist leaders."

Model Winnie Harlow has become a catwalk queen because of her unique complexion. She developed the skin condition vitiligo when she was 4, and was teased and called a "cow" by classmates. She was rejected by every modelling agency in Toronto until she was called to be on America's Next Top Model. She has rejected treatments and embraced her body.

My Stealthy Freedom is an online movement where Iranian women share photos of themselves without wearing the hijab. The movement was started in 2004 by Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.