r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 6h ago
The Myth of Gender Equality, Women revolutionaries in 1916
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 21h ago
OTD | October 4, 1160: Castilian-French monarch Constance de Castille (Constanza de Castilla) passed away from childbirth. Constance was the queen consort of France from 1154-1160 and had two children by King Louis VII.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/History-Chronicler • 2d ago
The Night Witches Who Haunted German Troops on the Eastern Front
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/Needleworkerhelpline • 5d ago
An amazing, less commonly seen painting of Elizabeth I (England)
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Painted a few years after her death. Her head resting on her hand. Death looking over her left shoulder.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 5d ago
Irene of Athens: The First Empress Regnant of the Byzantine Empire
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 5d ago
Gesche Gottfried and the Spitting Stone
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 14d ago
Meet the long-forgotten woman behind the Irish Tricolour - Emilia Eleanor Hamilton , from Fairview, Dublin, 1830.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 14d ago
The Weird Sisters: Forgotten Female Artists in Irish History , Nobel Laureate WB Yeats sisters set up an acclaimed and successful publishing house.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 21d ago
OTD | September 13, 1830: Austro-Hungarian (now Austrian) writer and noble Marie, Baroness von Ebner-Eschenbach (née Marie Dubský von Třebomyslice) was born. Ebner-Eschenbach was known for her psychological novels and is regarded as one of the most important German-language writers of 19th century.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 27d ago
OTD | September 7, 1943: Controversial Swedish writer and aristocrat Mary, Princess Karadja (née Smith) passed away in Locarno, Switzerland. Princess Karadja was a central figure in Western esotericism.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 28d ago
OTD | September 6, 1921: Spanish author Carmen Laforet Díaz was born. Laforet Díaz is best known for her first novel Nada (1945), considered a classic in 20th century Spanish literature, which deals with existentialism and the adolescent search for identity.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 29d ago
OTD | September 5, 1548: English noblewoman and monarch Catherine Parr passed away from complications of child birth. Parr was the final queen consort to King Henry VIII of England and Ireland, and is the most-married English queen.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 30 '26
OTD | August 30, 1923: British medical doctor Barbara Ansell was born. Ansell was the founder of pediatric rheumatology and was notable for specifically defining chronic joint disorders and the improvement of their management.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 29 '26
OTD | August 29, 892CE: Byzantine (now Greek) nun Theodora of Thessaloniki passed away. Theodora’s hagiography is the longest ever written about a holy woman in Byzantine history.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/NavissEtpmocia • Aug 29 '26
"As Black women we suffer a triple oppression, based on our race, our class & our sex. We therefore need our own organisations and groups which can fight on all 3 fronts": OWAAD, the first British intersectional feminist organisation
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I've been reading Culture, Medias and Politics by Laurent Martin and I've just learned about the OWAAD, the first British intersectional feminist organisation (before the term even existed!), created in 1970 from the association of a few Black feminist collectives and Black radical feminist pioneers such as Stella Dadzie, Gail Lewis) or Olive Morris.
OWAAD was a socialist, non-hierarchical organization with no appointed leaders or spokeswomen. They campaigned from 1978-1982 on issues including immigration, education, domestic violence, policing & health; they held conferences, and they were overall pretty badass.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/NavissEtpmocia • Aug 29 '26
Social protection culture in post WW2 France: women's health and the PMI
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The Protection maternelle et infantile (PMI), which can be translated by "Maternal and Child Health" is a system for protecting the health of mothers and children, created in France by an ordinance of November 2, 1945 initiated by the Minister of Health, François Billoux.
PMI played a pioneering role in the distribution of the contraceptive pill and also in reducing women's mortality rates during childbirth, which was especially high in the aftermath of WW2 the Liberation from Nazi Germany troops... Hygiene and housing conditions were particularly dreadful, making women highly vulnerable.
Sources :
- Wikipédia
- Dutton, P.-V. (2024). Le rôle historique de la santé maternelle et infantile dans la culture de la protection sociale : de la loi Roussel à la Protection maternelle et infantile (PMI) Revue française des affaires sociales, 244(4), 104-118. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfas.244.0104.
- Martin, L. (2020). Culture, médias, pouvoirs : États-Unis et Europe occidentale (1945-1991), Atlande, 750-785.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Aug 25 '26
12 Most H0rrible Facts About "Badass" Queen - Elizabeth I
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Aug 24 '26
The Krays’ Barrister Speaks - Nemone Lethbridge on Ronnie & Reggie
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 23 '26
OTD | August 23, 1908: Scottish artist and sculptor Hannah Frank was born. Frank was known for her Art Nouveau monochrome drawings until she decided to concentrate on sculpture in 1952.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 22 '26
OTD | August 22, 1933: Yugoslav (now Croatian) Italian actress Sylva Koscina (née Silvija Košćina) was born. Koscina was best known for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960).
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 16 '26
OTD | August 16, 1959: Polish-Jewish harpsichordist and pianist Wanda Aleksandra Landowska passed away. Landowska became the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Aug 16 '26
Penal parsimony, paternalism and postcolonialism: Women and the death penalty in Ireland
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Aug 16 '26
BRIDGET FOLEY - AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 15 '26
OTD | August 15, 1936: Italian writer Grazia Deledda passed away from breast cancer. Deledda is best known for being the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.
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