womens history

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/4/2020
  

  When Politics Hits Home: Pandemic Moms are Descendants of Soccer and Votes-for-Women Moms

  by Laura Kumin

  Over 100 years ago, legions of women found ways to convey to non-activist women that the vote was crucial to them and the well-being of their families.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/4/2020
  

  More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment, Women were Voting in New Jersey

  For decades, there has been only anecdotal evidence that any women actually used this right.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/6/2020
  

  The Voting Rights Act Was Signed 55 Years Ago. Black Women Led the Movement Behind It.

  Women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster are not acknowledged for their efforts during the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  It’s Time The ‘Truth Be Told’ About Black Women’s Leadership In The Fight For The Vote

  New digital collection tells the untold stories of Black women’s vital role in the suffrage movement.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  7/20/2020
  

  Police Sexual Violence Is Hidden in Plain Sight

  by Anne Gray Fischer

  How did we get to the point where sexual assault is considered valid, necessary police work? The answer lies in the origin story of modern police, and specifically in the history of the discretionary enforcement of public order laws.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/4/2020
  

  How Portland’s Wall of Moms Collapsed — and Was Reborn Under Black Leadership

  Keisha N. Blain provides historical context for the high visibility of white moms in Portland, and the problems this posed for the city's protest movements. 

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• SOURCE: Real Change News
  7/30/2020
  

  Untold Fight for Black Women's Voting Rights

  In anticipation of Martha Jones' book 'Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All'.

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  7/30/2020
  

  In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers (excerpt)

  by Lisa Levenstein

  Few observers recognized that Edie Farwell’s group was part of a wide-ranging network of female technology specialists who were using the 1995 Beijing NGO conference to build the infrastructure for what would become online feminism.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/31/2020
  

  How Women’s Suffrage Changed America Far Beyond the Ballot BoxA Century of Change For American Women

  by Ellen Carol DuBois

  Looking back at this history, it’s clear that the 19th Amendment wasn’t the end of a movement but an extraordinary milestone in the ongoing fight to extend and protect American democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/31/2020
  

  Black Women’s Long Struggle for Voting Rights

  "As historian Faye E. Dudden writes in 'Fighting Change,' her book on the suffrage movement in the Reconstruction period, Stanton dipped her pen into a tincture of white racism and sketched a reference to a nightmarish figure, the black rapist'.”

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• SOURCE: NPR
  

  The Complicated History Of Moms As The Face Of Protest Movements

  A series of interviews examines the ways that race and social class affect the ability of women to use motherhood as a source of political power. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/26/2020
  

  Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

  The amendment, ratified a century ago, is often described as having “given” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/29/2020
  

  Congresswomen Of Color Have Always Fought Back Against Sexism

  by Dana Frank

  When he called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “crazy” and “out of her mind” because he didn’t like her politics, Ted Yoho was harking back to Edgar Berman’s narrative that a political woman who dares to speak up is constitutionally insane.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  7/27/2020
  

  Celebrating the 19th Amendment and the First Safe Haven Hostel for Women

  Hotel Figueroa in Los Angeles has served as a backdrop for some of the most challenging and memorable moments in American history, a representative of both the endurance of women and the City of Angels’ entrepreneurial, creative, and resilient spirit.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/23/2020
  

  What We Can Learn From Feminist Federal Credit Unions

  Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, women- and minority-owned businesses are still contending with unequal access to credit.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/20/2020
  

  Sexism Pushed Rosalind Franklin Toward The Scientific Sidelines During Her Short Life, But Her Work Still Shines On Her 100th Birthday

  by Richard Gunderman

  Rosalind Franklin overcame skepticism and discouragement from family and peers to make vital contributions to understanding molecular structures (including for DNA) in her short life. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/22/2020
  

  “For Those on Both Sides”: An Interview with Mary Ziegler about Abortion and the Law in America

  Recently, Florida State University law professor Mary Ziegler sat down with Nursing Clio to talk about her new book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present. The book illustrates how the question of “abortion rights” is only one piece of the puzzle – rather both antiabortion and pro-choice advocates have spent decades in a tug-of-war over policy, funding issues, and larger questions about public health.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/20/2020
  

  These Black Female Soldiers Brought Order to Chaos and Delivered a Blow Against Inequality

  The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, was the only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit to serve in Europe during World War II.

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• SOURCE: Eater
  7/10/2020
  

  ‘If You Want to Experience Liberation, Black Women Must Be at the Table’

  From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Black Lives Matter movement, Black women have made food a central part of protest.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/6/2020
  

  Productivity Moves With Our Bodies

  by Ángela Vergara

  Researching the professional and familial lives of women scientists brought the author face to face with the impact of domestic and family obligations on women's academic work during COVID-19.