07-31 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Caresse Crosby got first bra patent
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Dale Spender and H. P. Blavatsky.
Although Men Claimed to Invent the
Bra,
It was Actually Women Such as Olga Erteszek Who Held 18 Patents
The
so-called inventor of the bra Otto Titzling never took out a patent and
most disclaim his claims. The is true same for Philippe de Brassiere.
Olga Erteszek, however, held 28 bra patents.
The first patent was held by Polly Jacob (Mary Phelps
Jacob aka Caresse Crosby) who undoubtedly did invent the bra (patent
granted in 1914).
Ida (Maidenform) Rosenthal later added such refinements
as sized cups. Prior to the bra, women were squeezed into corsets which,
when tightened to stylish thinness, constricted their organs, and caused
serious illnesses, or if large breasted, women strapped their breasts down
using bindings.
The uplift bra was invented by aircraft engineers
under orders of their boss Howard Hughes. Hughes was taken by the large
breasts of movie star Jane Russell whom he was directing in a movie and
was distressed at the way her clothes photographed.
A few authorities believe the uplift bra is responsible
for the increase in breast cancer but most experts discount the theory
but have no explanation for the increase.
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07-31 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 07-31-1811, Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge, after
raising a large family, became active with caring for orphans. After
seeing some of the deplorable conditions suffered by soldiers in the Civil
War, she became one of the leaders in sanitary reform (collecting and distributing
clothing, providing nursing care, medical and hospital supplies, food,
just about everything else for sanitary and health care that the army never
supplied to its men). The women of the sanitary reform movement did unbelievably
hard and effective work.
The women of the commission received adulation immediately
after the war and then their names and work were forgotten while the names
of battles and how they were fought (usually forgetting the gruesome results)
were glorified.
B. 07-31-1816, Lydia Moss Bradley - U.S. financier
and philanthropist. LMB, although left a wealthy widow, increased the
estate astronomically through wise investments and real estate transactions
that rank her as a major financial genius.
Her philanthropic gifts included a home for older
women. In 1876 she endowed Bradley University with $2 million and 28 acres
in honor of her six children who all died young.
B. 07-31-1831, Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky,
founder of the Theosophy religion/belief/philosophy that combines various
religions and spiritualism and the occult.
She wrote a number of books the most important being
The Secret Doctrine, The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
(1888) and Key to Theosophy (1889) that are the basic texts of the
movement.
She died at the home of Annie Besant who carried on
the movement that still has millions of followers today.
B. 07-31-1860, Mary Morris Vaux Walcott - U.S.
artist. Four hundred of her watercolors of wild flowers and descriptions
were published by the Smithsonian Institution as the five-volume North
American Wild Flowers. Her paintings are magnificent and accurate.
B. 07-31-1944, Sherry Lansing - U.S. movie
executive. SL is the first woman to be placed in charge of production
at a major film studio, and 01-02-1980, she became president of production
at Twentieth Century Fox.
She had been a story editor and vice-president of
creative affairs to MGM and then vice-president of production at Columbia
Pictures.
Her mother fled Nazi Germany and raised SL and her
sister by working in real estate.
B. 07-31-1951, Evonne Goolagong - outstanding
First People (Aborigine) Australian tennis player who won the French
Open, three Australian Opens, two Wimbledons (1971 and 1980), and was chosen
Associated Press Female Athlete of 1971.
B. 07-31-1952, Faye Marder Kellerman - U.S.
novelist specializing in mysteries that feature authentic Orthodox
Jewish life
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QUOTES DU JOUR
SPENDER, DALE:
"[Women] CAN
produce knowledge... (but) we have little or no influence over where it
goes... We are not influential members in those institutions which legitimate
and distribute knowledge. We are women producing knowledge which is often
different from that produced by men, in a society controlled by men. If
they like what we produce they will appropriate it, if they can use what
we produce (even against us) they will take it, if they do not want to
know, they will lose it. But rarely, if ever, will they treat it as they
treat their own. Men control what is believable knowledge."
-- Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas and what men have done to them.
London: Pandora, 1988. This book is still in print and should be given
to every girl at her birth. Spender is our selection as the second-most
important feminist writer of the last quarter of the 20th century.
Pandora publishing is just one of many feminist publishing
houses that were started in the last part of the 20th century by women
determined to influence, legitimatize, and distribute correct knowledge
essential to women so that women can determine for themselves what is believable
knowledge - not brainwashing.
BLAVATSKY, H.P.:
"Knowledge increases
in proportion to its use - that is, the more we teach, the more we learn."
-- H. P. Blavatsky.
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