feminism

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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."

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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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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/10/19
  

  Why Southern white women vote against feminism

  by Angie Maxwell

  The often overlooked question that explains why discussion of a gender gap leads us astray.  

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  July 26, 2019
  

  To Exist is to Resist: A New Book on Black Feminism in Europe

  A breakthrough book on black feminism across Europe. 

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• SOURCE: Truth Out
  July 19, 2019
  

  How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s

  by Emily Thuma

  The story of how women fought to end violence. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  July 5, 2019
  

  Did the Vatican Hide Art That Depicted Female Priests?

  A historian finds Catholic iconography with women performing acts that only men are allowed to do today—and that the works were covered up. Others aren’t convinced.

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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.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  A Black Feminist’s Response to Attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

  by Barbara Ransby

  We should not become historical peeping Toms by trafficking in what amounts to rumor and innuendo.

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• 5/5/19
  

  A Tale of Two Suffragists: Hazel Hunkins and Maud Wood Park

  by Susan Ware

  Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the right to vote.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/22/19
  

  Robert Caro’s Blind Spot

  Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/20/19
  

  Alice Kessler-Harris: Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian

  by Lara Vapnek

  For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

  by Martha S. Jones

  It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/7/19
  

  The Unsung Suffragist Who Fought for Women to Keep Their Maiden Names

  Before the 1970s, women couldn’t get their paychecks, passports, driver’s licenses or bank accounts, or even vote, using their birth surnames. 

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• SOURCE: New Haven Register
  2/28/19
  

  Why Women's History Month is in March

  And how it grew from a day to a week to a month. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/19
  

  History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia.

  Only about 18 percent of Wikipedia’s biographical articles are about women.