womens history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/14/20
  

  Utah women had the right to vote long before others — and then had it taken away

  by Katherine Kitterman

  As we remember the 19th Amendment, we shouldn’t forget what came before it.

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• 2/16/20
  

  Happy 200th Birthday to Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

  by Sandra Weber

  In commemorating Anthony’s birthday, women have examined the past, celebrated their progress, and looked to the future.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/20
  

  The House just passed a bill to create a women’s history museum. Only one congresswoman voted against it.

  The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve the creation of a national women’s history museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s network of museums in Washington.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/6/20
  

  When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’

  by Alison M. Parker

  A 1923 fight shows Confederate monuments are about power, not Southern heritage.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  2/6/20
  

  Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South

  by Cara Delay

  The policing of midwives’ bags and what was in them was central to the mission that would ultimately destroy black women’s traditional health networks. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/8/20
  

  These 19 black women fought for voting rights

  by Nsenga K. Burton

  Featuring historians Jennifer D. Williams, Michelle Duster

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  2/7/20
  

  House to vote this week on bill to create women's history museum

  The bill is poised to pass easily with bipartisan support.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Unique Struggles of Women and Native Americans to Vote

  by Thom Hartmann

  And how efforts to surpress certain voters continue. 

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  1/30/20
  

  The surprising history of “pregnancy portraits”

  For centuries British artists edited baby bumps out of their work. Why?

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• 2/2/20
  

  Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Most Famous Woman You Have Never Heard Of

  by Tiffany A. Sippial

  The work to preserve and study the history of the Cuban Revolution and its contributors—like Celia Sánchez Manduley—is arduous but important. 

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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.