Louise Bernikow
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PBS “History Detectives
” New York Times
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LOUISE BERNIKOW writes and speaks about American women and social movements, especially Women’s Liberation, Second Wave Feminism and the fight for women’s voting rights. She connects the past to the present, seeing historical roots in today’s conflicts. Currently working on the connections of race, place and class in the woman suffrage movement—with an eye on the 2017 Centennial of the New York State victory and the 2020 celebration of passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is the author of nine books, including Among Women and The World Split Open, a former Fulbright Fellow, a Lowenstein Fellow at the American Jewish archives, the founder of two Women’s Studies programs and has been in print from the debut of MS. Magazine to her blog on the Huffington Post. Louise is an experienced, lively, quotable speaker with a long list of radio and television appearances, which she often enjoys more than facing a blank page in the solitude of her writing studio in New York.
Expertise includes: suffrage movement, 19th amendment, women's equality, history of the modern women's movement
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Contributions to the Huffington Post
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Featured Columns
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"The Radical Rich" of the early 20th century New York with Ronnie Eldridge
Eldridge & Co. [September 11, 2011] -
A Revolution of Poets
Boston University WGS [August 18, 2014] -
The suffrage pennant that had Louise Bernikow talking!
Suffrage Wagon News Channel [September 12, 2011] -
The "Weaker Sex" Takes Gotham: Fighting for Women's Right to Vote
Gotham Center for New York City History
Suffs, at the Public Theater in New York, does not shy away from the darker aspects of the suffrage movement, including conflicts among women.
Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.
Media outlets that invoke white-clad suffragists as shorthand for a long, sprawling movement often show a simplistic view of women's history. Author Louise Bernikow offers a cheat sheet on the women's suffrage movement for journalists and others.
The new film, about a working-class woman in the British suffrage movement, opens in the U.S. next week. Can it open the doors for more movies about women's political stories?
