Kind of weird to see Sarah and Gloria in the same photo...especially with that grinning Rudy Giuliani in the background today on September 11th.This article in Salon comments on this latest version of woman power. Who could have predicted this?
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/09/11/zombie_feminism/index.html?source=newsletter
I recommend renting the film Iron Jawed Angels, about the women who fought for the right to vote. Gives new meaning to "Why Vote?"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00026L9CU
2 comments:
Hi Pat,
Wow - that picture of Steinem and Palin together is a real stopper!
Gloria Steinem and Governor Palin are proof that women can and do diverge on important issues.
Even on the question of whether women should vote!
Most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won votes for women, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.
Suffragettes were opposed by many women who were what was known as 'anti.'
The most influential 'anti' lived in the White House. First Lady Edith Wilson was a Washington widow who married President Wilson in 1915, after the death of his pro-suffrage wife.
The First Lady's role in Wilson's decision to jail and torture Alice Paul and hundreds of other suffragettes will never be fully known, but she was outraged that these women picketed her husband's White House.
I'd like to share a women's history learning opportunity...
"The Privilege of Voting" is a new free e-mail series that follows eight great women from 1912 - 1920 to reveal ALL that happened to set the stage for women to win the vote.
It's a real-life soap opera about the suffragettes! And it's ALL true!
Powerful suffragettes Alice Paul and Emmeline Pankhurst are featured, along with TWO gorgeous presidential mistresses, First Lady Edith Wilson, Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan and Alice Roosevelt.
There are tons of heartache on the rocky road to the ballot box, but in the end, women WIN!
Thanks to the success of the suffragettes, women have voices and choices!
Exciting, sequential episodes are great to read on coffeebreaks, or anytime.
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Hi Pat,
Yes, I saw Iron Jawed Angels already and really really liked it. Glad you put it out there on this blog. Good idea.
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