womens history

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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: New York Times
  9/10/2021
  

  How the Texas Abortion Law Creates Citizen Bounty Hunters

  Legal historian and reproductive rights scholar Mary Ziegler: “It almost seemed like anyone could sue anyone — and that didn’t seem right. But it was. It really is that extraordinary.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/13/2021
  

  As Taliban Return, a History of Afghan Women’s Rights

  The feared subordination of women under the Taliban in Afghanistan is not a return to "tradition" but reflects the complexity of differing regions and conflicting ethnic and cultural groups. 

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• 9/12/2021
  

  Memo From Irish History: Welcome to Your Future, American Women

  by Laura Weinstein

  After sustained public outcry, the Republic of Ireland looked to its history of horrific treatment and preventable death of girls and women under its draconian abortion laws and said "enough." Will this example change the course American states like Texas are poised to follow? 

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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: The Conversation
  9/7/2021
  

  Giving the Women of the Divine Comedy their Due

  by Laura Ingallinella

  One scholar's project is using Wikipedia and her students to recover the historical personhood of Dante's women and elevate them above literary symbols or caricatures. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/7/2021
  

  Texas's Long History of Restricting Reproductive Freedom

  "Rather than addressing maternal mortality, Texas lawmakers have instead spent years decimating access to basic preventive health care. Those who suffer most from Texas’ reproductive health policies are its most vulnerable."

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• 9/5/2021
  

  The Scandalous Six Week Walk That Inspired D. H. Lawrence's Most Popular Novels (excerpt)

  by Annabel Abbs

  In 1912, Frieda von Richthofen made a six-week hike from Bavaria to northern Italy with her lover D.H. Lawrence. It was, for him, a journey of of inspiration. For her, it was a more complicated search for liberation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/31/2021
  

  "Respect" Highlights the Other Black Women Artists who Helped Aretha Franklin Become the Queen of Soul

  by Fredara M. Hadley

  "Black women, even female Black entertainers, are rarely accorded that sense of control over their own lives. But as Aretha Franklin’s longevity in music and life demonstrated, the possibilities are endless when Black women are the center of their own universe."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/20/2021
  

  Billie Jean King among those Named to Womens History Museum Board

  The council is charged with advising the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents on the location, planning and design of the proposed museum and with helping the institution raise money from private donors.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/24/2021
  

  Liz Shuler's Leadership of AFL-CIO Comes at Critical Time for Women in the Workplace

  by Katherine Turk

  "As Shuler takes office, union women will look to her to champion their expansive visions and specific concerns; employers will continue to try to pit groups of workers against one another in their crusade to depress conditions for everyone."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/23/2021
  

  What Connects 2021's "Stillwater" and 1979's "Norma Rae"?

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Both Amanda Knox, an American student accused of murder in Italy, and Crystal Lee Sutton, the southern labor organizer portrayed in "Norma Rae," have challenged the way that Hollywood films have reinterpreted their stories for commercial gain. 

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• SOURCE: Ms.
  8/11/2021
  

  Are Critical Race Theory Bans Targeting Women of Color Scholars?

  Enforcement of bans on teaching "critical race theory" are likely to lead to threats to employment and even harassment that impacts women and faculty of color most. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  8/3/2021
  

  Historian Rebecca Hall's New Graphic Novel Highlights Women's Role in Slave Revolts

  With illustrator Hugo Martinez, Rebecca Hall's debut graphic novel examines women's roles in slave rebellions during the Middle Passage and in the Americas. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  8/1/2021
  

  Gloria Ratti: Historian of the Boston Marathon Who Made History Herself

  Gloria Ratti was not a runner, but supported the first generation of women marathoners while pushing race organizers to implement other innovations that added to the growth of marathon running in America. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/25/2021
  

  The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood: Prof. Beth Allison Barr's Historical Challenge to Evangelical Gender Roles

  “Women think all of this is the Bible because they learn it in their churches,” Barr told me. “But it’s really a post-Second World War construction of domesticity, which was designed to send working women back to the kitchen.”

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• 7/25/2021
  

  How Makeup and Rumor Affect Women in Power

  by Rae Nudson

  Appearance has been a double-edged sword for powerful women in history, enabling their achievements but also empowering their critics. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/16/2021
  

  Will Biden Reverse 50 Years of Failure on Child Care Policy?

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Achieving better childcare policy requires recognizing women may be both mothers and workers, and moving past ideological views that women's economic independence is against the interest of families. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  7/15/2021
  

  Learn Lessons about Movement Building from Radical Black Women

  by Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

  Barbara Ransby facilitates a roundtable collaborative essay about the role of women in building radical movements for justice in Black communities encompassing social welfare, economic security, police accountability, women's liberation and more. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/19/2021
  

  Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

  by Robert Greene II

  Gloria Richardson became an unusual leader of the civil rights movement as an older woman activist, and her changing views on movement strategy are important to scholars today.