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Tell us about your foremothers

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Trailblazing women in American politics (twitter.com)

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Elizabeth Wilbraham, the first lady of architecture | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

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Victorian Feminine Ideal; about the perfect silhouette, hygiene, grooming, & body sculpting (www.katetattersall.com)

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Jeanne Villepreux-Power: The woman who invented aquariums (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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We Are Here: How Black Women have been the backbone to radical social movements - Black History Month 2020 (www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk)

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Where the word ‘woman’ comes from and how it has evolved with the times | South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com)

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Wisdom from the Life of Mary Somerville, for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined (www.brainpickings.org)

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Fierce and forgotten feminist with ties to Fargo worked beside Susan B. Anthony | Duluth News Tribune (www.duluthnewstribune.com)

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The invention of ‘heterosexuality’ - BBC Future (www.bbc.com)

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Opinion | Two Women and 10,000 Miles on the Road to Suffrage - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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New artwork commemorates Edinburgh Seven (blogs.ed.ac.uk)

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Lucie Aubrac - The French Resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo (dangerouswomenproject.org)

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Black History Month: Britain's first black female footballer came from Bootle - Liverpool Echo (www.liverpoolecho.co.uk)

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How the Strike for Equality Relaunched the Struggle for Women’s Liberation in the US (jacobinmag.com)

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Little Known Rebellions Led By Enslaved Woman (www.youtube.com)

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Cecilia Chiang, Who Brought Authentic Chinese Food to America, Dies at 100 (www.nytimes.com)

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Hormones from 1994 (www.independent.co.uk)

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Rosie Lee Slideshow | BAMPFA (bampfa.org)

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Rosie Lee Tompkins: Entwined Threads - The Magazine Antiques (www.themagazineantiques.com)

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Noor Inayat Khan: The forgotten Muslim princess who fought Nazis | Europe News | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)

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The remarkable story of electronic music's unsung heroines (sheffdocfest.com)

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Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving (www.youtube.com)

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The meaning of cunt, the most offensive curse word in English, is actually based in female sexual empowerment — Quartz (qz.com)

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A brief history of how brutal interrogations of ‘witches’ were all about punishing sex (inews.co.uk)

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Were women ever fighting to be recognized 'as women'? Or were we just fighting to be recognized as humans, who were not unequel to men?

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