Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts a young woman staring out at ... of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored paintings ...

Anandi Gopal Joshi, born on 31st March 1865 in Kalyan, Maharashtra, is the first female doctor of India. Her inspiring ...

Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman ... early Christian movement that promoted women's leadership. Certainly, the New Testament Gospels, written toward the last quarter of the first ...

For "much of the early Christian Era, the Church stayed out of weddings and let the state handle the union of man and woman." But by the eighth century, Christian churches started to perform ...