18.  HER Story. Women's History

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18. HER Story. Women's history

 

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 'Ar’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

Dr. Howard Markel. "In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: Wash your hands." [2015]
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

     

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: Fhe 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  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

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