feminism

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/21/2020
  

  ‘In a Perfectly Just Republic,’ Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President

  by Pamela S. Nadell

  A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Bella Savitzky Abzug stood on the front lines protesting injustices that still roil this nation.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/29/2020
  

  Naomi Oreskes: Feminist Science is Better Science

  Historian Andrew Needham interviews Naomi Oreskes about her new book Why Trust Science and the crisis of expertise in American society. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/vale
  

  Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol

  Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “SCUM Manifesto,” in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/16/2020
  

  The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”

  by Rebecca Onion

  One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/19/2020
  

  There’s Nothing Good About Phyllis Schlafly

  by Eileen Jones

  "Mrs. America", the new miniseries about Phyllis Schlafly, doesn’t want us to come away with a harsh view of its subject. But we should: Schlafly’s right-wing views were consistently monstrous, doing untold damage to the country.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/14/2020
  

  ‘Mrs. America’ Reminds Us that More Women in Politics Won’t Necessarily Mean More Liberal Policies

  by Leandra Zarnow

  The recent streaming hit "Mrs. America" underestimates the influence of New York Representative Bella Abzug on future progressive politics and the complex impact of women's activity in the political arena.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/13/2020
  

  What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Mrs. America’s Episode About Bella Abzug

  Did Phyllis Schlafly really accept support from the Klan? Was she really hit with a pie? We break down “Bella.”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/9/2020
  

  'Mrs. America' Makes the Case for Messy History

  In allowing various perspectives to shine through, "Mrs. America" takes a piece of the past that, through the work of time, has been smoothed of its rough edges and grants it complexity.

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  4/27/2020
  

  Wages for Housework and Social Reproduction: A Microsyllabus

  Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch present a list of readings about the history of movements to demand wages for the domestic and family work typically performed by women.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  4/21/2020
  

  Phyllis Schlafly, ‘Mrs. America,’ Was a Secret Member of the John Birch Society

  by Ronald Radosh

  Schlafly denied to the end that she ever was a JBS member. After that, perhaps it was too late for her to admit the deception now fully exposed by the new documents shared by reseacher Ernie Lazar.

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• SOURCE: HistoryExtra
  4/16/2020
  

  The Woman who Opposed Equality with Men: Phyllis Schlafly and the Real History Behind "Mrs. America"

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Phyllis Schlafly ignited a national movement by arguing that women were fundamentally different from men.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/14/2020
  

  ‘Mrs. America’ Tells the Story of the Women’s Movement from the Dark Side of the Force

  There’s no mistaking that “Mrs. America” is Schlafly’s show, giving her everything she lacked as a media caricature: shape, complexity and even some empathy for her personal struggles and her own experiences (whether she acknowledges them or not) of being discriminated against as a woman.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  Woman Citizen: On This Day in 1920 Helen Hamilton Gardener Became the Highest-Ranking Woman in Federal Government

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Gardener’s historic appointment as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner marked one symbolic step toward the idea that women should be universally recognized as “self- respecting, self- directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own.”

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  4/8/2020
  

  Mrs. America Conjures Up the Messy History of 1970s Feminism—and Anti-Feminism

  Mrs. America doesn’t dwell just on Phyllis Schlafly. An ensemble series, it gathers an array of compelling women who’ve never quite gotten their due in history books, let alone had a prestige TV series devoted to them.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/19/2020
  

  How Phyllis Schlafly Derailed the Equal Rights Amendment

  Proponents hadn’t counted on a conservative grassroots movement led by activist and lawyer Phyllis Schlafly.

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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: New York Times
  11/27/2019
  

  Marilyn Yalom, Feminist Author and Historian, Is Dead at 87

  Marilyn Yalom, a feminist author and historian, died on Nov. 20 at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 87.

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• SOURCE: National Archives News
  11/14/19
  

  NARA Holds Panel on How ‘Suffragents’ Helped Women Get the Vote

  by James Worsham

  Worsham summarizes the thoughts portrayed by panel on women suffragists and men who supported them with scholars like Johanna Newman, Brooke Kroeger, and Susan Ware.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  10/10/19
  

  The Feminist History of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’

  by Anna Laymon

  The song was written as Jack Norworth’s ode to his girlfriend, the progressive and outspoken Trixie Friganza, a famous vaudeville actress and suffragist.  

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  9/6/19
  

  Review of “The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists”

  by Christine Talbot

  “Lisa Pace Vetter’s book, The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists, examines the political theories of seven women who were central figures in American political thought, despite their exclusion from the contemporary canon."