womens history

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/22/20
  

  What Antiabortion Advocates Get Wrong About The Women Who Secured The Right to Vote

  by Reva Siegel and Stacie Taranto

  The most famous suffragists largely weren’t antiabortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/21/20
  

  Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

  by Denise Lynn

  Bass, an influential political activist, ran for Vice-President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948. Her campaign demonstrated some of the shifting loyalties of Black voters and the failure of both political parties to address the needs of the Black community.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/20
  

  The problem with a year of celebrating the 19th Amendment

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Our entire understanding of the history of feminism is skewed.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/9/20
  

  National Museum of American History Marks 2020 as “Year of the Woman”

  Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage With Exhibitions

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  12/19/19
  

  The Power of Chilean Women Denouncing Gendered and Sexual Violence Through Song

  by Margaret Power

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/26/19
  

  In a Year of Notable Deaths, a World of Women Who Shattered Ceilings

  Their breakthroughs were in law, science, music and business, and, like the more famous who died this year, they left indelible legacies.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/22/19
  

  U.K. Honors a Flawed Feminist Trailblazer, Nancy Astor

  The American-born Lady Astor was the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament. A century later, her legacy is still being debated.

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• SOURCE: Ms. Magazine
  12/16/19
  

  Keisha Blain Interviews Barbara Smith as she Looks Back on a Lifetime of Black Feminist Struggle

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective in 1974—best known for its groundbreaking Combahee River Collective Statement, which called attention to racism in the feminist movement and sexual oppression in the Black community.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/13/19
  

  Women Have Always Had Abortions

  by Lauren MacIvor Thompson

  False histories of abortion dominate contemporary politics, selling Americans on a past that never existed and creating the possibility of a future that has no precedent. 

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• 12/15/19
  

  How the Gender Wars of the Early 1990s Shaped the World We Know

  by Philip Jenkins

  Political campaigns combined with media crusades and popular activism to effect a radical and irreversible change in concepts of sexual behavior, and to raise unprecedented alarm about the dangers of male sexual violence and harassment.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/12/19
  

  A girl named Greta and the seriously sexist history of Time’s Person of the Year

  At 16, she becomes the youngest Person of the Year ever, and only the fifth woman — er, girl; er, female — in the 90-plus years Time has been naming a Man/Woman/Person of the Year.

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• SOURCE: Fast Company
  12/3/19
  

  The secret history of women in America, told through their belongings

  "Like the second wave feminists who popularized the expression, we believe the personal is political,” writes Michelle Delaney.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/1/2019
  

  Spinster, old maid or self-partnered – why words for single women have changed through time

  by Amy Froide

  Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted – and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/25/19
  

  Contrary to conservative claims, the ERA would help families — but it’s not enough

  by Alison Lefkovitz

  Decades after its introduction, the Equal Rights Amendment is still urgently needed, and passing it may soon be possible

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/27/19
  

  A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

  by Brianna Theobald

  The fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to this day.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/25/19
  

  It’s Easy to Dismiss Debutante Balls, But Their History Can Help Us Understand Women’s Lives

  by Kristen Richardson

  The debutante ritual flourished roughly from 1780 to 1914—beginning with the first debutante ball in London and ending with the outbreak of World War I. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.org
  11/15/19
  

  Smithsonian Elevates the Frequently Ignored Histories of Women

  by Erin Blakemore

  Packed with ordinary objects made and used by American women, Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection considers their contributions to the nation’s history through the lens of the things they invented, created and owned.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/6/19
  

  The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It’s Only Been 96 Years.

  Virginia, soon to be under Democratic control, will likely be the 38th state to ratify the amendment. The Supreme Court could decide what happens next.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/29/19
  

  What we get wrong about Ben Franklin’s ‘a republic, if you can keep it’

  by Zara Anishanslin

  Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/25/19
  

  New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground

  The city’s plan to commemorate women, people of color and others overlooked in the past is leading to fights over who should be honored and how.