A greater focus on female activities such as food processing and weaving can provide valuable information on...
Women
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostitute’s body, a result of ‘immorality’....
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, from A Blighted Life, 1880 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The life of Rosina...
Early modern women were subjected to multiple realms of authority in both the private and public spheres....
Virgin birth was not a new story in the ancient world. At the centre of the annual...
Nearly two centuries before Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley became Massachusetts’ first black woman elected to the U.S Congress...
Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Prison officers...
Here are five things to know about this groundbreaking, tragic figure. You probably haven’t heard of Émilie du...
Each day at Greyhound stations across the nation, families released from detention and traveling to sponsors’ homes...
Two 18th-century women, Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler, are famous for their romantic friendship, which was then...
Outside the Woman’s Building, 1975. The Getty Research Institute, 2018.M.16. Photo: Maria Karras. Gift of Maria Karras....
Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line – College day in...
Investigating potential correlations between Roosevelt’s and Pos’ ideas on women’s rights and intercultural understanding. By Dr. Babs...
Júlia Lopes de Almeida was a founding member in the creation of the Brazilian Academy of Letters...
Discussing Ancient Greek women and their relationship to the visual arts solely on the evidence of the...
Rose Schneiderman, an unsung forerunner of the #MeToo movement, organized women to fight for laws to protect...
(Left-to-right) Carrie Clyde Holly, Clara Cresshingham and Frances Klock They had to convince a majority of men in...
Young Women in the Garden, 1939, by Nguyễn Gia Trí / Heidelberg University, Creative Commons As early...
Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer / Wikimedia Commons Women held many important and influential...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
14th-century theological compendium / University of California Berkeley Special Collections Examining depictions of penance and confession in...
Tracing the sad medieval history of the siren and trying to understand where it all went wrong....
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, tempera and oil on oak panel, 82.2 x 60 cm...
Artwork page for ‘The Cholmondeley Ladies’, Unknown artist, Britain, c.1600-10 / Tate Britain In the Middle Ages,...
Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square in 1908 / Public Domain History is messy. And...
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913 Demanding the right to vote...
Wikimedia Commons Exploring how women’s lives changed during the Russian Revolution, tracing the history of female revolutionaries in...
Photo by Anton Bielousov (Own work: Slutwalk, via Wikimedia Commons Historical and structural inequalities that long flourished have...
EPB/35960/A: François Mauriceau, The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed...