Ana Roqué de Duprey Ana Roqué de Duprey, a prolific educator, writer, and scientist, founded the first woman’s suffrage organization in Puerto Rico in 1917.

I really appreciated this article which highlights Ana Roqué de Duprey's contributions to #botany, #astronomy, pedagogy, #philosophy, and #feminism. She also helped found the University of Puerto Rico.
#womeninSTEM #womenshistory #puertorico

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Day 29 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Puerto Rican suffragist and scientist Ana Roqué de Duprey!

Roqué rethought civil rights for Puerto Rican women, fighting for equality beyond the vote. She wrote a study of Caribbean botany and an astronomical text called “The Sky of Puerto Rico.”

#herstory

Love these photos—the Lette Haus provided crucial support, solidarity, and education to many emerging German feminists, including Helene Stöcker who moved to #Berlin after reading #Nietzsche and being convinced she had to change her life…

#feminism #herstory

Emma Lazarus A biography of American Jewish poet Emma Lazarus.

I learned a lot from this essay, including about Emma Lazarus's relationship to Ralph Waldo Emerson. A rich link from her work to American #philosophy.

#transcendentalism #womenshistory
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Day 28 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American Jewish poet, essayist & translator Emma Lazarus!

Lazarus rethought the relationship between immigration, loyalty, and community, writing “Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Her words are immortalized on the Statue of Liberty.
#herstory

Day27 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British author & reformer Frances Power Cobbe!

Cobbe rethought social patterns that produced domestic violence, publishing essays condemning official indifference, exposing hypocrisy, & demanding reform. She also pioneered arguments for animal rights.
#herstory

Powerful words, powerful thinker, powerful woman!

Thank you for this! Rankin was also a lifelong pacifist, the only member of Congress to vote against World War I, a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and subject of a new biography by @lorissa.bsky.social!

@wilpf.bsky.social #pacifism #womenshistory

The Swearing-In of the First Woman Elected to Congress, Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives On this date, Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, was sworn into the House. Rankin had campaigned as a progressive in 1916, pledging to work for a constitutional woman su...

Jeannette Rankin was the 1st woman elected to Congress, in 1916. She was a women's rights advocate, & she introduced legislation that would become the 19th Amendment. She championed civil rights causes over her 60 year career.

#WomensHistoryMonth
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Resolved: to turn this inspiration into action!

Ada Augusta Lovelace: Ontology and Ethics of Operativity AbstractIn recent literature Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer and a pioneer of information technology. But what justifies our interpreting h

Sybille Krämer argues for the power of Ada Lovelace’s philosophical thought in this fascinating essay: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

Day 26 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British mathematician Ada Lovelace!

Lovelace rethought the potential of symbolic thinking, creating programming techniques that led to what we now call software. She is now the namesake of a programming language and a cryptocurrency!

#herstory #womeninSTEM

Wonderful . . . was just learning more about Fauset's involvement as an organizer and translator at the Second Pan-African Congress in 1921. Here's her report in The Crisis, starting p12

#harlemrenaissance #womenshistory #blackhistory #herstory #ushistory

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Here is a letter from Dorothy Detzer defending the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from charges of collaboration with other governments & a lack of patriotism. Classic--and hollow--objections to #pacifism!

@wilpf.bsky.social #herstory
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Day 25 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American pacifist Dorothy Detzer!

Detzer rethought the relationship between #pacifism and anticolonialism, arguing that white pacifists must fight against the exploitation of African colonies if they truly wanted to prevent war.

#womenshistory #herstory

Love this tribute to Addams, including her role in the garbage wars! Any philosopher who gets involved in garbage wars . . . just: respect.

Recommend @captainjuneteenth.bsky.social's wonderful videos all the way through. Thank you!

#philsky #womenshistory #herstory #janeaddams

Day24 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American author & reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman!

Gilman rethought the relation bn women’s labor & economics, arguing that housework & childcare should be paid so women could think. Her worldview unfortunately included a racist eugenics that mars her legacy.

Reflecting on the Mary Church Terrell transcribe-a-thon with the Douglass Day team | The Signal In today’s post, By the People community manager Lauren Algee interviews members of the Douglass Day team about their February 2021 transcribe-a-thon for the Mary Church Terrell Papers. Launched in 20...

I found a story about the specific transcribe-a-thon that made today's research possible. So inspiring.

Photo in 👆 post is Terrell en route to 1904 International Congress of Women in Berlin--the only Black delegate & the only US delegate to give her address IN GERMAN.

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I'm working through Mary Church Terrell's digitized archives at the @librarycongress.bsky.social and deeply grateful that they are accessible.

Each file ends this way: Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.

🙏🙏🙏 to these unsung heroes!

I wish this were more of an exaggeration
#philsky

@kristingjesdal.bsky.social & @dalianassar.bsky.social discuss Luxemburg’s thought in this @aeon.co essay, highlighting the dangers of focusing on her death rather than her life and writings. They cite many more women philosophers too!

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#womeninphilosophy #philsky

Day 23 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Polish economist and socialist Rosa Luxemburg!

Luxemburg rethought the relationship between colonialism and capitalism, illustrating how imperialist aims demanded capitalist principles. She was murdered for her role in the German Revolution of 1919.

#herstory

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence There is a scene in Plum Bun that stayed with me long after I read the novel. Angela Murray, our protagonist, is waiting at New York’s Pennsylvania Station for her sister, Jinny, who’s arriving fro…

Jessie Fauset was literary editor of The Crisis and published four novels. I have just finished 'Plum Bun' and am partway through 'There is Confusion' and highly recommend both. Here is Morgan Jenkins’ wonderful introduction to her thought.
#womenshistorymonth #dubois
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Day 22 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: novelist and civil rights leader Jessie Fauset!

Fauset rethought the tensions facing Black women, exploring, in Morgan Jerkins’ words, how to balance “desire and ambition” during the Harlem Renaissance.

#herstory #womenshistorymonth #Blackhistory #ushistory

All true. The book was "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans"--the first book-length publication against slavery in the US.

Its radical anti-slavery message ended Child's promising literary career but, as I like to say, people do not throw ineffective books out of windows!

I was so moved by Lydia Maria Child's moral courage &honesty that I wrote a whole book about her. For a sneak peek, here's an article in @aeon.co from #womenshistorymonth 2023. We need Child's dedication to American principles more than ever.

#herstory #philsky #abolition

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Day 21 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld is American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child!

Child rethought regional responsibility for slavery, telling her fellow Northerners that their money, racism, & political cowardice made them complicit. “Let us not flatter ourselves,” she wrote. Boston was unamused.

Very happy to know about your book!

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Woman’s Rights and Woman’s Evolution AbstractThis chapter will show that Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s criticisms of Charles Darwin and other evolutionists in the mid-1870s were based on views

For more on Blackwell, see Trevor Pearce's fascinating chapter on her pathbreaking status as the first ordained minister in the US, her ethical #philosophy, and her evolutionary theorizing.

#philsky #womenshistory #womeninphilosophy

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Day20 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American minister & philosopher Antoinette Brown Blackwell!

Blackwell rethought Darwin’s theory of evolution by insisting that female traits receive equal consideration & by denying that women's differences from men implied inferiority.

#womeninSTEM #herstory