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Category: Women’s History Month

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Reflections on Symbols of Women’s History in Modern Context

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The Following is a post by Joan Weeks, Head, Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) With the celebration of Women’s History Month in March, images of suffragettes and suffragists marching for voting rights, or women on the assembly lines such as “Rosie the Riveter,” were frequently displayed around the country. In February 1980, …