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Black and white photograph of Loretta Lynn holding a microphone

Personifying a Country Ideal, Loretta Lynn Tackled Sexism Through a Complicated Lens

The singer wasn't a feminist torchbearer, but her music amplified women's issues.
by Amanda Marie Martinez via NPR on October 9, 2022
Artistic depiction of Suffragettes demonstrating for women's right to vote. At bottom left, a woman with a cap holds an old fashioned megaphone in her hands. At right, three women (in black and white) can be seen talking with one another. One is holding a piece of paper in her hands.

A “Hamilton” for the Suffrage Movement

Shaina Taub’s new musical follows Alice Paul’s tireless quest to win American women the vote.
by Alexandra Schwartz via The New Yorker on April 7, 2022
Ida Lewis holding an oar.

Ida Lewis, "The Bravest Woman in America"

In her thirty-two years as the keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse, Ida Lewis challenged gender roles and became a national hero.
by Jenifer Leigh van Vleck via Arlington National Cemetery on March 31, 2022
Photograph of Mrs. Frank Leslie

‘Mrs. Frank Leslie’ Ran a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Suffragist Movement

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on March 28, 2022
Housewife Annie Driver of Hunstanton, Norfolk, scrubbing the floor, while a toddler plays with the water bucket, 1956.
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NOW and the Displaced Homemaker

In the 1970s, NOW began to ask hard questions about the women who were no longer "homemakers", displaced from the only role they were thought to need.
by Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on March 23, 2022
Photo of Theresa Malkiel

The Forgotten Woman Behind International Women’s Day

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on March 8, 2022
Meghan Rapinoe, member of the U.S. Women's Soccer team, speaking at a podium about Equal Pay Day as President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden stand behind her, masked.
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Why International Women’s Day Matters

It’s a chance to spotlight the challenges for women, especially mothers, in the workplace.
by Suzanne Cope via Made By History on March 8, 2022
Wyatt at podium giving speech

The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.
by Kim Kelly via The Nation on January 11, 2022
Yumi Doi, an activist with Group of Fighting Women, at a protest against sexual discrimination, Tokyo, June 1972

A Work in Progress

Two new books on the history of feminism emphasize global grassroots efforts and the influence of American women labor leaders on international agreements.
by Nancy F. Cott via New York Review of Books on September 15, 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
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee.

The 16-Year-Old Chinese Immigrant Who Helped Lead a 1912 US Suffrage March

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.
by Michael Lee via HISTORY on March 19, 2021
Equal Rights Amendment supporters cheer for the passage of the House ERA Resolution at the Capitol in Richmond, VA
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2021 Could Finally Be the Moment for the Equal Rights Amendment

The turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic could push the amendment across the finish line after a century of work.
by Rebecca DeWolf via Made By History on March 17, 2021
Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021
A group of people striking with 9to5.

The Labor Feminism of 9to5 Should Guide Our Organizing Today

The vision of feminist labor organizing that guided the women’s white-collar organizing project 9to5 should still be our north star.
by Marianela D’Aprile via Jacobin on February 1, 2021
A hand holding a stethoscope and knife.

The Blackwell Sisters and the Harrowing History of Modern Medicine

A new biography of the pioneering doctors shows why “first” can be a tricky designation.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 25, 2021
Headshot of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Glorious RBG

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.
by Irin Carmon via Intelligencer on September 18, 2020

What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women

It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.
by Martha S. Jones via Politico Magazine on August 26, 2020

The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.
by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on August 10, 2020

The US Suffragette Movement Tried to Leave Out Black Women. They Showed Up Anyway

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.
by Martha S. Jones via The Guardian on July 7, 2020

The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”

One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into law was far more savvy.
by Rebecca Onion, Christina Wolbrecht via Slate on June 16, 2020
Black and white photo portrait of a woman wearing un-rimmed glasses and a short brimmed hat with a satin bow on it.

Suffrage in Spanish

Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.
by Cathleen D. Cahill via Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission on June 15, 2020

Votes for Colonized Women

How the politics of American imperialism often intersected with calls for women's suffrage.
by Laura Prieto via Process: A Blog for American History on May 28, 2020
Program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in Washington, DC, 1913, featuring a woman on a horse heralding votes for women and leading marchers toward the capitol.

The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.
by Ellen Carol DuBois, Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on March 18, 2020
Parade of women suffragists, holding signs, dressed in white.

When Lesbians Led the Women's Suffrage Movement

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.
by Anya Jabour via The Conversation on January 24, 2020

National Archives Exhibit Blurs Images Critical of President Trump

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”
by Joe Heim via Washington Post on January 17, 2020

The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

Charles Postel on the temperance crusade that galvanized the American women's movement.
by Charles Postel via Literary Hub on August 21, 2019
Margaret Sanger appeals before a Senate Committee for federal birth-control legislation in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1934.

The Socialist Pioneers of Birth Control

When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.
by Adam J. Sacks via Jacobin on August 14, 2019
Poppy Northcutt.

Inside Apollo Mission Control, From the Eyes of the First Woman on the Job

Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight trajectories that got astronauts home from their missions to the moon.
by Erin Blakemore via National Geographic on July 18, 2019
Engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe in profile.

How the Camera Introduced Americans to Their Heroines

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 9, 2019

The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on July 1, 2019
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