womens history

• 
• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/15/2023
  

  "If they were White and Insured, Would they have Died?"

  by Udodiri R. Okwandu

  Texas's new maternal mortality report shows that historical patterns of medical racism are continuing, and the state plans to do little but blame Black women for the inadequate care they receive. 

• 
• SOURCE: Slate
  3/14/2023
  

  Texas's Abortion Ban Can Never be Made Humane

  by Mary Ziegler

  When abortion access depends on establishing that a pregnant woman deserves an exception to a ban, the law will inevitably prevent doctors from serving patients with problem pregnancies. 

• 
• SOURCE: WNYC
  3/14/2023
  

  Anastasia Curwood on Shirley Chisholm's Childhood Heroes

  Born in Barbados, Shirley Chisholm moved to Brooklyn as a child. Her biographer discusses how her childhood heroes shaped her political worldview. 

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/14/2023
  

  Former US Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) Dies at 82

  Elected as a Vietnam war opponent in 1972, Schroeder's service on the Armed Services Commitee helped to change the status of women in the military. She also was a reliable source of a biting political quip and a fierce advocate for women in elected office. 

• 
• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/9/2023
  

  Attack on Medical Abortion Drugs is 40 Years in the Making

  A lawsuit filed in Texas would threaten the availability of the drugs used to induce medical abortions, even in states where abortion remains legal. This is part of a long-developing plan. 

• 
• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  3/9/2023
  

  Portraying the Women Leaders of Slave Rebellions

  Rebecca Hall, author of a new graphic history, says women warriors and rebels have been portrayed as exceptions proving the rule instead of as freedom fighters. 

• 
• 3/5/2023
  

  The Defiant Woman at the Center of New York's First Abortion Battle

  by Alan J. Singer

  Carolyn Ann Trow Lohman, better known as Madame Restell, defied the authority of the medical establishment and moral crusaders to help women obtain abortions. Justice Alito's misuse of history to justify the Dobbs decision shows the need to remember her. 

• 
• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/1/2023
  

  Ignorance of Its Achievements Contributes to Feminism's Bad Rap

  by Elizabeth Cobbs

  Slanders of American feminism as disruptive and disloyal go back to John Adams. But advances in freedom from education to abolition, suffrage to labor rights, have reflected the work of feminists to claim a public role for women as citizens. 

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/23/2023
  

  Linda King Newell, 82, Pioneering Feminist Mormon Historian

  Newell was briefly blacklisted by the leadership of the LDS Church for her work on Emma Smith, the first wife of founder Joseph Smith, which portrayed women as influential in the early church before being sidelined by an increasingly patriarchal institution.

• 
• 2/26/2023
  

  Christopher Gorham Gives the Remarkable Anna Marie Rosenberg the Bio She Deserves

  by Kathryn Smith

  From the New Deal's NRA to the Manhattan Project's labor needs, and from the launch of Social Security to JFK's famous birthday party featuring Marilyn Monroe, Rosenberg was a master facilitator who had a hand in many of the policies that shaped modern America, as a compelling new biography explains. 

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/12/2023
  

  Margaret Atwood: Go Ahead and Ban My Book

  The novelist responds to the recent banning of "The Handmaid's Tale" by a Virginia county with assurances that forbidden knowledge has never been suppressible. 

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/9/2023
  

  Originalism Will Kill Women

  by Madiba K. Dennie

  "Originalist ideology glorifies an era of blatant oppression along racial, gender, and class lines, transforming that era’s lowest shortcomings into our highest standards."

• 
• 2/12/2023
  

  Recent Discovery Shows Women Scholars have been Hiding in Plain Sight of History

  by Joel Marie Cabrita

  Advances in imaging technology have revealed that an 8th century woman named Eadburg inscribed her name on the pages of a manuscript, claiming status as a woman of letters. The revelation also calls for more creative methods to find women scholars and assess their contributions. 

• 
• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/3/2023
  

  Femicides are Increasing in America; History Says we Shouldn't be Surprised

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  The term "femicide" is rarely used to describe the killing of women by men (often intimate partners), but it's an apt description for the way that gendered and sexual violence have been part of the fabric of the nation's history and constitute a systemic, not a personal, danger to women.

• 
• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  1/31/2023
  

  Harvard Law Symposium on Roe 50 Years Later

  A conference hosted by the Radcliffe Institute convened legal and historical scholars to discuss the future of reproductive rights. 

• 
• 2/5/2023
  

  Reflecting on Netflix's "Women at War"

  by Walter G. Moss

  The Netflix series focuses on the relationship of several French women to the mass carnage of the opening months of the First World War. 

• 
• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/30/2023
  

  Regina Twala's Stolen Life Work Highlights Colonialism Inside the Historical Profession

  by Joel Cabrita

  Regina Twala performed the intellectual labor that supported another intellectual's published work on African religious practices; her obscurity was the foundation of his fame. 

• 
• SOURCE: TIME
  1/21/2023
  

  What My Mother's Activism Before Roe Shows Us about the Upcoming Fights after Dobbs

  by Felicia Kornbluh

  "The first thing we’ve missed about Roe is that it was merely the final scene in a drama whose origins lay far from the U.S. Supreme Court... a movement that resembled the movement for abortion rights today, centered on policy change in individual states and localities."

• 
• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  1/24/2023
  

  How Private Equity Cashed in on Medical Abortion

  The American effort to bring the French RU-486 medication to the domestic market made medical abortion much more widely accessible. But, in true American fashion, the involvement of private investors looking for profit also made it much more expensive—even more so after Dobbs.

• 
• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/26/2023
  

  Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Women Archivists, and the Problem of Archival Inclusivity

  by Amanda E. Strauss and Karin Wulf

  Two scholars who are the first women leaders of their institutions reflect on the ongoing lessons of a pioneering woman archivist and rare books librarian for understanding how archival practices can be made to include or exclude.