1990s 
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SOURCE: CNN
9/9/2021
"Impeachment" Shows How Different the Clinton Scandal Looks with Women at the Center
by Nicole Hemmer
"Monica Lewinsky fits squarely in this retelling of the work and experiences of women in the 1990s, as well as broader efforts to grapple with the influence of the decade on our current political travails."
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SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
10/5/2020
“Entrepreneurial Greed” — A Review Of Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, And The Decade Of Greed
David Farber's book examines the entrepreneurial culture of crack cocaine and how the drug trade meshed with Reagan-era changes in urban political economy.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
9/24/2020
The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade
Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/22/2020
30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact
Here’s what’s become of them.
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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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