Amazing Women In History https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Ada Lovelace: World’s First Programmer The Surprising History Of The Birth Control Pill That Almost Wasn’t Invented 3 Great Female Speakers In History Cathay Williams, AKA William Cathay, American Civil War soldier Suzanne Valadon, self-taught artist of Bohemian Paris Ana Nzinga Mbande, fearless African queen Sayyida al Hurra, Islamic pirate queen Nana Asma’u: princess, poet, reformer of Muslim women’s education Fannie Sperry Steele, award-winning rodeo performer Enheduanna, ancient high priestess Ella Baker: The Woman Who Helped Build the Civil Rights Movement Women by Theme Henrietta Dugdale, Australian women’s rights and suffrage pioneer The Seneca Falls Convention: The Spark That Ignited the Suffrage Movement Women’s Suffrage and Prohibition: Strange Allies Suffragist vs Suffragette: What’s the Difference? The Japanese Women’s Suffrage Movement (Real Facts) Julia Ward Howe: Abolitionist, Social Activist, Poet Amelia Bloomer: Temperance, Suffrage, and Rational Dress Advocate What Is the Equal Rights Amendment? The Century-Long Battle to Write Women into the Constitution Abigail Scott Duniway, Pioneer for Women’s Suffrage in the Pacific Northwest The Rational Dress Reform Movement Gertrude B. Elion: Groundbreaking Chemist Who Helped Create the AIDS Drug Who Invented Windshield Wipers? Mary Anderson Eugenia Charles, Dominica’s first female prime minister Lakshmi Shankar, Hindustani classical vocalist Alice Austen, photographer Carmen Amaya, Queen of the Gypsies Constance Fenimore Woolson, Successful American Novelist The Law Of Coverture: Why Call A Woman By Her Husbands Name? Madam C. J. Walker, self-made millionaire Esther Howland, the Mother of the American Valentine Women of the California Gold Rush Bess of Hardwick: The Second Wealthiest Woman in Tudor England (After the Queen) Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet of New Spain 4 Medieval Women Mystics Were There Cowgirls? Trailblazing Women of the Wild West Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar African American Women Firsts in Medicine The Matilda Effect: Invisible Women in Science Alice Ball, the Chemist Who Changed Leprosy Treatment The Eucharist as Breastfeeding: Medieval Women Mystics and the Body of Christ Elsa Jane Guerin, the Woman Behind the Mountain Charley Legend “Pleading the Belly”: Pregnancy & Execution What Are Bluestockings? The Movement, Origins, and Insult Why Did Victorian Men Hate Women on Bicycles? Fannie Lou Hamer, the Civil Rights Activist Who Fought for Black Political Power The Life and Artistry of Patti Smith Blog Home