First Wave Feminists- Dr. Anna Densmore

Dr. Anna Densmore (French) (fl. 1860s) was a suffragist hospital reformer who persuaded the New York Board of Education to provide spaces for teaching young women about health and hygiene. Densmore also helped found Sorosis, a “sisterhoood” of professional women including physicians, professors, authors, artists, and historians. Late in 1868, Sorosis observed that unwed women

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