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Clara Lemlich – A Lifetime of Organizing
I recently posted the photo above and a few brief paragraphs about Clara Lemlich on the SSS Facebook page, but I’ve decided that she is worthy of a more detailed post. I first heard of her on the American Experience … Continue reading
Margaret Sanger – Mother of Modern Contraception
I am very excited to welcome guest blogger Tami Stout. She is currently studying political science and women and gender studies and has kindly offered to give us her insight about Margaret Sanger. Thank you Tami! Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger … Continue reading
Posted in Activists, Educators, Writers
Tagged 20th century, birth control, Gregory Pincus, Katherine McCormick, Margaret Sanger, science, women's rights
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Celebrating Black History Month Part 3
Here’s one last post of the women we’ve highlighted on the Saints, Sisters, and Sluts Facebook page for Black History Month. There are many more women who have made considerable contributions and done amazing things. It’s impossible to include them … Continue reading
Celebrating Black History Month Part 2
I want to continue sharing brief information on the black women I’ve learned about during Black History Month. The more women I’ve researched this month, the more I have discovered. There is an embarrassment of riches in this area that … Continue reading
Posted in Activists, African-Americans, Female "Firsts"
Tagged 19th century, 20th century, activist, African American female physicians, African American History Month, Audre Lorde, Black History Month, Edmonia Lewis, Fannie Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Frances Berry, Pearl Bailey, Sarah Jane Woodson Early, Violette Neatley Anderson, women's rights, women's suffrage
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Celebrating Black History Month Part 1
During Black History Month, I’ve been highlighting at least one black woman each day on the Saints, Sisters, and Sluts Facebook page. I share other people’s posts, but I’ve made an effort to post at least one woman each day … Continue reading
Posted in Activists, African-Americans, Female "Firsts"
Tagged abolitionist, activist, African American History Month, Audrey Forbes Manley, Black History Month, civil rights, Delta Sigma Theta, Edith S. Sampson, Elizabeth Jennings, Leontyne Price, Maggie Walker, Rosa Parks, women's rights
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Alice Paul – The Final Stretch for Women’s Suffrage
During the second half of the 19th century, the two primary women’s suffrage organizations led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (National Woman Suffrage Association), and Lucy Stone (American Woman Suffrage Association) were working on two different approaches: … Continue reading
Indra Devi, the First Lady of Yoga
In a huge departure from the women I usually write about, I’d like to introduce our readers to a woman who practiced the ancient discipline of yoga. Yoga was the domain of men from its inception. The earliest visual evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Activists, Educators, Female "Firsts", Writers
Tagged Argentina, BKS Iyengar, China, Ghandi, India, Indra Devi, K Pattabi Jois, Krishnamurti, Russia, Sathya Sai Baba, Shanghai, Sri Krishnamacharya, Tagore, Yoga
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Frances Willard – Forgotten Feminist
Often when we think about the temperance movement it’s limited to Prohibition, mobsters, and the roaring twenties. Temperance was an idea that was tried and failed in the sense that it didn’t work well for the country resulting in the … Continue reading
Susan B Anthony – “Failure is Impossible”
“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet … Continue reading
Eleanor Roosevelt – A Late Bloomer
There are many biographies about her, multi-volume biographies, as well as biographies about her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt which of necessity include her. I am certainly not an expert on her and there are people out there who are; people … Continue reading
