The head and face of a woman who lived in Dorset about 2,000 years ago has been reconstructed using evidence from her remains ...

When Grace Humphreys Rockafellow, 86,  was invited to participate in a reading of African American Literature, Renee Andrews, ...

"It's been so sad to watch him go from my sweet little brother to a hateful guy who is stuck in his room all the time." ...

I remember having my first portrait taken,” Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of America’s greatest fiction writers, reminisced about ...

“When was your last period?” These are the types of intrusive questions Chinese women of childbearing age might face. According to an investigation by The New York Times, dozens of Chinese ...

The bold installation of a 45-foot-tall mesh sculpture of a naked woman standing in the center of San Francisco’s Union Square has been canceled, organizers confirmed to the Chronicle on Thursday, ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...

In her heyday, Lina Cavalieri was heralded as the most beautiful woman in the world — a superstar of the Belle Epoque whose legacy is kept alive by a Milan-based, family-run design firm that fell in ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition ...

Women are more likely than men to work in service occupations, including domestic work, restaurant service, retail, tourism, and hospitality, that require face-to-face interactions and have been ...

This powerful exhibition makes space for Hélène de Beauvoir to exist in the cultural consciousness apart from her more famous ...

Often called "female Viagra," Addyi (flibanserin) and Vyleesi (bremelanotide) are medications designed to boost sexual desire in females though they do not affect physical performance. They treat a ...