Ordinary Equality

Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

Special thanks also to Mona Eltahawy for inspiring the name of this episode.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

• The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—And Men Can’t Say (Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker * WND Books * 2011)
• Excerpts from MacKinnon/Schlafly Debate (Catharine A. Mackinnon * Law & Equality & 1983)
• Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics (Marjorie J. Spruill * Bloomsbury * 2017)

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Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

• “March 22, 1972: Equal Rights Amendment Passed” (New York Times * 2012)
• “Patriarchal Panic: Sexual Politics in the Mormon Church” (Sonia Johnson * 1979)
• “Eleanor Smeal Muses on Five Years” (New York Times * 1982)

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Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

• Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Carolyn Maloney * Rodale Books * 2008)
• “I’m a Survivor of Female Genital Cutting and I’m Speaking Out—As Others Must Too” (Maryum Saifee * The Guardian * 2016)
• Butterfly Politics (Catherine MacKinnon * Belknap Press * 2017) 

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Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

• “The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement” (Jennifer Schuessler * New York Times * 2019)
• A Woman’s Crusade (Mary Walton * Griffin * 2015)
• Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Right Movement (Sally Gregory McMillen * Oxford University Press * 2008) 
• The Light of Truth (Ida B. Wells * Penguin Classics * Reprint 2014)

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Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

Also, special thanks to Grace Lynch and Alex Black for their impeccable dramatic readings.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

“The Equal Rights Amendment Can’t Be Defeated by Anti-Trans Scare Tactics” (Kate Kelly and Danica Roem * Teen Vogue * 2020)

“Virginia Approves the E.R.A., Becoming the 38th State to Back It” (Timothy Williams * New York Times * 2020)

Standoff (Jacqueline Keeler * Torrey House Press * 2020)

Women’s Lives, Men Laws (Catharine MacKinnon * Belknap Press * 2007)

Upcoming:

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (Rebecca Hall * Simon & Schuster * 2020)

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Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

• “Why the United States Constitution Needs An Equal Rights Amendment” (Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue, 2018)
• “Kate Kelly: Utah, let’s ratify the ERA” (Kate Kelly, Salt Lake Tribune, 2019)
• Pedestals and Podiums (Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, Signature Books, 2005)
• From Housewife to Heretic (Sonia Johnson, Wildfire Books, 1989)

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Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.  

Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.