The daughter of wealthy philanthropists, Jane Addams (1860-1935) was raised to value social responsibility and political action. Addams attended the prestigious Rockford Female Seminary and aspired to become a doctor, but when ill health curbed her medical studies, she co-founded (with Ellen G. Starr) a missionary school. Hull House was distinct from other charities in […]
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Harlem Renaissance writer Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) was the biracial daughter of Archibald Grimké, himself the son of a white man and a slave. Archibald named Angelina in honor of his aunt, abolitionist and suffragist Angelina Emily Grimké; she had housed and supported him in becoming the second African American ever to graduate from Harvard
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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 Education (1873). According to Dr. Clarke, females were anatomically unsuited for the rigors of academia; he claimed learned women would face dire consequences, like hysteria
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September 20, 2023 The word is out! The word is out. Feminists for Life continues to advocate women-centered solutions. In case you missed it, Marc Thiessen and Alyssa Rosenberg wrote a powerful op-ed for the Washington Post, “We disagree on abortion. Here’s a pro-family agenda both parties can support.” outlining ways we can work together to solve the