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This type of map was also known as a "persuasive map."
politics

The 1915 Map That Helped All Women Get the Vote

Suffrage maps appeared on drinking glasses, baseball programs, parade floats, and sandwich boards.
Tao Tao Holmes November 7, 2016
Permanently Closed
A tag for a Warner's Coraline corset.
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Warner Brothers Corset Factory

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.
utopias

The Commune in Ethiopia Where Feminism is the Law

How a village in Ethiopia has come to serve as a model for the rights of women, children and the elderly.
Zac Crellin September 14, 2016
kickass women

The Feminist Architect Who Tried to Liberate Kitchens From Houses

In the early 20th century, Alice Constance Austin dreamed of collective housekeeping.
Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite September 12, 2016
Annie Oakley's grave.
Versailles, Ohio

Annie Oakley's Grave

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.
sports

The Olympic Committee Spent Years Concern-Trolling Women About 'Wandering Wombs'

But the women's-only Olympics of 1922 disproved doctors, doubters, and the IOC.
Natalie Zarrelli August 17, 2016
sports

The First American Woman to Win an Olympic Championship Didn't Even Know It

Margaret Abbott spent her entire life unaware that she had won the top golf prize at the 1900 games.
Tao Tao Holmes August 10, 2016
politics

In 1972, Two Women Ran For President. It Didn't Go Well.

Even feminists hesitated to support a female candidate.
Sarah Laskow July 28, 2016
news

Iconic Punk Rocker Defaces the British Library's Punk Rock Exhibit

Punk feminist Viv Albertine took on the exhibit's erasure of female musicians in the most metal way possible.
Jessie Guy-Ryan July 17, 2016
food

Did an Uncredited Woman Invent Breakfast Cereal?

Before there was granola, there was granula—and billions turned out to be at stake.
Sarah Laskow June 28, 2016
Rajasthani women partaking in Piplantri's tree planting program. (All photos courtesy of Piplantri.com)
trees

An Indian Village Plants 111 Trees Every Time a Girl Is Born

The initiative aims to promote gender equality and has boosted the village's economy.
Urvija Banerji May 18, 2016
A Vegetable Compound label, featuring the portrait that confused the world.
medicine

The First Woman to Put Her Face on Packaging Got Trolled Like Crazy

"You ought to feel solemn... that your face pervades the mind of the nation like a nightmare," wrote one early hater.
Cara Giaimo April 29, 2016
books

The Illegal Birth Control Handbook That Spread Across College Campuses in 1968

A group of Canadian teenagers wrote the first popular text on contraception.
Tao Tao Holmes March 31, 2016
fashion

When Going Out Without a Hat Was Grounds for Scandal

Back in the day, women with bare heads may as well have been naked.
Tao Tao Holmes March 21, 2016
victorian

When Sipping Tea Was A Socially Ruinous Act

There's a revolution brewing in that pot of Earl Grey.
Hadley Meares March 7, 2016
Hackathon participant Nelly Rosaria, making the Wiki-world a more textured place.
computers

Fighting Whitewashed History With MIT's Diversity Hackers

Cara Giaimo January 30, 2016
A still from the movie version of So Aljannar Duniya, the first work published in Hausa by a woman.
literature

How Nigerian Romance Novelists Sneak Feminism Into Their Plots

Cara Giaimo January 29, 2016
The Hudson's Bay Company's outpost on the shore of Lake Saskatoon, Canada. Gunn traveled 1,800 miles between remote trading posts, disguised as a man.
female explorers

The Teen Who Trekked 1,800 Miles Through the Canadian Wilderness Disguised as a Man

Her ruse worked—until she had a baby.
Ailsa Ross January 27, 2016