Hidden from history: Archivists reveal the lives of famous, and not-so-famous, women

Katy Milkman,” episode 105 Explore these resources from our expert guests: How

In the library, even, she knew when to slump her shoulders, minimize her hips when she walked, and cross her arms over her chest. She, and all women, were prey.

Schoolteachers were the role models for freedom-craving women of the day. There were very few roles in which a woman could claim social and economic independence, but teaching was one of them.

The Computer Pays Its Debt  tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.

But history belies these theories. Women have been autonomous healers, often the only healers for women and the poor. And we found, in the periods we have studied, that, if anything, it was the male professionals who clung to untested doctrines and ritualistic practices—and it was the women healers who represented a more human, empirical approach t