At the same time, women were morally responsible for raising dutiful children, preferably sons. By the mid-19th century, popular media depicted the “True Woman” as one who could competently manage a ...

Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...

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 ...

Cookery books and guides written for women by women became immensely popular from the mid-19th century onwards. Karolina Nakwaska started to write after she divorced her first husband. When her estate ...

Now, judges in a key swing state have decided that 21st century women should be controlled by a mid-19th century territorial law. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called the ruling ...