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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Elizabeth Edson Evans (1832-1911) was an artist and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays, who explored the possibility of spirituality beyond religious dogmatism in books like A History of Religions (1893). Evans married Edward Payson Evans, a professor of modern languages and German literature who worked with Ralph Waldo Emerson and wrote prolifically on the
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