For decades, women’s contributions to silent movies were mostly ignored. Motion pictures began in the East in...
Women
Considering their limited role in actual society there is a surprisingly strong cast of female characters in...
Women weren’t just traditional stay at home wives, but they contributed to society and sometimes even in...
Just leave it to a group of fiercely determined women to make a name for themselves behind...
Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the...
America’s first literary star, Anne Bradstreet, who was a pioneer in more ways than one. Anne came...
Women who chose a life in the arena – and it does seem this was a choice...
Franciscan nuns, physicians, anesthesiologists, and social workers helped created a pathbreaking medical center. Several years ago, a...
Astell recognized the ways in which background social structures explain behaviors. The English philosopher Mary Astell (1666-1731)...
A new exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London traces 500 years pregnancy portraiture. A new exhibition...
How Parker’s determination to speak her mind — even when it angered men in positions of power...
Ancient Persian (pre-Islamic) women had almost equal rights with men and, in many instances, more freedoms and...
Women enjoyed high status and rights in pre-Islamic Persia that would be lost following Muslim invasions in...
Hildegard of Bingen was called the “Sibyl of the Rhine” because of her apocalyptic visions. Introduction Hildegard...
This is probably the best expression of of Pizan’s views of contemporary medieval women. The Woman Question...
Women in ancient Egypt were the equals of men in every area except occupations. Introduction One of...
Analyzing the importance of Lagerlöf’s oeuvre and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public...
Bessie’s voice was elemental, a force set free from deep inside the world. It was a hot...
They had more rights than women in contemporary cultures to the east and west of Mongolia, some...
Childbirth used to be a terrifying ordeal. But women were surrounded by others – mothers, aunts, sisters...
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 role of priestess at Delphi was enormously influential. She was consulted on everything from warfare to...
Men were transient figures (and often dupes) of light-fingered sex workers, but women’s relationships with each other...
The bones show interbreeding Neanderthal and Denosivan humans. This article reprinted from RFE/RL. A piece of bone...
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...
The ancients were just as keen as anyone to improve their appearance as quickly and as easily...
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...