Women demanding functional, capacious pockets in their garments is not a new phenomenon — but one stretching back hundreds of years.

Rather than casting women as narrative frills or confining them to narrow stereotypes, these authors created figures who were independent, resilient, warm, complex - and above all, authentic. Their ...

However, as these two books show, the lives they led were very different. Perhaps the contrast stems from the timing of their ...

Americans have never stopped debating the balance of powers, the rules of enfranchisement or how widely to apply the ...

However, Yukon women were not satisfied just to be fund raising; they became socially active on a broader scale. They became ...

British Americans--Ethnic identity ... African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.; American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.; African American women in literature.; ...

Kutubna Cultural Center, Dubai’s newest independent bookstore and cultural hub, is soon launching Women in Contemporary Arab ...

continuing those of Britain in the 20th century. Two Palestinian faces from 40 years ago illustrate these continuities: a grandmother in the Beqa'a refugee camp in Jordan was walking through the ...