Bitchy History is feminist history with teeth: exposing the women erased from the story, the systems built to contain them, and the myths still pretending all of this was natural.
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Rosie the Riveter Needed a Babysitter
America figured out publicly funded childcare when it needed women building bombers. Apparently, everything got terribly complicated afterward.
At an Easter luncheon earlier this year, Donald Trump explained why the federal government coul...
Women, Unsupervised
On Friday I went on BBC Radio 4’s AntiSocial to discuss who writes our history, prompted by the debate over Sandi Toksvig’s Mappa Mundi project. We talked about Wikipedia, archives, class, gender and the decisions that shape what people eve...
Get Back Behind the Wallpaper
Bitchy History runs on reader support, historical spite, and the occasional deeply cursed primary source. Free subscriptions help you keep up with new posts, but paid subscriptions directly support the research, writing, and primary-source...
The Doctor Will Ignore You Now: Reading The Yellow Wallpaper
In 1887, Charlotte Perkins Gilman sought treatment from the prominent neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell for depression that had worsened after the birth of her daughter. According to her later account, he eventually sent her home with instruc...
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