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We celebrate the resilient and revolutionary women who've shaped our world. Discover the stories and legacies of female visionaries, artists, and leaders.
Linda Nochlin burst onto the feminist scene with this provocative question about women artists. Her answers would make her famous and change art history.
Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, documented her life in hiding from Nazi persecution. After WWII, she became an international symbol of the Holocaust.
Discover five pioneering women in music: a gospel queen, an electronic music pioneer, a punk icon, a pop legend, and a French Resistance member.
Agatha Christie is a well-known author of the mid-twentieth century, particularly for her wildly popular mystery novels.
Despite being a popular historical figure, the best-known details about Harriet Tubman’s life are a mixture of fact and myth.
A sexualized figure from late medieval Italy, was Lucrezia Borgia a salacious femme fatale or an innocent pawn in her family’s insidious machinations?
This is the story of two Aboriginal women who are widely (and wrongly) considered “the last Aboriginal Tasmanians.”
The lives of Medieval women in Europe were not terribly different from other women throughout history: they centered around home, family, and community.