PHOTO: Statue of Boudica, Westminster, London
18A. Remarkable Women in History: Feminists, Leaders, Rebels, Inventors, Scientists, Saints, and More
Women in Exploration
"... to promote the positive impacts that women have made in scientific exploration, field research, cultural learning, sustainability, and animal welfare."
https://womeninexploration.org/
Collective Biographies
Interesting Facts. “6 female rulers who deserve more recognition.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/WFV5v
Learning for Justice. "Browder v. Gayle: The women before Rosa Parks." [2011]
https://archive.ph/wip/EFSbW
Courtney Linder. "37 women who’ve upended science, tech, and engineering for the better: From Grace Hopper to Elizabeth Magie, these are the inventors who have shaped STEM as we know it." [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/asG8Z
Versant Physics. "The seven most influential women in radiation history." [2021]
https://tinyurl.com/2hrx5p4r
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To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.
― Spanish Proverb
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Individuals
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni
"Boudica was adopted by the suffragettes as one of the symbols of the campaign for women's suffrage. In 1908, a 'Boadicea Banner' was carried in several National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies marches. She appears as a character in A Pageant of Great Women written by Cicely Hamilton, which opened at the Scala Theatre, London, in November 1909 before a national tour, and she was described in a 1909 pamphlet as 'the eternal feminine... the guardian of the hearth, the avenger of its wrongs upon the defacer and the despoiler.'" Wikipedia, "Boudica."
See also Wikipedia. "Boudican Revolt."
Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc)
Wikipedia. "Joan of Arc." [n.d.]
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
"The woman who challenged Darwin’s sexism: How a preacher with no scientific training ended up writing the first feminist critique of Origins." [2017]
https://archive.ph/W705m
Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb
Biologist, cancer researcher, path-breaking university president (CSU Fullerton)
https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/jewel-plummer-cob
https://archive.ph/wip/VlXFA
Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
Prof. Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
Nanotechnologist, solid state physicist, MIT professor known as the "Queen of Carbon"
https://womeninexploration.org/timeline/mildred-dresselhaus
Emma Goldman
Robert Graham. “Emma Goldman: A life in reflection.” [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/LwZmv
Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online
Primary source material on a leading feminist of her day, bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/home/
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-American astronomer credited with making the single most important discovery in astronomy, the composition of stars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
Margaret Sanger
Debra Michal, Ph.D. “Margaret Sanger.” [2017]
Controversial for her involvement with eugenics, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and advocated for women’s reproductive rights.
https://archive.ph/UGos
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Debra Michals, Ph.D., ed. “Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” [2017]
https://archive.ph/wip/4Gql0
Greta Thunberg
Biography https://www.biography.com/activists/greta-thunberg
Greta Thunberg, ed. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61153762-the-climate-book
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
— Rosa Parks
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Deanna Falchook. "Tabitha Babbitt."
"This woman invented the circular saw!" VIDEO
https://www.facebook.com/reel/553156033493655
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Don't be ashamed of your story — it will inspire others.
— Anonymous
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Andrea Dworkin. Complete works of Andrea Dworkin. [2012]
ONLINE BOOKS
http://radfem.org/dworkin/
_____. Heartbreak: The political memoir of a feminist militant. [2002]
BOOK
http://nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/hearbreak.html
Betty Friedan. The feminine mystique. [1963]
ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Betty%20Friedan.%20%20The%20feminine%20mystique
Doreen Mattingly. A feminist in the Whit House: Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's Culture Wars. [2016]
See especially Chap. 7, "International Women's Year and the Equal Rights Amendment," and succeeding chapters.
BOOK
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-feminist-in-the-white-house-9780190468606?cc=us&lang=en&
Wendy Murphy. "Oh no he didn't!: Brilliant women and the men who took credit for their work." [2024] BOOK https://www.cynren.com/catalog/p/ohnohedidnt