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Fabulous Feminism
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In this long-read, Sheila Rowbotham examines the changing conditions for women before, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as well as the political and social roles played by women during each period. 
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Maybe you've never heard of the pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, but they were real-life women pirates who cross-dressed to get on ships.
bobbygw's insight:
It reminds me of the wonderful, much underrated novel 'Fanny' by Erica Jong, a terrific, entertaining homage to 18th-century fiction, in which the eponymous heroine is a pirate, among many other roles.
Note on the author: Erin Blakemore is a Boulder, Colorado-based author and historian. Her debut book, The Heroine's Bookshelf (Harper), won a Colorado Book Award for Nonfiction and has been translated into Italian, Korean and Portuguese. Erin has written about history and culture and other topics for Smithsonian.com, The Washington Post, TIME, mental_floss, NPR's This I Believe, The Onion, Popular Science, Modern Farmer and other journals. You can find more of her work at erinblakemore.com.
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In the second part of this long-read, Sheila Rowbotham examines the changing conditions for women before, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as well as the political and social roles played by women during each period.
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From the second world war to the 1960s, women were a critical part of the computing sector. Would tech culture today be less sexist if they hadn’t been sidelined?
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