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Black and white photo of Barbara Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, and Nancy Reagan, in 1994.

What Do We Want in a First Lady?

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.
by Amy Davidson Sorkin via The New Yorker on April 19, 2021
A women with her hands on the car horn
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Her Crazy Driving is a Key Element of Cruella de Vil’s Evil. Here’s Why.

The history of the Crazy Woman Driver trope.
by Genevieve Carpio via Made By History on April 2, 2021
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Trouble with Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman authored the beloved short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," but also supported eugenics and nativism.
by Halle Butler via The Paris Review on March 11, 2021
Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

The Secret Feminist History of the Temperance Movement

The radical women behind the original “dump him” discourse.
by Nina Renata Aron via Medium on March 5, 2021
A group of five wealthy women in Victorian dress.

A Pool of One’s Own

Group biographies and the female friendship vogue.
by Noelle Bodick via The Drift on January 28, 2021
Group of roller-skaters in a room

The History Behind the Roller Skating Trend

Since its invention in 1743, roller skating has been tied to Black social movements.
by Ruth Terry via JSTOR Daily on September 7, 2020
Tiled pattern of 2020 presidential campaign signs.

How Candidate Diversity Impacts Color Diversity

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.
by Champe Barton via The Pudding on August 1, 2020
Sasha Geffen next to their book

Pop Music Has Always Been Queer

Sasha Geffen’s debut book reveals that the history of pop music is a history of gender rebellion.
by Tal Milovina via The Nation on April 8, 2020

Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

A conversation with Breanne Fahs on the lasting lessons of women's anger.
by Soraya Chemaly, Breanne Fah via Literary Hub on March 24, 2020
An illustration from a book of homes published by a Pennsylvania lumber company in 1920

The Latent Racism of the Better Homes in America Program

How Better Homes in America—a collaboration between Herbert Hoover and the editor of a conservative women’s magazine—promoted idealized whiteness.
by Manisha Claire via JSTOR Daily on February 26, 2020
Black and white image of Alice Paul, broadcasting from her desk at the Capitol, 1923.

Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on November 26, 2018
Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan

How New York’s Postwar Female Painters Battled for Recognition

The women of the historic Ninth Street Show had a will of iron and an intense need for their talent to be expressed, no matter the cost.
by Claudia Roth Pierpont via The New Yorker on October 1, 2018
Movie poster for "American Gigolo," showing a man in a suit looking to the right, with his shadow on the wall behind him

Armani in America

Looking back on "American Gigolo," a love story about a wardrobe.
by Haley Mlotek via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 3, 2018

Working, Out

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Slate on June 20, 2018

When Salad Was Manly

Esquire, 1940: “Salads are really the man’s department... Only a man can make a perfect salad.”
by Jessamyn Neuhaus, Elizabeth Fakazis, Manisha Claire via JSTOR Daily on June 6, 2018
"Rosie the Riveter" poster, depicting white woman wearing red bandanna and blue shirt flexing arm and saying "We Can Do It!"

How One 'Rosie the Riveter' Poster Won Out Over all the Others

During the war, few Americans actually saw the 'Rosie the Riveter' poster that's become a cultural icon.
by Sarah Myers via The Conversation on May 25, 2018
A painting entitled "The First Thanksgiving, 1621" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (ca. 1932).

The Dark Side of Nice

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.
by D. Berton Emerson via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 22, 2018

This Is Helen Keller’s 1932 'Modern Woman'

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”
by Caitlin Cadieux via The Atlantic on February 27, 2018
Amelia Earhart and plane.

Amelia Earhart Taught America to Fly

How Earhart and other women pilots of her day helped overcome Americans’ skepticism about flight.
by Erin Blakemore, Joseph J. Corn via JSTOR Daily on July 7, 2017
Woman sniffing perfume in a magazine ad.

Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death

Throughout the long and pungent history of humanity, smelling healthy has been as delightful as it has disgusting.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on March 8, 2016
Lydia Maria Child reading a book.

Woman's Rights

An editorial to the "National Anti-Slavery Standard," republished in "Letters from New York."
by Lydia Maria Child via HathiTrust Digital Library on January 31, 1843

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