Women & Gender

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"
Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice
Courtesans such as Lilly Langtry (in this 1885 photograph) are claimed to have started utilizing underwear as tool of seduction.
Where’s that Sexy History Under There?
August 1976 cover from Ms. Magazine.
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"
Violence Against Women
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Mother of Rock and Roll
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion
Book Cover for Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 By: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,
12/1/2014: Hot off the Presses: Creoles and Borders
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History BluRay DVD Cover
9/24/2014: At the Movies: Catching Up With The Roosevelts
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.
A Woman Scorned?
marriage of Marguerite of Anjou and Henry VI in 1445
Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses
Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"
The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio, 2012.
From Commonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Donald Critchlow Book Cover.
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.
Taking it on the Chin
Cover of A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis.
A Short History of Celebrity
Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz.
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)
No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh.
A Question of Power, Not Sex
Jenni Williams (Left) and Magodonga Mahlangu (Center) of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) receiving the Robert F. Kenndey Human Rights Award from President Barack Obama in November 2009.
The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.
Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power
Obama wore Isabel Toledo clothes made of St. Gallen Embroidery to the 2009 presidential inauguration.
Is Michelle Obama the Ultimate Insider?
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner
Two Afghan women dressed in bright blue burqas. Today the burqa stands as a symbol of the status of women in Afghanistan, but for much of the twentieth century the history of women in this war-torn country led also toward greater rights and public presence.
The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan