Gwen and I are both in Las Vegas this long weekend. If there are any Sociological Images fans in the area, we’d love to have a cocktail hour! Email us at socimages@contexts.org and we’ll set it up.
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Larry Harnisch at the Daily Mirror dug up this gem, a 1909 story from the Los Angeles Times about prominent Chicago-area women’s rights advocates pushing back the time they served Thanksgiving dinner in order to go see the British suffragist Emiline...
I don’t know for sure what holidays are like at your house, but if they resemble holidays at my house, and most houses in the U.S., women do almost all of the holiday preparation: decorating, gift buying and wrapping, invitations, neighborhood and...
Pocahontas was not a sexy Indian princess, she was kidnapped (and possibly turned into a sex slave) at the age of 17. After converting to Christianity while in captivity, she married an English man (John Rolfe, not Smith). She died at 22.
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