Jone's Women's History Blog October 2005 Archive

While there's a lot of attention rightly focused on Rosa Parks right now, her death has also helped remind people of many other women and men who were part of ... Read More

Ellen Goodman has a great column related to women's history -- pointing out how so many portray Rosa Parks as less active, less thoughtful, less deliberate in her "simple act ... Read More

This week's quotes, updated and expanded, are from three women writers, all of whom died early and all of whom made contributions to women's history: Anne Frank. who died in Bergen-Belsen ... Read More

Only 30 Americans have been given the honor of lying in state at the Capitol rotunda. Most have been Presidents or war heroes. Rosa Parks, heroine of the ... Read More

Named as her father's successor to the crown of England, Matilda or Maud lost her chance to be Queen of England when her cousin, Stephen, seized the throne. The ... Read More

In its Winter 2005 issue, Reform Judaism, a magazine for members of Union congregations, highlights eight Jewish women who've made a difference in their fields, including women's history researcher and ... Read More

Women within the Islamic world have worked in a variety of ways to show that male chauvinism and sexism aren't inherent to Islam. In a first, Islamic women from ... Read More

She ran the family business while her husband was away for months and years at a time, helping to create a new nation. Small wonder that she asked him ... Read More

Who? When? What? Here's a collection of articles about the women's suffrage movement and the women who fought the long battle for women's vote. Everything on the About.com ... Read More

Rosa Parks, a symbol of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, died yesterday, October 24, at her home in Detroit. Parks was already active in the civil ... Read More

US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has announced her retirement from the court as soon as her replacement is confirmed, has received a quite different honor: Rose Parade ... Read More

Jane Addams is important to women's history for her role in promoting "public housekeeping" through settlement houses, women's rights, and peace activism ... read more

Loreta Velazquez became famous for her supposed exploits in the Civil War. She sometimes disguised herself as a male soldier. Her autobiography is almost certainly an exaggeration but ... Read More

Women's history is interested in what women wore, as part of their daily lives. What did women wear, from the time of William the Conqueror (1066), in medieval England? ... Read More

She ruled Castile and Aragon jointly with her husband, Ferdinand, and is remembered for driving the Moors from Spain and sponsoring Columbus and the Spanish Inquisition. Less well known: ... Read More

Barbara Bodichon, an artist, was one of a circle of women who worked in the 19th century for women's rights....read more

Emily Davies was a British suffragist and women's rights advocate, and a key founder of the first British women's college, Girton College....read more

This week, some quotes from notable women artists: Judy Chicago Mary Cassatt Georgia O'Keeffe

In honor of women who've taken part in wars and women who've worked for peace, the Government of Canada has declared this year's Women's History Month (October) focus as "Women ... Read More