Women's History

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When England taxed bachelors to address its declining birth rate (great info about marriage for women in the past) (scroll.in)

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The Taliban's bravest opponents [2001] (www.salon.com)

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Cultural Erasure of Women: How Women are Remembered in History (www.polemics-magazine.com)

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Climber Annie Smith Peck Shocked the World—By Wearing Pants (www.adventure-journal.com)

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Women's History: Now With Fewer Women!

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Why prehistoric women were probably hunters too | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

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New graphic novel reveals Black women’s hidden role in slave revolts (www.nbcnews.com)

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How these little-known black female WWII heroes lifted morale (nypost.com)

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Athlete Ila Mitra missed the 1940 Olympics, but became an indomitable peasant leader - The Hindu (www.thehindu.com)

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Paula Caplan, who challenged psychiatric stereotypes about women, has passed (archive.is)

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DAME ETHEL SMYTH (1858-1944) (www.ethelsmyth.org)

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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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