Our last Women’s History Month 2010 Click List is full of fantastic women’s history reads. I am looking forward to keeping the excitement going for the rest of the year! Happy Women’s History Month: Heroes. YABOOKNERD Teaching Girls Better Year-Round. The Philadelphia Inquirer Assuring Women’s Stories are Told. Huffington Post Women’s History Month: Reflections on [...]
The expansion of the Internet as a means for feminists to share information and opinions with each other has made this Women’s History Month one of the best in memory. All month long I received Tweets and Facebook updates about women’s history blog posts, celebrations, articles, games, opinion pieces, and history “highlights.” We here at [...]
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 [...]
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, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers. [...]
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 of eleven [...]
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 health [...]
“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 [...]
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, [...]
