With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

While rare today in developed countries, an obstetric vesicovaginal fistula was a major complication of childbirth among 19th century women in America. "You don't have to ask these people whether ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

Prohibited from covering their breasts, the Nadar women in 19th-century Travancore fought for their rights in a historic ...

But his deeply satisfying “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism” is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women who made an art of contrarian thinking. They had ...

During the 19th-century campaign against abortion, advocates for laws banning the practice argued that they were necessary to enforce women’s maternal and marital duties and to protect ethno ...

An exhibit on Black women of the 19th Century is at the Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ...