women's rights — Bunk History

Viewing 121–150 of 229 results. Go to first page

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

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

Jane Addams’s Crusade Against Victorian “Dancing Girls”

Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”

by Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on October 11, 2017

Trump's Argument Against Transgender Soldiers Was Used Against Gays, Women, and Blacks

A brief review of history.

by Philip Bump via Washington Post on July 26, 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

A woman driving a tractor with a man, with mechanized farming in the background, drawn in the Soviet style.

The American Housewives who Sought Freedom in Soviet Russia

A forgotten chapter in the history of feminism: why American women chose to flee the West for ‘freedom’ in Soviet Russia.

by Julia L. Mickenberg via Aeon on July 6, 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

Compare the Two Versions of Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech

Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?

by Leslie Podell via The Sojourner Truth Project on June 6, 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

Why Women Couldn’t Wear Pants on the Senate Floor Until 1993

Two political pioneers staged a "Pantsuit Revolution."

by Jocelyn Sears via Mental Floss on March 22, 2017

Let’s Not Pretend That ‘Hamilton’ Is History

America's founders have never enjoyed more sex appeal, but the hit Musical cheats audiences by making democracy look easy

by Nancy Isenberg via Zócalo Public Square 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

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

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

Liberals Love Alexander Hamilton. But Aaron Burr Was a Real Progressive Hero.

Why Broadway's biggest villain is worth a second look.

by Nancy Isenberg via Washington Post on March 30, 2016

Newly appointed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor stands in front of the Supreme Court on Sept. 25, 1981, in Washington.

Pro-Choice Advocates Fear That Roe v. Wade Could Be Lost. But It Already Happened.

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.

by Meaghan Winter via Slate on March 28, 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

The Divorce Colony

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.

by April White via The Atavist on December 8, 2015

Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day

The origins of the Hallmark holiday are rooted in a much greater cause.

by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on May 7, 2015

Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" poster.

Women at Work: A History

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.

via BackStory on February 6, 2015

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

Smoking, Women’s Rights, and a Really Great Fake Bar

The lady smoking caper of 1908.

by Livius Drusus via The Appendix on February 7, 2014

Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World

The American journalist propelled into the limelight when she went head-to-head with Nellie Bly on a race around the world.

by Matthew Goodman via The Public Domain Review on October 6, 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

Banging on the Door: The Election of 1872

In the 1872 election, Victoria Woodhull ran for president of the United States – the first woman in American history to do so.

by Joe Richman, Samara Freemark via Radio Diaries on October 13, 2008

Abortion in American History

How do ideological debates on gender roles influence the abortion debate?

by Katha Pollitt via The Atlantic on May 1, 1997

Three members of the Wages for Housework campaign running a table and handing out pamphlets.

Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

by Hannah Rosefield via The New Republic on March 19, 2025

brought to you by

© Bunk History