Oh, the Victorians. I’m not going to go through the remainder of Stephanie Coontz’s book, although I definitely recommend reading it. But I did want to talk about Victorian ideas of marriage and gender, because we still base many of … Read more →
I’ve wanted to write about ballet and feminism for awhile, but haven’t known where to start. I asked readers to give me a hand by asking questions, and so far I’ve received one response. So please keep asking! It doesn’t … Read more →
I found another great history site (what have I been doing this whole time?!)–The Hope Chest, which posts “bad news from the past”. Much of which is genuinely ghastly, but how can you resist titles such as these? “ATE THE … Read more →
Emily Esfahani Smith is arguing in The Atlantic that we should revive chivalry as a behavioral standard beneficial to both men and women. Smith asserts, using the examples of the Titanic and Costa Concordia sinkings, that our society has seen … Read more →
This is part of a series recognizing the lives of suffragists in honor of the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 1920). These aren’t meant to be comprehensive, and I’m most certainly not an authority on the lives … Read more →
This is part of a series recognizing the lives of suffragists in honor of the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 1920). These aren’t meant to be comprehensive, and I’m most certainly not an authority on the lives … Read more →
This is part of a series recognizing the lives of suffragists in honor of the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 1920). These aren’t meant to be comprehensive, and I’m most certainly not an authority on the lives … Read more →
This is part of a series recognizing the lives of suffragists in honor of the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 1920). These aren’t meant to be comprehensive, and I’m most certainly not an authority on the lives … Read more →
This is part of a series recognizing the lives of suffragists in honor of the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 1920). These aren’t meant to be comprehensive, and I’m most certainly not an authority on the lives … Read more →
This is part of a series recognizing the lives of suffragists in honor of the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment (August 1920). These aren’t meant to be comprehensive, and I’m most certainly not an authority on the lives … Read more →