The very concept of “woman” changed in a number of ways during the Middle Ages. Introduction Women...
Women
Kübler-Ross was one of the central figures in the hospice care movement. Introduction Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8,...
She was the first woman to be elected head of the American Heart Association. Introduction Helen Brooke...
The final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: State Rep....
How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Abzug stood on the front lines protesting...
After years of struggle, on Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the...
Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt, used diplomacy, intelligence, and strategic alliances with Rome to maintain...
Geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean. Introduction...
Prohibited from attending the white GIs, the women felt betrayed by the country they fought to serve....
Women were key to the Democratic Party’s transformation in the 1920s and 1930s away from its socially...
The Republican Party had established itself as the party of reform in the 19th century, not the...
Medicine had become highly professionalized by the late Middle Ages and was patriarchal, but women like Trotula...
A shared understanding and cooperation between secular and religious helpers for addressing domestic violence is important. Originally...
Reviewing current research on the connection between Christian religious language and domestic violence against women. Originally published...
Claudette was arrested at the age of 15, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to yield her...
How lesbian authors have reinvented the imagined spaces of the U.S. South through print culture, activism, and...
Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how....
Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art....
Elizabeth I engage in a memorable invention of herself as a legend in her own lifetime. Introduction...
From marriage and sexuality to education and rights, looking at attitudes towards gender in 19th-century Britain. Introduction...
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...