If you've been exposed to a Nicki Minaj video, you may have theorized clothing is getting smaller, women are getting larger and singers don't really sing anymore. At least one of those theories is ...

Mary Tyler Moore. What comes to mind when you think about that character and that show? I haven't watched an episode in ages, but my gut reaction is mostly positive. She's a single woman star of a ...

The Oakland Tribune story set off alarm bells across the region. Published April 23, 1961, “Our Shrinking Bay” dared to gaze 40 years into the future at what the Bay Area would look like if urban ...

If you are old enough to have any stereotypes at all about college life in the 1960s, the first things that probably popped into your head when you just read the phrase “college life in the 1960s” ...

Installation view, Radical Women: Latin American Art: 1960-1985, Brooklyn Museum, April 13–July 22, 2018 (photo by Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum) Even these impressive numbers, however, cannot do ...

In the decade after the Pill was released, the oral contraceptive gave women highly effective control over their fertility. By 1960, the baby boom was taking its toll. Mothers who had four children by ...

More than 40 years after the high points of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, women not only don't have equal rights, but sexism and oppression has grown worst in a number of ...

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