Love in the time of Mughals
From the Sunday Pioneer : Mughal history, as we know it, is all about how the Muslim rulers won over vast tracts of land and established ki...
Rape in Wartime - Part II
From CNN - Silence Lifted : A growing movement wants to peel back that rug. Scholars are revisiting old testimonies and documents -- and see...
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Female Genocide & Pauline Nyiramasuhuko
From BBC News : Judges at the UN-backed court for Rwanda is to hand down a verdict for the only woman to be charged with genocide before an ...
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Rape In Wartime
From CNN - Listening to the Victims : It began as a headache. Then her throat started to feel tight. A dull pain welled in her chest and her...
Podast: Women in Ancient Europe
From the Womens News Network : Gender archaeology is a method of studying past societies through their material culture by closely examining...
Caroline Harriet Haslett
From the Irish Times : THE VITAL ROLE played by domestic technology in allowing for greater gender equality has been widely recognised for s...
Women of the Tang Dynasty
From China Daily : The Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) is widely acknowledged as one of the most glorious periods in Chinese history. Even today, ...
Women in Pakistan
From the Express Tribune : While we have seen phenomenal changes take place across the world in recent decades, the status and fate of women...
Female Chief at Parris Island
From Bluffton Today : For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot ...
Female Monacan Chief
From ABC13 : An Amherst County woman has secured her spot in the history of the Monacan Indian tribe. Over the weekend, she was elected the ...
Cambodian Warrior Women
From Channel News Asia in 2007: Archaeologists have found female skeletons buried with metal swords in Cambodian ruins, indicating there ma...
Lady Anne Clifford
From The Telegraph : Lady Anne Clifford was a patron of the arts who should have inherited an estate including five great castles across the...
The Woman Who Started The US Civil War
From Salon : When Harriet Beecher Stowe published " Uncle Tom's Cabin " in 1852, the American slave trade was a thriving insti...
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates
From Today's Zaman : To the outsider at least, the status of women in Turkey is both ambiguous and controversial. Ataturk’s reforms of t...
Mysterious Life of Lydia Bryant
From The Daily News Online : About two years ago Susan Sherwin was indulging in a favorite pastime — looking at headstones at Longview Memor...
Mystery of Saint Ketevan
I would like to follow up with anyone who has any further information on the remains of the Georgian Saint Ketavan who is belived to be buri...
Voyage to the Moon - 17th Century Style
An old article from Skymania which is intriguing to say the least: Incredible as it may seem, one of the greatest scientific minds of the t...
Ancient Prosthetics
From Past Horizons : Replicas of 3000 year old artificial big toes have been tested on volunteers and are shown to be the world’s earliest f...
In Search of Cleopatra's Tomb
An old artcile but an update to: One Step Closer to Cleopatra (2009) , comes this artcile from al-Ahram Weekly (May 2010): At Taposiris Magn...
Ancient Egyptian Royal Women
From Discovery News : the tomb of Ankhesenamun, wife of King Tut may have been located. Born as Ankhesenpaaten around 1348 BC, she was the t...
Gwyneth Bebb
From the Guardian : Among the people added to the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is Gwyneth Bebb (1889-1921),...
Princess Ennigaldi's Museum
From io9 : In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered a curious collection of artifacts while excavating a Babylonian palace. They we...
Ireland: Magdalene Investigation
From The Irish Times : The Government should set up a statutory investigation into allegations of torture and degrading treatment against wo...
Book: Women & Slavery In America
From News Wise : Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History , edited by Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis has been published ...
Interview: Laureate in Exile
From National Review Online : Ebadi was born in 1947, the daughter of an expert on commercial law (Mohammad Ali Ebadi). According to most ac...
Ten Most Powerful Women Authors
From Forbes : Collectively, these women hold readers captivated with stories of fantastical worlds, suspense and drama, insights into the co...
Swiss women celebrate 40 years of suffrage
From Swiss Info : Swiss women have come a long way since 1971, the year they were granted the right to vote at the federal level. Exactly 40...
Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio
From Ohio.com : There are wicked women everywhere. Though Northeast Ohio hasn't hosted the likes of Bonnie Parker or Lizzie Borden, we h...
The Maid: New Joan of Arc Novel
New book on Joan of Arc - The Maid by Kimberly Cutter : It is the early part of the fifteenth century and the tumultuous Hundred Years War ...
Nana Konadu Agyeman- Rawlings - Mother of the Revolution
From Ghana Web : Many are those Ghanaians who are completely oblivious of the seminal role women played in the success of the great revoluti...
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