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12 Feb 2020, 10:19 am by Robbie Kenney
(SenateNJ) “Alice Paul was a fantastic leader in the campaign to pass the 19th amendment and allow women to vote,” Pennacchio said. [read post]
27 Aug 2019, 11:30 am
When used by combatants in war and armed conflict, these tactics are a strategy used to assert control and instill fear in communities. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:02 am by Karen Terry
“It’s often called the War of the Roses,” Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To Win the Vote, told NPR in a story titled “The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women’s Suffrage From Nay To Yea. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:02 am by Karen Terry
“It’s often called the War of the Roses,” Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To Win the Vote, told NPR in a story titled “The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women’s Suffrage From Nay To Yea. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 9:14 am
I just returned from an eye-opening conference at Penn on Gender, Militarism, and War, sponsored by the Alice Paul Center and Women's Studies dept. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
Olive Anderson (deceased, Westfield College):  For Wives Alone: Economic Divorce in mid-nineteenth century England and WalesDr Sharon Thompson (University of Cardiff):  Family Law Reformists as Feminist Legal Historians: The Married Women’s AssociationTaylor Starr (Yorke University, Canada): Epistemological Acquiescence: Women and Feminist Legal Theory in Canadian Law Faculties, 1961-1994Associate Professor Valentina Cvetkovic Ðordevic and Assistant Professor… [read post]
10 May 2009, 4:40 am
"Mother's Day" in the late-19th century was an an anti-war protest. [read post]
28 Jun 2005, 9:05 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday rejected a lawsuit [PDF text] against the Japanese government filed by 15 Asian women who claim Japanese soldiers forced them to act as "comfort women" [Wikipedia backgrounder], or sex slaves, during World War II. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 11:10 am by The Editors
  In Chad’s refugee camps, female survivors of war face sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of oppression on a daily basis. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:36 am by Andrew Hamm
Millett noted that during World War II, many women served as bartenders – “Bessie the Bartender joins Rosie the Riveter. [read post]
13 Mar 2010, 8:49 am by Bridget Crawford
This volume looks beyond sex crimes to consider multiple ways that women experience war and repression, as agents of change, as victims, and as perpetrators. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 6:00 am by Kelly Goles
Shorter hemlines under Regulation L-85 meant that women had to cover up, but without their beloved nylon stockings, women had to get creative. [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 7:46 am by John Phillips
I used it several weeks ago to emphasize the work our military men and women do. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 4:04 am by Heidi Henson
“Even as both men and women wrestle with balancing their home and work responsibilities, the poll found that the era of ‘mommy wars’ between working and stay-at-home mothers is being replaced by women who are comfortable shifting between the two roles, at a pace and proportion that they control. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 7:57 pm by Mary L. Dudziak
During the War of 1793 in France, the Committee of Public Safety ordered that “young men will go into battle; married men will forge arms and transport food; the women will make tents, garments, and help in the hospitals. [read post]