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Note* I'm aware that there is an audio issue with this video. Since there was no problem after rendering the video and playing it back on my own computer, I can only assume that Youtube did it. That's right.
It's Youtube's fault
... couldn't possibly be mine.
Feminism has become a barroom joke here in the atheist/skeptic community, and it would help if the most vocal feminists would stop making mountains out of molehills. Here's my history and commentary on the subject that just won't die. (
Yeah, that's right... I'm contributing to it.)
Sources used:
Feminism: A very short introduction -
http://swauop.yolasite.com/resources/Feminism
.pdf
Law, Sex, and
Christian Society in
Medieval Europe - http://books.google.com/books?id=SiGe-Zf0nTIC&printsec;=frontcover#v=onepage&q;&f;=false
Victorian Britain, A
Divided Nation - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/divided/
Mary Wallstonecraft: A
Revolutionary Life - http://books.google.com/books?id=zI1P3ms1rqgC&printsec;=frontcover&source;=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad;=0#v=onepage&q;&f;=false
A
Vindication of the Rights of
Woman - https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=hxwEAAAAYAAJ&rdid;=book-hxwEAAAAYAAJ&rdot;=1
America's Promise: A Concise
History of the United States - http://books.google.com/books?id=VL_6X5zWOokC&pg;=PA75&dq;&hl;=en#v=onepage&q;&f;=false
Custody Rights and
Domestic Violence - http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/relationships/overview/custodyrights/
Matrimonial Causes Act of
1857 - http://www
.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/bloodlines/familysecrets
.shtml?entry=matrimonial_causes_act&theme;=familysecrets
The
Contagious Diseases Act - http://www.historyofwomen.org/cdacts
.html
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - http://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-cady-stanton-9492182
Susan B. Anthony - http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography
.php
Sentencing in the
Case of
U.S. vs Susan B. Anthony - http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sentencing.html
The Second Feminist
Wave - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism-second-wave/a/Martha-Weinman-Lear-Second-Feminist-Wave
.htm
Voice of Feminism's "
Second Wave" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2006/02/04/AR2006020401385.html
Second Wave Feminism - http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/70sfeminism/
Radical Feminism - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/g/radicalfeminism.htm
Roe V Wade and It's
Impact - http://www.ushistory.org/us/57d
.asp
Equal Rights Amendment - http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/overview.htm
Second-Wave Feminism - http://feministactivism.com/tag/second-wave-feminism/
Third-Wave Feminism - http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/p/third_wave.htm
Third Wave Feminism: A
Critical Exploration - http://www.revalvaatio.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/gills_et_all-third_wave_feminism_a_critical_exploration.pdf
Young Feminists Go
Live to Protect
Women's
Reproductive Rights - http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/young-feminists-go-live-to-protect-womens-reproductive-rights
Ladies, We Have a
Problem - http://www.nytimes.com/
2011/07/24/magazine/clumsy-young-feminists.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Has the '
Burqa Ban' Worked in
France? - http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/
2012/09/02/has-the-burqa-ban-worked-in-france/
On the Relationship Between Atheism and Feminism - http://www.atheistrev.com/
2013/05/on-relationship-between-atheism-and.html
Atheismplus.org - How to Not Be a
Creep (Or, the "Guys, don't do that" thread) - http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t;=1162
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- published: 22 Sep 2013
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