Why is the eighteenth century considered the most feminist century before the twentieth? In the eighteenth century, women became mathematicians, astronomers and physicists. Others played a leading ...

Violence against women has been accepted and even condoned throughout history. More than 2,000 years ago, Roman law gave a man life and death authority over his wife. In the 18th Century ...

More information: Renata Maria de Almeida Martins, Lacquers of the Amazon: Cuias, Cumatê and Colours by Indigenous Women in Grão-Pará in the 18th Century, Heritage (2024). DOI: 10.3390 ...

When the Potomac River ushered its humid 18th-century breezes, Martha Washington used her delicate hand fan as a cooling tool ...