Women's History

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Athletics From a Reader: A First-Hand Account of a Record-Setting Swim to the Farallon Islands – Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon (richmondsunsetnews.com)

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Badass She flew a record-breaking US flight – but it was kept secret for years | CNN (amp.cnn.com)

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Mary Cassatt’s Women Didn’t Sit Pretty - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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She flew a record-breaking US flight, but it was kept secret for years (www.cnn.com)

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Education Chicago graduate makes history by earning doctorate at 17 | US education | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Science and Invention Menstrual Madness and Ovary Removal in the 19th Century — Lady Science (www.ladyscience.com)

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Badass Gallery of women's subcultural dress in the 1980s (visiblegirls.com)

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Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)

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Literature and Writing Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 - 19 April 1989) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Art and Music Angelica Kauffman: Art History's Heroine | Article | Royal Academy of Arts (www.royalacademy.org.uk)

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Ancient History Am I crazy or are these Paleolithic Bird Goddesses some Clitorises?

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Art and Music Continuo Connect — The Excellence of Women (www.continuoconnect.com)

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Activism and Politics The History of Women's Public Toilets in Britain - Historic UK (www.historic-uk.com)

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Activism and Politics Kris Hallenga, Who Urged Young on Breast Cancer Awareness, Dies at 38 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Activism and Politics ‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who took on the housing crisis – and won | Social housing | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Ancient History Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed (www.bbc.com)

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What being a teenage girl in 1960s Britain was really like (theconversation.com)

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Ancient History Prophet Huldah one of the very first people if not THE FIRST person to have helped codify the Torah's Canon!

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Art and Music Faith Ringgold, acclaimed for the power of paintings and quilts that tell stories of the Civil Rights movement, has died, aged 93 (www.theartnewspaper.com)

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Hamburg’s sex workers persecuted under Hitler to be commemorated | Germany | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Literature and Writing Trina Robbins, Creator and Historian of Comic Books, Dies at 85 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Feminism (www.bbc.co.uk)

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She was immortalized by Joni Mitchell - and if you love comics, she touched your life (www.cnn.com)

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Ancient History Excellent RadFem podcast episode with Max Dashu on what came before ancient Greek myths got Patriarchalized

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Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Women Biker Culture, Dies at 89 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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