tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post572160489088662592..comments2024-03-28T02:36:36.432-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: Women's History MonthJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-10928809912608427302016-03-17T10:30:52.881-04:002016-03-17T10:30:52.881-04:00The photo you have tagged as Susan B. Anthony is n...The photo you have tagged as Susan B. Anthony is not Susan B. Anthony--it's Lucy Stone: http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html?body=social_purity.html<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-36235678865467778472014-03-29T08:48:22.723-04:002014-03-29T08:48:22.723-04:00My family came from the same general upstate New Y...My family came from the same general upstate New York as Susan B. Anthony. She and others of the movement spoke at the Jackson Health Resort in Dansville, NY– of which two of the original three partners were women, one of whom was a doctor! (Founded 1858) <br /><br />My great-great grandmother (Dr. Katherine J. Jackson) was the 1877 valedictorian of the college of the New York Infimary headed by Dr. Emily Blackwell.<br /><br />My grandmother graduated from the University of Rochester at a time when women chemistry students (of which she was the only one) had to use a separate laboratory from the men!<br /><br />~ Jim<br />Jim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-8492798897265077382014-03-27T18:47:14.971-04:002014-03-27T18:47:14.971-04:00Thanks, Paula. It's something even we women to...Thanks, Paula. It's something even we women to take time to think about often, especially if we're not experiencing any inequality.<br /><br />Linda, I was upset when I saw and heard young women ignoring what their grandmothers and others had fought for, and thinking feminism wasn't important. Unfortunately there are still women, who think it's their religious duty to be subservient to their husbands, and it's not only in other countries, either. I get very upset about the politicians, who are passing laws in too many states that take away women's rights. For instance, that idiot who insisted if women are raped they can't conceive.<br /><br />You're right, Pat. I agree with you, totally.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-7258307402444600402014-03-27T18:11:08.387-04:002014-03-27T18:11:08.387-04:00Great post, Gloria. Women must keep up the good wo...Great post, Gloria. Women must keep up the good work, because it is not only men who work against us, but some women. I knew women in my youth who refused to handle money or pay bills because they claimed they weren't suppose to, that was man's work, and you dare not offend their manhood. Pure ugh!<br />What rights do we have that our grandmothers didn't, well how about deciding how many, if any, children we would have. <br />PatgPatghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01046665022709722606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-46205575966085433102014-03-27T17:46:18.509-04:002014-03-27T17:46:18.509-04:00Love this post, Gloria! It's amazing how short...Love this post, Gloria! It's amazing how short a time ago it was that some of the worst abuses of women were still embedded in our laws. In my own state, Missouri, it was only in the 1980s that the law changed so that marriage was not an absolute defense against charges of rape, even if violence was used or there were witnesses or the couple were separated but not yet legally divorced. The same with laws that allowed a man to keep his own earned or inherited money or property for his own use and to take money earned or inherited by his wife, as well, without allowing her any part of it. And Missouri was not the last to repeal those laws.<br /><br />When I ran a university women's center, I worried because so many young women thought all that was a century or more in the past and they didn't need feminism--only to come back after a few years in the work world wanting help in dealing with pervasive, institutional sexism. I used to try to tell the younger ones who thought there was no need for feminism that a huge backlash was just waiting to smash all the gains of recent decades, just as it had done with the earlier women's movement. And I look around at the politicians now and what they say and try to pass into law and know that I was prophetic.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-87488461250721023062014-03-27T16:54:23.136-04:002014-03-27T16:54:23.136-04:00Wonderful post, Gloria. Thanks for reminding us of...Wonderful post, Gloria. Thanks for reminding us of the ladies whose work ensured that women's voices were heard and counted.Paula Gail Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843350597811462936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-18373036758160400572014-03-27T16:48:21.978-04:002014-03-27T16:48:21.978-04:00Yes, Kara, I'll bet that's what she'd ...Yes, Kara, I'll bet that's what she'd ask, too. I'm hoping it will come soon. Look at how many other countries have had women leaders - well still not enough, but you would think we would have been one of the first.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-66212977047935054802014-03-27T16:00:14.494-04:002014-03-27T16:00:14.494-04:00Thank you for this post, Gloria. It's importan...Thank you for this post, Gloria. It's important to remember these brave women and what they endured in their struggle for equal rights. I'd also love to hear what Susan B. Anthony would say if she were alive today. Perhaps she would ask why a women president hasn't ever been elected in the US.Kara Cerisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484336785514235707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-19849871468826150742014-03-27T14:09:24.183-04:002014-03-27T14:09:24.183-04:00Marvelous post! Among the women to remember: Matil...Marvelous post! Among the women to remember: Matilda Joslyn Gage, the first woman voter of Fayetteville, N.Y., in 1880, 40 years before the 19th amendment. In fact, 1000s of women in New York State voted throughout the 1880s and 1890s, long before woman suffrage was recognized. How could this be? Visit the website of the foundation established in her honor: matildajoslyngage.org, and read some of the excellent books listed there. <br />As for discrimination I experienced…In 1960 when my husband was transferred "upstate" from NYC (where I'd been an editor 10 years) I applied for a job with a local nonfiction publisher, who insisted on paying me the same as the female office staff (so they wouldn't be jealous, he said) instead of the all-male editorial staff, even though I was their first true editor (the guys were all content specialists). I was put on probation, then got my raise, but when I later left the job I was replaced by a man at twice my salary! That made me a decided feminist 10 years before I even learned about N.O.