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Nellie Taft, Eliza Scidmore, and Japanese Cherry Trees
Helen Herron Taft, Nellie, was the most well-traveled First Lady that the United States had seen when she entered the White House with her husband President William Howard Taft in 1909. She had seen more of the world than most … 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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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
Ada Byron Lovelace – “Enchantress of Numbers”
Ada Byron Lovelace – (1815-1852) Often women in the 18th and 19th centuries overcame significant odds to study mathematics or science, but as with every rule there is the exception. Ada Byron Lovelace is one of those exceptions. In Ada’s … Continue reading
Mary Ann Shadd Cary – Blazing the Trail for Women
Not very many people accomplish as much as Mary Ann Shadd Cary did in her life, much less blaze a trail to do it. She has many “firsts” to her credit: first black woman publisher in North America, first woman … Continue reading
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Suffragist and Women’s Rights Activist
In many ways, Elizabeth Cady Stanton provided the philosophical bedrock for the women’s movement in the United States. She is known for fighting for women’s suffrage, but she never lost sight of the bigger picture of women’s rights or other … Continue reading
Fanny Wright – “or a goose that deserves to be hissed”
“It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in … Continue reading
Mary Fairfax Somerville – Mathematics by Candlelight
“I was annoyed that my turn for reading was so much disapproved of, and thought it unjust that women should have been given a desire for knowledge if it were wrong to acquire it.” Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 – 1872) … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematicians, Scientists, Writers
Tagged 19th century, astronomy, Mary Somerville, mathematics, science, Scotland
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