History
Frances Gerety, Who Wrote “A Diamond Is Forever”
In 1947 a copywriter in Philadelphia finished a set of ads, realised she had no signature line, and…
Fifty Years of Feminist Bookstores
At their peak in the mid-1990s there were somewhere between 120 and 150 feminist bookstores in the United…
Abortion in America: Banned, Legal, Banned Again
Two hundred years of American law on abortion, from the common-law rule that nothing counted until a woman…
Débora Arango Did Not Paint to Please
She painted bodies, poverty and political violence when Colombian women were expected to make pleasant pictures. Her first…
BETTY DODSON MADE FEMALE MASTURBATION A FEMINIST ACT
She did not ask women to become more desirable. She taught them that their pleasure belonged to them.…
Who Is Alice Ball?
She was 23 when she made the first leprosy treatment that worked. She was 24 when she died.…
50 Years of Shamed Silence
Kim Hak-sun was seventeen when the Japanese army took her. She was sixty-seven when she finally said so…
La Pola: The Seamstress Who Spied on an Empire
Colombia put her face on its money and its monuments. It remembers how she died at twenty-two —…
She Invented Monopoly to Warn Us About Greed. A Man Sold It as a Celebration of It.
Elizabeth Magie patented the game in 1904. Thirty years later a salesman put his name on it, made…
They Called Her King
Georgia’s golden age was ruled by a woman. The language had no word large enough — so it…