From the streets of Harlem to Vietnam to Hollywood, these stories correct the record and spotlight lesser-known heroes for ...

The biographer and journalist chooses her favourite works about women in war. Her latest book is "The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival", which is published this week.

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Glymph scoured archives across the nation to ferret out heretofore unknown or little-used resources to tell the story of women in the Civil War, as can be seen in the numerous primary and secondary ...

The goal for Women in Translation month is to encourage readers to pick up translated books by female authors ... world where they talk for hours about war, equality and justice.

All people suffer in war, and women face unique vulnerabilities that are too often forgotten or ignored, explains Sara Bowcutt of charity Women For Women International. Reading the news ...

Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences ...

Her book, Women in the Orthodox Tradition ... Also set during World War II, In This Body, In This Lifetime: Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women (Shambhala, June) features first-hand ...