Media

Selected media coverage of The Women of NOW :

  • “NOW and Those Who Gave it Life,” by Colleen Walsh, Radcliffe Magazine, December 15, 2023

  • “New Book Explores the Push for the Equal Rights Amendment and the Women of NOW, Amanpour and Company, PBS and CNN International, November 14, 2023

  • “How the Women’s Movement Transformed Society,” by Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 2023

  • Unsung History, October 2, 2023

  • “The Catalyst: Betty Friedan and the Movement that Outgrew Her,” by Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, September 11, 2023

  • “The Women of NOW Review: Superb History of Feminist Growth and Groundswell,” by Clara Bingham, The Guardian, September 2, 2023

  • “Katherine Turk’s The Women of NOW,” Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism [Signs] roundtable featuring reviews by Alice Echols, Jill Filipovic, Rebecca Jo Plant, and Carmen Rios, September 2023

  • Why Now?, August 18, 2023

  • Political Gabfest, August 17, 2023

Turk has also written widely on gender, politics and culture in modern America. Her recent pieces include:

  • “Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us,” co-authored with Sarah Milov, Jacobin, December 28, 2024

  • “How Financial Strength Weakened American Feminism,” The Atlantic, October 2, 2023

  • “Labor Union Radicals Built the US Feminist Movement,” Jacobin, August 9, 2023

  • “Elusive Equality in the Equal Pay Act,” Gender Policy Report, June 7, 2023

  • “Milestone, Watershed: Liz Shuler’s Presidency of the AFL-CIO Comes at a Perilous Time for Gender Equity in Organized Labor,” Slate, August 24, 2021

  • “Volunteering and Generosity Are No Substitutes for Government Programs,” Washington Post, April 19, 2021

  • “Not Additive, But Transformative: Women and Gender in the Journal of American History,” and curator of Journal of American History Special Issue on Sex, Suffrage, and Solidarities, March 2020

  • “We Still Need the ERA: How Activists Can Learn From History to Win it This Time,” Public Seminar, January 29, 2020

  • “The Supreme Court Must Extend the Civil Rights Act’s Protections to LGBTQ Employees,” Washington Post, October 8, 2019

  • “Looking Beyond the Law: The Movement for LGBTQ Rights at Work,” Law and Political Economy Blog, October 7, 2019

  • “Remember Sears for its Sexism,” Slate, October 26, 2018

  • “The Kavanaugh Allegations Show What We Have—And Haven’t—Learned from Anita Hill,” co-authored with Anne M. Blaschke, Washington Post, September 18, 2018