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 ...

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

After the dissolution of her arranged marriage to a doctor in the Indian Civil Service, she moved to England ... women’s ...

This "rule of thumb" prevailed in England and America until the late 19th century. Many feminists claim violence against women is the result of a deeply entrenched patriarchal culture that ...

Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

As the film suggests, the lives of nineteenth-century women were deeply shaped ... and a variety of other occupations. Young women from New England farms provided the nation’s first factory ...

More than 8,000 photos that depict English architecture, landscapes and maritime history from the 1800s to the early 1900s have been given to Historic England. The Janette ... She began her collection ...