womens history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/18/2022
  

  Women Know You Can't Just Replace Formula with Breastfeeding

  by Laura Earls

  Breastfeeding advocacy is historically tied as much to a prescriptive and sentimental image of motherhood and maternal attachment as to concern for babies' health, and has long ignored physical and social obstacles to nursing. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/13/2022
  

  Margaret Atwood: I Created Gilead, but the Supreme Court Might Make it Real

  "Women were nonpersons in U.S. law for a lot longer than they have been persons. If we start overthrowing settled law using Justice Samuel Alito’s justifications, why not repeal votes for women?"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/16/2022
  

  Nursing Clio Project Connects Health, Gender and History

  “The personal is historical,” the blog’s authors declare — and its lineup of historians and authors proves that point again and again.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/13/2022
  

  Historian Leslie Reagan on the History of Abortion and Abortion Rights

  Leslie Reagan explains that there's more to the history of abortion rights than the laws cited by Samuel Alito criminalizing the procedure. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  5/4/2022
  

  The Laundry Workers' Uprising and the Fight for Democratic Unionism

  by Jenny Carson

  African American and Black Caribbean immigrant women were key organizers of New York laundry workers who pushed for a union movement that rejected divisions of occupation, race and nationality in favor of workplace democracy. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/26/2022
  

  Women's Rights are a Casualty of Democratic Backsliding

  Historian Anne Wingenter and law professor Erica Chenoweth discuss the relationship between fascism and patriarchy and the way that women's rights are a signal of the health of democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/27/2022
  

  The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy

  by Meaghan Winter

  It was a strategic mistake for abortion rights advocates to emphasize the right to individual choice instead of the vast issues of economic justice, workforce quality, educational equity and personal safety that are impacted by whether women can control their own reproduction. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/22/2022
  

  Racist Policing Has Roots in Controlling Sex Work

  by Sarah A. Seo

  Anne Gray Fischer's book shows that police policy toward sexuality in public space changed in ways that made Black women's public lives subject to increased control and that entrenched the discretion of police to stop people for suspected minor offenses that is associated with "broken windows" policing today. 

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  4/22/2022
  

  The 19th Century Woman's Secret Guides to Birth Control

  Women have always tried to share information enabling them to control their reproductive health, and others have always tried to stop them. Secrecy, coded language and misdirection are historical puzzles to untangle, say Andrea Tone, Naomi Rendina, Lauren Thompson and Donna Drucker. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  4/20/2022
  

  Historical Novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez Shares Her Reading List for the History of Medical Racism

  "I wrote my newest novel Take My Hand because I believed there were too many people who did not know about the history of forced sterilizations among poor women of color."

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• SOURCE: CommonPlace
  4/12/2022
  

  Bicycles and Women's Liberation in Victorian America

  by Anya Jabour

  The cycling craze of the 1890s was embraced with particular fervor by affluent white women, who seized opportunities for mobility and public sociability presented by the new technology of the "safety" bicycle.

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• SOURCE: New York Historical Society
  4/7/2022
  

  "Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field" Coming to NYHS in May

  The exhibition features images, objects, and documents drawn from New-York Historical’s Women’s Sports Foundation and Billie Jean King’s archives.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  4/1/2022
  

  Mill Mother's Lament: The Legacy of Ella May Wiggins

  by Karen Sieber

  The city of Gastonia has struggled to agree on the commemoration of the bloody 1929 Loray Mill strike, including how to account for the murder of pregnant union activist Ella May Wiggins. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  3/30/2022
  

  Historic Preservation and the Erasure of Women's History in Pittsburgh

  by David S. Rotenstein

  "Preservation is a fraught, power-laden process that reinforces racial, class, and gender biases. As old places become “historic,” they frequently get new names that are then inscribed upon space."

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• SOURCE: Ms.
  3/29/2022
  

  Hip Hop’s ‘Hidden Figures’: The Feminist Herstory and Future of Hip Hop

  "In every facet of hip hop music and culture, women have been innovating and setting new precedents, yet most connoisseurs of hip hop remain unaware of how women have actively shaped its culture and music from inception."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2022
  

  Linda Hirshman Offers a Lively Dissection of the Competing Strains of American Abolitionism

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  Hirshman focuses on the complex character of abolitionist editor Maria Weston Chapman, whose combination of moral fervor and racial prejudice pushed Frederick Douglass from the moralistic Garrisonian camp to a pragmatic and more effective strategy of political activism. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2022
  

  "Mrs. Frank Leslie" Grew a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Women's Movement

  Betsy Prioleau's book details the scandalous life and political impact of Mrs. Frank Leslie, who legally changed her name to that of her late husband and built a publishing empire. 

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• 3/27/2022
  

  The Women in Ben Franklin's Life Tell a Fuller Story of the Founder

  by Nancy Rubin Stuart

  The counsel of restraint and moderation advised by "Poor Richard" was hardly the core of Franklin's personality; his relationships with women show a man equally driven by passion and emotion. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/15/2022
  

  “Not being a man, I wanted to do the next best thing”: Female Gentlemen and the First World War

  by Anna Elisabeth Gehl

  Volunteering as nurses at the front of the Great War was occasion for many privileged British women to craft a new gendered identity incorporating the virtues of duty and self-control previously associated with "gentlemanliness." 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/2022
  

  Famous and Hidden Women's Friendships that Made History

  In the arts, politics, and civil rights activism, here are five friendships among prominent women that helped drive change.