At a time when women were ashamed to talk to doctors about their bodies, a certain…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Anna Morandi: The Wax Model Pioneer
In 18th-century Bologna, a woman stood over the dissection table and began cutting open a human…
Elizabeth Gaskell: Voice of Victorian Inequality
Elizabeth Gaskell was born in 1810 in Chelsea, but her true home became the provincial town…
Katharine Bishop: Forgotten Discoverer of Vitamin E
In 1923, a young researcher from California discovered a substance essential for life—vitamin E. However, instead…
Margareta Hardenbroeck. America’s First Female Millionaire
A woman born in the Rhine Valley built a commercial empire in 17th-century New York, including…
Tanya Savicheva’s Notebook: Siege of Leningrad Story
The twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva’s diary contains only nine entries, yet each one is a record of…
Belva Lockwood’s Fight for Women in US Law
When Belva Lockwood stood before the United States Supreme Court in 1876, she heard words that…
The Tragic Fate of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Zoja Kosmodemyanskaya was only eighteen years old when she was publicly hanged by the Germans in…
Takamure Itsue: Japan’s Radical Matriarch Scholar
She was called a scandal monger, celebrity, and radical feminist. But Takamure Itsue is primarily remembered…
Karine Blais: A Fallen Canadian Hero in Afghanistan
In April 2009, an improvised explosive device tore apart a Canadian reconnaissance vehicle in Shah Wali…