This lesson plan explores the women's rights movement during the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s. Students will read an introductory overview article about the women's rights movement through the push for ...

Even in ports the British didn't control, like Yokohama, the women still saw the empire's ships, as well as vessels from France, Germany, and America. "Colonialism seeps through the entire story ...

Her example became the model all telephone companies sought to emulate, and by the end of the 1880s, the job had become an exclusively female trade. Many women embraced the professional ...

Set in the 1880s in Saratoga Springs, New York, when many physicians were ignorant of the female orgasm, the play revolves around a married doctor who treats women for “hysteria” with the help ...

A series of controversial lectures on 'female hysteria' given in Paris in the 1880s by the leading French neurologist of his day will be creatively re-enacted in music by French-British soprano ...

History Knox History Knox is a column that reflects on the community's past authored by Mark Sebastian Jordan that is published each Saturday in Knox Pages. MOUNT VERNON — Back in the days when Mount ...

Homes developed by women during the 1880s aren’t easily found, but one just hit the market in Chicago’s Hyde Park. A green Queen Anne-style four-bedroom house totaling 2,500 square feet on a ...

And what a pair of women these descendants are! Anna (Liliane) and her distant cousin Sophie, both orphaned and raised in comparative affluence by their Aunt Quinlan in Manhattan, are physicians ...