Logan Judy

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, they sent for the doctor four times, but he had a turkey shoot the next day and did not want to be bothered. Besides, Susan […]

GROWING UP IN A FAMILY steeped in Quaker tradition, Alice Paul lived and breathed its tenets. This included the “first principle,” that there should be equality of the sexes. According to Paul, “it wasn’t a subject for discussion … there were many things in which the world hadn’t come along, and this was one that

As pro-life feminists well know, today’s “Second Wave” of feminism, which began in the 1960s, has not uniformly promoted greater acceptance of abortion. Consider the dissent of Chicana activist Graciela Olivarez, a high school dropout who became the first woman graduate of Notre Dame Law School. Along with Feminine Mystique author Betty Friedan and 26

Little is known about the life of 19th century suffragist Sarah F. Norton beyond her writings. She was a public speaker, writer for feminist publications and member of the Working Women’s Association who advocated for the education of women and girls, equal opportunity in the workplace and equal pay for women. Together, Sarah Norton and