In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
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If they washed out, they had to pay their own way home. If they were injured or...
The first known woman to join a firefighting brigade may not have done so by choice. Introduction...
This curious machine was meant to answer the problem of the moment: how to provide sufficient training...
The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”. Henry David Thoreau isn’t usually known for flattering comments...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not....
What did medieval Christians believe about women’s nature and social roles? How did they express these beliefs...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her...
Whether someone is menstruating is none of your business. Even inquiring about it reinforces attitudes and assumptions...
She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...
The abortion debate is not new. It began at least a century before landmark abortions rights decision...
Women were never silent about their lowly status in a patriarchal America. Mississippi state representative Douglas McLeod...
Early space age culture in America highlighted women’s reproductive capacity as a primary, crucial contribution that women...
The animating belief of eugenics—the state should control the reproduction of poor people, immigrants, and women of...
Historical written records were almost exclusively written by men, but archaeology and the women scholars in the...
The societal development of cultural feminism across time. Introduction My goal in the present paper was to...
Reproductive rights advocates in the Southeast are working nonstop to help low-income women. By Lornet Turnbull Nearly...
The termination of Restell’s conviction involving Purdy kept her out of prison and allowed her to continue...
The discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany...
She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but...
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister...
It was the single largest extension of voting rights in our nation’s history. The woman suffrage movement...
Most organised religions privilege men over women, and almost all of them privilege heterosexual relations over homosexual...
Recent media reports point to years of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. An expert writes why...