"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 ...

An obscure observation, but important in my frenetic mind, has been rolling around for several months. It occurred to me that the phrase "Renaissance man" is easily bandied about these days. The term ...

Imagine for a moment a world without mirrors or scales, without social media or advertising. Would any worries about a woman’s appearance fall away? In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” Jill Burke ...

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 ...

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 ...

For centuries, Renaissance art history was an exclusive gentlemen’s club with genius men, dramatic patrons, and women mostly appearing as muses, saints, or decorative background figures holding fruit.

Maryanna Brown considers herself an outdoor renaissance woman: from cyclocross to backcountry skiing to mountaineering and trail running, she does it all. Maryanna is unwavering in seeking adventure ...

Ann Bedsole was already a trendsetter in Alabama politics after having been the first woman in history elected to the Alabama Senate when she met with Gov. George Wallace in 1986, to discuss the ...