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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…
THE MOST IMPORTANT WOMEN OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
History Was Never Written by Men Alone When we think of the ancient world, history introduces us to…