Women enjoyed high status and rights in pre-Islamic Persia that would be lost following Muslim invasions in...
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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...
Mirka Mora was a trailblazer for women artists in the 70s, bringing ‘feminine techniques’ to the forefront...
Evangelicals who were taught as children to from sex until marriage are coming out and revealing the...
Amazons of legend and very real Scythian tribes were mentioned in the same breath in ancient Greece....
Examining religious utterances such as curses, supplication, and prayer, as reflected in some passages from ancient Greek...
The federal government assumed greater control over Native reproduction over time. In the 1970s, doctors in the...
Primitive women were more likely than their male counterparts to pack up and leave the cave. Primitive...
Witch trials most often targeted a persecuted minority: women. Introduction “Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used...
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, gender was a major influence on worker salary. Experience of Women at the...
They were pioneers who didn’t know there was a glass ceiling as that term had not yet...
In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
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...