gender

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/17/2020
  

  When Schools Closed, Americans Turned to Their Usual Backup Plan: Mothers

  "Mothers are the fallback plan in the United States in part because of persistent beliefs that they are ultimately responsible for homemaking and child rearing, and because of the lack of policies to help parents manage the load."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  ‘Women’s Work’ Can No Longer Be Taken for Granted

  New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.

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• 10/25/2020
  

  The Queen's Two Bodies

  by Ed Simon

  Queen Elizabeth's speech to English soliders in anticipation of the Spanish invasion of 1588 rallied the troops for a battle that never happened. But it anticipated today's cultural battle over the stability of gender categories. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/15/2020
  

  Trump, Biden and Masculinity in the Age of Coronavirus

  Trump and Biden both seek to embody a masculine ideal on the campaign trail, but the differences in each candidate's vision of what manliness is show that the idea is changing. 

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Fear of the "Pussification" of America: A Short Cultural History

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  The bizarre idea that COVID-19 can be defeated through manliness is one of the stranger cultural themes of our time, but it connects to a long history of anxiety about masculinity in a changing America that encourages violent and even self-destructive actions in the name of proving virility.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/4/2020
  

  A Forgotten Campaign To Support ‘Displaced Homemakers’ May Help Women Today

  by Suzanne Kahn

  A 1970s initiative by feminist Tish Sommers for legislation to help women who had worked at home as caregivers to more easily reenter the paid workforce. Her preferred term "displaced homemaker" emphasized the economic importance of domestic care work most often performed by women and women's vulnerability to economic disruption and provides a useful way to think about solutions to the problems caused by COVID today.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/8/2020
  

  “All the World’s a Harem”: Perceptions of Masked Women during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic

  by Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig and E. Thomas Ewing

  Contemporary sources show that women's mask-wearing practices during the 1918 flu pandemic could be viewed through a sexist lens, but women adapted the practice to claim independence and found examples in popular culture.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/28/2020
  

  Whose Anger Counts?

  by Whitney Phillips

  Many complaints about "cancel culture" depend on a false equivalency between left and right forms of internet argument that ignores the nature of far-right online harassment as a tool of power. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/17/2020
  

  The ‘Rage Moms’ Democrats Are Counting On

  “Women are mobilized on a bigger scale than we’ve seen in a generation at least,” said historian Annelise Orleck.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/5/2020
  

  The Revealing and Disturbing Story of America, Told Through 20 Years of Reality Dating Shows

  Reality dating shows, for better or worse, have focused a lens on the state of love, sex and relationships in American society. Here is a list of shows that define each of the 20 years of the genre (and might be historical documents someday?)

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/17/2020
  

  History Shows That We Can Solve The Child-Care Crisis — If We Want To

  by Lisa Levenstein

  Today, in nearly two-thirds of households with children, the parents are employed. In 3 out of 5 states, the cost of day care for one infant is more than tuition and fees at four-year public universities.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  With Schools and Daycare Closed, the Coronavirus is Worsening Women’s Inequality

  by Lisa Levenstein

  The paucity of policy support for childbirth and care work are the result of a system that still envisions the ideal worker as a man.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/29/2020
  

  Women’s Household Labor Is Essential. Why Isn’t It Valued?

  by Alexandra Finley

  Covid-19 has exposed enduring inequality in domestic divisions of labor.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Little Richard: Bold, Pioneering, Complex, and Unapologetic

  by Elwood Watson

  Little Richard left a lasting musical and cultural legacy because of his talent and his willingness to be more boldly black and sexual than other artists dared.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/23/2020
  

  The Many Faces of the ‘Wine Mom’

  Historian Lisa Jacobson explains that the "Wine Mom" meme is rooted in gender and middle class norms regulating women's obligations to their children (and women's desire for freedom from them).

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• SOURCE: Jezebel
  5/20/2020
  

  Get in Shape Girl: A Century of Working Out from Home

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  The home fitness industry grew by creating and addressing gendered insecurities about masculine strength and feminine attractiveness. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/2020
  

  Will Covid-19 Lead to Men and Women Splitting Care Work More Evenly?

  by Sarah Keyes

  History shows men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5/11/2020
  

  “Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  by Paris A. Spies-Gans

  Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  5/7/2020
  

  Female Husbands

  by Jen Manion

  Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/17/2020
  

  ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More

  Wherever we are heading, whatever your proclivities, historian of sexuality Kate Lister has this comment: “I promise, it’s all been done before.”