Happy 152nd Birthday Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
and
Happy 136th Birthday Lady Shena Simon of Wythenshawe (née Potter)
First:
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was a member of the Suffrage Society and was introduced to Emmeline Pankhurst in 1906. She became treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which Pankurst had founded in 1903, and raised £134,000 over six years. Pethick-Lawrence attended a number of events with Pankhurst...
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Nellie Letitia McClung (born Helen Letitia Mooney), was a Canadian author, social activist, suffragette, and politician. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. Her great causes were women's suffrage and the temperance movement (well, one out of two ain't bad).
It was largely through her efforts that in 1916 Manitoba became the first...
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Patricia Ireland is a U.S. administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, *'What Women Want', in 1996.
Before beginning a career as an attorney, Ireland worked as a flight attendant for Pan Am. After discovering gender-based discrepancies in the treatment of insurance coverage for spouses of employees, Ireland brought a formal...
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OK, tomorrow, if I can work up the enthusiasm, having just been STOOD UP by my dear lady friend this evening at Tim Horton's (who could resist that?), I'll wrap up feminism with the bloody Marxists (funny thing, I used to be pretty Marxist myself, but was never a Marxist feminist - oh the joy of dichotomy).
Shouldn't take long, they're all a bunch of...
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In "A Reader's Companion to Women's History", the liberal feminists among the book's editors so disagreed with the definition of feminism that Smith and Mink had written in an early chapter, that they (Steinem, Navarro, and Mankiller) collectively co-authored an essay that responds to it.
But for what it's worth, here are those two definitions of feminism:
Steinem et al.:
"The belief in full economic...
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NOTE: The views expressed here are not the views of Suicide Girls, nor of anyone except me. Other people may have different views, although they are wrong.
Eco-feminism is a bag of shite*.
Eco-(so-called)-feminism is much more spiritual than political or theoretical in nature, i.e., it is a bag of shite*. It is often jumbled up incoherently with such New Age tosh as Wicca, Mother...
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Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut, and wearer of fluorescent shoes. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-47 mission, during which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992.
She also appeared in an episode of...
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