womens history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/16/2021
  

  Will Biden Reverse 50 Years of Failure on Child Care Policy?

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Achieving better childcare policy requires recognizing women may be both mothers and workers, and moving past ideological views that women's economic independence is against the interest of families. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  7/15/2021
  

  Learn Lessons about Movement Building from Radical Black Women

  by Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

  Barbara Ransby facilitates a roundtable collaborative essay about the role of women in building radical movements for justice in Black communities encompassing social welfare, economic security, police accountability, women's liberation and more. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/19/2021
  

  Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

  by Robert Greene II

  Gloria Richardson became an unusual leader of the civil rights movement as an older woman activist, and her changing views on movement strategy are important to scholars today. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/12/2021
  

  Black Power and Anti-Carceral State Infrastructure

  by Joshua L. Crutchfield

  Mutual aid groups that formed in response to the COVID pandemic echo the ways that participants in the Black Freedom movement sought to create alternative instititutions for the benefit of communities and individuals that did not reinforce the power of the police. 

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• 7/11/2021
  

  The NFL Must Learn Lessons About Inclusion from Women's Sports

  by John Howard

  If the NFL is sincere in wanting to fight against entrenched homophobia, it should follow the example of women's sports (and be prepared to make partnerships and investments with LGBTQ organizations inside and outside of sports.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  6/25/2021
  

  An Oral History of the Lesbian Avengers

  The Lesbian Avengers organized and demonstrated in the 1990s to fight homophobia and sexism within the movement for queer liberation.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  7/5/2021
  

  How the 'New Woman' Blazed a Trail of Empowerment

  A new retrospective examines the artistic production of women at the intersections of new photographic technology and rising currents of racism and antisemitism in early 20th-century Europe. 

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  6/29/2021
  

  How Atlanta’s Public Housing Created Space for Black Women to Organize

  City Planning Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez discusses her research on women's tenant organizing in public housing in Atlanta, which became more important as the city withdrew support for its low income housing program. 

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• 7/4/2021
  

  A Faulty Court Precedent on Selective Service Leaves the Last Legal Sex Discrimination in Place

  by Kara Dixon Vuic

  Since 1981, the Supreme Court has allowed the exclusion of women from Selective Service registration on the grounds that they were excluded from combat and thus not liable to be drafted. This position is out of date with the reality of women's military service, yet the current court declined to correct its error. 

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• 6/27/2021
  

  Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women during the American Revolution

  by Karen Cook Bell

  Historians have, for too long, failed to recognize how Black women imagined and pursued freedom by escape from slavery during the American Revolution. 

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• 6/20/2021
  

  Recovering the Stories of Pioneering Frenchwomen of Science

  by Nina Gelbart

  The stories of six French women of science show that women have been part of the scientific revolution from the beginning, and that moving toward gender parity in professional science is imperative.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/16/2021
  

  Inhumane System of Incarceration in U.S. Poses Special Danger to Women

  by Jessica L. Adler

  When politicians close single prisons after complaints of abuse, they leave untouched a cruel and dehumanizing system that poses particular risk to women. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/8/2021
  

  To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork

  by Tiya Miles

  "To discover the past lives of those for whom the historical record is abysmally thin, I’ve found that we must expand the materials we use as sources of information."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  6/8/2021
  

  For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Washington History Seminar, June 14)

  In a bold rewriting of twentieth-century political history, Dorothy Sue Cobble reclaims social democracy as a central thread of American feminism and shows how global forces, peoples, and ideas shaped US politics and social movements.

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• SOURCE: The Revealer
  6/3/2021
  

  Keisha N. Blain on Fannie Lou Hamer’s Fight for Civil Rights and Her Message for Today

  by Daniel José Camacho

  Keisha N. Blain discusses her upcoming book on the life and activist legacy of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party leader Fannie Lou Hamer, and its relevance to both grassroots politics and the fight to protect voting rights today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/3/2021
  

  The Solution to the Craft Beer Industry’s Sexism and Diversity Problems

  by Allyson P. Brantley

  Absent robust enforcement of sex discrimination prohibitions by the EEOC (which frequently dismissed women brewery workers' complaints), consumer boycotts alongside union actions forced major brewers to change their practices. Will similar strategies help fight sexism in today's craft brewing world?

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  5/28/2021
  

  The Forgotten Women of Black Wall Street

  "Emerging scholarship on Greenwood is showing that Black women were as critical to building Greenwood as they were to helping Black people survive the massacre, and rebuild the neighborhood afterward."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/25/2021
  

  The Feminist Past History Can't Give Us

  by Paula Findlen

  "What it really meant to be a woman of science three centuries ago is not so easily conscripted into contemporary narratives of feminist liberation."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  5/24/2021
  

  Looking Beyond the Female Firsts of Science History

  by By Anna Reser and Leila McNeill

  While celebrating the pioneering achievements of women in science is worthwhile, it shouldn't substitute for close scrutiny of how scientific communities include or exclude participants and how society's gender and racial norms shape the work of scientists in that society. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/27/2021
  

  Billie Jean King, Foremother

  by Robert Lipsyte

  Billie Jean King's legacy runs far beyond tennis, and has become even more relevant with the passage of time as challenges to the doctrine of amateurism and the NCAA make clear.