The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks gets a rave New York Times review, and author Jeanne Theoharis appears with another civil rights pioneer on Democracy Now. Read more →
16 posts from March 2013
Susie Bright, in addition to being a best-selling author, activist, and podcast host, is editor at large for Audible. Susie's blog, The Bright List, keeps readers and listeners apprised of new audiobooks. Today's post is a cross-post from the Bright... Read more →
In February, we celebrated Black History Month, and now we are reaching the end of Women's History Month. This got us thinking about how we define our shared histories through different perspectives, and how those various ways of seeing history... Read more →
Two cases being argued before the Supreme Court this week have the potential to tip the judicial scales in favor of greater legal equality for LGBT families. Read more →
A new memoir-meets-exposé examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy. Read more →
Read a selection from Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. It is one of the earliest works by an African American woman writer. Read more →
Today is World Water Day, which is observed every year on March 22. We recommend six titles that focus on the many ways access to water affects our lives, and uncover how the lack of collaboration by individuals, corporations, and government agencies has put us on a perilous path towards international water shortages. Read more →
Bad sociology is being used in several important court cases to attack same-sex marriage. Read more →
Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as of ethnic and immigrant history. She is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the... Read more →
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no... Read more →
In honor of Women's History Month, Beacon is celebrating classics of women's history, literature, and feminist thought. Celebrate with us at Beacon.org. Mary Daly (1928-2010) was a world-renowned radical feminist philosopher. When her groundbreaking work, Gyn/Ecology, was first released by... Read more →
This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri's range and skill as a storyteller as well as her empathy and astuteness as a doctor. Read more →
Three questions for David Chura about the challenges and rewards of teaching. Read more →
An acclaimed writer on her mother's tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia Read more →
Women’s History Month Classics: In the thirty-five years since its publication, Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller, MD, has become famous for its groundbreaking demonstration of how sexual stereotypes restrict men’s and women’s psychological development. Wendy... Read more →
Congress and the President honored Rosa Parks with a statue in the Capitol Rotunda, but our leaders missed the truly radical spirit of the lifelong activist. Read more →