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Lucy Parsons
A profile of Lucy Parsons, anarchist and socialists who helped found the IWW.

Child Labor in America (1908-1912)
An issue for many women reformers, child labor is here documented with the photos of Lewis W. Hine.

Andrea Dworkin
Site of best known anti-pornography feminist activist, Andrea Dworkin. Essays, book lists, fiction, and other writings by and about Dworkin's life and work.

Homelessness (1900) by Ellen Key
A Swedish educator wrote, in 1900, in favor of a child-centered home: criticizing the trend of parents and especially mothers being away from home too much and also criticizing the over-organization of children's lives.

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Newly Recovered Lynching Dramas
Article from African American Review, 1999, by Judith Stephens, on her discovery of two play scripts and on the role of lynching plays in social change.

The Left and the Fight for Women's Liberation
Essay (in unedited form, with many errors of punctuation, etc.) relating women's rights to anti-capitalist organizing.

Mary E. McDowell: Angel of the Stockyards
Hull House worker and labor reformer, she also worked for reform of women's and children's working conditions. Very short life sketch without references, but a good beginning on an too-often-forgotten woman.

Mother's Nature
In this New York Times lesson plan for grades 6-12, students look at the Million Mom March of 2000 and also at other women's movements in history -- essentially asking "What is a women's issue?"

Lucy Parsons: Woman of Will
Parsons worked with her husband, Alfred, for labor rights, racial justice and other reforms. She continued this work after his hanging in 1886.

Pathfinder: Women and Reform
Part of a bibliography from the National Archives on women's history resources.

Myths of Women's History: Rule of Thumb and Wife-Beating
Does "rule of thumb" refer to an old law permitting men to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than their thumbs?

Elizabeth Fry
Profile of Elizabeth Fry, reformer of women's prisons, mental asylums, and founder of soup kitchens and homes for the homeless.