Was this revered female figurehead an empowered leader or a tragic victim in her father's wake?

Records from a cancelled exhibition reveal the challenges faced by Black feminist artists and curators in the 1970s.

The sport of Newcomb ball was created by Clara Gregory Baer two years before volleyball. Now forgotten, it's a good bet it lives on in the gyms and beach courts of today.

The mobilization of housewives in 1950s California echoes through US national politics in the twenty-first century.

In fascist Italy, childbirth, breastfeeding and motherhood were given a hybrid structure of industrial management and eugenicist biological essentialism.

Pullman resisted hiring women and did his best to keep attention away from the company’s female employees.

As women became the focus of advertising, newspapers began to broaden their offerings targeted to those areas of interest traditionally associated with them.

The two-time Nobel winner helped preserve her native Polish language, and undertook her education, at a time when these acts were potentially treasonous.

Thespian, lawyer, Freemason, spiritualist, and much more, Levere tackled one frontier after another, determined to show the public just what she could do.

In the 1970s, NOW began to ask hard questions about the women who were no longer "homemakers", displaced from the only role they were thought to need.