Recommended Reading #192: History

      “Albert Cashier’s Secret” by Jean R. Freedman (Gender, Military, U.S. History) 1/28/14

Truthfully, it blows my mind that some perspectives still perceive that women aren’t capable of doing what men do. It seems so clear to me that they have long performed feats that illustrate the contrary, even if awareness of it didn’t appear to be widespread.

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      “Bookish Birthdays: Edith Wharton” by Kate Phillips (Non-Sex-Related, Writing, Sociology) 1/24/11

It is admittedly probably because The Age of Innocence is my favorite novel that I find this so interesting, but I indeed do. :)

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      “Forty Years Later, We’re Still Fighting ‘Eisenstadt v. Baird’” by Jonathan D. Moreno and Frances Kissling (Sex and Culture, Reproductive Rights, U.S. Public Policy and Judicial History) 3/20/12

This was written in the run-up to the last U.S. presidential election, but the history about the Eisenstadt case and the context of cultural perceptions around contraception strike me as both interesting and currently relevant.

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