Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
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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...
Denying a woman the right to have control over her own body is dehumanization of the highest...
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...
Feminist movements have generated, made possible, and nurtured feminist theories and feminist academic knowledge. Introduction “History is...
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...
In the 1920s, doctors who believed labour-saving devices in the home were creating a ‘vacuum’ in housewives’...
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...
Although they were the minority, some women did manage to rise above the limitations imposed on them...
Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron. By Amy Lifson A...
Even in a male-dominated society, Viking women were far from powerless. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction Although women in the Viking Age...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
Catholic hospitals are expanding their reach and adopting policies that deny ever increasing numbers of women access...
The impact of political and social expectations on women in the Western world. By Dr. Max Barnish,...
A collective of activist women in Afghanistan shows the importance of women’s voices to combat extremism and...