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Tag Archives: Feminism
1905: Electric Ladyland
This story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain appeared in The Indian Ladies’ Magazine in 1905: Sultana’s Dream One evening I was lounging in an easy chair in my bedroom and thinking lazily of the condition of Indian womanhood. I am not … Continue reading
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1923: Emancipation Machine
“I feel that I have done something for the women who have always had to work so hard. This will enable them more easily to earn a living.” Statement of Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter HOW WOMEN … Continue reading
2014 : Don’t Mess with Me
Jas Charanjiva: Don’t Mess With Me (2014); see a profile of Charanjiva here.
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1910: Suffragette Madonnas
The message of these anti-suffrage postcards is that if women have the right to vote, society will be turned upsidedown and men will become feminized, forced to do the women’s work of taking care of babies—how horrible! Although these … Continue reading
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1913: Inez
Inez Milholland preparing to lead the great march for women’s suffrage: March 3, 1913 (source). As a student at Vassar, Inez Milholland enrolled two-thirds of the students in the fight for women’s suffrage and socialism; she was also the captain … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Animals, Carl Sandburg, Feminism, Horses, Inez Milholland, Photography, Poetry, USA, Women
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1902: I Have in Me a Quite Unusual Intensity of Life
The opening of The Story of Mary MacLane: Butte, Montana January 13, 1901 I of womankind and of nineteen years, will now begin to set down as full and frank a Portrayal as I am able of myself, Mary Mac … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Autobiography, Books, Feminism, LGBTQ, Marie Bashkirtseff, Mary MacLane, Prose, USA, Women
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2012: Nefertiti in the Streets
Graffiti in Cairo by El Zeft
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Tagged 21st Century, Africa, Art, Egypt, El Zeft, Feminism, Graffiti, Revolution, Women
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1914: A Stone’s Throw
Rocks thrown through the windows of Buckingham Palace by protesting Suffragettes in 1914: “If a constitutional deputation is refused, we must present a stone message.” “Constitutional methods being ignored drive us to window smashing.” In the United Kingdom, women over … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Democracy, Direct Action, Feminism, Great Britain, Voting Rights, Women
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1750: Falsos silogismos de colores
The Mexican feminist, philosopher, and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651 – 1695) wrote in Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl. While a nun, she wrote prose, poetry, and drama on love, the status of women, and religion. When her … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 18th Century, Feminism, Mexico, Miguel Cabrera, Painting, Poetry, Religion, Samuel Beckett, Sor Juana, Women
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