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The Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.

by Salar Mohandesi via Viewpoint Magazine on March 17, 2017

A group of female workers at a protest in Russia.

The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day

From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.

by Cintia Frencia, Daniel Gaido via Jacobin on March 8, 2017

How Women's Studies Erased Black Women

The founders of Women’s Studies were overwhelmingly white, and focused on the experiences of white, heterosexual women.

by Erin Blakemore, V. P. Franklin via JSTOR Daily on February 11, 2017

Hillary Clinton Just Said It, But ‘The Future Is Female’ Began as a 1970s Lesbian Separatist Slogan

'The Future Is Female' was popularized in 2015, but the slogan was created 40 years earlier.

by Katie Mettler via Washington Post on February 8, 2017

A Short History of the Tomboy

With roots in race and gender discord, has the “tomboy” label worn out its welcome?

by Elizabeth King via The Atlantic on January 5, 2017

No Girls Allowed

How America's persistent preference for brash boys over "sivilizing" women fueled the candidacy of Donald Trump.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 28, 2016

How the Women of Los Angeles Protected Their Rights to Drive

In the 1920s, women's love of driving in auto-obsessed Los Angeles created traffic jams and a battle over women’s rightful place.

by Erin Blakemore, Virginia Scharff via JSTOR Daily on October 23, 2016

America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women as Unhealthy

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 16, 2016

Valium pills

Mother's Little Helper

How feminists transformed Valium from a wonder drug to a symbol of medical sexism.

via BackStory on May 20, 2016

Up Against the Centerfold

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969

by Susan Braudy via Jezebel on March 18, 2016

The History of National Women's History Month

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.

by Julia Zorthian via TIME on February 29, 2016

Children in New York City waiting in line for immunization shots, 1944

Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective

The vaccination skepticism of today is rooted in postwar social movements, prompting a new generation of parents and children to question drugs and doctors.

by Elena Conis via Teaching American History on August 1, 2015

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.

by Peggy Solic via Origins on July 15, 2015

Eleanor Kirk

How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888)

Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.

by Paul Collins via The New Yorker on September 4, 2014

Jerri Cobb with a space capsule.

The Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing Americans in the Final Frontier

Imagining a future that separates women from their biological identity seems so “drastic” as to be unimaginable—in 1962 and today.

by Lisa Ruth Rand via The Appendix on July 15, 2014

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Story of Katie Casey and Our National Pastime

The little-known story of one of the best known sing-along songs, and its connection to women's suffrage.

by George Boziwick via Our Game on October 8, 2013

Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on a chair in a room with a fireplace

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Moved the Supreme Court

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.

by Jeffrey Toobin via The New Yorker on March 11, 2013

Birthright

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 14, 2011

Emma Goldman.

Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives”

The writings of Emma Goldman entered the public domain. Here is an introduction to Goldman's life and her particular brand of anarchism.

by Kathy Ferguson via The Public Domain Review on January 12, 2011

Inez Milholland with her dog.

Let Us Mate

Proposal advice from Inez Milholland, originally published in the Chicago Day Book, 1916.

via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 3, 1916

A mouse hovers over a screen filled with buttons for purchase choices that all look the same.

Americans Are Tired of Choice

How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?

by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on June 23, 2025

My Freedom, My Choice

A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.

by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on June 5, 2025

Abstract painting depicts faces staring at each other from either end of the canvas.

Bridging the Gap

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

by Michael Kazin via New York Review of Books on June 5, 2025

Woman in prayer looks up to an angel holding a pen for advice.

What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?

A 17th-century column shows that dating has always been an anxiety-riddled endeavor.

by Sophia Stewart via The Atlantic on May 7, 2025

A Wages for Housework protest on Boston Common, June 1977.

The Fight for Wages for Housework

In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.

by Alice Vincent via New Statesman on March 5, 2025

Perle Mesta laughing at a dinner party.

Washington’s Hostess with the Mostes’

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on January 20, 2025

Birth control devices in different shapes and forms.

The Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic on January 3, 2025

Former President Jimmy Carter speaking to the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in 2019.

Jimmy Carter’s Most Perplexing Legacy

For all of his personal Christian devotion, he could not capture the hearts of white evangelicals.

by Thomas S. Kidd via The Dispatch on December 31, 2024

Handcuff cuffed around wedding ring

“Marital Rape” Was Legal Longer Than You Think

In 1984, only 18 American states denied that wives were the sexual property of their husbands.

by Eleanor Johnson via Dame Magazine on December 20, 2024

Collage of The Golden Girls, a suitcase, a golf ball, viagra pills, and a Welcome to Florida sign.

How Old Age Was Reborn

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on November 25, 2024

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