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Why Are ‘Incels’ So Angry?

Men no longer have unfettered access to women's bodies. Not everyone is happy about that.
by Melissa J. Gismondi via Made By History on April 27, 2018
The book "The Handmaid's Tale"

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale

The origin story of an iconic novel.
by Margaret Atwood via Literary Hub on April 25, 2018

How Restaurants Helped American Women Get the Vote

The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.
by Tove Danovich via Eater on March 29, 2018

San Francisco’s Queen of Abortions Gets Her Moment of Recognition

Two new biographies look at the life of Inez Burns, an uncompromising and extravagant turn-of--the-century woman.
by Kim Kelly via The Outline on February 6, 2018
1972 Shirley Chisolm campaign poster.

‘Unbought and Unbossed’: Shirley Chisholm’s Feminist Mantra Is Still Relevant 50 Years Later

Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, constantly defied those who tried to constrain her due to race and gender.
by Ed Morales via Washington Post on January 26, 2018
Women's march in front of the U.S. Capitol.

How Second-Wave Feminism Inexplicably Became a Villain in the #MeToo Debate

Talking sexism, ageism, and progress with Katha Pollitt.
by Katha Pollitt, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on January 24, 2018

Female Trouble

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on January 22, 2018

The Women of Jane

The story of an underground abortion service that operated pre-Roe vs. Wade.
by Radio Diaries via NPR on January 19, 2018

Shouldn’t You Be in California?

The western frontiers of national wellness culture.
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Boom California on January 9, 2018

The Power Suit’s Subversive Legacy

Women have long borrowed from men’s dress to claim the authority associated with it. It hasn’t always worked.
by Angella D'avignon via The Atlantic on December 26, 2017

Before #MeToo: The Long Struggle Against Sexual Harassment at Work

An interactive timeline recounts the movement to end sexual harassment.
by Matthew Green via The Lowdown on December 14, 2017

Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?

#MeToo must go beyond the demand for punishment.
by Judith Levine via Boston Review on December 8, 2017
Protester with a #MeToo sign
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#MeToo is Undoing the Devil’s Bargain of the 1990s

Men accepted women’s rise to prominence, but used sexual coercion to maintain control.
by Anne M. Blaschke via Made By History on December 7, 2017

We’ve Got the ’70s-Style Rage. Now We Need the ’70s-Style Feminist Social Analysis.

Amid all the stories about harassment and abuse, there’s been hardly any discussion about how we got here.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 20, 2017

The Secret Feminist History of Brown Paper Bags

Tracing the connection between a ubiquitous paper product and the women’s liberation movement.
by Tove Danovich via Eater on November 15, 2017

Bill Clinton: A Reckoning

Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history.
by Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic on November 13, 2017
Pauli Murray

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.
by Rosalind Rosenberg, Alyssa Collins via Black Perspectives on October 16, 2017

Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius

One of the greatest living artists in popular music still isn’t properly recognized.
by Lindsay Zoladz via The Ringer on October 16, 2017
Women with a sign supporting passage of the ERA.

Who Killed the ERA?

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."
by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2017

Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of Playboy

Perhaps the only true generalization to make about Hefner is that he is given too much credit for his role in American history.
by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on September 29, 2017
Picture of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the film, "Dirty Dancing."

The Back-Alley Abortion That Almost Didn't Make it into 'Dirty Dancing'

For the 30th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing," we spoke to the film's screenwriter about her revolutionary decision to include a depiction of an illegal abortion.
by Marisa Crawford, Eleanor Bergstein via Vice on August 27, 2017

Fannie Quigley, the Alaska Gold Rush's All-in-One Miner, Hunter, Brewer, and Cook

She used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.
by Tessa Hulls via Atlas Obscura on August 21, 2017

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.
by Westenley Alcenat via Black Perspectives on July 24, 2017

The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave

The women of Telegraph Avenue whose stories remain untold.
by Madeline Appel, Sally Littlefield via The Berkeley Revolution on July 7, 2017

The Oral History of Lilith Fair, As Told By the Women Who Lived It

It was a time when promoters were telling women in music: “You can’t put two women on the same bill. People won’t come.”
by Melissa Maerz via Glamour on July 5, 2017

Your Child Care Conundrum Is an Anti-Communist Plot

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 14, 2017

How Bicycles Boosted the Women's Rights Movement

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did "more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."
via Vox on June 2, 2017

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on June 1, 2017

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, Jamestown Women

A new British television series, Jamestown, set off a minor public debate about just how rebellious women could be in the past.
by Tom Cutterham via The Junto on May 9, 2017

Susan B. Anthony, Pro-Life Heroine?

Behind a quiet house museum are anti-abortion activists with a mission: to claim America’s most famous historical feminist as their own.
by Ruth Graham via Slate on May 8, 2017
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