Western Women's Rights Pioneer
Abigail Scott Duniway
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• Picture of Abigail Scott Duniway
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Shulamith Firestone - Radical Feminist Theorist
I can still remember how radical (in the sense of "getting to the root") Shulamith Firestone's 1970 book, The Dialectic of Sex, seemed when I read it. Reading the book led to my thinking about many feminist issues in new ways. While some of her predictions (like the end of biological pregnancy) haven't really come true, the ideas behind them helped change assumptions about women and our role in the family and world. Read more about this key writer of second wave feminism, and one of the organizations which she helped found:
Wordless Wednesday: "It's My Story and I'm Sticking to It!"
Courtesy Library of Congress, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
Click on the image to find out who's depicted in this photograph. There, below the photo you'll find links to her biography and some quotable quotes. If you're still guessing, check the clues.
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Creation of the First Women's Studies Departments
During the 1960s, the women's liberation movement had increased awareness that university education often lacked a woman's perspective. The first Women's Studies programs were created as scholars attempted to re-examine history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and other subjects, and to explore the missing perspective.
Read more: Creation of the First Women's Studies Departments
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Wordless Wednesday: Civil War Nurse, Soldier and Spy
S. Emma Edmonds
Illustration from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds. Modifications © Jone Lewis 2002.
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- About Sarah Emma Edmonds
- A Nurse's View of Battle: Bull Run, First Manassas
- Female Union Spies
- Books on Women and the Civil War
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Was Cleopatra Black? Evidence Pro and Con
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Public domain image. Modifications © 2006 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Ernestine Rose, Women's Rights Pioneer
You probably recognize names like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as pioneers in women's rights. Maybe even Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. Polish-born Ernestine Rose was right there starting in the 1840s with those more famous women. Though she's far less known than those other women, she played an important role in the 19th century American women's movement, including working for women's economic rights. She's been called the first Jewish feminist, though she'd moved beyond the strict Judaism of her rabbi father and was an outspoken atheist. Read more about this fascinating figure of the early women's suffrage struggles:
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Wordless Wednesday - Science Class, 1899
Hampton Institute Science Class, 1899
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