Category Archives: Women's History Month

My Blog is 6!

Posted on August 22, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

Today is my blog’s sixth birthday!  What I want to do in this post is to share with you my goals for this coming year of blogging, including my struggles over what some of my goals will be. My plan … Continue reading →

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Rachel Maddow on the Pay Gap; Texas Tort Reform and Health Care Costs

Posted on July 12, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I have two links for today. 1.  Ben Wallace-Wells has an excellent article in The Rolling Stone about liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. My reaction to Rachel Maddow is mixed.  On the positive side, I agree with the article that … Continue reading →

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Connie Marshner, Part 2

Posted on March 31, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

For this my final post of Women’s History Month 2012, I will look at something that Susan Faludi says about conservative activist Connie Marshner on page 243 of her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. “In the … Continue reading →

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Connie Marshner

Posted on March 30, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

Connie Marshner is a conservative figure whom Susan Faludi discusses in her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.  In this post, I’ll talk about the times when I have come across that name. The first time that … Continue reading →

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Nancy Barrett, “Poverty, Welfare, and Comparable Worth”

Posted on March 29, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly edited a 1984 book entitled Equal Pay for UNequal Work: A Conference on Comparable Worth.  I do not plan on reading the entire book right now, but I may do that for a future Women’s History … Continue reading →

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Michael Levin, “The Earnings Gap and Family Choices”

Posted on March 28, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

An anti-feminist intellectual whom Susan Faludi profiles in her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women is Michael Levin.  In this post, I will talk about a presentation that Michael Levin gave, which is in a 1984 book … Continue reading →

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George Gilder and Susan Faludi

Posted on March 27, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

For today’s Women’s History Month post, I will talk about two articles by conservative economist George Gilder, whom Susan Faludi talks about in her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.  The first article is “The Relationship of … Continue reading →

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Abby Johnson’s Conversion

Posted on March 26, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I was rummaging through some old papers recently, and I found something that I picked up at the Latin mass that I attended in Cincinnati.  It was the Cincinnati Right to Life News Brief, and it was talking about Abby … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Allen’s Critique of Susan Faludi’s Backlash

Posted on March 25, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

For this post, I will share some comments that I read on Susan Faludi’s 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. I will focus primarily on a February 1992 article by Charlotte Low Allen in Commentary, but I … Continue reading →

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Susan Faludi, Backlash 23

Posted on March 24, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished Susan Faludi’s 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.  Specifically, I read the end-notes and the Acknowledgments.  I have three items: 1.  I have long heard the argument (and when I was a conservative I used … Continue reading →

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