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Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
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The "Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics" (STEM) collection highlights those women who dared in the fields of science, medicine, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It also highlights female intellectuals who were excluded from formal methods of education, but who advanced our collective knowledge of the aforementioned fields. Even in the 21st century, women are underrepresented in these fields. The women portrayed in this collection provide examples of excellence in STEM studies and inspire us to continue integrating these areas.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1940
Birthplace
Nyeri District, Kenya
Death Date
2011
Occupation
Environmental and political activist
Biographical Text
Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist known for founding the “Green Belt Movement.” She also focused on women's rights and became the first African-American woman to receive a Nobel Peace prize in 2004 for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy and peace. She was elected a member of Parliament and served as a assistant minister for environmental and natural resources between 2003-2005.
Bibliography
<p>Wangari Maathai. <em>Unbowed: A Memoir.</em> (Knopf Press, 2006).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/maathai-bio.html">Biography, Nobel Prize website</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai">Green Belt Movement</a></p>
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Wangari Maathai
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Environmentalism
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An account of the resource
First African-American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize
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Women's Rights
Description
An account of the resource
The women's rights collection showcases women who dared to fight for rights, civil or otherwise. Throughout world history, women have frequently been excluded from full citizenship; these women sought to make their society more equitable by fighting for civil, political, economic, legal, or social rights. The women in this collection remind us that often the fight for women's rights is a fight for civil rights. They inspire us to make a positive difference towards the goal of social equality.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1820
Birthplace
Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Death Date
1906
Occupation
Political leader for women's rights
Biographical Text
A prominent civil rights leader during the women’s suffrage movement in the 1800s, Susan Anthony was also involved in the anti-slavery movement and the temperance movement. Anthony was a tireless champion for women's rights. She never married in order to retain the few rights that a woman had in American society if she was single. A Quaker, her faith underwrote many of her views on egalitarianism. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she co-founded the women's rights journal, <em>The Revolution</em>. Anthony found a life-long friend in Stanton and, together, the two spent their lives making society a better and more equitable place for women. By the 1860s, Anthony occupied a new space for women in American society—that of a female political leader. After the passage of the 14<sup>th</sup> amendment to the US Constitution, Anthony cast her vote in the 1872 federal election, for which she was arrested. In the trial of Susan B. Anthony (1873), she gave a roaring speech on woman suffrage, repeatedly refusing the judge's order to silence herself. The judge found her guilty and made it impossible for her to appeal. In <em>Minor v. Happersett</em> (1874), the US Supreme Court conceded that women were citizens, but that the Constitution did not grant all citizens the right to vote.
Bibliography
<p>Dubois, Ellen Carol. <em>Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America</em>. (Cornell University Press, 1978).</p>
<p>Gordon, Ann. <em>The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony</em>. Six volumes. (Rutgers University Press, 2000-2013).</p>
<p>Hull, N. E. H. (2012). <em>The Woman Who Dared to Vote: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony</em>. (University Press of Kansas, 2012).</p>
<p>VanBurkleo, Sandra F. <em>Belonging to the World: Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture</em>. (Oxford University Press, 2001).</p>
<p><a title="Susan B. Anthony Trial Papers" href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbahome.html">Susan B. Anthony Trial digitized papers:</a></p>
<p><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrbc4/anthony.html">Susan B. Anthony Collection, Library of Congress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/">Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html">Resources for PBS documentary, <em>Not For Ourselves Alone</em></a></p>
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Susan B. Anthony
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Women's rights
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An account of the resource
Prominent civil rights leader for women in the United States
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Amy French
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The women's rights collection showcases women who dared to fight for rights, civil or otherwise. Throughout world history, women have frequently been excluded from full citizenship; these women sought to make their society more equitable by fighting for civil, political, economic, legal, or social rights. The women in this collection remind us that often the fight for women's rights is a fight for civil rights. They inspire us to make a positive difference towards the goal of social equality.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1797
Birthplace
Swartekill, New York, USA
Death Date
1883
Occupation
Abolitionist, women's rights activist
Biographical Text
Truth was born Isabella Baumfree, but changed her name in 1843. She was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Sojourner escaped from slavery in 1826 with an infant child in tow. She also fought the illegal sale of her son through the court system. In 1851, she gave her famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman?” at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention. From her speech: “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them.” Her speeches spoke to the inequitable status of women in American society, but also to the disadvantaged status of black women within woman's sphere.
