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Tell us about your foremothers
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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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JeSoPazza
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Literature and Writing
The Only Woman on the Beach at Normandy
(news.wgcu.org)
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from Deare Sister
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chriswind
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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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Science and Invention
By taking on poliovirus, Marguerite Vogt transformed virology
(www.sciencenews.org)
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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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Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes
(youtu.be)
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Maplefields
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Science and Invention
The History of Abortifacients!
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Femina
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Art and Music
Katsushika Oi: The Hidden Hand of Hokusai’s Daughter
(japanobjects.com)
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A History of Incarceration by Women Who Have Lived Through It | The New Yorker
(www.newyorker.com)
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notsofreshfeeling
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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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These love letters between 12th century nuns are hauntingly beautiful
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
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firebird
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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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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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Art and Music
Art world: This is an abstract image by Hilma af Klint. Women: This is an image of conception
(images.vexxed.org)
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Evelyn De Morgan, The Pre-Raphaelite Sister You May Not Know
(www.dailyartmagazine.com)
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Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya and Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko Badass Women Who Killed Nazis!
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Femina
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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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Lynch
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"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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A brief history of pregnancy tests – from toads and rabbits to rosewater
(theconversation.com)
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m0RT_1
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Work and Economics
How Japanese Housewives Outsmarted Global Finance (Documentary)
(www.youtube.com)
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Lilith
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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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Call to reinstate illustrator Kate Greenaway's name on literary award
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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womenopausal
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Frauen-BiographieForschung | fembio.org
(www.fembio.org)
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Alexiares
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