18. HER Story. Women's History and Women's Studies. Academic Treatment of Women's Issues, "Grievance Studies" and the Corruption of Scholarship
Feminist History
“Our history is our strength.”
https://twitter.com/FeministHistory
Women's History Research Center
"The Women’s History Research Center was founded in 1969 in Berkeley, California, by Laura Murra (also known as Laura X). The organization collected materials to document current and historical issues relating to women. Among the collection are materials related to the Equal Rights Amendment, including copies of the U.S. Congressional Record during the period when Congress was considering the ERA. There are also statements, articles, and press releases in support of the ERA."
https://www.wyominghistoryday.org/theme-topics/collections/womens-history-research-center
More information about the files can be found at
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv976876
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Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Samuel J. Abrams. "Seven theses for viewpoint diversity." [2025]
https://archive.ph/bKB6t
Daina Ramey Berry. "Teaching 'ai’n’t I a woman?'" [2007]
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/content/scholarly/5-teaching-arnt-i-a-woman/teaching-arent-i-a-woman.pdf
Claudia Elphick. “The history of women’s public toilets in Britain.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/wip/1imU
Robert Graham. “Emma Goldman: A Life in Reflection.” [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/LwZmv
Mary Harrington. "What if the feminists had won?: Eleanor Rathbone's proposal to pay women for housework and childcare was just too ahead of its time." [2020]
https://archive.ph/eZbdu
Selma James. "Child benefit has been changing lives for 70 years. Let’s not forget the woman behind it. [Eleanor Rathbone]." [2016]
https://archive.ph/Csihv
James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose. "Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship." [2018]
https://archive.ph/LlxMY
_____. "Understanding the 'Grievance Studies Affair' papers and why they should be reinstated: A response to Geoff Cole."
https://tinyurl.com/5n6dbtmm
Dr. Howard Markel. "In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: Wash your hands." [2015]
This pioneer in gynecology saved women in childbirth, and was ignored and mocked by the medical establishment of his time.
https://archive.ph/XmKW
Debra Michal, Ph.D. “Margaret Sanger.” [2017] Controversial for her involvement with eugenics, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and advocated for women’ reproductive rights. https://archive.ph/UGos6
Debra Michals, Ph.D., ed. “Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” [2017]
https://archive.ph/wip/4Gql0
Mary Beth Norton. "The Constitutional status of women in 1787." [1988]
https://archive.ph/zaSHG
Marylynn Salmon. "The legal status of women, 1776–1830." [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/jHcN0
Suffragists Oral History Project. Amelia R. Fry, interviewer. “Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment.” [1976]
https://archive.ph/2XCwX
Lila Thulin. “Why the Equal Rights Amendment is still not part of the Constitution: A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/z5wWm
Ann Towns. "The status of women as a standard of ‘civilization.’" [2009]
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/heike.schotten/readings/Towns,%20Women%20as%20Standard%20of%20Civilization.pdf
Wikipedia. "Joan of Arc." [n.d.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc
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A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
— Jostein Gaarder
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Michael Nayna. "The reformers/Recommended viewing order." [2024]
Links to Parts One through Part Four plus deleted scenes.
"The Reformers is an exclusive Substack release with accompanying text and additional scenes that play out like a director’s cut of my work documenting the infamous Grievance Studies Affair."
https://www.michaelnayna.com/p/the-reformers-recommended-viewing?sd=pf
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsnEUMt0JwU&list=PLLHyNSlsz44-mMSAXVWXjwRc8KOlA8Vrg&index=2
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A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
— Gloria Steinem
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Abigail Adams. "Letters of Abigail Adams." Letters between Abigail Adams and her husband John Adams. [March-May 1776] BOOK
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/suffrage/abigail.htm
Elizabeth Wayland Barber. Women's work: The first 20,000 years women, cloth, and society in early times. [1996] BOOK
(Review) https://archive.ph/wip/RYksG
Daina R. Berry, editor-in-chief, and Deleso M. Alford, sen.ed. Enslaved women in America. [2012] BOOK
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/books
Daina Ramey Berry and Tali Nichole Gross. A black women's history of the United States. [2020]
BOOK
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/books
(author interview) J.T. Roane. "A black women’s history of the US:
an interview with Kali Gross and Daina Ramey Berry."
https://archive.ph/7L7B8
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris. Sexuality and slavery: Reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas. [2018] BOOK
http://www.drdainarameyberry.com/books
Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shulert. Woman suffrage and politics: The inner story of the Suffrage Movement. [1926] BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/p3Fh7
Elinor Cleghorn. Unwell women: Misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world. [2021] BOOK.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646468/unwell-women-by-elinor-cleghorn/
Ellen Carol DuBois. Feminism and suffrage: The emergence of an independent women's movement in America 1848 - 1869. [1999] BOOK
https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0
Friedrich Engels. The origin of the family, private property, and the state. Intro. Pat Brewer. [1884, 1891 ]
ONLINE BOOK
https://readingfromtheleft.com/PDF/EngelsOrigin.pdf
Betty Friedan. The feminine mystique. [1963] ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Betty%20Friedan.%20%20The%20feminine%20mystique
Linda Hirschman. Reckoning: The epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment. [2019] BOOK
https://www.lindahirshman.com/books
Sheila Jeffrys. Anticlimax: A feminist perspective on the Sexual Revolution. [2012] BOOK
https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781742198071
Journal of Women’s History PERIODICAL
“…scholarship from around the globe in all historical periods.”
https://jwomenshistory.org
Brooke Kroeger. The suffragents: How women used men to get the vote. [2018] BOOK
http://brookekroeger.com/the-suffragents/
Kate Moore. The radium girls: The dark story of America's shining women. [2018] BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/wQubp
Theodore G. Obenchain. Genius belabored: Childbed Fever and the tragic life of Ignaz Semmelweis. [2016] BOOK
https://archive.ph/UOe0A
Melinda Sampson. Native American women & girls: Victimization and resiliency. [2020] BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/kMQll
Merlin Stone. When God was a woman. [1978] BOOK
“When God was a woman: Merlin Stone.” VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmyoXB2d87M
Haider Warraich, M.D. The song of our scars: The untold story of pain. [2022] BOOK
See especially Chap. 8, “The Pain of the Powerless: Injustice and the Arc of Suffering.”
Tiffany Wayne, ed. Women's suffrage: The complete guide to the Nineteenth Amendment. [2020]
BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/qpW2u
Naomi Wolf. Vagina: A new biography. [2012] BOOK
Mary Wollstonecraft. A vindication of the rights of women: With strictures on political and moral subjects. [1792] ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.org/details/vindicationofrig00wollrich
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Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men