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 […]
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Conversations with FFL Co-Founder Pat Goltz Damian J. Geminder, Editor The movement to liberalize abortion laws in the United States was spearheaded by men, but it initially made only so much headway during the mid-20th century. It was the politically shrewd strategy of NARAL co-founders Lawrence Lader and Dr. Bernard Nathanson to recruit the women
Dr. Rachel Brooks Gleason (1820-1905) was a largely self-taught physician who assisted her husband, Dr. Silas O. Gleason, in allopathic medicine. The couple successfully appealed for women’s admission to Central Medical College, and, in 1851, Gleason became the fourth American female medical doctor. Both her daughter and her sister would also become physicians. Gleason went
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Pro-life women have often been stereotyped as blindly submissive to patriarchal ideological rule. How, then, to explain Matilda Joslyn Gage? Because her contemporaries — even other feminists — found her uncomfortably radical, Gage has been largely forgotten even in the field of women’s studies, which she trailblazed. Yet there is so much to learn from
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