Thirty years ago, I traveled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China's Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang's old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways ...
White and pastel-washed buildings set atop rugged hills overlook clear, blue water. The sun sets in breathtaking fashion. The Karpathos moon is so full and bright that intrepid traveler Katie Sehl ...
In the late nineteenth century, the pre-eminent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini was commissioned to paint his now famous portrait of the iconic Sicilian Belle Époque socialite Donna Franca Florio. As ...
Ten years ago, Cynthia Eller offered a useful and long-overdue demolition of a mistaken idea that gained widespread currency in women’s studies and in some sectors of popular culture. In Ten years ago ...
“I recently began reading the book ‘When God Was a Women’ by Merlin Stone, written some 30 years ago. In it she points out that Near Eastern societies from 9000 BCE or thereabouts to 2500 BCE or ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minangkabau women carrying out traditional ceremonial activities in West Sumatra in 2020. Shutterstock Thirty years ago, I ...