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SOURCE: New York Times
10/4/2022
Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star Who Voiced Rural Resilience, Dies at 90
The singer expressed the endurance of hardship but also performed subversive and humorous takes on the changing mores reaching rural America in the 1960s and 1970s.
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SOURCE: BBC
10/2/2022
Inuit Greenland Women Demand Answers, Justice in Birth Control Scandal
In the late 1960s and 1970s, up to half of reproductive-aged women in Greenland were implanted with IUDs, often without informed consent.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
9/26/2022
Just Wear Your Smile: The Gender Politics of Positive Psychology
by Micki McElya
Positive Psychology, a supposed science of producing happiness, is part of a multibillion-dollar publishing market. Unfortunately, it's helped enshrine patriarchal values into the popular practice of psychology.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/27/2022
Black Women's Activism Ties Reproductive Rights to Broader Goals of Freedom
by Kim Gallon
Black women's reproductive lives have always been complicated by institutional racism, sexism, and the balance of personal autonomy and racial solidarity. Black feminists have struggled to use the African American press as a space to force discussion of the issues.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
9/28/2022
"Misogynoir" Exemplified in the Degradation of Black Women Athletes
by Donald Earl Collins
The treatment of basketball star Brittney Griner by Russian authorities (and the indifference to her case by many Americans) shows that Black women athletes still have to navigate a world of racism and sexism that diminishes their achievements and their security.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/26/2022
After Four Decades, Iranian Women's Frustrations are Erupting
by Kelly J. Shannon
Since the 1990s, Iranian women have been engaged in slowly escalating protest against the restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic. Have those protests become too large and too public to be contained?
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SOURCE: Slate
9/16/2022
"The Woman King" Softens Truths of the Slave Trade
by Ana Lucia Araujo
The film has a delicate task: showing the involvement of the Kingdom of Dahomey in selling other Africans to European slave traders without feeding narratives that blame Africans for the slave trade. It largely sidesteps this history instead.
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SOURCE: KJZZ
9/6/2022
Documentary Shows the Women of Route 66
Katrina Parks examines the lives of women who came to work and build lives along the "Mother Road" of the west.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/7/2022
Stories of Women's Comeuppance Expose Cruelty at Heart of Modern Society
by Sarah Horowitz
Like Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes today, the 1909 trial of Marguerite Steinheil in Paris focused on an ambitious woman as a villain, but revealed a wider climate of impunity and self-dealing among elite men.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/6/2022
The Supreme Court Ignored the 19th Century "Voluntary Motherhood" Movement
by Lauren Thompson
Abortion is, indeed, a deeply rooted right in American history, demonstrated by the extent to which women have worked to control reproduction.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
9/1/2022
A Return to the 1960s "Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women"?
by Lina-Maria Murillo
Women acting on principles of mutual aid have worked to make information about reproductive health, including terminating pregnancies, available even at risk of legal punishment.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
9/1/2022
Where are the Women in History?
by Amanda B. Moniz
Women's histories have frequently been written in the past, but in ways that are inaccessible to researchers in the present. One example is the way that women reformers were presented as exemplars of Protestant evangelical rectitude.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/1/2022
The Danger of Encouraging Americans to Inform on Each Other
by Christine Adams
Governors like Virginia's Glenn Youngkin are repeating a tactic of despots throughout history: encouraging the public to denounce individuals to the authorities. Whether its witches or teachers, this is a formula for intimidation and conformity.
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9/4/2022
"Pour Myself a Cup of Ambition": The 1970s Echo in Today's Union Revival
by Ellen Cassedy and Lane Windham
This Labor Day, we’re hopeful about the renewed energy and excitement for workplace organizing—especially by women workers—and cautiously optimistic that today’s workers may overcome the sorts of corporate tactics that blocked organizing in the 1970s.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/29/2022
Historians Ask what the Decline of Nude Beaches Tells Us about the Internet's Influence
Historians of naturism Sarah Schrank and Stephen L. Harp believe that the panoptical nature of social media is eroding a longstanding divergence between European and American attitudes about nudity in public spaces, particularly among young women.
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SOURCE: CNN
8/29/2022
Fantasy Series Take a Selective Approach to Historical Accuracy as an Excuse for Sexual Violence
Medievalist Eleanor Janega wonders whether the creators of the "Game of Thrones" universe use historical accuracy as a justification to show graphic violence; their insistence on verisimilitude flags in other areas.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
8/27/2022
How Long Until We Hear "Madam President"?
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
In the early republic, the perception of ambition was a negative for a political candidate, especially for president. That norm mostly survives today in its application to women candidates.
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8/28/2022
Uncancel Wilma Soss
by Robert E. Wright and Janice Traflet
Wilma Soss defied norms as a woman who became independently wealthy through her PR agency and her investments, but the circumstances of her marriage and her outspoken advocacy for shareholders against corporate waste led to her erasure. Her biographers hope to correct that.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/25/2022
Safe Haven "Baby Boxes" are a Medieval Horror
by Maria Laurino
"As generations of twentieth-century Italian mothers and their children can attest, giving a woman no choice but to anonymously surrender her baby is a route to ruined lives."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/24/2022
Women Have Always Been at the Center of the Labor Movement
by Amy Mackin
The 1860 strike of male shoe workers in Lynn, Massachusetts floundered until the strikers allied with their female compatriots, but the movement largely failed to maintain gender unity. This lesson is critical for the service industry unions organizing today.