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Women's History is Every Month: Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate; American Women Are Furious — and It’s Changing Our Country Forever; Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out Trump's Syria Warmongering; If the Most Interesting Man in the World Were a Woman; HNN Topic: News About Women; "The Shroud" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate

"Wet nursing actually was a visible occupation until the 1920s in the United States. We know that from wanted ads in newspapers and from doctors’ papers. Hospitals in the U.S. had wings of wet nurses, who were usually impoverished desperate women. It was not a pleasant occupation. Wet nurses were usually single women who’d been abandoned by their families or the father of their children, and you could see their desperation — mainly because if they went to work for a private family, that private family would almost never allow them to bring [their own] baby with them, so the baby had to be relegated to a foundling home. Really, what it meant was that a wealthy baby lived and a poor baby died. That was the history of wet nursing in the U.S."

Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate

Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the... "What it meant was that a wealthy baby lived and a poor baby died"

American Women Are Furious — and It’s Changing Our Country Forever

American Women Are Furious — and It’s Changing Our Country Forever

American Women Are Furious — and It’s Changing Our Country Forever Rebecca Traister Female anger could save our democracy. It’s not the first time.

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out Trump's Syria Warmongering

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out Trump's Syria Warmongering

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 If the Most Interesting Man in the World Were a Woman

"She doesn’t always ride in an Uber alone, but when she does, she calls her friend Brittany and talks loudly about her krav-maga skills.

Her two cents on string theory are worth seventy-nine cents on the dollar.

She once brought a knife to a gunfight to demonstrate the dangerous intersection of gun violence and toxic masculinity.

She’s only been pulled over for speeding once—not because she was driving over the speed limit but because Officer Wilson wanted to know if she would join him for discounted mango mai tais at a T.G.I.F. happy hour.

She is allowed to talk about “Fight Club,” but only after the entire plot has been mansplained to her by Gary from accounting."

If the Most Interesting Man in the World Were a Woman

If the Most Interesting Man in the World Were a Woman Her two cents on string theory are worth seventy-nine cents on the dollar. She builds tree houses with her bare ...

HNN Topic: News About Women

HNN Topic: News About Women

HNN Topic: News About Women What people are saying about women historians and history.

"The Shroud" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend                                         September 15, 2018   The Shroud   Edna St. Vincent Millay

Death, I say, my heart is bowed    Unto thine, O mother! This red gown will make a shroud    Good as any other.   (I, that would not wait to wear    My own bridal things, In a dress dark as my hair    Made my answerings.   I, to-night, that till he came    Could not, could not wait, In a gown as bright as flame    Held for them the gate.)   Death, I say, my heart is bowed    Unto thine, O mother! This red gown will make a shroud    Good as any other.                This poem is in the public domain.  About This Poem   “The Shroud” was published in The New Poetry: An Anthology (Macmillan, 1917).   Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. Her books include Renascence and Other Poems (Harper, 1917) and The Buck in the Snow (Harper and Brothers, 1923), among others. She died on October 18, 1950, in Austerlitz, New York. Poetry by St. Vincent Millay   Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Publications, 2011) "Wanting to Die" by Anne Sexton "Erstling" by Cynthia Cruz "The Dying Girl & The Date Palm" by Jennifer Givhan