“We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly
defrauds woman of all her natural rights.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible
WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers women and events from August 25 through August 31.
The next installment of WOW2 will be on September 3, 2022.
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“We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity,
the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and
injustice of all special favoritism, whether of
sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the
chain is broken, the chain is broken.”
—Anna Julia Cooper,
Women’s Cause Is One and Universal
“In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men
controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies
have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like
chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions
for thousands of years.”
—Dr. Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi writer and poet —
her books banned, life threatened, forced into exile
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The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history. There are so many more phenomenal women than I ever dreamed of finding, and all too often their stories are almost unknown, even to feminists and scholars.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
THIS WEEK IN THE WAR ON WOMEN
will post soon, so be sure to go there next, and
catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines.
