Reconesse Database

Reconesse Database is an encyclopedia of women achievers of the past and present—seeking to enable the female game-changers of tomorrow.

[NotableHistory @NotableHistory]

Elspeth Beard, the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

Radical Flâneuserie: Reimagining the Aimlessly Wandering Woman https://t.co/4PcCuuEbhP

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The woman pushing women into Tunisia's politics https://t.co/bkeSJg29ZF

[Reconesse Database @Reconesse]

Syrian refugee competing in Rio saved 20 lives by swimming for three hours pushing a sinking boat to safety https://t.co/NwC71dYpPa

[Arts & Letters Daily @aldaily]

Helen DeWitt went to Oxford to study Euripides and discovered she’d rather be Euripides https://t.co/Wkv7qkWHei

[Reconesse Database @Reconesse]

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Girls should be able to be whatever they want to be. #likeagirl #shecan #thisgirlcan

[MAKERS @MAKERSwomen]

Nettie Stevens didn't get the credit for discovering XY chromosomes because she had two X's: https://t.co/SVJQMm6INa

[UN Publications @unpublications]

Women & girls face greater risks of violence. A guide to effective prosecution: https://t.co/4nJhNkBBsB #WPD2016

[Reconesse Database @Reconesse]

Meet the brave female chief who stopped 850 child marriages in Malawi https://t.co/H25HeGZAtP #globalcitizen

[Guernica Magazine @GuernicaMag]

In "Women Winning" Cynara Vetch discusses the female forces in Nairobi. Interview by @DuhShwaZee https://t.co/MBHiZnfy76

[Impress Books @ImpressBooks1]

Why was James Joyce's daughter written out of history? @IrishTimesBooks https://t.co/Kwve0dvPkG #Bloomsday #JamesJoyce #JoyceGirl

[The TLS @TheTLS]

The TLS blog | The little-known Maeve Gilmore – artist (and wife of Mervyn Peake) https://t.co/KR1OuMVmZ1

[Quartz @qz]

The voters have spoken: Hillary Clinton is the first woman to become a major-party presidential nominee https://t.co/cdCUQa5R5W

[Reconesse Database @Reconesse]

Ten most awkward Period Dramas | WaterAid. https://t.co/PrsvydZ8oK

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The feminist trailblazing of @SineadOconnorHQ: https://t.co/38xYqrMHVe

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

The first female recipient of the #NBAwards for non-fiction would have been 109 today. #HBD, Rachel Carson!

[Artnet @artnet]

Sneak peek: preview Yayoi Kusama's new works https://t.co/tMGB3uiGMO

[New York Times Arts @nytimesarts]

Marlene Marder brought a distinctive sound to Kleenex, a four-woman Swiss band whose admirers included Kurt Cobain https://t.co/6x9hbZkuKt

[New York Times Arts @nytimesarts]

Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer are starring as mathematicians in "Hidden Figures" https://t.co/rIm0gkXalh