Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home an

In medieval San Gimignano, seventeen-year-old Santina apprentices to Trotula, the village midwife. Some say she is the victim of the midwife's spell, but Santin

A new novel by Karen Cushman

A guide to the physical changes a girl undergoes when becoming a woman.

"The second novel in the Stormwrack series, following a young woman's odyssey into a fantastical age-of-sail world"--