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v. t. e. Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievements over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and ...
Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes.
Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
Women in World History. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia is a 16-volume reference work of biographies of notable women. It includes biographies of around 10,000 women, and also includes genealogical charts of noble families and some joint entries about multiple women (such as "Astronauts: Women in Space").
Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) [ 2] was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. [ 3][ 4] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard STS-87. [ 5]
History of the Caribbean. Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009) History of the United States. Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American History. Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery, women's history.
1870. Louisa Swainwas the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election, after the women of New Jersey lost the right to vote in 1807; she cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [32][33] 1870. Esther Hobart Morriswas the first woman in America to serve as Justice of the peace.