Jone's Women's History Blog July 2005 Archive

I've added a few new quote pages and updated several others with significant additions. Enjoy these words of wisdom by famous women from a variety of fields and times! Doris ... Read More

You've probably never heard of Alessandra Giliani, though she was a pioneer in anatomy research. In the 14th century, when cadavers were dissected for research and educational purposes, she ... Read More

Sandra Day O'Connor, retiring from the US Supreme Court, was a barrier-breaker for women before that appointment. Her roots helped her discover self-reliance -- and a distaste for sex ... Read More

Elizabeth Fry put her religious principles to work, and in doing so, brought herself as a woman into a public arena where few women had dared to appear. As ... Read More

Two years ago, I saw one of the most powerful documentaries I've seen in a long time. You can now find it in recordings. If you're interested in women's ... Read More

Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer whose inventive stories won her the Nobel Prize for Literature -- the first time it was awarded to a woman. I admit to ... Read More

Read about Olympe de Gouges: she thought that the French Revolution's call for the rights of man should include women's rights -- and ended up losing her head. • Olympe de ... Read More

Angela Davis, a professor of philosophy, is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as with ... Read More

Alice Paul died July 9, 1977, having become famous again with the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment that she had proposed soon after the passage of the Suffrage Amendment ... Read More

As the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor raises questions about the durability of the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion, I've been thinking about not only the days before Roe ... Read More

A few days after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement announcement, the news media has begun seriously analyzing her contribution as the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, and ... Read More

Sandra Day O'Connor, who was often the swing vote on the US Supreme Court in recent years, announced her retirement from that body. Some select quotes on women, life, her appointment ... Read More

Take Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, or Eleanor Roosevelt for a walk, to the gym, or for a drive: download audio books and take women's history with you. These ... Read More