Jone's Women's History Blog

Michigan State University and the MSU Museum are placing online a collection of the cookbooks that influenced American culture -- and women's lives -- in 19th and early 20th century ... Read More

This biography of Hannah Adams was published in the late 1880s. Who was Hannah Adams? "She was the first woman in America who made literature a profession." She wrote on the ... Read More

Women in the United States won the right to vote in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified by a single vote in Tennessee. Read more about the end ... Read More

Born August 25, 1927, Althea Gibson's early history didn't point to someone likely to succeed. Then she discovered tennis, and tennis opened up to include her. When she entered ... Read More

Ellen Goodman, columnist, honors Women's Equality Day by presenting awards for those "who worked hard over the past 12 months to set back the cause of equality. This year ... Read More

In an extended article, screenwriter John Brownlow discusses the challenges in telling the story of poet Sylvia Plath's life for the silver screen. The movie, Sylvia, is due out ... Read More

The oldest living member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame has died. News stories: • Connie Douglas Reeves - Austin American-Statesman, August 21, 2003 • Cowgirl Reeves Dies at 101 After Fall from ... Read More

The 2003 film The Magdalene Sisters documents the incarceration of some young Irish women in the Magdalene Asylums of the 1960s and 1970s. The Magdalene women were sent to these ... Read More

An exploration of the role of women and the purpose of marriage in ancient Rome, from the study by Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942). Related: Women in Ancient Rome | Women of the ... Read More

Her journey took her from minister's wife to atheism to women's rights and birth control advocate to Theosophy. Related: Women and Religion | Religion and Abortion

Where are American women today -- how many are mothers, how many work in the labor force, how many are in the military? How does their education and income measure ... Read More

No, not the original Mary Queen of Scots -- but the film about her life. Scottish producers Catherine Aitken and Gill Parry have been working on this film for more ... Read More

Pretoria announces: South Africa's Navy appoints first woman admiral - SABCnews - August 8, 2003 Related topic on this site: Women in the Military and at War | Women's History - ... Read More

Have you heard how the images of models are touched up before publication, making those images still harder for real women to emulate? It's amazing what an artist can ... Read More

This Civil War poem was attributed to many, but most scholars agree it was written by Ethel Lynn Beers in 1861. Here's the text of the poem, plus links showing ... Read More

In Lithuania making a television movie about Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French actress Marie Trintignant died on August 1, after a beating five days before. Her rock singer boyfriend, ... Read More

Test your knowledge of women's history with this newly-added quiz on this site: Herstory Quiz. Try all 26 questions, then find out your score. Don't worry -- we're ... Read More