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  Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.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

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  4/1/2020
  

  Singular They: Nonbinary Language in the Historical Community

  As the dictionary’s staff wrote in explaining their pick, “English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun... and as a consequence ‘they’ has been used for this purpose for over 600 years.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/19/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism

  by Helen Lewis

  When people note that Shakespeare and Newton did some of their best work while England was ravaged by the plague, there is an obvious response: Neither of them had child-care responsibilities.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  1/30/20
  

  The surprising history of “pregnancy portraits”

  For centuries British artists edited baby bumps out of their work. Why?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/5/20
  

  A genderless prophet drew hundreds of followers long before the age of nonbinary pronouns

  While non-binary identities have grown in visibility in recent years, some historians point to characters like the Public Universal Friend as evidence that gender-nonconforming people have always been a part of American society, long before the language existed to recognize them.

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  12/19/19
  

  The Power of Chilean Women Denouncing Gendered and Sexual Violence Through Song

  by Margaret Power

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities. 

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• 12/15/19
  

  How the Gender Wars of the Early 1990s Shaped the World We Know

  by Philip Jenkins

  Political campaigns combined with media crusades and popular activism to effect a radical and irreversible change in concepts of sexual behavior, and to raise unprecedented alarm about the dangers of male sexual violence and harassment.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/24/19
  

  How steak became manly and salads became feminine

  by Paul Freedman

  When was it decided that women prefer some types of food – yogurt with fruit, salads and white wine – while men are supposed to gravitate to chili, steak and bacon?

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• 10/29/19
  

  Native Americans, government authorities, and reproductive politics

  In her new book, assistant professor of history Brianna Theobald traces the long history of efforts by federal and local authorities to manage the reproductive lives of Native families, and the response from Native Americans themselves.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/15/19
  

  Academic Twitter's Gender Imbalance

  Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.

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• 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. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/22/19
  

  Merriam Webster added 'they' as a non-binary pronoun. Here's a brief history of gender neutral pronouns

  These identifiers are nothing new and have actually been used throughout the history of literature.