Readers will find coverage on: women in the ancient world-equal rights for all? From Helen of Troy and Sappho to Nefertiti and women architects and doctors—we women can do anything; marriage, fashion, dowries,and the Black Plague—just a day in the life of the women of the Middle Ages; healers, guild workers, and alewives—who said women who worked started in the 1950s?; women at war and politics in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; and information about women's suffrage to the Women's Movement and beyond.