Posts Tagged ‘women in the 19th century’
From the Archives: Stranger in the Shogun’s City
Over the last few weeks the book Stranger in the Shogun’s City has come up several times in conversations with fellow history buffs and book nerds. Each time, my response has been “I love that book!” And after a while I decided it was time to tell those of you who didn’t read this review…
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Mary Elizabeth Garrett, the “Friday Evening” Group, and Coercive Philanthropy
In the course of researching my last blog post, I discovered Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915), the woman who founded and led the Women’s Medical Fund Committee, which raised the money that allowed the Johns Hopkins University medical school to open, and forced the school to admit women and to improve the quality of medical education.…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Anya Jabour
Anya Jabour has been studying, researching, teaching, and writing about US women’s history for more than three decades. Her latest book, Matters of Sex: Katharine Bement Davis and America’s First Sexual Revolution, is forthcoming from NYU Press in Fall 2026. You can learn more about her and her work at her website. Take it away,…
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