The mod team would like to reiterate that we are committed to increasing the visibility in history and on AskHistorians of groups traditionally marginalized from both historical narratives and historical practice, especially women of all races and POC of all genders.

With that in mind, here are some of our favorite answers about women's history and women in history. Feel free to add some of your favorites as well!

Talking About Talking About Women in History

• The slut-shaming of Cleopatra
• On sensitivity and empathy when talking about women and sexual exploitation in history
• On the exclusion of women from history textbooks
• The sexism of the debate over “No Irish Need Apply”
• Feminist history versus history of women
• Women’s history and/versus gender history
• Why have women been excluded from historical narratives? Is it the Victorians’ fault?

Feminism

• The feminist movement in Yugoslavia under Communism
• How successful was the Spanish Feminist and Anarchist group the Mujeres Libres (Free Women)? In what ways was Spain's working class Feminist movement of the 1930s distinct from more middle class Feminist movements of the period?
• What are the “waves” of feminism?
• How racist were early feminists?
• Was Queen Victoria reacting to a specific group when she said that "feminists ought to get a good whipping"? Why did she have so much hatred for feminists?

Specific Women

• An assessment of Cleopatra’s actual life and reign
• On Nina Simone
• On Admiral Grace Hopper
• Did Ramses II try to erase Queen Hatshepsut from the record books because she was a successful ruler or because she was a woman (whom depicted herself as male)?
• The story of Princess Pingyang (Bonus follow-up on Wu Zetian and Ching Shih)
• If Mulan did what she did in ancient China, how would people have reacted when they discovered she was a woman?
• Alexandra Kollontai and women in the Russian Revolution
• Why is Mary more important than Joseph?
• Renaissance women
• On Angela Davis
• The saga of Duchess Kunigunde and Anna Laminit, Spiritual Con Artist

Women's Lives

• How did women get to wear the pants around here?
• History of the sports bra: In the late 19th century, what was a “sports corset”?
• Did women in the ancient Mediterranean veil themselves like women in the Near East today?
• How did gender and sexuality shape the experience of the Holocaust, for perpetrators and victims alike?
• Movies, TV, Pop Culture and literature often portray Nazi wives/women as masochists, and punishing in sexual ways, is there any evidence to support this?
• Does the quinceañera stem from Aztec/Mayan tradition, or was it a colonial/post colonial invention?
• Women trapped in the Soviet gulag system
• Women in the WW2 Allied forces
• White, slave-owning men’s sexual exploitation of enslaved women
• White, slave-owning women’s sexual exploitation of enslaved men
• Did being a pin-up girl in the earlier 1900s have the same negative stigma that being a porn star has today?
• I am a hot-blooded young British woman the Victorian era hitting the streets of Manchester for a night out with my fellow ladies and I've got a shilling burning a hole in my purse. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are available to me?
• In the 19th century and before, How prevalent was pregnancy among prostitutes in brothels and how were those babies dealt with?
• Sexual exploitation in slavery and the black family as resistance
• I'm a twentysomething flapper in 1920s New York City, and I'm interested in hooking up with a man for casual sex. How difficult is it to find a willing partner, and how do I go about it? What are my options for contraception, how difficult are they to obtain and how effective are they generally?
• How much say did a noblewoman have in negotiating her marriage in the Middle Ages?
• Why might medieval noblewomen become nuns?
• On women pirates in the Age of Sail
• What do we know about Aztec (Mexica) queens and noblewomen?
• How could a woman become a gladiatrix in ancient Rome?
• What happened when a medieval nun was raped?
• Could a housewife in medieval England ever "go out with the girls"?
• Medieval women: the driving force of vernacular literacy
• Sexual violence against women in medieval warfare

SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE

• What is the crisis in masculinity in your area of study?

On the topic of women in history and marginalised figures, I was really hoping for an answer to /u/mrsvanchamarch's question on I am a young woman from Hindustan that has been adopted into a British naval officer's family in 1812 and brought to English soil. What sort of social and religious obstacles would I face in my day to day life?

• /u/oakheartix on "What is the origin of this anecdote about a meeting between young Robespierre and Louis XVI and is it true?"
• /u/parksungjun on "Japanese kamikaze's who changed their minds"
• /u/klesk_vs_xaero on "Why didn't King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy stop Mussolini's power grab?"

If I'd know of this, I would not have erased some of my posts. It happens that I am very curious and hate posts that never get a meaningful answer as nothing but wasted space.

Anyway, I got some, I did not hold back my curiosity as much this week as I did others:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/73inzd/what_would_be_the_situation_of_hoi_polloi_in/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/73xhs9/why_megaris_was_never_attached_to_korinthia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/741695/peisistratus_and_homer_was_there_really_an/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/741k7d/besides_helotry_what_other_examples_of_slavery/ (There was some answer, but deleted as not very meaningful, then my pathetic try at conversation with the good Xenophon)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/74s9m7/did_true_democracy_ever_return_to_athens/

And may I say thanks to the user Iphikrates, whom I do not invoke to not bother, because if I was already curious by nature, his insightful answers have just boiled me to the point of childish curiosity again, despite the adult tempering of knowing that nothing can be known for certain nor to take as gospel. He has really helped me to understand much better what I read regarding Antiquity, things that before I tried hard to understand and could not get around, so thank you, though I am but one more, as indeed many are thankful and grateful to him.

/u/400-Rabbits answered How did the Aztecs decide who to sacrifice?