Republican motherhood or how to avoid giving women the vote
Could you carve out a political space for women without threatening the patriarchy? The new United States found a way.
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Mercy Otis Warren, female politicians and the radical (but short-lived) protofeminism of the 1790s
Women agitated for civil and political rights on both sides of the Atlantic. Men feared "the despotism of the petticoat".
Inside America's most famous love triangle
What really happened between Eliza, Angelica and Hamilton. Warning: This episode utterly fails the Bechdel test.
The American Frontier you never hear about
Westward expansion is one story. There are many others.
Ep 5 | The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries
Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension
Four World War II movies we should be making before making one about the weather
No flak to Pressure, but if we can make a blockbuster war movie about a meteorologist, surely we can make some about women too
"All work is sh*t" or how anti-Girl Boss feminism might have got it right
In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace
The greatest filmmaker you've never heard of
She was one of the founders of cinema. She ran two of the world's biggest film studios and directed more than 600 films. You've heard of Lumière, Méliès, Gaumont or Pathé. Why not of her?
“We raise them like saints, then hand them over like fillies”
19th-century girls' so-called education dropped them clueless into life
We've been very wrong about Stone Age women
"Never assume" is a golden rule – especially when looking at 10,000-year-old human remains
Women of World War II in the (once) lost photographs of Pierre Roughol
I've spent the last few years digitising and researching my great uncle's archives from the war
The fire that started a Victorian gender war
Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?
