Herstory-Frances Willard
BORN NEAR ROCHESTER, N.Y., in 1839, to a politically active father and a well-educated, deeply supportive mother, Frances Willard absorbed their ambition and learned about social responsibility. In 1871, she …
BORN NEAR ROCHESTER, N.Y., in 1839, to a politically active father and a well-educated, deeply supportive mother, Frances Willard absorbed their ambition and learned about social responsibility. In 1871, she …
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON: FEMINIST, WIFE AND MOTHER OF SEVEN When her seventh child, Henry, was born in 1859, early feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton raised a flag in front of her …
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Contemporary feminists bravely challenge a belief that causes so much violence against women — the notion that woman are the property of men, expressed for centuries in the common-law doctrine …
AS A YOUNG GIRL IN NEBRASKA IN THE 1870s, Susan LaFlesche watched helplessly as one of her fellow Omaha tribeswomen died for lack of medical care. During the long night, …