Libresco, Andrea S.Social Education
Arabella has a keenly felt sense of justice. She has a disregard for her society’s gender norms that is heartening to a modern reader and would probably place her at the forefront of the women’s suffrage movement in her time, which was (contextually) a pretty damn radical place to be....
“Science historian Patricia Fara’s powerful book looks at the socio-political ferment around women’s suffrage through a scientific lens. We walk the walk with scores of women in science from the nineteenth century, through the war years and into the early twentieth century, when sexism was ...
While I’d love to be the kind of person who could read 100 books a year (on top of the reading I already do at work!), it’s definitely nice to be able to end the day or week (or even month, in some cases) with a book that wholly transports me. I’ve read 12 books so ...
Along with other healthy Jewish women, she is pressed into work at a factory supplying equipment for the Army. The rationing and restrictions on movement experienced by all Germans are imposed even more strictly on the Jews, and in 1941, she is forced to wear the yellow Star of David so ...
on women’s legal rights, especially theright to vote(seewomen’s suffrage), the second-wavefeminismof the women’s rights movement touched on every area of women’s experience—including politics, work, thefamily, andsexuality. Organized activism by and on behalf of women continued through the...
women could neither vote nor hold elective office in Europe and in most of theUnited States(where several territories and states grantedwomen’s suffragelong before the federal government did so). Women were prevented from conducting business without a male representative, be it father, brother, hu...
Walter A. Hazen
Deborah Kops
In 1921John Maynard Keyneshad told Woolf that hermemoir“on George,” presented to the Memoir Club that year or a year earlier, represented her best writing. Afterward she was increasingly angered by masculine condescension to female talent. InA Room of One’s Own(1929), Woolf blamed women’...