Women's History

Tell us about your foremothers

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Dance marathons were a seedy, exploitative Bay Area craze that SF's women helped stop (archive.ph)

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History of Reading Groups — iReadShakespeare—out loud and in community! (ireadshakespeare.org)

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Nushu - the women-only script used in the Hunan province of China (www.thoughtco.com)

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The princess who transformed war medicine (www.bbc.com)

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Badass Remember Irena Sendler? (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Australian teen skier Jade Hameister fires comeback at online trolls - CNN (www.cnn.com)

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Did Home Economics Empower Women? (archive.is)

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The fantastic tale of Mary Fields AKA “Stagecoach” Mary, the first African-American female star-route mail carrier in the United States. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Saturday’s Google Doodle Celebrates Physicist Laura Bassi (www.forbes.com)

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Base Neolithic feminist vandalized Phallus Temple With Birthing Woman

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Pockets And Women's Liberation: Why Not Both? - Brazen She (brazenshe.com)

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This woman’s research on mRNA has been ridiculed her whole career until it was needed to create the Covid vaccine! (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Meet Anne Bonny, The Fierce Female Pirate Of The Caribbean (allthatsinteresting.com)

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1874 Case of Mary Ellen McCormack Shined First Light on Child Abuse - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Before There Were Women's Refuges

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Ten pioneering female motorcyclists (www.goodwood.com)

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First Homemaker to undertaker: Canada’s first female mortician (www.thewhig.com)

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The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up (archive.is)

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The headline writer for this 1933 Frida Kahlo article would undoubtedly like a do-over (www.upworthy.com)

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Shirley Williams, Lib Dem peer and SDP founder, dies aged 90 (www.theguardian.com)

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The Women Who Mapped the Universe And Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect |History | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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The Woman's Commonwealth: A women's commune

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Badass Ruth McGinnis: The Queen of Billiards | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Anne Beatts, original SNL writer who broke into boys’ club of comedy, dies at 74 (archive.is)

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Bosnian Director Vesna Ljubić Dies of COVID-19 (www.filmneweurope.com)

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