Mary Stuart's father reportedly predicted that the Scottish throne would end with a woman. But no one could have foreseen the ...

Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is not just a myth.

As long as women continue to write, read and reimagine the world, novel reading will remain a vital site of feminist resistance and possibility.

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Fifty years since Tobago — together with its island neighbour, Trinidad — became a republic, it’s embraced independence while ...

Feminism as a movement began in Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when women across the world began to fight for equality.

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Many women who have changed Britain for the better weren’t originally from our shores. Here are the stories of just some of those inspirational immigrants.

The international booker longlist comprises 13 books, selected from 128. The conditions for consideration: the book can be ...

Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.

Early on in Shakespeare’s comedy “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” the con man Pistol is scorned by his friend Sir John Falstaff, who refuses to lend him money. Enraged, Pistol issues a thinly veiled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike France has entered the race for Connecticut’s 19th Senate District, saying he would bring decades of military, engineering ...