What the author learned from her mother, a feminist academic doing a research project on film adaptations of Little Women.

The "Friday Night" group was a cohort of prominent nineteenth century Baltimore women who met each week to read, write, and debate social issues.

Every statue tells a story, often long forgotten. San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument in Golden Gate Park was greeted with disappointed by the woman who originated it.

Historian Robin Veder explains that the way we associate female nurturing with gardens goes back to the way ideas about gender and work changed in the mid-nineteenth century.

Frederick Hollick's case involved not only his controversial sex-positive arguments, but also the question of who should be privy to medical knowledge about sex.

In the Old West, cross-dressing was sometimes a disguise for criminals on the lam. But, one historian argues, in many cases these “cross-dressers” were probably people who we would identify as transgender today.

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.”

Dean on the obstacles women face in being taken seriously as intellectuals, feminist infighting, and the importance of being an outsider.

Most people know that the X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes. But it does more than just determine if you're born male or female.

The loss and recovery of a poetic genre shows how the canon of literary history treats women writers the moment they start to gain attention and approval.