Jeanette Rankin, First Woman Elected to US Congress
Jeannette Rankin made history in 1916 as the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. A representative from Montana, she was a champion [...]
“On Preserving Democracy,” Passages from Aristotle
Selected Passages Chosen From “Preserving Democracy,“ by Aristotle From Democracy in the Politics of Aristotle, edited by Thomas R. Martin, with Neel Smith & Jennifer F.Stuart, [...]
A Grandmother’s Prayer for Young Men, by Glenda Taylor
A Grandmother’s Prayer for Young Men, by Glenda Taylor Oh, Great and Good Spirit, behold these many young men, especially those just coming into their [...]
A Partial Timeline for Women’s Studies, by Dawn Warren
1850 BC Egyptian texts describe the first known reference to contraceptives. 1750 BC The Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian law code, protects a woman's right [...]
“Cracks,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
“Cracks,” a poem by Glenda Taylor I. Somehow, perhaps temporarily, I have fallen into one or another of the cracks that can open in Wholeness itself, [...]
From “What Every American Should Know About Women’s History” by Christine Lunardini, Ph.D.
“When Belva Lockwood was widowed for the first time in 1853, she moved with her young daughter to Washington, DC, in hopes of finding suitable [...]
From “Gift From The Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Herein lies the problem. If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a [...]
From “Gorillas In The Mist,” by Dian Fossey
“I spent many years longing to go to Africa, because of what that continent offered in its wilderness and great diversity of free-living animals. Finally [...]
From the final chapter of “Woman as Healer” by Jeanne Achterber
“...Sisterhood has been the bond that has held women healers together in the dimmest days of Western civilization...Women healers taught each other the healing arts [...]
From Motherland, a memoir by Fern Schumer Chapman
“The plane blazes toward the breaking horizon, though my mother still isn’t convinced she wants to go on this trip. Sitting next to me in [...]
