As they dig foundations and stack stones, the women take on everyone from Ovid to the guy who wrote the proverb, “God made women to speak, weep, and sew.” Over the past 600 years, a few of de Pizan’s ...

Osiris, Vol. 30, Issue. 1, p. 113. Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it ...

The section on private lives, meanwhile, adopts a more intimate approach to medieval women’s history. Prayer books, instructional texts and letters shed light on women’s bodies and health ...

Dr. Kathleen Sheppard’s newest book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded ...

I’m an English and history major, so of course I love historical fiction! But my academic life choices also make me ...