womens history

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• SOURCE: KSMU
  5/22/19
  

  Marking The Day The House Voted For Women's Suffrage

  NPR's Cokie Roberts answers questions about women's voting rights and history. 

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• 5/19/19
  

  The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  For black women, the fight for reparations is not a new opportunity, it is a long-lasting battle for social justice.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Remembering Jackie Kennedy for More than Her Fashion Sense

  by Lisa M. Burns

  She was the architect who meticulously crafted President John F. Kennedy’s lasting legacy.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/4/19
  

  Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.

  by Claire Bond Potter

  It was pushed by Madison Avenue and preached by self-help gurus. Then it entered politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/19
  

  It’s time to stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies

  by Kathleen Crowther

  How Georgia is continuing a centuries-long tradition, and why it must stop.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/8/19
  

  Sarah Knott Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages

  Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 5/14/19
  

  New Books Showcase Female Spies and Their Secrets

  An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/9/19
  

  The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality

  by Melissa Reynolds

  Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology.

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• 5/5/19
  

  James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the History of American Lynching

  by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

  We need a historical understanding of how lynchg discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”  

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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: Time
  4/28/19
  

  Centuries ago, women ruled Japan. What changed?

  Conservative and patriarchal Japan excludes women -- who make up 13 of the 18 members of the royal family -- from taking the throne. But this wasn't always the case.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/28/19
  

  Feminist retellings of history dominate 2019 Women's prize shortlist

  From Pat Barker’s reworking of Greek myth to Anna Burns’s take on the Troubles, the finalists turn familiar stories on their heads.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/23/19
  

  It’s time to return black women to the center of the history of women’s suffrage

  by Susan Ware

  Erased by white suffragists, black women’s work was vital to the fight for women’s rights.

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• SOURCE: Process History
  4/16/19
  

  Gale Kenny on the Womens March, Church Ladies, and Grassroots Political Religion

  by Gale Kenny

  The Women’s March and related activism are similar to the 20th century political organizing of the United Council of Church Women.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/12/19
  

  Why women led the uprising in Sudan

  by Nasredeen Abdulbari

  Throughout Sudan’s history, women have played a central role in society.

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• 4/14/19
  

  When Women Ran Hollywood

  by Juliette Fay

  Their names may no longer be widely recognizable, but women built and ran early Hollywood, shaped the industry in myriad ways, and influenced what we see on the silver screen even today.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  4/9/19
  

  How Women Got the Vote Is a Far More Complex Story Than the History Textbooks Reveal

  An immersive story about the bold and diverse women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

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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: CNN
  3/29/29
  

  Pair of bipartisan senators propose women's history museum in DC

  Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced their legislation Friday.