First Wave Feminists- Eliza Bisbee Duffey
Eliza Bisbee Duffey (d. 1898) was an outspoken advice columnist who gained national acclaim with No Sex in Education, her biting response to Harvard professor Edward H. Clarke’s Sex in …
Eliza Bisbee Duffey (d. 1898) was an outspoken advice columnist who gained national acclaim with No Sex in Education, her biting response to Harvard professor Edward H. Clarke’s Sex in …
Mattie H. Brinkerhoff (fl. 1860s) was a uniquely persuasive lecturer who promoted women’s education and suffrage, shared parental responsibility, and rights to pre-and post-natal care. In 1867, Brinkerhoff toured Kansas …
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) and Tennessee Claflin were flamboyant sisters who from poverty to become Wall Street’s first female stockbrokers and major political provocateurs. In 1871, Woodhull argued before Congress that …
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Matilda Joslyn Gage (Karonienhawi) (1826-1898) grew up among abolitionists and made her adult home an Underground Railway station. Deprived of a medical education, then-unknown Gage channeled her anger into a …