feminism

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• 5/5/19
  

  A Tale of Two Suffragists: Hazel Hunkins and Maud Wood Park

  by Susan Ware

  Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the right to vote.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/22/19
  

  Robert Caro’s Blind Spot

  Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/20/19
  

  Alice Kessler-Harris: Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian

  by Lara Vapnek

  For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

  by Martha S. Jones

  It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/7/19
  

  The Unsung Suffragist Who Fought for Women to Keep Their Maiden Names

  Before the 1970s, women couldn’t get their paychecks, passports, driver’s licenses or bank accounts, or even vote, using their birth surnames. 

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• SOURCE: New Haven Register
  2/28/19
  

  Why Women's History Month is in March

  And how it grew from a day to a week to a month. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/19
  

  History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia.

  Only about 18 percent of Wikipedia’s biographical articles are about women. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/16/19
  

  Do American Women Still Need an Equal Rights Amendment?

  by Susan Chira

  We’re already living in Phyllis Schlafly’s nightmare.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/9/19
  

  Early Feminists Issued a Declaration of Independence. Where Is It Now?

  A national search for the original, signed copy of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention has raised awareness of a movement’s history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/4/19
  

  How the Trump administration’s Title IX proposals threaten to undo #MeToo

  by Ruth Lawlor

  The changes would make campus sexual assault harder to punish, while increasing the burdens on black men.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/19
  

  Why it’s shocking to look back at med school yearbooks from decades ago

  by Elizabeth Evans

  They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Why did women in Congress wear white for Trump’s State of the Union address?

  The choice has historical significance.

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• SOURCE: Bustle
  1/18/19
  

  Historians Explain How The Women's March Builds On More Than 100 Years Of Resistance

  Three past protests in particular opened up opportunities for movements like the Women's March to take place: the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, the Silent Parade of 1917, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/18/19
  

  The Women’s March is riddled with divisions. But that doesn’t mean feminism is in crisis.

  by Lauren Haumesser

  Since the early 19th century, the women’s movement in the United States has broken along the lines of race, class, age and religion. 

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-4-18
  

  Classicist Mary Beard on Feminism, Online Trolls and What Ancient Rome Can Tell Us About Trump

  An interview with Time Magazine.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-16-18
  

  How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ became an anthem for civil rights and feminism

  Franklin, then just 24 years old, infused it with a soulful and revolutionary demand, a declaration of independence that was unapologetic, uncompromising and unflinching.

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• 6/24/18
  

  Was the “Wizard of Oz” a Feminist Tract?

  by David B. Parker

  A new way of looking at Frank Baum’s classic story.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Californian
  4-22-18
  

  Berkeley’s Carolyn Merchant explains what ecofeminism is

  Merchant, along with various other female academics, is responsible for integrating two concepts — environmentalism and feminism — into a study known as ecofeminism.

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• SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
  3-3-17
  

  Harvard’s Jill Lepore explains how Wonder Woman plays into her history of feminism

  Wonder Woman, created in the 1940s, proves that feminism didn’t come in waves.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6-2-17
  

  The Two Women’s Movements

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.