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Joanna Scutts

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The Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic
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on January 3, 2025
How World War I Crushed the American Left

A new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic
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on October 18, 2022
Secret, Unruly, and Progressive: The History of the Heterodoxy Women’s Club

Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism.

by Joanna Scutts via Literary Hub on June 10, 2022
Well-Behaved Women Make History Too

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?

by Joanna Scutts via Slate
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on June 21, 2018

Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

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Black and white photo of Inez Milholland leading the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade on a white horse, Washington, D.C

What We Want Is to Start a Revolution

Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.

by Vivian Gornick via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2022

Black and white photo of Bessie Beatty

Woman on a Mission

For pioneering journalist Bessie Beatty, women’s suffrage and the plight of labor were linked inextricably.

by Jessica George via JSTOR Daily on September 21, 2022

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