When the womb began to appear in printed images during the 16th century, it was understood through...
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Care of preterm babies over the last 200 years, from the heated Victorian heated glass boxes to...
For Anna Jarvis, a holiday devoted to mothers was a practical exercise in patriotism. One hundred years...
Inarguably, one of the most challenging and multi-faceted jobs of them all is that of a parent,...
A young woman stands in front of a mirror, applying dark eyeliner. She leans back to assess...
Ominous trends and threats to patients’ lives posed by increasingly strict abortion bans. Nine months after the...
Citizen-crafted constitutional amendments may be the abortion battleground of the future. Introduction The battles over abortion –...
Restell was born in England in 1812 and moved to New York in 1831. By a 6-3...
Fun little one-two punch of misogyny and racism. A Nebraska Republican state senator argued Wednesday for a...
Lockwood rejected dependency, for herself and for other women, and did not hesitate to confront the male...
Gone are the days when you had very limited options when it came to finding the right...
Her linguistic and creative abilities were important in her invention of computer programming. Introduction Ada Lovelace, known...
There are policy recommendations for health departments, judiciaries, national legislatures, and security forces. A first-of-its-kind Human Rights...
Strong women were able to chart their own destinies within the confines of an oppressive patriarchy. Introduction...
States across the country are looking to further restrict or better protect abortion rights. Introduction For 50...
People in rural areas especially need to seek help as they often have to travel farther from...
The march stripped the king of much of his remaining independence and authority. Introduction The Women’s March on...
“Women who experienced the shock of this type of restrictive legislation had a significant increase in suicide...
Domestic violence is a pervasive issue in our society, and it affects people of all ages, genders,...
As the poem makes clear, there is no hope of hiding from divine justice. Introduction Inanna and Su-kale-tuda (c....
They see legalized abortion as disregarding their personal value system. By Justin C. Altum Introduction Following the...
The primary political, legal, and social challenges American women and their allies faced. Originally published by Newberry...
Elizabeth would diminish those who might obstruct her path. The young men of Geneva Medical College were...
America’s maternal mortality is far higher than that of other industrialized nations. The tragic consequences of increasingly...
There is an absence of a definition of torture or other forms of ill-treatment in the Geneva...
Five of the nine judges at her trial asked that Surratt be granted clemency President Johnson. …the...
Period pains are nothing new, and neither are historical “innovative” suggestions for how to deal with them....
Systemic inequity means women in the U.S. die younger and suffer more than they should. One of...
For centuries women gave birth in the familiar environment of home, surrounded and supported those they knew....
Pregnant people across the country lack access to safe drinking water. When Jamika Jones was pregnant with...