Women's History

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Ancient History 2,000-year-old grave probably belonged to a female warrior, study says (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ancient History The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts | PLOS ONE (journals.plos.org)

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"The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman | History| Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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First Woman of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor (www.womeninhorticulture.com)

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Women writing birds - Pioneering American ornithologists of the 19th century (www.europeana.eu)

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Israeli Study Suggests Females Evolved to be More Sensitive to Cold to Stay Away from Males (www.timesofisrael.com)

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‘They deserve a place in history’: music teacher makes map of female composers | Classical music | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Women Got 'Married' Long Before Gay Marriage (www.history.com)

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Madeline Davis, Who Spoke to the Nation as a Lesbian, Dies at 80 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Meet Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Get a Pilot's License - Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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How Lesbian Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook (www.atlasobscura.com)

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History: ‘Unruly’ African women who made their mark on the continent (www.theafricareport.com)

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Historical marker dedicated to Mount Vernon native who blazed trails for African American women (mountvernonnews.com)

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Lesbians vs. Pedophiles: A Recent History - Anna Slatz for 4W (4w.pub)

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First First female barrister to be commemorated with London blue plaque (www.legalcheek.com)

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Lenn Keller, Black Butch Lesbian Photographer, Dies at 69 (www.gaycitynews.com)

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Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Lost to History: Genealogy

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Victorian Oppression of Women Through Psychiatry (www.theatlantic.com)

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Where Are The Women? (www.npr.org)

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Remembering Nellie Bly, Rabblerouser and Pioneer of Investigative Journalism (getpocket.com)

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Josephine Cochran, inventor of the automatic dishwasher (www.uspto.gov)

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Hating Valerie Solanas (And Loving Violent Men) (www.full-stop.net)

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The creation of patriarchy by Gerda Lerner, free google book (books.google.ca)

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Old Ladies. What was the USA like when you had far fewer rights pre 1970? (www.reddit.com)

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