womens history

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• 10/24/2021
  

  The Women Who Won the Vietnam War

  by Sherry Buchanan

  Fifty years on, the history of the women who defeated a superpower, while celebrated in Vietnam, remains largely unrecognized and undocumented in our history of the war.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/6/2021
  

  Reframing Abortion as a Public Good

  by Judith Levine

  "States have a compelling interest—a profound obligation—to defend the right to abortion. Abortion is a public good. Why haven’t we linked abortion to the commonweal?"

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/4/2021
  

  The Appeal of Multilevel Marketing to Latter-Day Saints Women

  by Janiece Johnson

  A popular documentary on the LuLaRoe company highlights how the history and gender norms of the Mormon church have made LDS women particularly attracted and vulnerable to multilevel marketing schemes promising income without forsaking domestic obligation.

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Recovering Women's Reproductive Lives, One Mutilated Record at a Time

  by Catherine Prendergast

  "Far too often, archives resemble graveyards with marked tombs for men in which a few bones of women are scattered. It’s time to dig up all of the bones and ask them what story they tell."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/1/2021
  

  Free Britney Comes at a Time of Crisis for Reproductive Freedom

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The fight to end Britney Spears's conservatorship highlights the links between reproductive and sexual freedom and women's autonomy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/30/2021
  

  The Historical Line Between Carrie Buck and Britney Spears: Labeling Women "Unfit"

  by Gillian Brockell

  Historians Elizabeth Catte, Audrey Clare Farley, and Keisha N. Blain give context to the discourse of unfitness that connects the conservatorship imposed on Britney Spears with institutionalization and forced sterilization of women in the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/27/2021
  

  Katharine Graham Grew into Boldness as Washington Post Publisher

  Curator Jeanne Guttierez of the New York Historical Society joins Here and Now to discuss a new exhibit on the life of the legendary publisher and Washington social fixture once considered the most powerful woman in America.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/27/2021
  

  Keisha Blain on Fannie Lou Hamer's Life and Legacy

  "It’s important to remember that activists of the 1960s were dealing with rampant misinformation too. In many cases, this misinformation was being spread by the state."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  9/12/2021
  

  The Way it Was

  "That year in the 1960s, several thousand American women were treated in emergency rooms for botched abortions, and there were at least 200 known deaths.Comparing my story with others from the pre-Roe era, what impresses me is how close I veered to mortal danger."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/10/2021
  

  How the Texas Abortion Law Creates Citizen Bounty Hunters

  Legal historian and reproductive rights scholar Mary Ziegler: “It almost seemed like anyone could sue anyone — and that didn’t seem right. But it was. It really is that extraordinary.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/13/2021
  

  As Taliban Return, a History of Afghan Women’s Rights

  The feared subordination of women under the Taliban in Afghanistan is not a return to "tradition" but reflects the complexity of differing regions and conflicting ethnic and cultural groups. 

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• 9/12/2021
  

  Memo From Irish History: Welcome to Your Future, American Women

  by Laura Weinstein

  After sustained public outcry, the Republic of Ireland looked to its history of horrific treatment and preventable death of girls and women under its draconian abortion laws and said "enough." Will this example change the course American states like Texas are poised to follow? 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/6/2021
  

  Who Lost the Feminist Movement's "Sex Wars"?

  by Amia Srinivasan

  As a new book reconsiders the debates among feminists over sexuality and pornography by emphasizing the role of liberalism in reducing the radical demands both sides made for the remaking of relations between men and women to narrow issues of law and civil liberties, that history resonates with current controversies about the place of trans women in the feminist movement.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/7/2021
  

  Giving the Women of the Divine Comedy their Due

  by Laura Ingallinella

  One scholar's project is using Wikipedia and her students to recover the historical personhood of Dante's women and elevate them above literary symbols or caricatures. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/7/2021
  

  Texas's Long History of Restricting Reproductive Freedom

  "Rather than addressing maternal mortality, Texas lawmakers have instead spent years decimating access to basic preventive health care. Those who suffer most from Texas’ reproductive health policies are its most vulnerable."

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• 9/5/2021
  

  The Scandalous Six Week Walk That Inspired D. H. Lawrence's Most Popular Novels (excerpt)

  by Annabel Abbs

  In 1912, Frieda von Richthofen made a six-week hike from Bavaria to northern Italy with her lover D.H. Lawrence. It was, for him, a journey of of inspiration. For her, it was a more complicated search for liberation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/31/2021
  

  "Respect" Highlights the Other Black Women Artists who Helped Aretha Franklin Become the Queen of Soul

  by Fredara M. Hadley

  "Black women, even female Black entertainers, are rarely accorded that sense of control over their own lives. But as Aretha Franklin’s longevity in music and life demonstrated, the possibilities are endless when Black women are the center of their own universe."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/20/2021
  

  Billie Jean King among those Named to Womens History Museum Board

  The council is charged with advising the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents on the location, planning and design of the proposed museum and with helping the institution raise money from private donors.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/24/2021
  

  Liz Shuler's Leadership of AFL-CIO Comes at Critical Time for Women in the Workplace

  by Katherine Turk

  "As Shuler takes office, union women will look to her to champion their expansive visions and specific concerns; employers will continue to try to pit groups of workers against one another in their crusade to depress conditions for everyone."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/23/2021
  

  What Connects 2021's "Stillwater" and 1979's "Norma Rae"?

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Both Amanda Knox, an American student accused of murder in Italy, and Crystal Lee Sutton, the southern labor organizer portrayed in "Norma Rae," have challenged the way that Hollywood films have reinterpreted their stories for commercial gain.