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donutsweeper) wrote2013-03-20 09:58 pm
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Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month here in the States and in honor of it a great tumblr, Cool Chicks From History, is running a Cool Chicks from History Challenge in hopes of putting more women's history on tumblr and have it all findable by an easy to follow tag.
It's been a very interesting challenge for me. So far I've put together three posts about three very different women. My goal was to find women who are generally unknown or at least not well know, but with information I could quote and sources I could provide in case someone wanted to look into them in further detail. The women I featured so far are:
Jeanette Rankin. Okay, this woman is awesome. She was the first woman elected to congress, all the way back in 1916, before women even had national suffrage. There she worked tirelessly as a proponent of 19th Amendment (which would eventually pass, ensuring a woman’s right to vote), giving married women citizenship separate from their husbands and legislation on government-sponsored instruction for pregnant and nursing women. She was a pacifist and stuck with her beliefs and voted against America's entry into WWI even though she knew it would ruin her chance at reelection. She wasn't to be reelected until 1940 when, as it so happened, she wound up facing another vote to send America into war and again she voted against it, making her the only legislator to vote against both wars. She famously said “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."
Lucy Hobbs Taylor. She was the first American woman to earn a degree in dentistry. At first denied entrance into dental school she first studied privately under its dean and then worked as an apprentice to lean the necessary skills before opening her own practice. Finally, five years later she was admitted to the Ohio College of Dental Surgery where, after receiving credit for her years of professional practice, she graduated in February 1866. My favorite quote of hers is “People were amazed when they learned that a young girl had so far forgotten her womanhood as to want to study dentistry.”
Then, after learning it was also Deaf History Month (which runs from March 13 to April 15) I decided to feature a deaf woman who deserved some extra recognition and posted about Laura Redden Searing, a noted journalist and poet. Starting in 1860 she covered American Civil War and reported on troop and battlefield incursions as well as political news. She was considered a friend of many political leaders of the time, including President Lincoln and General Grant and thanked them and others her first volume of poetry, “Idylls of Battle” which included the following poem, “The Snow In October”
The snow is falling abroad,
Over meadow and moor;
Drifting silently, high and white,
O’er the sill of our cottage door.
It falls on a lonely grave
Lying away to the West,
Where a hero heart is mouldering away,—
The heart that loved me best.
Anyway, there's more information on each of these woman on the posts I linked to if anyone would like to read more about them. Hope you all found this interesting! :)
It's been a very interesting challenge for me. So far I've put together three posts about three very different women. My goal was to find women who are generally unknown or at least not well know, but with information I could quote and sources I could provide in case someone wanted to look into them in further detail. The women I featured so far are:
Jeanette Rankin. Okay, this woman is awesome. She was the first woman elected to congress, all the way back in 1916, before women even had national suffrage. There she worked tirelessly as a proponent of 19th Amendment (which would eventually pass, ensuring a woman’s right to vote), giving married women citizenship separate from their husbands and legislation on government-sponsored instruction for pregnant and nursing women. She was a pacifist and stuck with her beliefs and voted against America's entry into WWI even though she knew it would ruin her chance at reelection. She wasn't to be reelected until 1940 when, as it so happened, she wound up facing another vote to send America into war and again she voted against it, making her the only legislator to vote against both wars. She famously said “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."
Lucy Hobbs Taylor. She was the first American woman to earn a degree in dentistry. At first denied entrance into dental school she first studied privately under its dean and then worked as an apprentice to lean the necessary skills before opening her own practice. Finally, five years later she was admitted to the Ohio College of Dental Surgery where, after receiving credit for her years of professional practice, she graduated in February 1866. My favorite quote of hers is “People were amazed when they learned that a young girl had so far forgotten her womanhood as to want to study dentistry.”
Then, after learning it was also Deaf History Month (which runs from March 13 to April 15) I decided to feature a deaf woman who deserved some extra recognition and posted about Laura Redden Searing, a noted journalist and poet. Starting in 1860 she covered American Civil War and reported on troop and battlefield incursions as well as political news. She was considered a friend of many political leaders of the time, including President Lincoln and General Grant and thanked them and others her first volume of poetry, “Idylls of Battle” which included the following poem, “The Snow In October”
The snow is falling abroad,
Over meadow and moor;
Drifting silently, high and white,
O’er the sill of our cottage door.
It falls on a lonely grave
Lying away to the West,
Where a hero heart is mouldering away,—
The heart that loved me best.
Anyway, there's more information on each of these woman on the posts I linked to if anyone would like to read more about them. Hope you all found this interesting! :)
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