From marriage and sexuality to education and rights, looking at attitudes towards gender in 19th-century Britain. Introduction...
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The nineteenth century is a decisive time in the development of medicine and the medical profession in...
‘Wondirful revelacyons’, the moving of the soul through visionary experience, are the subject of Kempe’s narrative. Introduction...
While our commercials revere our moms, our policies force one in four to return to work within...
Women’s roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution. Introduction “Republican...
Historical material about the bodily and emotional experience of the period after birth has been relatively neglected....
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Hathor was a multifaceted goddess, appealed to for a wide variety of needs, who provided many of...
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction...
In their last days, the suffragist pioneers looked back and left us their story in letters. “It...
The women chose psychological sabotage and developed unique strategies. Introduction Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent...
Mary Edwards Walker defied convention in just about everything she did. Mary Edwards Walker was uncompromising in...
For decades, women’s contributions to silent movies were mostly ignored. Motion pictures began in the East in...
Considering their limited role in actual society there is a surprisingly strong cast of female characters in...
Women weren’t just traditional stay at home wives, but they contributed to society and sometimes even in...
Protestant denominations also have structural abuse problems – and that isn’t new. By Dr. Suzanna KrivulskayaAssistant Professor...
Even before the revelations of #metoo, 2016 had been a year full of media stories about men’s...
Recent research explores how women ‘dress defensively’ to avoid the aggression of other women. “If you can’t...
Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the...
More and more patients are forced to travel outside of their communities for care. This week the...
Women who chose a life in the arena – and it does seem this was a choice...
Franciscan nuns, physicians, anesthesiologists, and social workers helped created a pathbreaking medical center. Several years ago, a...
A new exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London traces 500 years pregnancy portraiture. A new exhibition...
By Thom Hartmann Wealthy white men have had the right to vote in America since the beginning...
Ancient Persian (pre-Islamic) women had almost equal rights with men and, in many instances, more freedoms and...
Women enjoyed high status and rights in pre-Islamic Persia that would be lost following Muslim invasions in...
The impact of the early railway was registered as both exciting and horrifyingly destructive by Victorian writers....
Hildegard of Bingen was called the “Sibyl of the Rhine” because of her apocalyptic visions. Introduction Hildegard...
Warren’s statement is further perversion of the language of abuse and victimhood in a context it was...