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Freedom Of Movement: The Development And Disappearance Of The Corset In Succession With Women's Agency, 1860-1920, Sarah J. Phelps Jan 2022

Freedom Of Movement: The Development And Disappearance Of The Corset In Succession With Women's Agency, 1860-1920, Sarah J. Phelps

History Senior Capstones

The corset, 1860-1920, goes through a rapid change and disappearance that previously is not seen before. This paper will cover that change, how corset manufacturers and sellers developed ready-to-wear corset market, and how that is all tied to a new found agency in women's sphere.


Archiving Feminist Truth In Trump’S Wake Of Lies, Julie Shayne Jan 2022

Archiving Feminist Truth In Trump’S Wake Of Lies, Julie Shayne

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

This article is about an assignment I do in one of my Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies social movement classes. I revised the assignment the first time teaching the class after Trump lost the 2020 election. For the assignment, students work in groups to research local feminist and gender justice organizations and deposit all of their original materials – recordings, photos, flyers, etc. – into a digital, open access archive I co-created several years ago with librarians and staff on my campus. In 2021 I had my students do the “post-Trump” edition where they researched local organizations about how their …