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Hallam defeated a 20-year County Council incumbent, John DeFazio, in the 2019 Democratic primary, & secured the at-large seat in the following general election, making her one of a small number of formerly incarcerated people elected to office in the United States. She was sworn in on January 2nd, 2020.
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Kleinberg, S. J. (1999). Women in the United States, 1830-1945. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Norton, Mary Beth (1980). Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca, NY ...
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the largest women's organization in the US by the 1880s, provided an opportunity for women to participate in causes such as prison reform, labor conditions, education, purity and suffrage. However, the WCTU saw women purely as wives and mothers, accepting the constraints of maternal feminism. [6]
“Political issues relating to racial and social justice can be taught about in a balanced and factual manner, just as pupils are often taught about a range of different views on other topics.”
The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex is an article regarding theories of the oppression of women originally published in 1975 by feminist anthropologist Gayle Rubin. [1] In the article, Rubin argued against the Marxist conceptions of women's oppression—specifically the concept of " patriarchy "—in favor of her own ...
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 3,000 completed interviews conducted May 8 to 29 among U.S. adults, including 124 women who are childless and reported not wanting children in the future. It was conducted using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.
Gordon led the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers project, a 9-year academic undertaking to collect and document 14,000 materials written by those two leaders of the women's rights movement, and she published a six-volume collection of their works.
While the main idea of political lesbianism is to be separate from men, this does not necessarily mean that political lesbians are required to have sex with women. [5] According to the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group , the definition of a political lesbian is "a woman-identified woman who does not fuck men".