Apart from voting, April 25 1896 was also the day women got the right to govern – in a world first.
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A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the present.
Feminists in the 1970s knew the liberation of women and children was inextricably linked.
They chained themselves to buildings, entered male-only pubs and were dragged out by police. The documentary Brazen Hussies tells the story of the warriors of second wave feminism.
Too often, diva films feel like a spectacle about women being punished for living their dreams. The strength of I Am Woman is in the way Helen Reddy comes through.
Abortion has been a huge political issue in the US for the last 50 years. But the abortion debate is not new. It began at least a century before landmark abortions rights decision Roe v. Wade.
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Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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Susan E. and William P. Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Professor of History Emerita, Washington University in St. Louis
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Research fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle