Women carried small bouquets of herbs and spices to cover the foul odors that they thought carried diseases. By Victorian times ... have a doll from my favorite cartoon, “Jem and the Holograms ...

Ms Allan objected to the depiction, saying women deserved to be able to see themselves in the media in a way that 'doesn't use sexualised imagery'. Mr Knight vehemently defended his cartoon ...

Loading Twitter content Mary Crooks, the executive director of gender equality organisation the Victorian Women's Trust, said when she saw the cartoon, her first thought was "here we go again".

But just a few generations ago, the women who suffered from these conditions, were confined to an asylum. The compelling portraits shown here, taken by Victorian photographer Henry Hering in the ...

Are we really to believe that upstanding women of the Victorian middle classes did not travel alone in the city? That they did not walk to visit friends and relatives, or travel on the omnibus or ...

The Victorian Government has pledged to put women at the heart of its Budget on Tuesday, and has already announced some targeted moves like free kinder and social housing. The thorniest but ...

They also touch on other topics that are particularly relevant in the Victorian era, like women’s rights, class struggles, industrialization, and more. If you prefer a bit of a genre mash-up ...

As part of this movement, some Victorian women turned to radical acts of protest, such as defacing artwork that could be deemed oppressive. On April 3, 1913, three suffragettes-Annie Briggs ...

Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

Kelly says the waitlists are a huge concern for many Victorian women. “On a daily basis I hear about women being on these waitlists. Anywhere from two to eight months, the longest I heard was ...