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SOURCE: Edge Effects
4/15/2021
What 19th-Century Domestic Manuals Say about Housing as Infrastructure
by Leah Marie Becker
"We are only as safe as the person breathing the most polluted air or with the least access to stable housing."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/14/2021
How Domestic Labor Became Infrastructure
Writer Moira Donegan argues that including funding for care workers in the infrastructure bill is eminently reasonable; feminist intellectuals for decades have argued that this work is essential to the broader economy, so funding it and supporting it makes sense economically and to recognize the labor of women.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/14/2021
Registering Women for the Draft Wouldn’t be a Big Departure from the Past
by Kara Dixon Vuic
An odd alliance of the ACLU and the antifeminist National Coalition for Men is petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling exempting women from registering with the Selective Service and potentially being drafted into the military. Many voices have long advocated this change.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/13/2021
Stacey Abrams’s Fight against Voter Suppression Dates Back to the Revolution
by Karen Cook Bell
"The roots of Black women’s activism can be traced back to the Revolutionary Era, when thousands of Black women protested with their feet and ran away from their enslavers." This act would shape the demands of radical Black politics in the ensuing decades.
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SOURCE: Insider
4/11/2021
Challenging the Massive Gender Imbalance on Wikipedia: Volunteers Write Women Back into History
An ongoing volunteer project seeks to fill in the gaps in the online encyclopedia by researching and writing entries about women and women's history.
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SOURCE: Waco Tribune
4/12/2021
Baylor Professor Argues 'Biblical Womanhood' More Cultural Than Biblical
Beth Allison Barr argues that contemporary Christianity's doctrines on gender roles in the family are influenced more by the historical claim to power by men than by clear scriptural dictate, and that there are numerous historical examples of differently-ordered gender roles in Christianity.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
4/3/2021
Women’s College Sports Was Growing. Then the NCAA Took Over
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was pushed aside by the NCAA as universities dedicated more resources to women's sports to comply with Title IX. Critics say that the NCAA has not followed through on the need for equity while squeezing out women coaches and athletic administrators.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/20/2021
I Don’t Want My Role Models Erased
by Elizabeth Becker
The work of women journalists covering the war in Vietnam has been obscured in remembrance of the war and its place in American history and culture. The author seeks to recover the stories of Frances FitzGerald, Kate Webb and Catherine Leroy.
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SOURCE: Asian American Writers' Workshop
3/25/2021
Exploring Black and Asian American Lesbian Archives: Aché and Phoenix Rising
Two newsletters by and for queer communities of color in the Bay Area are a primary source for understanding how Black and Asian American lesbians created and maintained community.
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SOURCE: National Trust for Historic Preservation
3/12/2021
Settlement Houses: Sites of Service, Access, and Connection for Women
by Tamar Rabinowitz
"Progressive Era settlement houses fostered the activism and intellectual creativity, as well as the conflicts, that would profoundly shape American modernity in the 20th century."
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SOURCE: Letters and Politics
3/22/2021
Working for a Living: The Depiction of Asian American Women in Film & Theater
Cinema scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu discusses the ways that film has contributed to social perceptions of Asian and Asian American women.
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/23/2021
Pay Attention When They Tell You To Forget
by Christina Proenza-Coles
Writing across genres and time periods, the books of poet and memorist (and former Poet Laureate of the United States) Natasha Trethewey, historian Martha S. Jones, and poet-playwright-essayist Claudia Rankine constitute a conversation about Black women's work to remember history that is subjected to public suppression.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2021
The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance
by Judy Batalion
"I was raised in a community of Holocaust survivors and had earned a doctorate in women’s history. Why had I never heard these stories?"
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SOURCE: NBC
Racism, Sexism Must be Considered in Atlanta Case, Experts Say
Historian Ellen Wu explains that the particular racial and sexual stereotyping of Asian American women derives from the history of immigration, moral panics over prostitution, and the involvement of the United States military in a series of wars against Asian people.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/19/2021
The Triangle Fire and the Fight for $15
by Christopher C. Gorham
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire inspired workplace safety regulation and advanced the cause of organized labor. It's time to remember the victims with a commitment to a federal living wage law.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2021
How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women
Ellen Wu of Indiana University is among the scholars offering insight on the historical roots of the sexual fetishization of American women and its connection to violence.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/16/2021
Dorothy Pitman Hughes’s Activism Offers a Solution for the Coronavirus Gender Gap
by Laura L. Lovett
Dorothy Pitman Hughes' experience running a community childcare center highlighted not just the needs of working women, but the ways that childcare challenges were connected to all the big issues of the society. If we want a more just society today, Hughes' example and the COVID crisis show us where to look.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/11/2021
She Was Buried With a Silver Crown. Was She the One Who Held Power?
The double burial at La Almoloya and other Argaric graves are making archaeologists reconsider life in ancient Iberia. Was she the one wielding the power?
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3/14/2021
The Women Who Fought Tooth and Nail for the Flint Sit-Down Strikes
by Edward McClelland
Genora Johnson and the women of Flint, Michigan were the backbone of the sit-down strike campaigns that secured union recognition at General Motors.
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3/14/2021
The Long History of Women Warriors
by Fred Zilian
Archaeological discoveries dating to the 5th century BCE show that the Amazons of Greek lore were based on the nomadic Scythians of Eurasia, part of a body of evidence that confounds the idea that rigidly demarcated gender roles are universal or inevitable.
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