Collecting shells was a common past time in Enlightenment Britain, when elite women were becoming increasingly interested in science.
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The books aim to write women back into history for children to see that women are able to take up powerful positions in society.
Captain Cook’s sailors traded nails for sex, but the history of intimate encounters and their impact on women throughout the Pacific is still largely ignored.
Women’s solo sex can be taboo even today. But in 17th century England it featured in many texts from poetry to medical books, suggesting knowledge or even acceptance of female self-pleasure.
It’s been 100 years since the murder of Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
May 16 marks the 300th anniversary of the first woman to write a mathematics textbook.
In history, as in historical fantasy, women have an uneasy and dangerous path to power.
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Professor of History, University of Canterbury
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
