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 […]
Today for Women’s History Month, I offer you the official honorees of 2015. Today in women’s history March 12 1637: Anne Hyde born: first wife of King James II of Great Britain, […]
Next up, I offer some women of science. Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA […]
Today for Women’s History Month, I offer a list of women heads of state in the 20th century. The link I’ve provided has further links to biographical sketches of each head of state. […]
It is Women’s History Month and my goal is to post about a different woman every day for the rest of March. Dominique Christina is a poet, artist, activist, educator, author and self-described […]
This is the beginning of the Wikipedia article on Susan Glaspell: Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist.
(TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault) A little over two years ago, a young couple in India went to see a movie. They were celebrating the young woman’s completion of her exams to get […]
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