Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 19, 2023
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Living with the monsters
Living with the monsters
Living with the monsters
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 1, 2023
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Summer of our discontent
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 11, 2023
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What a difference a day makes! Chicago and Wisconsin voters turn the tables
Save the Equal Rights Amendment
Boston Review
This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.
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What Mrs America Gets Right and What It Gets Wrong About 70s Feminism
The Guardian
Mrs America gives Phyllis Schlafly a depth in fiction that was lacking in history but Shirley Chisholm is refreshingly portrayed as more than just a martyr
The Drive to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment, Explained
Vox
Virginia has voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Although obstacles still exist, it bolsters activism for gender equality. And it marks a profound change in Virginia, a state that in the past had often been on the wrong side of history.
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Uzo Aduba To Play Shirley Chisholm In FX Limited Series, ‘Mrs. America’
Blackfilm
Starring Cate Blanchett, Aduba is among the 11 new cast members to the series. Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly.
Tidbits - July 17, 2014
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Reader Comments - Detroit Denying Its Citizens Water; New Voices for Peace by Jews; Politics and Lies Triggered an Unintended War; UK's Largest Union Backs Boycott; Portside Readers Respond - Whither the Socialist Left; How Social Movements Can Win; Bernie Sanders; On the Waterfront and Working-Class Studies; Scotland; Common Core and Bill Gates; Equal Rights Amendment
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