womens movement

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/22/2022
  

  How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Arguments in the Dobbs case have privileged the concerns of affluent, professional women – hardly the Mississippians whose lives will be affected by the state's draconian abortion bans. The abortion rights movement needs to return to its roots in racial and economic justice. 

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• 9/22/19
  

  Before the Pussy Hats: Stitching Together the Recent Feminist Movement

  by Rachel F. Seidman

  Today's feminist movement has a history. They rely on networks, relationships, and lessons learned from decades of movement building.

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• 9/17/19
  

  Gloria Steinem, the Women’s Movement and a Big Question

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Gloria, A Life, the new play by Emily Mann about women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem leaves a big, big question.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/2019
  

  When American Suffragists Tried to ‘Wear the Pants’

  by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

  Starting in the 1850s, proponents of the movement for women’s rights traded their long dresses for bloomers—and paid a heavy social price for it.