feminism
Black History: Emancipation
Submitted by stormbear on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 10:47am.Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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A Timeline of Women's Contributions to American Political History
Submitted by charlotteobserver on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 2:44pm.The contributions that women have made to the history of this nation are rarely acknowledged. Most of the children in the country grow up not knowing that women were at the forefront of the anti-slavery, civil right, social reform, suffrage, and gay rights movements. They stood up for others, but few have stood up for them.
The first women's movement began around 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, when Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and others formed organizations to fight for votes for women. The movement came to fruition in 1919 when the 19th Amendment became part of the Constitution.
The second women's movement began in the late 1960's and 70's with women's liberation. Its focus was to attain equal rights and equal pay for women, and should have come to fruition in the early 1980's with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, but unfortunately, it did not occur.
Valentine's Day!
Submitted by Jerimee on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 12:55pm.- Jerimee's blog
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Feminists 1, Biblethumpers 0
Submitted by stormbear on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 11:25am.Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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Gender roles: bane of my existence
Submitted by C. Diane on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 10:55am.
I went to a reception for my cousin and his new bride last weekend. My aunts asked me when I was going to have kids, since I've been married a whole 7 years now (well, in 10 days.) I told them I wasn't going to, which brought on the "but who's going to take care of you when you get old?" line of questioning.
The Bridal-Industrial Complex
Submitted by C. Diane on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 1:17pm.Weddings are big business. Should they be?
Women and science fiction
Submitted by C. Diane on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 11:04am.As long as I can remember, I've had books to read. Usually they'd be books my grandma had picked up on sale or at the used book shop, but I'd read just about anything I could get my hands on. This is how I discovered science fiction.
Invisible women
Submitted by James on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 12:58pm.
Via Ode Magazine, I came across the 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project which, among other things, provided an extensive analysis of gender differences inside the mainstream media.
Percentage of news stories mentioning women
TV: 22%
Radio 17%
Newspapers 21%What are the roles these women play?
Eyewitness: 30%
Subject: 23%
Expert: 17%
Spokespeople: 14%
Our news culture is so gender-biased that women don't even show up. And it's not just a problem "out there." BlueNC has only one female front-pager, the Southern Dem. We need help fixing that.
