Logan Judy

IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the unique powers of the female body were not celebrated, but despised as barriers to intellectual and public achievement. We know little today about the lives of Sarah F. Norton and Eliza Bisbee Duffey, but we do know that they, like other early feminist leaders, identified this view of the female […]

The example of Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer shows that “pro-life” does not mean acting as if life begins at conception and ends at birth. During the 1960s and ‘70s, this indomitably nonviolent African-American sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta was a moving spirit of the civil rights and women’s movements. She often asserted: “Nobody’s free until

WRITER ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE was part of the Harlem Renaissance, the great 1920s flourishing of African-American culture that included Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. The only child of the marriage between Boston residents Sarah Stanley, a white woman, and Archibald Grimke, who was biracial, she was named after her great-aunt Angelina Grimke

Pearl S. Buck believed “herstory” was worth repeating. In her 1941 collection of feminist essays, Of Men and Women, she wrote: The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own