white women

9/29/19

The Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Enslaved Men in America

by Thomas A. Foster

Sexual assault of enslaved men occurred systematically and in a wide variety of forms. 

Source: Washington Post
9/10/19

Why Southern white women vote against feminism

by Angie Maxwell

The often overlooked question that explains why discussion of a gender gap leads us astray.  

Source: Vox
8/19/19

Stephanie Jones-Rogers gives interview on how white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today

The author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South explains why white women were not bystanders to slavery.

Source: Nursing Clio
6/25/19

The Anti-Abortion Politics of White Women

by Jacqueline Mercier Allain

The reality is that women—white women in particular—are among today’s anti-choice movers and shakers. 

Source: Slate
2/14/19

White Women and White Supremacy: Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.