Click here to view original web page at wskg.org ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) – March is Women’s History Month, and local historians and National Park Service rangers led members of the media on a guided tour of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls on Wednesday. They were calling attention to the backlog of […]
The roots of Women’s History Month by Anika Gupta, Wimbledon High School
Click here to view original web page at www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk March is the month dedicated to acknowledging the presence of women in history, with International Women’s Day falling on the 8th. It is a perfect way to highlight and celebrate the great achievements of women both throughout history and in contemporary society. With the month coming […]
You must read Miriam Toews’ astonishing new novel, ‘Women Talking’
Click here to view original web page at www.usatoday.com “Women Talking,” by Miriam Toews. (Photo: Bloomsbury) Miriam Toews’ astonishing new novel, “Women Talking” (Bloomsbury, 240 pp., ★★★★ out of four), offers a reading experience to simultaneously dazzle and horrify. Toews takes as her inspiration the true case of the Bolivian “ghost rapes,” perpetrated by the […]
The female Supreme Court justice who led the way for others
Click here to view original web page at www.washingtonpost.com Former Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, left, and his replacement on the court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, applaud President Ronald Reagan at the State of the Union address in January 1982. (Associated Press) Julie Cohen is the director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “ RBG ,” […]
Lisa Unger Baskin Exhibition at Duke University Chronicles 500 Years of Women’s Work
Click here to view original web page at www.finebooksmagazine.com On February 28, highlights from Lisa Unger Baskin’s nearly 9,000-piece collection of rare books, ephemera, and other artifacts created and produced by women over the course of five hundred years went on display at Duke University, which acquired the collection in 2015 and incorporated it into […]
Woman who claims descent sues Harvard over refusal to return photos of enslaved man from 1850
Click here to view original web page at www.stlamerican.com Tamara Lanier and Benjamin Crump, her co-lead counsel A Connecticut woman has accused Harvard University of the wrongful seizure, possession and monetization of photographic images of her family’s patriarch, an enslaved African man named Renty, and his daughter, Delia, according to a filing in Middlesex County […]