feminism 
-
SOURCE: New York Times
2/17/2021
The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew
Silvia Federici's critique of the exploitatitve nature of domestic labor as the backbone of capitalist economies is beginning to gain traction as homes are converted to schools and (paid) workplaces, compounding gendered burdens borne mostly by women in America.
-
SOURCE: Texas Monthly
1/5/2020
Until 1968, a Married Texas Woman Couldn’t Own Property or Start a Business Without Her Husband’s Permission. This Dallas Attorney Changed That
Louise Raggio was the Texas attorney who pushed for the Marital Property Act of 1967 which legally allowed married women to take legal and financial actions without their husbands' permission (her prior legal career had been in technical violation of the law).
-
SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/20/2020
The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement
by Deborah Cohen
Historian Deborah Cohen reviews new books on the early womens movement by Rachel Holmes and Martha S. Jones.
-
SOURCE: TIME
12/8/2020
How History Classes on the Women’s Suffrage Movement Leave Out the Work of Black Voting Rights Activists
Historian Lisa Tetrault argues that the idea of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention as the birthplace of the American women's movement was a retroactive story used to include white, respectable, moderate suffragists and exclude both more radical women and women of color from the movement.
-
SOURCE: New York Times
12/4/2020
50 Years On, the Feminist Press Is Radical and Relevant
A look back at the ongoing work of the Feminist Press and the legacy of founder Florence Howe, who saved the work of many women authors from obscurity and helped support the emerging study of literature by women.
-
SOURCE: War on The Rocks
11/30/2020
Musing on Gender Integration in the Military with Simone de Beauvoir
by Bill Bray
For those engaged in the military gender integration debate today, de Beauvoir’s writing offers an additional reminder — those arguing against more integration may be no less intelligent and sincere than those championing change. But they still may be wrong.
-
SOURCE: New York Times
11/12/2020
A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero?
"Ms. Hambling’s sculptural woman — perched above a plunge of mountainous form — seems to embody the epic saga that so many women have endured for their voices to be heard."
-
SOURCE: BitchMedia
10/30/2020
Monstrous Men: The Medusa #MeToo Monument Has an Oedipal Complex
by Erin Thompson and Sonja Drimmer
A New York statue of Medusa erected as a monument to the #MeToo movement of identifying sexual abusers of women is in fact yet another instance of fighting among male artists using women's bodies as symbolic weapons. It also garbles the myth of Medusa, draining it of its relevance to #MeToo.
-
SOURCE: New York Magazine
9/26/2020
Amy Coney Barrett and the Triumph of Phyllis Schlafly
For Schlafly's successors in the Christian right, there is now one acceptable way to take a piece of male authority for themselves, and it runs through professional anti-feminism.
-
SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
9/24/2020
The Red Scare and Women in Government
McCarthyite attacks on the political left also pushed women out of policymaking positions in the federal government, the historian Landon Storrs argues.
-
SOURCE: The New Republic
9/24/2020
The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade
Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost.
-
SOURCE: New York Times
9/13/2020
Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91
Florence Howe faced difficulty in teaching in the early days of Women's Studies: a lack of materials. She started a press that changed that.
-
SOURCE: New York Times
8/15/2020
The Improbable Journey of the Suffragist Sash
by Hilary Levey Friedman
The sash embodies the suffragists’ vision of womanhood — one that was simultaneously progressive and regressive. That vision helped move women into the public and political spheres, but it did so by emphasizing their appearance.
-
SOURCE: LitHub
7/30/2020
In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers (excerpt)
by Lisa Levenstein
Few observers recognized that Edie Farwell’s group was part of a wide-ranging network of female technology specialists who were using the 1995 Beijing NGO conference to build the infrastructure for what would become online feminism.
-
SOURCE: The Conversation
7/21/2020
‘In a Perfectly Just Republic,’ Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President
by Pamela S. Nadell
A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Bella Savitzky Abzug stood on the front lines protesting injustices that still roil this nation.
-
SOURCE: Public Books
6/29/2020
Naomi Oreskes: Feminist Science is Better Science
Historian Andrew Needham interviews Naomi Oreskes about her new book Why Trust Science and the crisis of expertise in American society.
-
SOURCE: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/vale
Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol
Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “SCUM Manifesto,” in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.
-
SOURCE: Slate
6/16/2020
The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”
by Rebecca Onion
One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.
-
SOURCE: Jacobin
5/19/2020
There’s Nothing Good About Phyllis Schlafly
by Eileen Jones
"Mrs. America", the new miniseries about Phyllis Schlafly, doesn’t want us to come away with a harsh view of its subject. But we should: Schlafly’s right-wing views were consistently monstrous, doing untold damage to the country.
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
5/14/2020
‘Mrs. America’ Reminds Us that More Women in Politics Won’t Necessarily Mean More Liberal Policies
by Leandra Zarnow
The recent streaming hit "Mrs. America" underestimates the influence of New York Representative Bella Abzug on future progressive politics and the complex impact of women's activity in the political arena.