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Long before feminism had a name, Mary Wollstonecraft’s bold 1792 classic redefined women’s rights, education, and equality in ...
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Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.
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Melinda French Gates’s 2019 debut book, The Moment of Lift, shared lessons she’d learned from empowered women around the globe. In her latest, The Next Day, the philanthropist ...
Read an excerpt from Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy’s account of overlooked women in the history of Modernism.