The Comstock Law brought reproductive issues to the forefront of American society and paved the way for...
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Women immigrants have played a dynamic role in transforming America socially, politically, and economically. A Woman’s Story...
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’...
Although they were the minority, some women did manage to rise above the limitations imposed on them...
A study investigate how Phoenicians integrated with the Sardinian communities they settled. By Tessa Gregory The Phoenicians...
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...
The experience of the Great War helped to radically change notions of citizenship in Britain. Three days...
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
The impact of political and social expectations on women in the Western world. By Dr. Max Barnish,...
Historically, pleasure was not the only, or even the main, expectation from sex for women in a...
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, she beat the odds. By Carole MerrittFormer...
Early modern women were subjected to multiple realms of authority in both the private and public spheres....
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, tempera and oil on oak panel, 82.2 x 60 cm...
Tattoo on an ancient Egyptian female mummy / Creative Commons For thousands of years, tattoos have been indicative of the passage from girlhood to...
Orphic Prayer Sheet, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 1 7/16 x 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum,...
Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software designer, inside the Command Module. / NASA In 1969, the world...