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Tell us about your foremothers

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Activism and Politics When a Woman Voted No: Jeannette Rankin -Documentary - YouTube (www.youtube.com)

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Women’s self defense manual (1900) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Activism and Politics Flag Bearer for Women’s Rights Standing Near White House (1917) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Literature and Writing John Shakespeare’s “Spiritual Testament” Is Not John Shakespeare’s | Shakespeare Quarterly | Oxford Academic (academic.oup.com)

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Activism and Politics Art & Women's Suffrage — Google Arts & Culture (artsandculture.google.com)

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Ancient History ‘Truth behind the myths’: Amazon warrior women of Greek legend may really have existed | Archaeology | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Scotland apologised in 2023 for historic forced adoptions – but this happened throughout the UK (theconversation.com)

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Art and Music She Started With a 39-Cent Camera. She Ended Up in Magazines. [Ruth Orkin] (www.nytimes.com)

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The History of Abortifacients (www.jezebel.com)

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First Lisa Lane might have been the inspiration for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit: A former chess phenom who died in February, age 90. (slate.com)

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Literature and Writing How Medieval Women Expressed Their 'Forbidden' Emotions (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Literature and Writing Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)

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Art and Music A Zulu wooden spoon in the shape of a woman. From South Africa, 19th century CE, now housed at the Louvre Museum. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Literature and Writing Instead of remarrying, in 1389 a 25 year old young widow became the first woman in medieval France to make a living as a writer (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Prostitution and pornography: A historical view | Nordic Model Now! (nordicmodelnow.org)

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DNA tests are uncovering the true prevelance of incest (web.archive.org)

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First The little-known story of Australia’s convict women - Australian Geographic #WomensHistoryMonfh (www.australiangeographic.com.au)

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Art and Music Die übersehenen Komponistinnen (www.onb.ac.at)

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Badass Annie Oakley : “ I ain’t afraid to love a man I ain’t afraid to shoot him either” (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Activism and Politics The March For Women's Lives in Washington D.C. (1986) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Meet Tarenorerer: the Aboriginal Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers - Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Athletics Venus Williams playing her 1st Australian Open (1998) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Work and Economics Women and Heavy War Work (1919) (www.oldmagazinearticles.com)

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Ancient History Living example of Neolithic Goddess religion

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Book Review: ‘The Enigma Girls,’ by Candace Fleming - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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