Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein once observed, “There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.” The kind of beauty she had in mind is an ambivalent gift. On the one hand, it is not confined to ...

Harlem and the Renaissance : 1920 1940 000 / Cary D. Wintz -- Lifting as She Climbed : Mary Edmonia Lewis, Representing and Representative / Kirsten Pai Buick -- Meta Warrick Fuller's Ethiopia and the ...

"How to Be a Renaissance Woman" is not really a how-to book (but you guessed!). No, Jill Burke's sprightly cultural history, subtitled "The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity," is a window ...