This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. I argue that the nontraditional participation of Mexican women as soldaderas during the Revolution facilitated a temporary transformation ...

How a women's group is spurring 'revolution' in Iran, 45 years after the Islamic Revolution. Members of Femme Azadi, a French group, are calling for change in Iran.

Contemporary paintings celebrate the brave women who fought fiercely alongside the men in the Haitian revolution of the 18th Century. How did they contribute, and why have their stories been ...

The Revolution was a violent and tumultuous time for many Americans. On remote farms and in occupied cities, women worried about being robbed or murdered or raped.

When in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, opposition to the Shah united most of Khomeini’s followers. ... While Farzaneh focuses on women during Iran-Iraq War, ...

During the initial months of the protest in 2021, the Gender Equality Network estimated that 70 to 80 percent of Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) leaders were women.

If middle-aged women were to start a revolution, their leader might be Dr. Mary Claire Haver. They would be armed with weighted vests and chicken breasts, health checklists and fiber supplements ...

For the first 24 years, the Friend lived a pretty average 18th century life, but in 1776, they became ill with a fever (historians think it may have been typhus) and fell into a comatose state for ...

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.

The London-based Perry, a journalist in her early 30s and a new mother, celebrates the gains of reliable family planning methods and professional opportunity which modernity has delivered to women.

Three filmmakers dive into the battles that both united and divided the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s, as reflected in the pages of the now 53-year-old magazine.