Thursday Click List

Thursday, 4 March 2010, 7:44 | Category : History
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Abortion in Ancient Rome – Feminists For Choice
Herbal Contraception in Ancient Times – Islam Online
Women’s History Month Quiz – Feministing
After Divorce, Men’s Income Increases While Women’s Income Decreases – The Guardian
Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda – Zuky
Is Dolly Parton a Feminist Icon? – The Guardian
Doctors’ Moral Views Influence Advice They Give to Patients – Washington Post

4000 Years for Choice: The History of Birth Control in a Nutshell

Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 8:33 | Category : Activism, History
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Have you ever wondered what women did to control their fertility in the days before The Pill? I know I have. A new website is hoping to shed some light on the history of birth control. 4000 Years for Choice visualizes the ancestral traditions passed down for millennia by lineages of mothers, [...]

Did You Know? Some Interesting Pro-Choice Trivia

Friday, 2 October 2009, 12:09 | Category : History
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Last night I attended an awesome training for pro-choice activists, where I got a very condensed history of Planned Parenthood and the pro-choice movement. It was a lot of fun to hear about the courageous work of Margaret Sanger, who started advocating for women’s health as early as 1916. Sanger was the sixth [...]

New Study Will Look at Effects of Emergency Contraception

Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 14:23 | Category : Birth Control
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Dr. Heather Prescott, a Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, is working on a book about the history of emergency contraception (aka “ec,” or “plan B”). Dr. Prescott’s book will describe the history of emergency contraception from the 1960s until the present and place this story within the larger context of women’s [...]

Emma Goldman: Warrior for Choice

“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.” –Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman is one of my favorite historical figures and remains [...]

Feminist for Choice from History: Elsie Clews Parsons

Thursday, 11 June 2009, 19:48 | Category : History
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Elsie Clews Parsons was an early feminist, a sex radical, and an anthropologist. She is important to the pro-choice movement because of her role in spreading feminist ideologies, equality in relationships, advocating for more birth control, and promoting the general equality of women in society.
Clews Parsons was an original member of the Heterodoxy club, a [...]