Women's Studies
22 Threads
Today is the death anniversary, first Indian female to study western medicine, First female Physician from Bombay Presidency “Anandibai Joshi”. She was born into a wealthy land...
For Millennial women, that ship has sailed. If you're 35 and single, our advice is to *admit you were wrong* and warn younger women of your mistakes. Young women being intentiona...
The Untold Story of Madam Efunroye Tinubu The woman Tinubu Square in Lagos was named after. During the slave trade in Nigeria, she was one of the slave traders, she sold her own p...
Princess Yashodhara, was the wife of Prince Siddhartha (later Shakyamuni Gautama, The Buddha). Born into the prominent Koliya clan, Yashodhara was the daughter of King Suppabuddha...
Story of Madam Efunroye Tinubu The woman Tinubu Square was named after. During the slave trade in Nigeria, she was one of the slave traders, she sold her own people to portuguese....
🧵Thread on Manusmriti and women #Manusmriti #मनुस्मृती https://t.co/jGV2JcIdPX
yesterday I presented my paper “Queen of the Stars: Buran and the Role of Women in Astrological Knowledge in the Abbasid Caliphate” at @MESA_1966 on one of the first named women as...
A thread(🧵) on the unusual shift towards women’s participation and visibility in religious activities during the Wartime period in the Soviet Union -
1/ One of the most interesting themes of the LBA in the Eastern Mediterranean is the relations of the Mycenaean Aegean with the Hittites. Hittite texts provide us with some interes...
Brief history of Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà Efunsetan Aniwura was an eponymous heroine. She was a powerful, rich and influential high chief of old Ibadan province. Her name was a force...
Inventions that would not exist without Black Women. https://t.co/OIABdEaqas
5 books to better understand s3x and women: 1. Come as you are https://t.co/6i3NHDSn64
Jane Austen wrote Persuasion at the end of her life, when she was ailing and living in poverty, with the type of life she had not expected or planned. She, her mother, and sister...
A concubine by the name of Maah Lakabai Chanda (1767-1824) is considered to be the first woman of the subcontinent whose poetry was documented. A staunch feminist; she is known to...
Women played an important role in Islamic history yet like much of history the lives of women are often limited to their relationship to men, either as mothers or as wives. But s...
Most powerful African queens who graced history with their bravery, influence and leadership. A THREAD https://t.co/hccJLHoYJ1
#WomensDay2022 #WomensDay #Jain Warrior Queen Abbaka Chowta She is the First Tuluva Queen of Ullal who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century. She belonged to the Chowta dynas...
As a former correspondent in Vietnam & a student of Vietnamese history, I've read many accounts of the US war in Vietnam. Elizabeth Becker's new book on three women who helped chan...
Today is Jayanti of Ahilyabai Holkar She was a widow who became Malwa's greatest queen. Defended our country & personally led armies into battle.Never plundered anyone. Developed...
Islamic history is full of powerful women who defying all odds became queens and rulers, shaping their own destiny and the fortune of their realms A thread-
#Thread on #Polyandry and rule of succession to thrones in some regions of South #India (Malabar, Calicut etc.), in #medieval ages, as observed by Persian ambassadors, Venetian mer...
Women played important roles in health care in the classical Islamic world. A thread on female health practitioners (Illustration: BnF ms Arabe 5847, fol 122b, painted in 1237) h...
