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The Brief Complete Herstory: Full index
A page you can use to work your way though all 46 instalments of the Brief Complete Herstory.
 • Renee Gerlich
Five major preconditions that enabled the rise of transgenderism
Transgender ideology spread quickly because of five key preconditions: online porn, neoliberalism, postmodernism, eugenics-based technologies, and…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #045: The emergence and capture of ‘second-wave’ feminism
The late twentieth century saw the emergence of a new wave of feminism, as well as the co-optation of this movement.
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #044: Surveillance capitalism
One impact of 9/11 was unprecedented prioritisation of surveillance over privacy (in the name of national security). So began the age of "surveillance…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #043: “War on terror”
The Vietnam war generated antiwar sentiment in the American public and a healthy mistrust of political leaders — but the US government reversed both…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #042: Neoliberalism globalises
Worldwide, neoliberalism has hit women and children hard. That’s why one of the industries that has profited most from neoliberalisation is…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #041: Defining neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is not just an economic policy. It's how multinational corporations fought back against progress made by the political left and it's a…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #040: Independence and consciousness-raising
During the twentieth century, women in independence movements around the world found that while men wanted to gain freedom from oppressive regimes, they…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #039: Civil rights and counterintelligence
Counterintelligence was once a government strategy to break activist groups. Did the strategy become self-perpetuating?
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #038: Cold War
A short summary of the twentieth century Cold War between two world superpowers, Russia and the United States
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #037: The Chipko movement
"A turning point came in 1977, when a local village headman obtained a contract to fell the forest, and his wife, Bachni Devi, led a resistance against…
 • Renee Gerlich
BCH #036: Palestine
"There is no ‘magic’ square yard, or hilltop, or valley, that if ceded by one side to the other will bring about peace in the Middle East."
 • Renee Gerlich
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