Women's History

Tell us about your foremothers

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Fears of being called racist continue to trump protecting girls, says Maggie Oliver (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Badass I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. (www.youtube.com)

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The Queer Victorian Doctors Who Paved the Way for Women in Medicine (www.history.com)

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Only a few days left to download free readings about Oxford Philosopher of the Month, Margaret Cavendish

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Elinor Ostrom - Prize Lecture: Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems - NobelPrize.org (www.nobelprize.org)

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When the Girl Scouts Were Accused of Being Commies | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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Badass On the trail of Ireland’s legendary pirate queen (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Oldie-but-goodie: The Beginnings of Peter Rabbit (archive.is)

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The National Women's History Women's online "Getting into the Games: Women and the Olympics" exhibit

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America's Early Female College Students Held Illicit Fudge Parties - Gastro Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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The feminist history of the cardigan | The Week (theweek.com)

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Purple | Fostering lesbian and womyn's community initiatives (www.purple4womyn.org)

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Abigail Grant, Revolutionary War wife, "never will be Called a Coward" (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Anne-Antoinette Cogels - Adventurer, Writer, Big Game Hunter (nl.wikipedia.org)

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Shoplifting, for Fun and Profit | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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Women Got 'Married' Long Before Gay Marriage (www.history.com)

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Is it time to take away the power of naming women from men? Our own vocabulary? (www.bbc.com)

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Preserving Korea’s declining bathhouse culture: As fewer people bathe outside of their homes, spaces are changing (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

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The Radical Women who paved the way for free speech and free love (archive.is)

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[Female culture] Nüshu: China’s secret female-only language (archive.is)

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I had to deep dive for this one, but it was worth it (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Exposing Victorian Influencers Who 'Facetuned' Their Photos. (Photo Manipulation was EVERYWHERE 🤯) (youtu.be)

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There is also this post card (uploads.ovarit.com)

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This postcard from 1912... (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Sources for the hornyness switch?

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