Kulick: Learn about women's suffrage and the fight against the Tocks Island Dam project at upcoming history talks.

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of ... Critics argued that the acts deprived women—including those who were not sex workers—of their basic rights. “Any woman could be ...

“Woman in the Nineteenth Century”; they were, “Bright Circle” suggests, the foundations of the American women’s rights movement. “Bright Circle" brings together five women associated ...

That isn’t entirely fair to the 19th century. The irony of last week ... s prevailing patriarchal dogma and in favor of women’s property rights. Even his abortion law was guided by concerns ...

A few women in the crowd of several hundred people were dressed as 19th century campaigners who were ... in gradually granting women full voting rights. Women could vote in school elections ...

Deb Erdley Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 8:03 a.m. | Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 8:03 a.m. Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the ...