Born in 1921, the young Gimbutas travelled across Lithuania collecting traditional songs and folklore, which became the basis for her in-depth studies in linguistics, archeology, and ethnology. She even created a new science and research area of her own called “archeomythology” (1), (4).   At home and abroad, she turned into one of the most prominent and outstanding–but also co ntroversial–female researchers of the 20th century in the Western world. World War II forced her fa

Archives, Access, and Agency On unearthing women’s histories and sustaining feminist learning Video: Uncovering Ancestral Women: A Historian's Journey a Community Conversation with Max Dashu ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdld79vMbMk ) The story of feminist knowledge is also the story of who gets to access it. Generations of feminist thinkers have wrestled with the tension of how to make learning accessible without burning out the people who teach it. Free community conver

Editorial Introduction Batya Weinbaum Welcome to 25.2! We are pleased to offer you three critical essays, a poem, and many solid reviews. Although Merry Byrd is staying on to perform other functions, this will be the last review section that she edits for us. At her own request, she is stepping down and passing the torch to Hannah Victoria Palmer (H.Palmer2@lboro.ac.uk) from the UK. We thank Merry for her many years of excellence performance as our review editor and for contr