womens history

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/30/2023
  

  Regina Twala's Stolen Life Work Highlights Colonialism Inside the Historical Profession

  by Joel Cabrita

  Regina Twala performed the intellectual labor that supported another intellectual's published work on African religious practices; her obscurity was the foundation of his fame. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/21/2023
  

  What My Mother's Activism Before Roe Shows Us about the Upcoming Fights after Dobbs

  by Felicia Kornbluh

  "The first thing we’ve missed about Roe is that it was merely the final scene in a drama whose origins lay far from the U.S. Supreme Court... a movement that resembled the movement for abortion rights today, centered on policy change in individual states and localities."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  1/24/2023
  

  How Private Equity Cashed in on Medical Abortion

  The American effort to bring the French RU-486 medication to the domestic market made medical abortion much more widely accessible. But, in true American fashion, the involvement of private investors looking for profit also made it much more expensive—even more so after Dobbs.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/26/2023
  

  Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Women Archivists, and the Problem of Archival Inclusivity

  by Amanda E. Strauss and Karin Wulf

  Two scholars who are the first women leaders of their institutions reflect on the ongoing lessons of a pioneering woman archivist and rare books librarian for understanding how archival practices can be made to include or exclude. 

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• SOURCE: Modern Medieval
  1/20/2023
  

  What Can a Medievalist Teach us about Jacinda Ardern's Resignation and Women in Power?

  Eleanor Janega joins Matthew Gabriele and David Perry to discuss the erasure of women in history and the recurrent disbelief about women doing public things today. 

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• SOURCE: 19th News
  1/12/2023
  

  Anastasia Curwood on New Shirley Chisholm Bio

  By framing Chisholm as a person with a life history, Curwood elevates knowledge of the New York congresswoman from a "first major party candidate" to a political theorist and visionary. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/12/2023
  

  The Black Widows' Struggle for Civil War Pensions

  by Hilary Green

  Black women's struggles to claim pensions earned by their late husbands' service in the Union Army reflected the incomplete realization of freedom after emancipation and the intrusive controls the pension system and growing administrative state placed on Black families. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/12/2023
  

  Why Won't Her College Honor "Queen of Basketball" by Renaming its Arena?

  Luisa Harris didn't just lead the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive championships in the early 1970s. She helped integrate the basketball program and the college. Is that the reason why her name and image are so conspicuously absent today? 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  1/11/2023
  

  50 Years at Cook County Hospital Prove Abortion is Healthcare

  by Amy Zanoni

  Abortion rights activists have focused on horror stories of the pre-Roe era as cautionary tales, but the history of public hospitals since Roe shows that real reproductive freedom requires expanded access to care and a robust social safety net. 

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• 1/8/2023
  

  The Legacy of Charlene Mitchell: The First Black Woman Presidential Candidate

  by Alyssa Spinosa and Adam Arenson

  Although Charlene Mitchell's candidacy with the Communist Party gained few votes, her campaign reflected an effort to advance a critique of capitalism that addressed the American context of racial inequality and oppression. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/16/2022
  

  Stephen Shames's Photos Document the Lives and Activism of Black Panther Party Women

  As a college student, Shames built trust with the members of the BPP and documented their activism. Now, working with former member Ericka Huggins, a book of those photos preserves the history. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  12/10/2022
  

  Pioneering Black Feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes Dies at 84

  Along with cofounding Ms. Magazine, she was a leader in connecting women's liberation to social welfare policies, child services, and domestic violence. 

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• SOURCE: Jezebel
  11/22/2022
  

  Alabama Women, Like Predecessors, are Keeping a Strike Alive

  by Kim Kelly

  The Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama has been on for more than 600 days. Labor writer Kim Kelly links miners' endurance to the work of women workers, miners' wives, and other women in past labor struggles. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/2/2022
  

  "A League of Their Own" Update Engages Lives of Queer Women in the 1940s

  by Lauren Gutterman

  "The series’ portrait of queer life amid World War II might seem unrealistic to some, but history reveals that queer women and trans men — from butch to femme and married to unmarried — often found opportunities to act on their desires and build queer communities."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/31/2022
  

  Witches are Having a Moment in 2022

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Women have long understood accusations of witchcraft as attacks on their efforts to exert power in their societies. This may explain why women today are embracing the symbol. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/2022
  

  Physicist's Side Project: 1,750 Wikipedia Bios for Overlooked Women Scientists

  Popular understanding of the history of science and the contemporary role of women in STEM is undermined by the further underrepresentation of women in Wikipedia biography pages. Jess Wade is working to change that. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/11/2022
  

  Empathy in the Archive: Care and Disdain for Wet Nursing Mothers

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  "Just like today, women’s decisions in the past about how to feed their babies were shaped by personal preference, to be sure, but the possibilities available are bounded by technological innovations, shifting medical advice, and social, cultural, and economic pressures and practices."

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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.