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Tell us about your foremothers

posted by crlody [speaking as mod] - sticky

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Reading the Gulag Archipelago; Men really do make everything worse for women

posted by Perseph265

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Badass Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model (theconversation.com)

posted by firebird

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Betsy Wade, First Woman to Edit News at The Times, Dies at 91 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Virginia Apgar, the Woman Whose Name Saves Newborns (getpocket.com)

posted by notgonnabenice

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Meet the Night Witches, the Daring Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night (www.history.com)

posted by Noonefromnowhere

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Science and Invention A woman named Tabitha Babbit invented the circular saw (images.vexxed.org)

posted by verysimplequestion

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TIL the first female leader of the Cherokee Nation was Wilma Mankiller. No surprise, she was totally badass.

posted by holy_santo

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

posted by firebird

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Gender-bending is nothing new

posted by Mandy

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Darwin professor suggests Mozart claimed credit for some of his sister's compositions - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)

posted by m0RT_1

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Badass Carry Nation Used a Hatchet to Smash Booze Bottles Before Prohibition - HISTORY (www.history.com)

posted by Penthesilea

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Meet Anne Bonny, The Fierce Female Pirate Of The Caribbean (allthatsinteresting.com)

posted by wimmincritter

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In Scotland, almost 300 years after the Witchcraft Act was repealed, a campaign has been launched for a pardon for those convicted, an apology to all those accused and a national memorial to be created (www.theguardian.com)

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Art and Music Badass Virgin Mary Medieval Catholic Art!

posted by Femina

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Four-Year-Old Dorothy Good is Jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692 – Historic Ipswich (historicipswich.net)

posted by MaryDyer

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Art and Music Wood carver Maud Baillie made 'world-class' craft furniture on remote Wedge Island 120 years ago (amp.abc.net.au)

posted by Re-enacterf

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Activism and Politics ‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever | Women | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

posted by womenopausal

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Activism and Politics An Iranian women debating a Mullah during a protest on Women’s Day in Tehran (1979) (images.vexxed.org)

posted by Unicorn

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Work and Economics Memorial honors 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire deaths that galvanized US labor movement (apnews.com)

posted by Elizabelch

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Work and Economics Nobel prize in economics: Claudia Goldin’s work is a goldmine for understanding the gender pay gap and women’s empowerment (theconversation.com)

posted by m0RT_1

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Activism and Politics Examples of women's rights getting reduced after periods of relative freedom

posted by Julie92845

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‘With daggers in her bonnet’: The Australian hatpin panic of 1912 | Australian Women's History NetworkAustralian Women's History Network (www.auswhn.org.au)

posted by arete

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Science and Invention Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined – The Marginalian (www.themarginalian.org)

posted by arete

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A 1950s teen girl's purse was found during Clear Creek ISD renovations. Historians hope to find her. (archive.ph)

posted by bluestocking

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What our unknown foremothers might have liked (Tumblr post)

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