Women's History

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Art and Music Severed Heads and Women Artists | The National Endowment for the Humanities (www.neh.gov)

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"In the Men's Room(s)" by Marge Piercy

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from Jeffreys’ The Spinster and her Enemies

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Activism and Politics “Couple at International Gay & Lesbian March” — Photograph by Bettye Lane, September 19th 1984 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Iconic feminist quotes?

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Science and Invention Pioneer Women Astronomers Flourished a Century Ago (finance.yahoo.com)

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Activism and Politics The barriers women still face in the legal profession decades after O’Connor’s appointment (www.pbs.org)

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Badass Judit Polgár is the woman who defeated Kasparov, Karpov and Spassky in chess (www.thevintagenews.com)

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Activism and Politics Polish-Swedish woman Danuta Danielsson hitting a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag, 1985 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Activism and Politics The first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and Marxist feminist activist Angela Davis, 1970s (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Literature and Writing Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism (lithub.com)

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Literature and Writing Alice Elizabeth Kober the woman whose work helped decipher the long lost Ancient Greek Writing System Linear B!

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Activism and Politics Gao Yaojie, a pioneering activist who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95 (www.npr.org)

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Brothels in concentration camps

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Madhumala Chattopadhyay, the woman who made the Sentinelese put their arrows down (theprint.in)

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Ancient History The Women's Court from the Ancient Temple in Israel!

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Art and Music Taylor Swift named Time's 'Person of the Year,' capping her record-breaking 2023 (www.reuters.com)

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Science and Invention Mary Cleave, pioneering NASA astronaut, dies at 76 (www.today.com)

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First Black Mermaid: ‘I was always the only black person on the boat’

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Florence Petty, born on this day in 1870, was a social reformer, pioneer in culinary and domestic education and indirectly inspired the government campaigns for cost-efficient cooking in wartime. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Badass Photos: War correspondent Dickey Chapelle, a Shorewood native (www.jsonline.com)

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Work and Economics Women's remarkable Civil War roles revealed in Huntingdon display

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Science and Invention The forgotten female crystallographer who discovered C–H⋯O bonds | Feature | Chemistry World (www.chemistryworld.com)

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Badass Dale Spender Obituary: One of feminism’s most successful agent provocateurs (www.theguardian.com)

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Literature and Writing Vale Dr Dale Spender AM: Brisbane’s brilliantly controversial writer, teacher, feminist [Obituary] (archive.md)

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