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The Scandalous History of the Lobotomy // What Happened to Rosemary Kennedy [CC] (youtu.be)

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A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters (time.com)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

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The woman who stared at the sun (www.youtube.com)

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The best historical facial reconstructions – Museum Crush (museumcrush.org)

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The Asgarda in Ukraine (www.planet-mag.com)

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Can we talk about the Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft?

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Old school feminists pushing for gender-neutral language?

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Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders? — Quartz (qz.com)

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Overlooked No More: Eve Adams, Writer Who Gave Lesbians a Voice - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Reinventing Medusa (www.mwthproject.com)

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Romaine Brooks and Modernism's Gender Nonconformity (afterellen.com)

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The evolution of women's sportswear (edition.cnn.com)

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Gibraltar (EUROPE) Vote to decriminalise and allow abortions (www.bbc.com)

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The Sorry History of Car Design for Women | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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Charlotte E. Ray Became The First Black Woman to Become a Lawyer in the U.S. - The Black Detour (theblackdetour.com)

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The Women Erased From the Story of No-Knead Bread (www.eater.com)

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The Chinese woman who invented the modern HIV test. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Tracing the trailblazing lives of Poland’s first feminist activists — The Calvert Journal (www.calvertjournal.com)

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The female resistance fighters who escaped the Nazis but were considered ‘damaged goods’ back in France (www.msn.com)

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Have feminists ever not been on the "right side of history"?

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When the Telephone Was Considered Feminine | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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Ada Blackjack, the Indigenous woman who survived a desolate Arctic island | History | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)

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The American History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry | Time (time.com)

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