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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/28/2022
"Mrs. Frank Leslie" Grew a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Women's Movement
Betsy Prioleau's book details the scandalous life and political impact of Mrs. Frank Leslie, who legally changed her name to that of her late husband and built a publishing empire.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/11/2022
Targeting the Marginalized for Political Gain is Nothing New in Texas Politics
by Nancy Beck Young
Minority groups have often had a perilous existence in Texas, but that hasn't stopped politicians from attacking them as dire threats to the state's moral fabric.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/8/2022
Restore the Radical Origins of International Womens Day
by Tiana U. Wilson
International Women's Day didn't always center on tech executives issuing platitudes from Dubai. The needs of women today require recovering the day's roots in international labor and anticolonial movements.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/3/2022
Hating Motherhood
by Judith Levine
Feminist thought that has questioned "the inexorable tie between mothers and children" and imagined women's lives without motherhood have been the "demon texts" of the 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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SOURCE: Wired
2/8/2022
Women in Tech have been Pulling the Second Shift for Decades
“The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that what women do in the home isn’t work,” says Joy Rankin, a historian of computing.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
2/7/2022
Nevertheless, She Lifted: A Feminist Revisionist History of Exercise
Danielle Friedman's new book on exercise culture reads against the grain to argue that fitness has allowed women to exercise strength and push against social limits. A reviewer finds this compelling but only half the story.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
1/25/2022
Abortion isn't a "Choice" without Racial Justice
by Sara Matthiesen
The recent failure of the broad social spending initiatives of Build Back Better and the impending judicial overthrow of Roe are connected, and signal the need for a movement for reproductive freedom that goes beyond "choice" to address systemic inequalities.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/13/2022
New Book Asks if Exercise is a Path to Power for Women
Danielle Freedman's new book identifies the paradox of exercise for women: the subversive potential of training, strengthening and developing the capability of the body is yoked to an exploitative diet and beauty culture.
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SOURCE: WBUR
12/16/2021
bell hooks, feminist and cultural critic, dead at 69
Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Min Jin Lee, award-winning author and former student of hooks, about the legacy hooks leaves behind.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/14/2021
Linda McAlister, Founder of Feminist Philosophy Journal Hypatia, Dies at 82
"Dr. McAlister was adamant that the journal be called Hypatia, for the fourth-century Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and Neoplatonist philosopher who was skinned alive and burned by Christian zealots outraged by her pagan beliefs."
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SOURCE: MSNBC
12/15/2021
bell hooks Leaves Legacy of Feminist Thought Embracing and Embraced by Black Women
by Anthea Butler
"I’m among the generation of teachers who were influenced by her thinking and by her admonition that 'popular culture is where the pedagogy is, where the learning is'."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12/7/2021
Orwell Estate Approves Feminist Retelling of "1984"
"Orwell’s estate said it had been “looking for some time” for an author to tell the story of Smith’s lover, and that [Sandra] Newman, who has previously been longlisted for the Women’s prize and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, 'proved to be the perfect fit'."
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11/14/2021
Fashion and Freedom from Suffrage to AOC
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Fashion, freedom, and American independence have been and are still connected to ideas of women’s rights and equality.
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SOURCE: The Nation
10/29/2021
“If Black Women Were Free”: An Oral History of the Combahee River Collective
Writer Marian Jones gathers together the recollections of the participants in the 1977 efforts to define the relationship between struggles against sexism, racism and capitalist exploitation and reminds that the group's coinage of the term "identity politics" was meant to bring multiple groups together.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
10/15/2021
What Does it Mean to Call Someone a "Male Chauvinist Pig"?
by Julie Willett
Merging the term "chauvinism" from the old left and the radical 1960s desire to render authority grotesque, the term emerged with the second wave of feminism. But today some of the sexists labeled with it appear to have turned it into a badge of honor.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
9/12/2021
The Way it Was
"That year in the 1960s, several thousand American women were treated in emergency rooms for botched abortions, and there were at least 200 known deaths.Comparing my story with others from the pre-Roe era, what impresses me is how close I veered to mortal danger."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/6/2021
Who Lost the Feminist Movement's "Sex Wars"?
by Amia Srinivasan
As a new book reconsiders the debates among feminists over sexuality and pornography by emphasizing the role of liberalism in reducing the radical demands both sides made for the remaking of relations between men and women to narrow issues of law and civil liberties, that history resonates with current controversies about the place of trans women in the feminist movement.
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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 New Yorker
8/23/2021
Simone de Beauvoir's Lost Novel of Early Love
“I loved Zaza with an intensity which could not be accounted for by any established set of rules and conventions,” Beauvoir recalled in her memoirs, almost thirty years after her friend’s death.
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