The National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibit “Women House” pays tribute to the foundational 1972 project of Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro’s “Womanhouse.”

As more people begin to identify themselves as asexual, their presence is revealing the limits to certain kinds of feminist politics.

Art historian and critic, Linda Nochlin changed the field of art history, shifting both the field and the viewers’ gaze.

Remembering history helps us to parse the present, and it follows that women struggling to process these "decades of pent-up anger" can find apt reading material in the feminist fiction of the 1970s.

In The Long Winter, often praised as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s greatest novel, the villain may be not the snow, but oppressive gender roles.

Makeup has become a huge industry. Is it possible to enjoy the practice of beautification and be feminist at the same time?

At its core, the relationship between single women and gay men has longstanding historical roots.

Where did the image of the quietly desperate stay-at-home mother come from?

Abortion was first criminalized in the U.S. in the mid-19th century. A key argument was that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

There’s no cultural touchstone quite like an exhibition or fair—think the Great Exhibition of 1851, which introduced the ...