18. HER Story. Women's History and Women's Studies. Academic Treatment of Women's Issues, "Grievance Studies" and the Corruption of Scholarship
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Feminist History
“Our history is our strength.”
https://twitter.com/FeministHistory
Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Daina Ramey Berry. "Teaching 'ai’n’t I a woman?'" [2007]
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/content/scholarly/5-teaching-arnt-i-a-woman/teaching-arent-i-a-woman.pdf
Claudia Elphick. “The history of women’s public toilets in Britain.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/wip/1imUm
Robert Graham. “Emma Goldman: A life in reflection.” [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/LwZmv
Mary Harrington. "What if the feminists had won?: Eleanor Rathbone's proposal to pay women for housework and childcare was just too ahead of its time." [2020]
https://archive.ph/eZbdu
Interesting Facts. “6 female rulers who deserve more recognition.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/WFV5v
Selma James. "Child benefit has been changing lives for 70 years. Let’s not forget the woman behind it. [Eleanor Rathbone]." [2016]
https://archive.ph/Csihv
Learning for Justice. "Browder v. Gayle: the women before Rosa Parks." [2011]
https://archive.ph/wip/EFSbW
James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose. "Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship." [2018]
https://archive.ph/LlxMY
_____. "Understanding the 'Grievance Studies Affair' papers and why they should be reinstated: A response to Geoff Cole."
https://tinyurl.com/5n6dbtmm
Dr. Howard Markel. "In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: Wash your hands." [2015]
This pioneer in gynecology saved women in childbirth, and was ignored and mocked by the medical establishment of his time.
https://archive.ph/XmKWC
Debra Michal, Ph.D. “Margaret Sanger.” [2017]
Controversial for her involvement with eugenics, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and advocated for women’ reproductive rights.
https://archive.ph/UGos6
Debra Michals, Ph.D., ed. “Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” [2017]
https://archive.ph/wip/4Gql0
Mary Beth Norton. "The Constitutional status of women in 1787." [1988]
https://archive.ph/zaSHG
Marylynn Salmon. "The legal status of women, 1776–1830." [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/jHcN0
Lila Thulin. “Why the Equal Rights Amendment is still not part of the Constitution: A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/z5wWm
Ann Towns. "The status of women as a standard of ‘civilization.’" [2009]
https://archive.ph/2b1dm
Wikipedia. "Joan of Arc." [n.d.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
— Jostein Gaarder
Deanna Falchook. "Tabitha Babbitt."
"This woman nvented the circular saw!"
VIDEO
https://www.facebook.com/reel/553156033493655
Michael Nayna. "The reformers/Recommended viewing order." [2024]
Links to Parts One through Part Four plus deleted scenes.
"The Reformers is an exclusive Substack release with accompanying text and additional scenes that play out like a director’s cut of my work documenting the infamous Grievance Studies Affair."
https://www.michaelnayna.com/p/the-reformers-recommended-viewing?sd=pf
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsnEUMt0JwU&list=PLLHyNSlsz44-mMSAXVWXj…
The Persian woman since 1907 had become almost at a bound the most progressive, not to say radical, in the world. That this statement upsets the ideas of centuries makes no difference. It is a fact.
— Morgan Schuster, quoted in Janet Afary, The Iranian Constitutional Revolution 1906-1911, Chap. 7, “Women’s Councils and the Origins of the Women’s Movement in Iran”
Elizabeth Wayland Barber. Women's work: The first 20,000 years women, cloth, and society in early times. [1996]
BOOK
(Review) https://archive.ph/wip/RYksG
Daina R. Berry, editor-in-chief, and Deleso M. Alford, sen.ed. Enslaved women in America. [2012]
BOOK
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/books
Daina Ramey Berry and Tali Nichole Gross. A black women's history of the United States. [2020]
BOOK
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/books
(author interview) J.T. Roane. "A black women’s history of the US:
an interview with Kali Gross and Daina Ramey Berry."
https://archive.ph/7L7B8
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris. Sexuality and slavery: Reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas. [2018] BOOK
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/books
Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shulert. Woman suffrage and politics: The inner story of the Suffrage Movement. [1926] BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/p3Fh7
Ellen Carol DuBois. Feminism and suffrage: The emergence of an independent women's movement in America 1848 - 1869. [1999]
BOOK
https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0
Friedrich Engels. The origin of the family, private property, and the state. Intro. Pat Brewer. [1884, 1891 ]
ONLINE BOOK
https://readingfromtheleft.com/PDF/EngelsOrigin.pdf
Sheila Jeffrys. Anticlimax: A feminist perspective on the Sexual Revolution. [2012]
BOOK
https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781742198071
Brooke Kroeger. The suffragents: How women used men to get the vote. [2018]
BOOK
http://brookekroeger.com/the-suffragents/
Kate Moore. The radium girls: The dark story of America's shining women. [2018]
BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/wQubp
Melinda Sampson. Native American women & girls: Victimization and resiliency. [2020]
BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/kMQll
Merlin Stone. When God was a woman. [1978] BOOK
“When God was a woman: Merlin Stone.” VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmyoXB2d87M
Tiffany Wayne, ed. Women's suffrage: The complete guide to the Nineteenth Amendment. [2020]
BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/qpW2u
Naomi Wolf. Vagina: A new biography. [2012]
BOOK
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
— Rosa Parks