Women's History

Tell us about your foremothers

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Athletics Nebraska volleyball sets world record for women's sports attendance (www.espn.com)

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Art and Music How women played a bigger role in the Renaissance and beyond (www.theartnewspaper.com)

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First These highly trained scientists and doctors were making history. Reporters kept asking them sexist questions (www.cnn.com)

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Activism and Politics September 19, 1893: New Zealand Becomes The First Nation to Give Women the Right to Vote (blog.newspapers.com)

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Literature and Writing The Only Woman on the Beach at Normandy (news.wgcu.org)

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In a former monastery, dozens of boxes hold the hidden history of Quebec lesbians | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)

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Activism and Politics Why did suffragists wear white? Symbols of the suffrage movement, explained! (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Science and Invention By taking on poliovirus, Marguerite Vogt transformed virology (www.sciencenews.org)

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Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes (youtu.be)

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Science and Invention The History of Abortifacients!

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Art and Music Katsushika Oi: The Hidden Hand of Hokusai’s Daughter (japanobjects.com)

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Books A History of Incarceration by Women Who Have Lived Through It | The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

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Activism and Politics Yesterday, September 1st was the 200th anniversary of women’s rights to women only prisons, via the Gaols Act 1823. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Science and Invention Hidden women of history: Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th-century entomologist and scientific adventurer (theconversation.com)

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These love letters between 12th century nuns are hauntingly beautiful (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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Activism and Politics U.S. House of Representatives Oral History Site: Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (first Member of Congress to give birth in office!) (history.house.gov)

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Military Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya and Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko Badass Women Who Killed Nazis!

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Art and Music Evelyn De Morgan, The Pre-Raphaelite Sister You May Not Know (www.dailyartmagazine.com)

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Art and Music Art world: This is an abstract image by Hilma af Klint. Women: This is an image of conception (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Military "A Feminist World, 2091" pg 165 in a 1991 Sandia National Laboratories report--positing nuclear downfall due to feminism (totally absurd!) (www.wipp.energy.gov)

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Still the first lady! Michelle Obama is voted the most inspirational female of all time in new poll - with Emma Watson coming in second | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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A brief history of pregnancy tests – from toads and rabbits to rosewater (theconversation.com)

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Work and Economics How Japanese Housewives Outsmarted Global Finance (Documentary) (www.youtube.com)

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Art and Music Taylor Swift Overtakes Barbara Streisand For Most No. 1 Albums From A Female Artist In History (www.cmt.com)

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