Historically, women have been less likely to be the subject of obituaries. Their obituaries tend to be shorter, with biased words and images.
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Swift positions herself in a long history of women accused of ‘behaving badly’ while revealing the importance of revisiting our understanding of the past based on shifting evidence.
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s last residence in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.
Only five witches were executed in Wales, while thousands were sentenced to death in Scotland and England.
By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
European women’s rights expanded in early medieval cities, though they were still limited. Last wills and testaments were some of the few documents women could dictate themselves.
Nollaig na mBan marks the end of the Christmas season on January 6, but is also a day to celebrate Mná na hÉireann (women of Ireland).
If you’ve watched many period dramas, you’ve probably seen a mantua. It was worn over a pair of stays (corset) and an often contrasting petticoat. The draping fabric created a front-opening gown.
By 1933, women were increasingly wearing pants but, as one letter to the editor complained, ‘women look far from attractive in them’.
The history of the goldfields too often focuses on men – but, as new Aussie TV series Gold Diggers gets right, the settlements were filled with women.
Cranogwen was a trailblazer who challenged expectations of women during the Victorian era.
From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
There is an adage that feminists and women aren’t funny. However, the history of activism reveals humour as a successful strategy for change.
Lady Rhondda was a suffragette, a business leader and an editor. A statue of her is expected to be revealed in Newport, south Wales, next year.
Kittrell’s legacy shows that home economics was always about more than cooking and sewing. It’s also a reminder that issues that affect families are simultaneously local and global.
Historically, women’s contributions to the agricultural sector often occurred outside of professional roles. ‘Lady’ Maud Williams, who discovered the Lady Williams apple, is one of those women.
For mature-age students of the Study Centre in the 1970s, education offered them a new life.
It may have had something to do with protecting female purity. No official statute clearly required men to do all the acting back then.
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Professor of English, University of Surrey
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Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Hull
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Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University; Sessional Lecturer, Department of History, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia
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Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor in History, University of Wollongong
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University Academic Fellow in Legacies of War, University of Leeds
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