feminism

<p>The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men …I would have the word ‘obey’ used no more by the wife than by the husband.”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The sexual habits of American women, examined half a century before Kinsey</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the mistress of the plantation became a slave</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> E.G. Lewis decided that a strong man could liberate American women and make money doing it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When Elsie Parrish was fired, her fight for justice led to dramatic changes in the nation’s highest court.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody managed to extend the boundaries that cramped the lives of nineteenth-century women. Elizabeth introduced the kindergarten movement to America, Mary developed a new philosophy of mothering that we now take for granted, and Sophia was liberated from invalidism by her passionate love for her husband.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A year ago, we were in the midst of a presidential campaign most memorable for charges by both sides that the opponent was not hard enough, tough enough, masculine enough. That he was, in fact, a sissy. Both sides also admitted that this sort of rhetoric was deplorable. But it’s been going on since the beginning of the republic.</span></p>

<p>A wide range of historians, writers, and public figures reflect on “the most important, or interesting, or overlooked way in which America has changed"</p>

<p><span class="deck">Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Elizabeth Lady Stanton's sardonic and biting proto-feminist commentary on the <em>Bible</em> cost her the leadership of the suffragist movement.</span></p>