Women in history

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Just a bit curious really as I'm studying history and can't believe how male dominated my textbooks are. I know that there were women who made a huge difference yet they appear to get very little mention.
Who would you say are your greatest female historical figures?

When I did history I found the dates and names of the powerful actually much less interesting than the history of every day lives
Me too. If you're studying any sort of social history, there'll be women featured, probably quite prominently, even if you don't think so from the course title.

Whoops, pressed post too soon. I did a unit on the History of the Labour Movement which featured women very prominently, both as leaders and as union members e.g. in the mills in Lancashire. Nothing in the course title would have made you think of it as "Women's History" though.

I love Marie Curie, Florence nightingale, Edith Cavell a nurse in WW1, mother Maria Elisabeth skobzoff, and Mother Superior Elise Rivet both nuns in WW2, mother Theresa, pankhursts, queen Elizabeth the queen mother, bronte sisters... Wiki any you don't know.

The OU's Classical Studies module is excellent. It looks at the role of women in ancient Athens in relation to that of men, and explores the construction of these and other identities (eg slaves, foreigners) not just as perceived in the 5th century BC but also through the prism of historical writing.

Check out former slave Harriet Tubman 1820 - 1913. Very interesting life as a US abolitionist who, amongst other things, helped black slaves escape the South via the 'Underground Railroad'.

Margaret Roper, brilliantly clever daughter of Thomas More. Published a translation of a work by Erasmus at a time when that was basically unheard of, presumably frowned upon.

amazingwomenrock.com/profiles-and-bios/

69 pages of amazing women like this lady amazingwomenrock.com/alexandra-david-n and this one amazingwomenrock.com/ernestine-rose-atheistfeministabolitionist

I've just ordered They Went Whistling which is about adventurous women in history. Looks really good..

Rosa Parks