100 years ago, I could not vote.But before that, my voice was inaudible. Not silent; but unheard.Ignored.The shouts of my pains, of my lack of personhood;(for I was nothing without my husband)Fell on deaf ears.My body was constricted;The way they dressed me; the life they gave me.I was nothing if not wife or mother.My intellectuality […]
Damian J. Geminder On March 31, 1776, the effort for women’s suffrage began. The future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote her husband, John Adams, imploring the members of the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies” as they formed a new country: “I long to hear that you have declared an independency—and by the way, in the
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Recently I was asked by a student if abortion was necessary for women to achieve equality in the workplace. Absolutely not. Consider for a moment all of the landmark reforms that our feminist foremothers, who opposed abortion, achieved in their struggle for equality in the last half of the 19th century. In a peaceful revolution
Sophia Duleep Singh was a typical British suffragette, blending in with the crowds of protestors; her only stated interest was “the advancement of women.” But Sophia’s life was anything but typical. Sophia’s story begins four thousand miles away from her home, with her grandfather Ranjit. Ranjit Singh was the only ruler of the Sikh Empire,
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