Thinking About Women’s History, or Herstory if You Prefer

It is the time of year when I spend even more time than usual thinking about women’s history: What does it look like? What does it mean? How do we incorporate women into public history with the goal of making it so mainstream that it no longer needs a qualifier? Who is doing interesting work…

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Women’s History Month is Over. What Next?

  I always greet the end of Women’s History month with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I am sorry for the fun to end. All through March, everywhere I go on the internet someone is posting something interesting about women whose stories need to be told or sharing their own introduction to women’s history,…

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Talking About Women’s History Month: Three Questions and an Answer with Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and 20th/21st-Century Women’s Writing at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century (Cornell UP, 2022), which won the Modern Language Association Matei Calinescu Prize, and she has published three editions of Rukeyser’s witting: The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose (Cornell UP,…

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