Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts a young woman staring out at the ...

The first women on the campus of William & Mary were enslaved women, who cooked and cleaned for the faculty and students during the late 18th and early 19th Century. Women have always been a part of ...

However, in early 19th-century England, the increased emphasis on domesticity and feminine ideals drew attention to the perceived biological vulnerability of women. From the 1820s, doctors began ...

Cycling, in its most familiar form, dates back to at least the 19th century. One example of an early bicycle was known as the ...

In the early 19th century, vaginal douching was popular ... misunderstood and considered to be the fault of the woman. In the 18th Century, this eagle stone was tied to the thigh in labour ...

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 ...

Later texts support these early portraits of women, both in exemplifying their ... A series of spectacular 19th and 20th century discoveries of Christian texts in Egypt dating to the second ...