Women's History

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Women writing birds - Pioneering American ornithologists of the 19th century (www.europeana.eu)

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An Archive with all the Radfem books... Including the complete works of Andrea Dworkin (radfem.org)

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Art and Music By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum (www.dia.org)

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Badass Victorian women joke about why they're single - Upworthy (www.upworthy.com)

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9 Trailblazing Female Painters of the 19th Century You Really Should Know About (news.artnet.com)

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In Our Time - The Bluestockings | BBC Radio 4 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Anne Lister – Diary Transcription Project – Catablogue (wyascatablogue.wordpress.com)

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Wangari Maathai – first African female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (www.nobelprize.org)

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State Archives find Sojourner Truth’s historic court case (www.timesunion.com)

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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano - Flashbak (flashbak.com)

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Badass 17 year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. (radfemblack.tumblr.com)

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Some illustrations by Kate Greenaway, one of the first women to gain prominence as a commercial illustrator (ibb.co)

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Badass Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952): Socialist, Champion of women's liberation, and advocate of free love (en.wikipedia.org)

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Catalonia pardons more than 700 women executed for witchcraft between the 15th and 18th centuries | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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These Are the Stories of Gay Women in a Nazi Concentration Camp (www.gaystarnews.com)

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WWW Virtual Library Women's History (www.iisg.nl)

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Yes, Women Participated in the Gold Rush - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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María Quitéria de Jesús, The heroine of Brazil (amuraworld.com)

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Badass Sabaton: The Night Witches (www.youtube.com)

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The 15th-century Welsh poet censored for talking about her vagina

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The web of ordinary women who helped end the cold war | The Spinoff (thespinoff.co.nz)

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How the FBI Destroyed the Careers of 41 Women in TV and Radio | The MIT Press Reader (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

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Bat Mitzvah: American Jewish Women | Jewish Women's Archive (jwa.org)

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Badass Hedy Lamarr overview from NewScientist [She came up on Jeopardy today and nobody knew her name] (www.newscientist.com)

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Badass A Simplified List of Women's Inventors and Pioneers (part 2) A-B

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