A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (March 18, 2021) -- On June 12, 1948, President Harry Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which legally permitted women to serve in any of the four ...

But the major means of divorce in the 19th century was probably just leaving town. GROSS: (Laughter). ULRICH: And men did that more easily than women. But bigamy was pretty common in the 19th century.

With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were ...

The latest adaptation of “The Woman in White,” Wilkie Collins’s 19th-century mystery novel, begins with a woman putting a fierce question: “How is it that men can crush women time and time ...

In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.

Beginning in the 19th century, most states barred it only after “quickening,” when a pregnant woman can first feel the fetus move, typically around the fourth to sixth month of pregnancy.

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...

Welcome to Women of the Century, a commemoration of the 19th Amendment, a major step toward the universal right to vote in the United States. Here you will find interviews with trailblazing ...

Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in ...

In the 19th century, a woman seeking an education had a tough, sometimes impossible, road ahead. Although education for women was becoming more common by the 1850s, most tertiary education was for ...