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Category Archives: Feminist Legal History
The Brandeis Brief
I’m teaching Muller v. Oregon (1908) on Thursday. For those who don’t recall it, it’s the case during the Lochner era in which the Court upheld a maximum hour statute because the statute applied solely to women. The opinion has … Continue reading
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“Nudity Required, No Pay.”
Via the awesome Nancy McClernan, “Nudity Required, No Pay” is a blog that tracks exploitive treatment of actors. The blog author, Gabby, notes: I’ve been a struggling actress for the last few years. When I first started off, it seemed … Continue reading
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The Study of “Women” vs. the Study of “Gender”
Historian Alice Kessler-Harris asks in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education, “Do We Still Need Women’s History?” She reflects on the shift in the study of “women’s history” to historical perspectives on “gender:” The shift to gender has had … Continue reading
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Women and the Nineteenth Century Origins of a National Thanksgiving
On the origins of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History features this article, “Giving Thanks: Women Move to Create a Holiday” on its sponsored website historynow.org: [T]he idea of a permanent, national day of … Continue reading
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Griswold Attorney Catherine G. Roraback Dies at 87
Yesterday, Catherine G. Roraback died at the age of 87. She represented the appellants in Griswold v. Connecticut. A short bio is here. Some key excerpts: Long before the advent of public interest law Roraback made it … Continue reading
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Historical Feminist Videography
A wonderful collection of clips, via Open Vault (a project of WGBH Public Television) via Dr. Bitch.
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“The First and the Forced”: Indigenous and African American Intersections
This conference took place last fall, but most of the presentations were recorded and can be watched here. Via the Oh No a WoC PhD blog.
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Nicola Lacey, “From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Women, Automony and Criminal Responsibility in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England”
The abstract: In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a century later, this would have been next to unthinkable. In this … Continue reading
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Upcoming Conference:”The New Face of Women’s Legal History”
Renowned legal and history scholars from across the nation will gather at The University of Akron School of Law on Oct. 19 for a constitutional law symposium titled”The New Face of Women’s Legal History.” The symposium’s broad theme will address … Continue reading
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Paulina Wright Davis: Women’s Rights Advocate and Publisher
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, born on August 7, 1813, was the editor and publisher of The Una: A Paper Devoted to the Elevation of Woman. Women’s history researchers can consult copies of the paper preserved in the Rare Book … Continue reading
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Remembering the Victims of the Holocaust
Today I visited the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, outside of Berlin. The camp’s watchtower appears in the photo at right. I learned many things on this visit – among them, that the camp had a brothel for the male … Continue reading
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The Nazis Ran Prison Brothels
Not really a surprise but not something that received much attention in the past. From Yahoo News: For decades no one wanted to remember the concentration camp “special blocks” where the Nazis forced female inmates to entertain their male peers. … Continue reading
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The Guerrilla Girls at the Feminist Future Symposium, MoMA
Watch it here.
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Declarations of Independence
From the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls (1848): When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Foyster, “Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857”
From the books’ webpage: This book exposes the ‘hidden’ history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were … Continue reading
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Julia Ward Howe’s “Cultivation of the Mind”
Julia Ward Howe (b. May 27, 1819; d. Oct. 17, 1910) got the usual blogosphere attention around Mother’s Day — lots of “Arise, then, women of this day!” and Battle-Hymn-of-the-Republic-as peace-movement, etc. Howe articulated a special role for women … Continue reading
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A writer, economist, and lecturer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early theorist of the feminist movement. According to The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendent of the prominent and influential Beecher … Continue reading
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Evelyn Munro
From her LA Times obituary: Evelyn Smith Munro, a longtime activist who fought for sharecroppers’ rights in one of the nation’s first racially integrated labor unions, died of natural causes Feb. 16 at her Laguna Beach home. She was 92. … Continue reading
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With Drew Gilpin Faust’s appointment as President of Harvard, half of the eight Ivy League schools will have a woman as president.
Harvard’s announcement here. NYT story here. Update: Mary Dudziak had this on Friday, with some interesting links.
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The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
Volume I: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928 The birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and compelling figures inthe twentieth century. This first volume of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger documents the critical … Continue reading
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The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC
From the Museum’s webpage: The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, on Capitol Hill, explores the evolving role of women and their contributions to society through the continuing, and often untold, story of women’s pursuit for equality. The Museum is the … Continue reading
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Call for Proposals: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Continuities and Changes June 12-15, 2008 – Conference Homepage CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, “Continuities and Changes” will be held June 12-15, 2008, at the … Continue reading
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Life of a Doctor Who Performed Abortions “Pre-Roe”
Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista has a post up about a research project she undertook about the life of William Jennings Bryan Henrie, a Pre-Roe abortion-performing doctor from Grove, Oklahoma. You can read about the series on the interviews she … Continue reading
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Forced Sterilizations in SC
A local politician, Charleston SC City Councilor Larry Shirley, recently made this public pronouncement, which he later characterized as “starting a dialogue about reducing crime”: “We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if … Continue reading
Colonial Maryland in 1656: Test Jurisdiction for Abortion Prosecutions?
As you got up on September 22, I doubt you gave a thought to Judith Catchpole. Ever hear of her? On September 22, 1656 in the Royal Colony of Maryland she was tried for the murder of … Continue reading
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