womens history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2020
  

  Immigrant Workers Have Borne the Brunt of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Meatpacking Plants

  by Anya Jabour

  The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety.

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• SOURCE: University of Illinois Press
  5/27/2020
  

  Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians

  by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow

  The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues).

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• SOURCE: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
  5/25/2020
  

  Curator's Cut: An Inside Look at DC's Suffrage Exhibits (Wednesday May 27, 7:00 PM EDT)

  The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage. 

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• SOURCE: KUT
  5/25/2020
  

  What Might Have Been: The Forgotten History Of Women On The Supreme Court Shortlist

  In the new book, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court", coauthors Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson tell the story of nine women who were considered for positions on the country's highest court in the decades before O'Connor's appointment.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2020
  

  June Willenz, Champion of Women in the Military, Dies at 95

  She didn’t serve in the military herself. But she saw the armed services denying equal benefits to female veterans, and she crusaded to make a difference.

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• SOURCE: MediaPost
  5/19/2020
  

  'NYT' Launches 'Unfinished Work' Virtual Series, Focuses On Women's Rights

  The event series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment will feature historians Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay, and Susan Ware.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/15/2020
  

  The Mrs. Files

  The honorific "Mrs." has a complex history reflecting changing social values and gender roles.   

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• SOURCE: BBC
  5/17/2020
  

  Tributes As World War Two Code Breaker Ann Mitchell Dies Aged 97

  One of the last of the famed Bletchley Girls, who worked to break the German Enigma codes, has died. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  100 Years of Political Spectacle: Women, Political Protest, and the White House

  by Bernadette Crehan and Susan Liebell

  Like suffrage protesters a century ago, nurses demonstrating at the White House to demand adequate protection for frontline medical workers can win by taking on the President on the grounds of spectacle and social media to shape public opinion. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/2020
  

  Will Covid-19 Lead to Men and Women Splitting Care Work More Evenly?

  by Sarah Keyes

  History shows men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/14/2020
  

  ‘Mrs. America’ Reminds Us that More Women in Politics Won’t Necessarily Mean More Liberal Policies

  by Leandra Zarnow

  The recent streaming hit "Mrs. America" underestimates the influence of New York Representative Bella Abzug on future progressive politics and the complex impact of women's activity in the political arena.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/13/2020
  

  What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Mrs. America’s Episode About Bella Abzug

  Did Phyllis Schlafly really accept support from the Klan? Was she really hit with a pie? We break down “Bella.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/13/2020
  

  Flight Status

  by Sarah Rose

  During the Vietnam War, the women who served on special Pan Am flights flew into a war zone to transport soldiers. Why has their role been forgotten?

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5/11/2020
  

  “Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  by Paris A. Spies-Gans

  Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.

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• SOURCE: Newsday
  5/11/2020
  

  'The Women with Silver Wings' Review: Top-Flight History of Female Aviators

  A review of historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck’s new book "The Women With Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/11/2020
  

  Barbara Babcock, a Force for Women in the Law, Dies at 81

  “I would not hold the good job I have today were it not for Barbara,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/9/2020
  

  'Mrs. America' Makes the Case for Messy History

  In allowing various perspectives to shine through, "Mrs. America" takes a piece of the past that, through the work of time, has been smoothed of its rough edges and grants it complexity.

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  5/9/2020
  

  Mormon Women are Finding — and Using — Their Voices. Are Men in the Church Listening?

  by Jana Riess

  A new collection of essays should spark consideration of long struggles by Mormon women to claim and exercise influence in the faith. The author fears that it won't. 

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• SOURCE: The Politic
  5/1/2020
  

  The Politics of Representation: The Fight for the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum

  Still, in 2020, there is no brick and mortar NWHM; it exists only virtually.

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  5/4/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer

  Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday.