Women's History

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A granddaughter passes on the legacy of a midwife born into slavery (www.npr.org)

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Rebecca Donner on Twitter: "#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. (twitter.com)

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Art and Music Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project (www.theartnewspaper.com)

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Statue of medieval England’s most prominent Jewish woman Licoricia unveiled in Winchester (www.thejc.com)

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First Madam CJ Walker, Self-Made Millionaire - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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Art and Music Judith in Early Modern Italian Art | Takes by Male & Female Artists (artherstory.net)

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Angry Women — FiLiA (www.filia.org.uk)

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Badass Biography: Mary McLeod Bethune - National Women's History Museum (www.womenshistory.org)

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Badass Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) (archive.is)

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Erica X Eisen: The Kept and the Killed [reflections on the FSA archive of photographs of 1930s USA] (archive.is)

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Mama Cass Elliot Biography (youtu.be)

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In Our Time - Mary Astell | BBC Radio 4 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA (www.nature.com)

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Edmonia Lewis and Her Stamp on American Art | Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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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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