“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.

Celebrate Women's History Month all March with JSTOR Daily. We hope you'll find the stories below, and the scholarship they include in full, a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.

In the nineteenth century, Queen Ranavalona became a foil to Queen Victoria, her “savage” queenship held in contrast to that of the “civilized” female monarch.

Recognizing Scott Brown’s work is necessary for understanding American architecture in the second half of the twentieth century.

Until the Plague decimated Europe and reconfigured society, brewing beer and selling it was chiefly the domain of the fairer sex.

Cultural depictions of the "transpacific Filipina" reflected anxieties about the changing education and social roles of women in the Cold War Philippines.

Scottish-born novelist Elizabeth Hamilton used her characters to anticipate a future for herself in middle age as a confident and intelligent woman.

One of the first Native American women aviators, Riddle leaned into stereotypes to earn a name for herself in the male-dominated world of American aviation.

In the early twentieth century, women were discouraged from competing in track and field. The First International Track Meet for Women helped change that.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen mined Kieler's life for the plot of his most famous play, The Doll's House.