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Marie Souvestre, the founder and headmistress, was the daughter of the French philosopher and novelist Émile Souvestre. A committed feminist, she believed passionately in educating women to think for themselves, to challenge accepted wisdom, and to assert themselves. These were subversive doctrines to patriarchal Victorians, yet Allenwood succeeded
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Fritz, Harro, Ernst, and Hellmuth were deemed worthy of intense therapeutic support and education, whereas both Elfriede and Margarete were deemed ineducable, of no social worth, unlikely to ever successfully perform ‘domestic duties’ or form ‘personal relationships’. So they were sent off to Am Spiegelgrund. The ‘ineducable’ Elfriede wrote letters
... See moreGina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
Economically relevant information is discovered from experimentation, not deduced from a model.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Hamer worked to help others
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
I submit to you that the preeminent question in this case as you reach a decision about how best to satisfy the dual aims of this court is the same question that I asked Judge Neff to consider in Larry’s federal sentencing: How much is a little girl worth? How much is a young woman worth?
Rachael Denhollander • What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
The reduction of Medicaid would mean no maternity care for two million women—half of all women who give birth annually in the United States.
Angela Garbes • Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"We'd better import some of these ladies and set 'em to parking the United States,"
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
1917, Hamer was the youngest of twenty children.