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Women's Stories

Jane Addams

November 30, 2009

She is remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889.
Jane is portrayed as the selfless giver of ministrations to the poor, but few [...]

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Linda Gilbert

November 30, 2009

Gilbert grew up in Chicago from the age of five. In childhood her daily path to convent school took her past the Cook County Jail. She eventually developed an acquaintance with one of the prisoners and discovered from him that there was no reading material in the jail. Her resolve to establish a library in [...]

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Julia Child

November 30, 2009

American cooking expert, author, and television personality noted for her promotion of traditional French cuisine.
The daughter of a prosperous financier and consultant, McWilliams graduated from Smith College (B.A., 1934) and worked occasionally in advertising. During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, she performed clerical work in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and China for the Office [...]

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Shirley Chisholm

November 30, 2009

American politician, the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Shirley St. Hill was the daughter of immigrants; her father was from British Guiana (now Guyana) and her mother from Barbados. She grew up in Barbados and in her native Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Brooklyn College (B.A., 1946). While teaching [...]

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Susan Butcher

November 30, 2009

American sled-dog racer and trainer who dominated her sport for more than a decade. She won the challenging Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska four times.
Butcher began to train dogs at age 16. By 1972 she had moved to Colorado, where she attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins and raced a group of [...]

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Catharine Alice MacKinnon

November 30, 2009

MacKinnon, like her mother and grandmother before her, attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating with a B.A. in government in 1969. In addition, she earned a J.D. (1977) from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and a doctorate in political science (1987), also at Yale. While in graduate school she organized a course [...]

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Betty Friedan

November 30, 2009

American feminist best known for her book The Feminine Mystique (1963), which explored the causes of the frustrations of modern women in traditional roles.
Bettye Goldstein graduated in 1942 from Smith College with a degree in psychology and, after a year of graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, settled in New York City. [...]

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Frances Willard

November 30, 2009

American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1883). An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of the national Prohibition Party.
Willard grew up from the age of two in Oberlin, Ohio, and from six in Janesville, Wisconsin Territory. Known as Frank to [...]

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Sarah Winnemucca

November 30, 2009

Native American educator, lecturer, tribal leader, and writer best known for her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). Her writings, valuable for their description of Northern Paiute life and for their insights into the impact of white settlement, are among the few contemporary Native American works.
A granddaughter of Truckee and daughter [...]

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Mary Ann Bickerdyke

November 30, 2009

Organizer and chief of nursing, hospital, and welfare services for the western armies under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War.
Mary Ann Ball grew up in the houses of various relatives. She attended Oberlin College and later studied nursing. In 1847 she married a widower, Robert Bickerdyke, who died in [...]

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