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Happy International Women's Day!
This was always a big holiday in my house, when I was growing up. It involved going to political parties in the evening, with music and dancing and speeches and fundraising. I was a little taken aback to find, when I was older, that most people don't celebrate it. In Cuba, however, my father and stepmother and mother (who were vacationing together there, in 1994) got a flower and a kiss on the cheek from people in the streets.
Anyway -- Happy International Women's Day, Livejournal folks!
My niece is wondering who to do her March-is-Women's-History-Month report on. Her father is pulling for Helen Keller, socialist wonder woman. I like a lot of the international possibilities -- especially Alexandra Kollontai, who I memorialized this month in the March/April issue of Against the Current, with a slightly obnoxious article on Wikipedia and revolutionary women. But here is a list, off the top of my head of women who are interesting in history. I cannot limit it to Americans. Feel free to add! I'm surely deficient in lots of areas:
"Lucy" and other forebears learning to live in a dangerous environment
Venus of Willendorf -- statues representing Mother Goddesses
Hatshepsut, of Egypt (okay, I don't often cave to the Elite Women thing, but she's always fascinated me)
Sappho
Boudicca
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (see Hatshepsut)
Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance painter
Nzingha, a princess in West Africa who resisted the Portuguese
Sacajawea
Abigail Adams
Angelina and Sarah Grimké, abolitionists
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Florence Nightingale
Clara Barton
Julia Morgan, California Beaux Arts architect
Victoria Woodhull, socialist, free lover, US Presidential candidate with Frederick Douglass, 1872
Jane Addams
Florence Kelley
Lucy Parsons
Helen Keller
Mother Jones
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Rosa Luxemburg
Clara Zetkin, FOUNDER of International Women's Day!!! Represent, German SPD!!!
Inessa Armand
Alexandra Kollontai
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Natalya Sedova
Raya Dunayevskaya
Dolores Ibarruri
Dr. Antoinette Konikow
Rosa Parks, especially if she was closer to the CP than one might think.
Ella Baker
Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet astronaut
My niece would add Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Chisholm.
ETA: Lady Murasaki, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louise Michel, Christine Dargent, Eleanor Marx, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Marie Curie, Jeannette Rankin, Benazir Bhutto
Anyway -- Happy International Women's Day, Livejournal folks!
My niece is wondering who to do her March-is-Women's-History-Month report on. Her father is pulling for Helen Keller, socialist wonder woman. I like a lot of the international possibilities -- especially Alexandra Kollontai, who I memorialized this month in the March/April issue of Against the Current, with a slightly obnoxious article on Wikipedia and revolutionary women. But here is a list, off the top of my head of women who are interesting in history. I cannot limit it to Americans. Feel free to add! I'm surely deficient in lots of areas:
"Lucy" and other forebears learning to live in a dangerous environment
Venus of Willendorf -- statues representing Mother Goddesses
Hatshepsut, of Egypt (okay, I don't often cave to the Elite Women thing, but she's always fascinated me)
Sappho
Boudicca
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (see Hatshepsut)
Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance painter
Nzingha, a princess in West Africa who resisted the Portuguese
Sacajawea
Abigail Adams
Angelina and Sarah Grimké, abolitionists
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Florence Nightingale
Clara Barton
Julia Morgan, California Beaux Arts architect
Victoria Woodhull, socialist, free lover, US Presidential candidate with Frederick Douglass, 1872
Jane Addams
Florence Kelley
Lucy Parsons
Helen Keller
Mother Jones
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Rosa Luxemburg
Clara Zetkin, FOUNDER of International Women's Day!!! Represent, German SPD!!!
Inessa Armand
Alexandra Kollontai
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Natalya Sedova
Raya Dunayevskaya
Dolores Ibarruri
Dr. Antoinette Konikow
Rosa Parks, especially if she was closer to the CP than one might think.
Ella Baker
Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet astronaut
My niece would add Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Chisholm.
ETA: Lady Murasaki, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louise Michel, Christine Dargent, Eleanor Marx, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Marie Curie, Jeannette Rankin, Benazir Bhutto
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