Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive

An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/museums-collections/barbara-smith-papers-harvard-radcliffe-institute?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=weekly&utm_content=one-of-harvards-oldest-structures-is-hiding-behind-a-beer-garden&utm_campaign=032026

Black fiction & Feminism at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+fiction
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=feminism

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Unbounded

In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself

by Julia Ravanis

https://aeon.co/essays/she-freed-physics-but-emmy-noether-couldnt-escape-herself?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ad82296e0c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

About Emmy Noether via @wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

Mathematics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/102

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This week, for #WomeninEthics, we feature the ethics researcher, Cristina Voinea. Her current research centers the 'quieter shifts' of AI risk - how it steers choices, weakens trust, and reshapes relationships.

See our video feature on her work: https://shorturl.at/URRv6

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How Women Researchers Changed Our Understanding of Women’s Economic Lives

How can better data drive economic change? ‘We Do Declare’ uses oral histories to reveal how women collected evidence, reframed the conversation about money, and shaped lasting policy and economic opportunity.

by Rachel F. Seidman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/03/09/we-do-declare-collect-new-data-and-ask-new-questions-about-money/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Women’s Economic Lives & Women economy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68759
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+economy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57913

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The Colorful Story Of Maud Wagner, America’s First Female Tattoo Artist

By Kaleena Fraga

An aerialist in the circus at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Wagner broke barriers by both giving and receiving hundreds of tattoos.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/maud-wagner

Books about tattoos at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=tattoo

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Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love

The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.

By Amy Glover

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a

Gaskell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220

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Typing for Love or Money
The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/

At PG:

"The Story of the Typewriter":

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60794

Books by Henry James:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113

"Henry James at Work" by Theodora Bosanquet:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63377

Books by T. S. Eliot:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599

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Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Women’s Day

Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.

by Amy Wilcockson

https://theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day

Women fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction

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