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We all know our share of powerful women. From mothers and grandmothers to teachers and leaders, the women in our lives shape ...

This Women’s History Month, celebrate strong, complex, and unforgettable female characters who challenge the status quo.

From explorations of motherhood to climate fiction, women are setting the tone in climate literature and action.

Extracted with permission from Land Power, Michael Albertus, Profile Books/ Hachette India.

This International Women’s Day, Star Books and Literature brings to you a list of five books that delve into the history of ...

Ghana’s history books have been rewritten with the election of Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as the country’s first ...

These outstanding women demonstrate the wide range of influential careers that York alumnae can pursue, and are an ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom seemed almost glib as he carved a deep chasm in his own political party Thursday over the issue ...

"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.

Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel evokes a mixture of numbness and anxiety in the face of incessant violence.

Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity analyses the portrayal of feminine domesticity in the art of the Nabi ‘brotherhood’.