Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
Book bans often target women's stories (Handmaid's Tale, Color Purple, The Hill We Climb) and women's stories are also absent in school curricula. Where state curriculum standards focus on women in history, they emphasize women's domestic roles, rather than their contributions as workers or activists.
https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/womens-experiences-dominated-book-bans-last-year-zahra-20260409/
Women’s Experiences Dominated Book Bans Last Year

Here’s what these banned books mean to young women across the country.

Progressive.org
Apr 10 at 12:15amWeb
Show threadMarcus Reynolds1d ago
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Show threadPedestrianError  1d ago
@amydiehl While the focus on how this affects female students is important, we also need to remember how this affects male students and their beliefs about gender roles and human decency. At a time when misogyny is being openly marketed to them all over the internet, they desperately need to hear more women's (and gender nonconforming people's) voices. Censoring certain groups of people's speech is central to dehumanizing and vilifying them in the minds of the gullible.
Show threadDrey1d ago
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