"I wanted to prove that a woman could be an athlete and still be feminine. I was always so feminine. Back in the days when I was in school, the physical education teachers were always so masculine." She used "fanny scoots" and bumps to get women involved in exercise. She was always...
and I never knew this about my father. It came as quite a shock to me. In a sense, she had to get out of there for her own safety. In the end, it’s a dreadful story. It used to happen a lot back then. In the 1950s where the woman was the ...
I was very happy in my connection with the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and I knew that Miss Willard was depending on me to continue it. But Miss Anthony’s arguments were irrefutable, and she was herself, as always, irresistible. “You can’t win two causes at once,” she ...
Clara Shortridge Foltz: Pioneer in the Law She was California's first woman attorney. 4 Facing opposition from both sexes, she fought for entrance to the state bar and, later, for fair treatment within it. She opened the profession to future generations of California women, and t... MD ...
The head-spinning genre conflation onThe Archandroidis the beachhead of Monae’s Afrofuturism. Speaking with The Quietus about Monáe, Marlo David, Afrofuturist scholar and professor of Woman Studies at Perdue University, points to the ancient tribal ritual of "playing mas"; a febrile act of spi...
Mrs. Catherine Smith advocated suffrage for all adult citizens, regardless of gender. She founded the San Jose Woman’s Club in 1894 and served as its president for ten years. She died in 1904. Her family monument is a square monument topped with a shrouded urn. ...
She sipped her beer right out of the can, and she took the law into her own hands. My kind of woman. She came back with me to the apartment so that the three of us could form a plan of revenge. “Let the snow come! It’ll only cover up our crime!” Brady said. “If we ...
Joining the storied sports news magazine at its first issue, Virginia Kraft wrote epic stories and smashed barriers as a woman writer. Why isn't she famous?
some have been patched over so much that they are no longer recognizable. A year ago when I looked in the mirror, I was so grief stricken that I did not recognize “myself”. Now I look in the mirror and I no longer recognize that grief stricken woman. I know she was me, but she...
This biography is essential reading for any amateur folklorist, giving insights into the working methods of a true pioneer, showing why musical diversity is always worth preserving, and proving that a nation’s true musical riches lie in the hearts and larynxes of its people. ...