03-10 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Women's History Month miscellany
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Elizabeth Gould Davis.
Women's History Month miscellany
Laura Perls - (1905-1990) a founder of the Gestalt
School of psychotherapy, collaborated with her husband Fritz who was the
better known and more flamboyant one of the duo and who took credit for
Laura's work. Through the years Laura was seen as the mainstay of the movement,
heading the major training institute for almost 40 years. She has been
recognized as the unacknowledged contributor to the early books by her
husband.
Edith Cowan, the first woman in Australia to be
elected to Parliament. President of the National Council of Women, she
was more concerned with controlling the spread of venereal disease than
the dangers to the civil liberties of the women under the Health Amendment.
Mrs. B.M. Bessie Rischbieth opposed the bill because
of its threats to women's civil liberties. BMR was active in the Women's
Service Guild, President of the Australian Federation of Women's Societies
which was linked with the International Women's Suffrage Alliance. One
of their goals was to provide training and aid to unemployed women who
generally could not get aid from the government.
"It is a fact that some
of these women are being allowed a few shillings for food by the Welfare
Department, but it is nobody's business to see that they are housed, and
obviously seven shillings' worth of groceries is not much use to a person
who has nowhere to live, and no means of getting necessary clothing...
In their misery, these unfortunate women are flocking to members of [Feminist
organizations] begging for help."
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03-10 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 03-10-1842, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Poet Laureate of California.
B. 03-10-1850, Mary Mills Patrick, founder and president of the Istanbul
College for Women in Turkey.
B. 03-10-1862, (Emily) Pauline Johnson, known as Tekahionwake.
Canadian Indian poet. Her most noted work, Flint and Feather.
B. 03-10-1867, Lillian D. Wald, organized the first nonsectarian
public health nursing system in the world (1902) in New York City.
B. 03-10-1876, Anna Hyatt Huntington, sculptor most noted for
her animal pieces. Sculpted "Joan of Arc" on horseback, the bronze
in New York City that has been widely replicated.
Died 03-10-1913, Harriet Tubman, (date of birth unknown, probably
in 1820). Born in slavery, she became the Moses of her people, leading
more than 300 hundred slaves out of the South through the underground railway
to Canada and freedom.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
DAVIS, ELIZABETH GOULD:
"So long has the myth
of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to
believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior
and dominant sex.
"In order to restore women to their ancient dignity
and pride, they must be taught their own history, as the American blacks
are being taught theirs."
--
Elizabeth Gould Davis in The First Sex.
[Ed. Note:
"I'm tryin', I'm tryin'."]
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