Written by Helena Gorecka. The Weimar Republic created a whole set of new opportunities for women, who had emerged from the Great War as hopeful for their role in the future. But how did women’s fashion play into this? And how can we understand these women as feminists?
Written by Sophie Whitehead. Who was Margaret of Anjou? The question has largely been left to the portrayals of Shakespeare, leaving much misogynist tropes of the ‘she-wolf’ lingering.
Written by Sophie Whitehead. The experience of women in science has been a challenging one over the last century. But how does the science of Crystallography compare, and who are the women behind the work?
Written by Sophia Aiello. The Witch Trials of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries have been well studied, but what role did misogyny have in this crisis, and how did the stereotype of the ‘witch’ develop?
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