Summary: <p>Hello Pantsuiters!</p> <p>In this episode we talk reproductive rights and health with members of the lgbtq+ community.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Episode Links:</span></p> <p>San Antonio Express article citing thousands of calls and emails against Senate Bill 6, aka Texas’ “bathroom bill”: http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Patrick-s-office-deluged-with-emails-calls-10943478.php?cmpid=gsa-mysa-result</p> <p>To register for the Trans Texans Lobby Day, go here: http://www.transtexas.org/lobby-day-2017/</p> <p>The GOP’s “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey” can be found here: https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To read Sillicon Valley Data Science’s analysis of gerrymandering in the U.S., go here: http://svds.com/better-know-districts/</span></p> <p>And to look at the accompanying map, go here: http://www.svds.com/gerrymandering/</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Finally, here’s Michelann’s piece on intersectional feminism:</span></p> <p><em>This essay illustrates the history and current forms of feminism that pertain to the foundational mission and values of Pantsuit Republic Texas. </em></p> <p>A (very) Brief History of Feminism in the United States</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>First Wave Feminism</strong></p> <p>In the Victorian era, the middle class white woman was encouraged to be meek and subservient. With the contributions of many in the physical and social sciences (Darwin, Marx, Freud, etc), an awareness emerged among these women that they were in fact intelligent and capable. In the United States, the <em>Suffragette</em> movement, or the fight for women to have the right to vote (and own property), is often referred to as <em>First Wave</em> feminism. Many early leaders of the movement were also abolitionists but later turned a blind eye to lynchings and other atrocities committed against black men. This was engendered in part by resentment that black men were granted the vote before (white) women but was also an attempt to win less progressive women to the <em>Suffragette</em> cause. Women won the right to vote through constitutional amendment in 1920. Both before and after this victory, factions within the movement held different views of sex and race. This continued into the advent of Second Wave Feminism.</p> <p> </p> <p>Sources and Further Reading:</p> <p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134849480/the-root-how-racism-tainted-womens-suffrage">http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134849480/the-root-how-racism-tainted-womens-suffrage</a></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-wave_feminism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-wave_feminism</a></p> <p><a href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/angel.html">http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/angel.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-9527635#later-career">http://www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-9527635#later-career</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905">http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Second Wave Feminism</strong></p> <p>After World War II, women were expected to cede their wartime jobs to men and to return to homemaking. Young, unmarried women who chose to work made lower wages and were often fired upon marriage, so employers could avoid investing heavily in those who would eventually leave to raise children. In white middle class families, young women attended college for the purpose of finding a husband. Marriage and motherhood were glorified by a post-war economic boom and the influence of corporate media, which suggested to these women that they would find their greatest happiness in “modernizing” their homes and caring for family needs. <em>The Feminine Mystique</em>, publ</p>
