Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

According to one scholar, the 1917 deportation in Bisbee, AZ wasn't "about labor relations or race or gender: it was about all of them."

Studying the artist's paintings may reveal more about the her early trauma and subsequent pain than suspected.

Scholars Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith write that nuns were an important part of westward expansion—and in Colorado, nuns quickly learned how to use their gender to their advantage.

Over a week and a half starting on March 1st, 1968, more than 10,000 students in mostly Chicano schools took part in what became known as the East Los Angeles School Blowouts.

The history of the wedding dress is shorter than the history of weddings, and even shorter still than the history of marriage.

For more than a century, Hollywood has been offering Americans lifestyle advice on how to live better, and the public has been gobbling it up.

Author Zora Neale Hurston, born on this day in 1891, is perhaps best known for Their Eyes Were ...

Pocahontas, Matoaka, and Lady Rebecca Rolfe were all the same young woman, who died in 1617, a long way from home.

Let me begin with four fake truths that I hold to be self-evident. What follows is their brief ...

Critic Ruth Franklin has published a new biography on the criminally overlooked novelist, short story writer, and essayist Shirley Jackson.