<br />W.Chris Roerdenhttp://writersinfo.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-41309000538418397282014-03-27T13:38:29.898-04:002014-03-27T13:38:29.898-04:00KM, what a remarkable woman your grandmother was. ...KM, what a remarkable woman your grandmother was. I have no idea if my grandmothers on either side voted.<br /> <br />Our local newspaper has a 99 years ago today column in the Sunday paper, but I've never seen anything against the women like you find in your paper. It's either because Harriet Beecher Stowe was such a strong local person, or today's editors are only putting in a few items of news that day.<br /><br />Warren, I so agree with you. The two you mentioned are ones I would like to have included, too, including others, but blogging space is limited. The letters of recommendation you mentioned is so wrong, but I'm not surprised by it.<br /><br />Carla, wouldn't it be great to go hear both of them speaking? I think if someone wrote a play where these two women and others came back as ghosts to talk to the audience comparing what they see today with what they experienced, and what still needs to be done would be a fascinating play.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-68686078412313151032014-03-27T12:01:29.763-04:002014-03-27T12:01:29.763-04:00We've come so far, yet we have so far to go. I...We've come so far, yet we have so far to go. I wish Abigail Adams and Susan B Anthony were still around to guide us. <br />carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15985823239660829148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-74038738190403954352014-03-27T11:28:17.742-04:002014-03-27T11:28:17.742-04:00There are so many notable women that it's impo...There are so many notable women that it's impossible to name them all in one blog. Sacagawea and Harriet Tubman played important roles in expanding freedom for women. I recently read an article about letters of recommendation. Regardless of the gender of the writers men were more often described as "leaders" and women were described as having "leadership potential." Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-45500330701957379882014-03-27T11:03:21.567-04:002014-03-27T11:03:21.567-04:00The most loyal voter I knew was my grandmother. So...The most loyal voter I knew was my grandmother. Some of her favorite stories concerned marching for women's voting rights, and she voted in every election from 1920, the first one in which women were given the vote in all states, until her death. No one in the family, male or female, would ever dare to admit to her that they had neglected to vote in an election. <br /><br /><br />A local monthly newspaper runs a section with articles from 100 years ago. An on-going theme is the "ridiculous" movement to give women the vote. Obviously it would never pass, and men needed to assert their God-given authority over their wives and daughters. Another ongoing theme is the horse vs. automobile debate. Once again, it was quite obvious to those who wrote the articles that horses were way superior to automobiles, and there was no doubt that, once the fad had passed, the great majority of vehicles on the road would be horse-drawn.KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-14944555057818849132014-03-27T10:00:01.717-04:002014-03-27T10:00:01.717-04:00Thank you, Jan, for stopping by and especially lea...Thank you, Jan, for stopping by and especially leaving some links I'll check out. And, I'm going to check out that book, too. Like I mentioned in my post above, I could have written a thesis paper or a book even on these courageous women.<br />Another good book is FOUNDING MOTHERS; THE WOMEN WHO RAISED OUT NATION by Cokie Roberts. I highly recommend that book, too.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-49531206481582303332014-03-27T09:55:36.568-04:002014-03-27T09:55:36.568-04:00Shari, if I didn't live in Trumbull County, I ...Shari, if I didn't live in Trumbull County, I probably wouldn't know about her either. There was more I could have written about her, but space is limited in blogs. Across the road from her house is a lovely Woman's Garden put in commemorating other women in our county. People have purchased bricks with their mother, a friend or other woman in memory of them that make up a center paved area and the walks leading to it.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-5922568233941294862014-03-27T09:28:52.462-04:002014-03-27T09:28:52.462-04:00Thank you Gloria. Fabulous post. And the neat thin...Thank you Gloria. Fabulous post. And the neat thing about WHM info, is that these are go-to resources all year 'round.<br /><br />Here are some equally cool online tributes. <br />I have participated in <br />KIDLITCELEBRATES WOMENS HISTORY MONTH. created by two librarians at<br /><br />http://kidlitwhm.blogspot.com/<br /><br />And I glom onto the real photo images and stories of grit, criminal treatment, unpunished, of women on the public streets and hardship jail time in Washington,D.C. meted out to those who expressed a desire to... vote. This is in Ann Bausum's fabulous WITH COURAGE AND CLOTH<br />https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ann-bausum/with-courage-and-cloth/<br /><br />Again brava! for a mighty fine post.jan godown anninohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00091996699597066230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-21139948626506075732014-03-27T09:24:04.655-04:002014-03-27T09:24:04.655-04:00Hi Gloria,
Such an interesting post. Thank you for...Hi Gloria,<br />Such an interesting post. Thank you for the introduction to Harriet Taylor Upton. We hear about the "major" figures in history, but these women in the trenches, working locally, also had a huge impact.Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.com