Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

Lipstick has always been more than just makeup. It reflects beauty trends, power, and even protest. From ancient formulas to ...

BETHEL — In Bethel, tonight’s presentation by Historian Will Chapman at the Gem Theater will be a journey into the 19th-century and early twentieth century through a series of stereoview ...

Moving outward from the study of Little Women, Sicherman presents case studies of “individual reading communities” and the role they played in the lives of a variety of late 19th-century women ...

Many of these composers were active participants in the burgeoning late 19th-century women's rights movement, joining associations and contributing to discussions about women's position in society.

1. Blackening teeth in Japan In Japan, from the Heian period until the late 19th century, women practised a custom known as "ohaguro," which involved blackening their teeth.

But in the late 19th and early 20th century, women in Australia already participated in astronomy as female “computers” and amateur astronomers.

In the late 19th century, female educators in American high schools and colleges began forming teams for girls and women to play sports like softball and basketball, said Susan K. Cahn, a ...