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Category Archives: Activists
Alice Paul – The Final Stretch for Women’s Suffrage
During the second half of the 19th century, the two primary women’s suffrage organizations led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (National Woman Suffrage Association), and Lucy Stone (American Woman Suffrage Association) were working on two different approaches: … Continue reading
Posted in Activists, England, Suffrage and Women's Rights, United States
Tagged 20th century, Alice Paul, Christabel Pankhurst, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emmeline Pankhurst, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Lucy Burns, Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, Susan B. Anthony, women's rights, women's suffrage
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Indra Devi, the First Lady of Yoga
In a huge departure from the women I usually write about, I’d like to introduce our readers to a woman who practiced the ancient discipline of yoga. Yoga was the domain of men from its inception. The earliest visual evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Activists, Educators, Female "Firsts", Germany, Russia, United States, Writers
Tagged Argentina, BKS Iyengar, China, Ghandi, India, Indra Devi, K Pattabi Jois, Krishnamurti, Russia, Sathya Sai Baba, Shanghai, Sri Krishnamacharya, Tagore, Yoga
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Frances Willard – Forgotten Feminist
Often when we think about the temperance movement it’s limited to Prohibition, mobsters, and the roaring twenties. Temperance was an idea that was tried and failed in the sense that it didn’t work well for the country resulting in the … Continue reading
Susan B Anthony – “Failure is Impossible”
“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet … Continue reading
Eleanor Roosevelt – A Late Bloomer
There are many biographies about her, multi-volume biographies, as well as biographies about her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt which of necessity include her. I am certainly not an expert on her and there are people out there who are; people … Continue reading
