Women

A monument to the formerly enslaved woman will soon stand in the town she called home.

Filipino tribal tattooist Fang-od Oggay has built an economy on the back of skin art.

These adventurous turn-of-the-century women announced their independence by buying their own islands in Ontario's Georgian Bay.

To celebrate Women's History Month, Atlas Obscura is telling stories that have been left out of the history books.

And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.

A new book tells the tales of the queens of Jerusalem.

The new book "Pirate Women" uncovers the stories of the women who sailed their way into history, cutlass in hand.

In the 19th century, the character embodied debates about women’s rights—and occasionally got a sleigh ride of her own.

Scholar Solange Ashby is uncovering the once-revered, now little-remembered female leaders of the Kushite kingdoms.

The preservation of a heritage trail, where the author and anthropologist spent the last years of her life, takes a whole community.

In 2011, the women of Cherán led a revolt against illegal logging and corruption. Today, the forests are coming back, and the Indigenous community is returning to its roots.

How empresses used "metamorphosis" to show their male courtiers who’s the boss.

English colonists needed alcohol to survive. And for that, they needed women.