🔴 🎥 Sigrun’s Wrath And The Discovery Of Iceland ¦ Viking Women
“The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the women. Quite unjustly so, as they played an important role in the world of the Vikings and performed extraordinary deeds: Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies.”
When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them by Julia Boorstin, 2022
A groundbreaking, deeply reported work from CNBC's Julia Boorstin that reveals the key commonalities and characteristics that help top female leaders thrive as they innovate, grow businesses, and navigate crises—an essential resource for anyone in the workplace.
Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Sarah Hallenbeck, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself.
From Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and a "heroine of the resistance" (Vogue)—comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice.
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory, 2023
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant’s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior?
The Once and Future Sex Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega, 2022
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society...
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert, 2020
Romance, courtship, and behind closed doors. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern women. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty....
My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race by Ilia Calderón, 2020
An inspiring, timely, and conversation-starting memoir from the barrier-breaking and Emmy Award–winning journalist Ilia Calderón—the first Afro-Latina to anchor a high-profile newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States—about following your dreams, overcoming prejudice, and embracing your identity.
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi, 2024
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.
CFP: Women’s Letters in Early Modern Scotland
1 November 2024
Cowane's Hospital Trust, Stirling
This workshop aims to bring together researchers, archivists, curators, & heritage institutions to develop a new community working with women’s letters in Early Modern Scotland
CFP: New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures & Cultures
28–29 March 2025
Hamburg, Germany
This conference aims to assess current trends in scholarship on walking women, to identify its blind spots, & to develop new perspectives on women walkers by deliberately looking at forms, contexts, media, & periods that have received less or no attention so far.
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela, 2019
Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overlooked. This graphic novel offers an engaging and accessible insight into the lives and minds of autistic women, using real-life case studies.
Strong Women: 15 Biographies of Influential Women History Overlooked by Kari Koeppel, 2020
From 10th-century novelist Murasaki Shikibu to 19th-century self-made millionaire Madam C.J. Walker, you’ll learn about the early life, struggles, and successes of the innovators, changemakers, and ceiling-breakers who redefined what strong women were allowed to be.
Today is International Day of Women in Diplomacy! #emdiplomacy was by no means an all male affaire. Women played a central role not only in mainting contacts to the queen's court and other female actors. They could also directly take part in negotiations, as the example of the Ladies' Peace of Cambrai (1529) shows. Here Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated for the Emperor and the king of France respectively.
If you want to know more, have a look at the #handbook article by Carolyn James who talks about female diplomatic actors.
You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and damsels, that quite frankly, caused others A LOT of stress in the ancient world.
Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Lawler, 2012
This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations around the world.
When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.
Voici 2 très beaux #dessins récemment acquis par les #ArchivesDeLyon : il s'agit des décors peints de 2 des 4 façades de la cour intérieure de l'ancien collège de la Trinité, actuel lycée Ampère à #lyon.
Les dessins sont attribués à Pierre-Paul Sevin (1646-1710) et datent de 1662-1663.
Ils complètent un dessin acheté en 2005 : il n'en manque donc plus qu'un pour faire le tour de la cour !
Un #JeudiManuscrit entièrement féminin, avec un document extrait d'un recueil de textes et de dessins réalisés par des élèves de l'école de filles rue des Tables-Claudiennes à #lyon
Ce recueil a été donné en 2009 par la fille d'une ancienne directrice de l'école.
Having a college education shapes women’s work and family trajectories—including their marriage, parenting, and employment patterns—but the effects of education differ among Black, Latina, and white women, according to new research.
#CfP for the #conference "#Women#Travel#Writers in Northern Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century", which will take place at the Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) on February 27-28, 2025.