The new role of women was to transform the home into a haven for the men who faced daily pressures and dangers in the work place. At the same time, women were morally responsible for raising dutiful ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

Dressed as men, women took on a wide range of military roles in the Civil War ... women who dressed as men in 19th century America clearly rejected the strictures of Victorian femininity and ...

Women, in general, could not participate in society as men did, and their role was limited to household matters. The situation began to change with the opening of the country to the outside world ...

In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush opens up the hitherto unexamined world of literate Jewish women, their reading habits and their role in the cultural modernization of Eastern European Jewish ...

Women’s roles were primarily kinship roles: daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, mother, and mother-in-law. In all these roles, it was incumbent on women to accord with the wishes and needs of ...

What did it mean to be modern, for nations and people, in the early 20th century ... societies in the late 19th and 20th centuries, they also sought and won greater social and economic empowerment. As ...