Women From the Ankle Down

From the Wall Street Journal: Rachelle Bergstein's " Women From the Ankle Down " traces this quest through the lives of Americ...

Bizarre History of the Pregnancy test

From i09 : Nowadays, finding out if you're pregnant is relatively easy — but it wasn't always that way. Over the centuries, people h...

Saudi Women Target Guardianship Laws

From Eurasia Review: It’s the law of the land. A woman must carry around a permission slip from a man to function in Saudi society. As viole...

History - Elizabeth Arden

From the Guardian : Skincare, cosmetics and fragrance brand Elizabeth Arden is one of the oldest around. Starting in New York in 1910 with a...

Why Women Need Fat

From Salon : On any given day, more than half of women in the U.S. are on a diet. In hopes of slimming their figures, millions take on Atkin...

Women in Wartime

From the Star Tribune : Sorry, but to address the disconnect between what nurses do in a war zone and life on the front lines, this story mu...

Mistresses Who Changed History

From Slate : Before Monica Lewinsky, Camilla Parker Bowles, or Marilyn Monroe, there was Hagar—the world's first known mistress. Several...

Archaic Laws Regarding Women Repealled

From RedBank : When governing bodies enact legislation in any era, it’s done with the expressed interest, one can only hope, in being not on...