When an interviewer asked Hugo- and Macarthur-winning novelist Octavia Butler what she thought of her books being classed as science fiction, she said, "Really, it doesn't matter. A good story is a good story." In honor of Women's History Month, here is (some of) the story of Butler's life.
Senators Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint won't let the Smithsonian lease space to a women's history museum — because the ladies already have their quilting museums, and because someone told them the museum was going to be pro-abortion. Seriously.
"Today is kind of like Oprah," said Glenn Beck on his recent "Founding Mothers" special. True — if Oprah was all about calling Revolution-era women ugly, saying men are better, and blaming the erasure of women's history on Marxists.
This Romanian Nestlé wafers commercial demonstrates how women have hampered human innovation throughout history by making men listen to their stupid ideas. This is, of course, absurd — as countless ads have shown, men never listen to women. [Sociological Images]
New York Times columnist Gail Collins—the paper's first female editorial page editor—has written a chronicle of the last
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50 years of American women's history, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.
A history mag? We're with you. A women's history mag? You had us at hello. And it's smart and handsome, too? Swell! It's called...HerStoria? Aye, there's the rub. But don't let it deter you!
Is it possible to write the history of women? That's the question implicit in Hilary Mantel's review of Marilyn French's four-volume From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women.
If a hoop skirt strikes you as an unlikely agent of feminist change, you'd be in good company. But an exhibit at Paris's Palais Galliera seeks to make just this argument. Despite its obvious restrictions, a crinoline provided a measure of comfort: one was not required to wear heavy undergarments and could move with…
