In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

Suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular ...

SUNY Cortland’s Memorial Library will present posters to highlight local suffragettes and shed light on their contributions, nationally and regionally, during the fourth week of Women’s History Month ...

This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...

To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the stories of how women won the right to vote in the United States. To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the ...

Maya Keleher, who plays lead suffragist Alice Paul in the musical "Suffs," is honored to bring story to audiences across the ...

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. Cleveland and northeast Ohio played an important role in the long struggle for women’s rights and the passing of the 19th Amendment. Cleveland was a center for the ABOLITIONIST ...

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Marcia Chatelian: I think it's so important that cultural institutions understand they need to be a gathering place for people to reflect on political ideas, and that the works they present have to be ...

Not long ago, a high-profile conservative woman of my acquaintance was cornered at the National Conservatism conference by a pimply young man who put to her that women should not vote. And, he ...

Cats and dogs are gendered in contemporary American culture, such that dogs are thought to be the proper pet for men and cats for women (especially lesbians). This, it turns out, is an old stereotype.