womens history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/15/2022
  

  A Teenager Got More Women of Color Represented in the History Curriculum of a Large School District

  "Prasidha Padmanabhan, 16, founded WEAR (Women for Education, Advocacy and Rights), a nonprofit with an executive board made up entirely of students."

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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: The Nation
  1/11/2022
  

  The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt

  by Kim Kelly

  After starting at Armour's Chicago cannery at age 17, Addie Wyatt rose through the ranks of her local union to lead workers across five states, recognizing the connection between workers' power and racial and gender equality and linking midwestern unions to the southern civil rights struggle. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/19/2021
  

  History Can Guide Fixes for America's Abysmal Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes

  by Michelle Bezark

  The brief history of the U.S. Children's Bureau shows that treating the health of mothers and infants as a national issue can get results. 

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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: WBUR
  12/8/2021
  

  A Reunion of Maine Switchboard Operators Recalls Old Era of Telecommunications

  "During the 1950s, more than 220,000 operators were employed by the Bell System alone. Most were women who were expected to be courteous, quick-thinking and patient under pressure."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/4/2021
  

  Lesley Lloyd: Honor to Have Won First Womens' FA Cup 50 Years Ago

  "On 5 December 1921 the English Football Association had declared the game to be 'quite unsuitable for females' before barring women from playing on grounds belonging to affiliated men’s clubs."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/1/2021
  

  Tiya Miles Connects Generations of Black Women Through One Artifact

  All That She Carried is the history of a single bag. Historian and author Tiya Miles used what few historical records she could find to tell the stories of three generations of Black women with ties to that sack dating back to 1850.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/15/2021
  

  "Hail Mary" Sets the Record Straight on the Women's Football League of the 1960s

  A new book discusses a women's pro football league in the 1960s, and the role of homophobia and sexism in undermining it. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/10/2021
  

  Betty Crocker Turns 100: How Generations of Women Identified with the Fictional Cook

  by Elizabeth A. Blake

  Betty Crocker has always been a symbol of a feminine ideal; the ways that women interacted with the character are illustrative of changing social values and norms. 

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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: Black Perspectives
  11/9/2021
  

  Enslaved Women as American Revolutionaries: Karen Cook-Bell

  "Instead of viewing Black women as at the margins of the American Revolution and abolitionism, it is important to see them as visible participants and self-determined figures who put their lives on the line for freedom."

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• SOURCE: Sports Illustrated
  11/5/2021
  

  The History of Women in the New York City Marathon

  Amateur Athletic Union rules in the 1970s didn't sanction any competitive race for women longer than 1.5 miles. Kathrine Switzer and other pioneering women marathoners discuss a half-century of change. 

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• 11/7/2021
  

  The Black Women Veterans of World War II Fought for More than the "Double V"

  by Kaia Alderson

  Kaia Alderson's new historical novel "Sisters in Arms" tells the story of the Black women in the World War II military whose service combined fights against fascism, racism and sexism.

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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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• 10/24/2021
  

  The Women Who Won the Vietnam War

  by Sherry Buchanan

  Fifty years on, the history of the women who defeated a superpower, while celebrated in Vietnam, remains largely unrecognized and undocumented in our history of the war.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/6/2021
  

  Reframing Abortion as a Public Good

  by Judith Levine

  "States have a compelling interest—a profound obligation—to defend the right to abortion. Abortion is a public good. Why haven’t we linked abortion to the commonweal?"

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/4/2021
  

  The Appeal of Multilevel Marketing to Latter-Day Saints Women

  by Janiece Johnson

  A popular documentary on the LuLaRoe company highlights how the history and gender norms of the Mormon church have made LDS women particularly attracted and vulnerable to multilevel marketing schemes promising income without forsaking domestic obligation.