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Overwhelming evidence now shows that the Amazon traditions of the Greeks and other ancient societies were based largely on historical facts, says Adrienne Mayor in this excerpt from “The Amazons,” which looks at these women in myth and history.
Journalists, historians and publishers who try to tell the story of the Korean “comfort women” are being fiercely attacked while Japanese leaders deny the forcible recruitment of women to serve its army as sex slaves during World War II.
Other victims from Taiwan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor were also forced into sexual slavery. Sometimes women were required to provide sexual service, which could be defined as rape, for up to 50 soldiers per day.
On Sept. 20 at the New York Public Library at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, research librarian Philip Sutton will lead volunteers in a search of New York City archives for the forgotten trophies of Josephine Ursula Herrick’s life as a photographer, feminist and activist.
The 81-year-old, known to her online fans as the Notorious R.B.G., is the oldest member of the court, but she says she’s not planning on going away any time soon. Here are some of her thoughts from a New York women’s health gathering earlier this week.
The Greek goddess of the hunt and moon and the mortal Atalanta, with their strong wills and self-confidence, have become the archetype for female characters in this century’s fiction, says Jean Shinoda Bolen in this excerpt from the book “Artemis.”
“Beauty is anything but frivolous,” said Rubinstein, who built an empire from nothing through essentially inventing modern cosmetics, says Michèle Fitoussi in this excerpt from the businesswoman’s biography.
The first woman named to the Minnesota Supreme Court, Wahl decided in her 30s to pursue law after she grew tired of “sitting outside of doors, with the doors shut, and them [men] deciding,” says Lori Sturdevant in this excerpt from “Her Honor.”
If Times’ owners had done better hiring long ago, aspirants of all persuasions, genders and colors would fail or succeed at their requisite speeds. And thus the loss of Abramson would not appear as the loss of the only redwood in the forest.
Two young children and no car didn’t prevent Rita Henley Jensen from enrolling in Ohio State University. She caught a ride with a stranger and her family’s future was transformed, she says in this excerpt from the anthology “Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God.”