Suffragism was the beginning of the feminist movement and suffragettes were the first modern feminists. Famous Suffragists and suffragettes: Susan B. Anthony, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began working to establish women’s right to vote in the mid-1800s. Unfortunately, Anthony never saw the impact of her efforts—the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote,…
Month: December 2017
The floating poem
by Adrienne Rich Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine—tender, delicate your lovemaking, like the half-curled frond of the fiddlehead fern in forests just washed by sun. Your traveled, generous thighs between which my whole face has come and come— the innocence and wisdom of the place my tongue has found there—…
Why women love Hillary Rodham Clinton? – “Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights”!
I am not an American, for I am an European. I don’t have to choose sides, because I don’t have sides, for I have rights and brains. This isn’t an article to praise someone or to victimize women, this is an article for freedom, for equal rights for women worldwide. It is a tribute to…