Trump won the presidency despite being recorded saying “grab ‘em by the pussy,” and despite numerous accusations that he had sexually abused women over a period of decades. There is misogyny at the ...
Linda Gordon
Linda Gordon is a University Professor of the Humanities and the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of several books, including most recently Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2009) and Feminism Unfinished (2014).
Women’s Suffrage @100
By Linda Gordon
The woman suffrage amendment passed in 1920, the culmination of what Juliet Mitchell called “the longest revolution, ” because it took 80 years of activism for American women to win the right to vote ...
Suffragettes Take Hollywood
By Linda Gordon
An industrial laundry in 1912 London, the steam infusing the air, the sweat on the workers’ faces so vivid the viewer herself feels the heat. These laundries were not only literal sweatshops; they ...