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EST 1917

feminist

While rifling through the bargain bin at your local bookstore for a dime novel to read on the plane, you come across what looks like just the right smut: a classically pulpy woman on the cover, eyes cast down to the text in front of her. Even the title, with its exaggerated cursive font, seems right: They Called […]

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The Jewish World called them “blackguards in bonnets.” In October 1913, 3 women were thrown out of London’s New West End Synagogue during Yom Kippur services after loudly declaring: “May God forgive Herbert Samuel and Sir Rufus Isaacs for denying freedom to women; may God forgive them for consenting to the torture of women.” Members of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage—founded 101 years […]

Next time you open a bottle of wine or (pu pu pu) receive a summons, take a close look at the seal.  It may not seem so important, but turns out those little markers can tell us quite a bit about power and privilege—not just in our time, but in ancient times as well. One […]

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