
How many have you already heard of? 1. Artimisia (source for entire post) Basic Artemisia Facts: Known for: warrior queen – she joined Xerxes in his battle against the Greeks at Salamis
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How many have you already heard of? 1. Artimisia (source for entire post) Basic Artemisia Facts: Known for: warrior queen – she joined Xerxes in his battle against the Greeks at Salamis
Wikipedia introduces Hatshepsut as follows: Hatshepsut (/hætˈʃɛpsʊt/; also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies; 1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. Hatshepsut came to the throne of Egypt in 1478 […]
Of Judy Chicago, wikipedia gives the following introduction: Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large […]
I only just discovered one of the most fabulous feminist foremothers ever – Matilda Gage. And if I may be blunt about it, I am pretty fucking pissed off that I am […]
She is called “the female Paul Revere.” She rode twice as far as Paul Revere, yet until recently had been largely forgotten by history. Known for: If the stories we have of her […]
Althea Gibson From a poor and troubled childhood, Althea Gibson discovered tennis and her talent playing the sport. It was not until the year she was 23 that major tennis competitions were […]
The London School of Economics and Political Science calls the following ten books “must-reads” for Women’s History Month this year. I draw your attention to the review of Recoding Gender, which mentions […]
The Yellow Wallpaper is especially important to me because I struggled greatly with depression and mental illness during four years of physical confinement within a very patriarchal marriage. Read it in full […]
Interesting. Tools used by the women’s peace movement to end civil war in Liberia included a sex strike and also a threat to strip naked in front of the male peace conference […]
Women working for peace are always especially near and dear to my heart! Here are some winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Since there are seventeen of them, I will present about […]