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SOURCE: Smithsonian
3/1/2021
Part of Being a Domestic Goddess in 17th-Century Europe Was Making Medicines
Historians Sharon Strocchia, Stephanie Koscak, and Elaine Leong offer insight into the roles of women in producing and administering medicine in the early modern period, both in domestic and public settings. The subject may receive increased attention through a digitization project of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/26/2021
Fifty Years Later, ‘Tapestry’s’ Hope And Optimism Still Resonates
by Tanya Pearson
"Sincere, earnest and personal, 'Tapestry' embodied the emerging political argument ‘the personal is political.’ This phrase became a defining characteristic of second wave feminism at a time when women and others challenged the institutions of marriage, the nuclear family and its values and state control of women’s reproductive rights."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/2/2021
We Need a Second Season of ‘Mrs. America.’ Here’s Why
by Magdalene Zier
After the defeat of the ERA, Phyllis Schlafly's activist career entered a second act, pushing the federal judiciary in conservative directions.
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SOURCE: Folklife
3/1/2021
“Making a Living by the Sweat of Her Brow”: Hazel Dickens and a Life of Work
by Emily Hilliard
"Hazel’s song catalog is often divided into separate categories of personal songs, women’s songs, and labor songs. But in her view and experience, these issues all bled together; her songs address struggle against any form of domination and oppression, whether of women, workers, or herself."
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2/28/2021
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism
by Laura L. Lovett
Recovering the legacy of New York activist and organizer Dorothy Pitman Hughes means writing "a history of the women’s movement with children, race, and welfare rights at its core, a history of women’s politics grounded in community organizing and African American economic development."
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SOURCE: them.
2/23/2021
These Portraits Revolutionized the Way Queer Women Were Seen in the 1970s
Joan E. Biren (known as JEB) published a collection of photographs of lesbians in 1979, a pioneering representation of queer women living openly. It will be reissued in March with retrospective essays.
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SOURCE: JStor Daily
2/21/2021
Black Women Have Written History for over a Century
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie examines the work of Black women scholar-activists like Anna Julia Cooper whose work integrated the writing of African American history with political organizing, despite exclusion from the academy.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/12/2021
The Fantasy that Changed Female Friendship Forever
by Nicole Hemmer
If the 1980s phenomenon of the male Chippendales show benefitted women's empowerment, it was not (only) by making men the objects of lust, but by normalizing rituals of female friendship.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/11/2021
Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
by Vanessa M. Holden
Historian Vanessa Holden reviews a new book edited by Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas and Terri L. Snyder which draws on the stories of women of African descent in the Americas to argue that such women helped bring freedom into being and defined what freedom in the world actually means.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
1/14/2021
How Heather Cox Richardson Built a Sisterhood of Concerned Americans
Heather Cox Richardson's successful newsletter and growing grassroots media stardom reflects Americans' hunger for historical understanding but also, especially among her female readers, for a calm and compassionate style of analysis.
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SOURCE: Vox
1/15/2021
White Women’s Role In White Supremacy, Explained
Historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers and author Seyward Darby explain why the presence of women among the Capitol rioters should not be surprising.
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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).
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SOURCE: NPR
1/2/2021
'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists
Since 2009, a nonprofit organization called Advancing Women Artists has worked to recover work by female artists and document the history of sexism in the arts.
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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.
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12/20/2020
Actually, It's Doctor....
by Suzanne Chod
A recent editorial asking Dr. Jill Biden to stop using the honorific is steeped in sexism and nostalgia for the unchallenged authority of white men. Ironically, her upcoming public role may help to further break down such hierarchies.
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SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
12/15/2020
The Hidden History of the First Black Women to Serve in the U.S. Navy
The first cohort of Black women to serve in the US Navy were enlisted as reservists to fill shortages in the service's clerical workforce. At the time, the nation's climate of racism forced them to keep a low profile. A researcher compiling a book about the "Golden Fourteen" mined family history to learn about their service.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
12/15/2020
Working With Death: The Experience of Feeling in the Archive
by Ruth Lawlor
A researcher of sexual assault against women by American troops in World War II confronted the problem that the archive captures only a traumatic event and leaves the human being affected in the shadows.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
12/8/2020
Rosie the Riveter Gets Her Due 75 Years After the End of World War II
This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy.
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12/13/2020
Senator Mike Lee Disregards History While Claiming to Support American Unity
by Matt Chumchal
Senator Mike Lee this week claimed proposed museums dedicated to the history of women and Latino/as in America would foster division by ethnicity and sex. A biology professor shares an experience with the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and argues that the proposed museums are in fact needed to create the understanding needed to forge unity.
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SOURCE: Nashville Scene
12/10/2020
New Oral History Project Spotlights Roles of Nashville’s Women Musicians
Musician and historian Tiffany Minton's new oral history project tackles the stereotype of the Nashville session musician – the backbone of the city's recording industry – as a white guy.
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