WAPUSH: Period 8: Feminist Waves & the Backlash, 1973-1991

A 1981 article written by Catharine R. Stimpson that includes an interview with on of the founders of the field of women's history, Gerda Lerner

Professor Joyce Antler is an expert on Jewish women's history

An oral and multimedia project documenting the women who attended the 1977 Houston Women's Conference. SHP students wrote many of the profiles that appear in this database.

A 1991 book review that appeared in Ms. Magazine

A 1979 article from Ms. Magazine about a campaign by Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio to target teenage boys

A 2024 article about the underrepresentation of Black and Latina women doctors in the U.S. health care system

An original interview with historian Daniel Williams who wrote Defenders of the Unborn about the history of the pro-life movement

Dr. Catherine Monk is a professor at Columbia University and an expert in the field of psychology

This article highlights women's activism and a factional split over electoral politics. It discusses civil disobedience used in the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment, published in January 1983

Jane O'Reilly gives a reflection on Oklahoma's vote agains the Equal Rights Amendment, published in January 1983

Mary Lee Sargent was heavily involved in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In this interview she talks about her work in Illinois in 1982.

A detailed interview with Zoe Nicholson about her lifelong work for social justice including the fast she went on in 1982 to advocate for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

A transnational look at women in executive power in Portugal. Published in Ms. Magazine in December 1979

An essay by Audre Lorde, originally published in 1984

An overview of NASA and Sally ride, published in January 1983

A 1980 article highlighting women qualified for a seat on the Supreme Court. Women mentioned include Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Constance Baker Motley, Barbara Jordan and Eleanor Holmes Norton. No women had ever served on the Supreme Court at the time this article was published.

A profile of street artist Judy Baca