Bibliography
<p>Mabee, Carleton and Susan Mabee Newhouse. <em>Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend. </em>(New York University Press, 1993).</p>
<p>Painter, Nell Irvin. <em>Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol</em>. (W.W. Norton & Co., 1996).</p>
<p>Piepmeier, Alison. <em>Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America.</em> (University of North Carolina, Press, 2004).</p>
<p><em>The Narrative of Sojourner Truth</em> (1850): <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html#16">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html#16</a></p>
<p>Online Resources of Sojourner Truth, Library of Congress: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/truth/">http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/truth/</a></p>
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Sojourner Truth
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Abolitionism and women's rights
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An account of the resource
Former slave who fought for suffrage and abolition
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Amy French
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Reform (Social or Labor)
Description
An account of the resource
The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1898
Birthplace
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Death Date
1987
Occupation
Educator and Civil Rights Activist
Biographical Text
Septima Clark was an educator and civil rights activist who developed literacy and citizenship workshops that were crucial to the campaign for voting rights for African Americans in the south during the 1960s. Clark grew up a strictly segregated society which shaped her outlook on social justice. Because she was African American, her elementary education was not at the same level as white children. A high school opened in 1914 so that she could graduate and take a state examination to start teaching. As an African American, she was barred from teaching in the Charleston public schools, but she could teach on the Sea Islands. Gross disparities represented white and black education. She became politically involved in 1919 when she started actively attending NAACP meetings. She settled in Columbia, South Carolina where she taught at the Booker T. Washington High School. Clark is still remembered as an outstanding educator. She taught there for eighteen years and became more involved in civil rights activism. Clark went on to study with W.E.B. DuBois and earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees. She was an influential figure in the long Civil Rights Movement and one that is too often forgotten.
Bibliography
<p>McFadden, Grace Jordan. "Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights." <em>Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers 1941-1965.</em> Ed. Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993): pp. 85–97.</p>
<p>Oral History Interviews with Septima Clark from "Documenting the American South"</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html">http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0016/menu.html">http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0016/menu.html</a></p>
<p>University of South Carolina, Septima Clark: <a href="http://www.usca.edu/aasc/clark.htm">http://www.usca.edu/aasc/clark.htm</a></p>
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Septima Clark
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Education and civil rights
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Educator and civil rights activist who developed literacy and citizenship workshops
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Amy French
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Local (Michigan)
Description
An account of the resource
Local role models provide us with people to look to as we aspire to fulfill our dreams. Sometimes, they might inspire us to achieve goals that we had never thought could be accomplished. The local collection honors those women in Michigan who dared to be different. Some of these women integrated male-dominated fields, like firefighting, while others dared to change law, lead businesses, forward higher education, or fight for social justice. These women help shape our dreams and give Michiganians someone local to provide inspiration.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1841
Birthplace
New Brunswick, Canada
Death Date
1898
Occupation
Soldier and nurse
Biographical Text
After a rough childhood, Sarah Emma Edmonds (born Edmondson) ran away from her home in New Brunswick, Canada and settled in Flint, Michigan. On May 25, 1861, she enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry as Franklin Thompson. She participated in the Peninsula Campaign and the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. In her memoir, Edmonds wrote of working as a spy and infiltrating the Confederacy, at times dressing as a black man or an Irish woman (there is no official record of this). According to Edmonds, she safely avoided detection as a man for many years. In 1863, she contracted malaria though. Knowing that her sex would be revealed in the hospital, Edmonds (Franklin Thompson) deserted the army. After her leave, she worked as a nurse for a while. In 1865, she published <em>Nurse and Spy in the Union Army</em>. In the 1880s, she petitioned for a veteran's pension and was granted one. She was also granted an honorable discharge and membership to the Grand Army of the Republic as its only woman member.
Bibliography
<p><em>Nurse and a Spy in the Union Army</em>: <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38497">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38497</a></p>
<p>Civil War Trust on Sarah Emma Edmonds: <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/sarah-emma-edmonds.html">http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/sarah-emma-edmonds.html</a></p>
<p>Eggleston, Larry. <em>Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others</em>. (McFarland and Co., 2003).</p>
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Sarah Emma Edmonds
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Military in Civil War
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Woman who fought in the United States Civil War
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Local (Michigan)
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An account of the resource
Local role models provide us with people to look to as we aspire to fulfill our dreams. Sometimes, they might inspire us to achieve goals that we had never thought could be accomplished. The local collection honors those women in Michigan who dared to be different. Some of these women integrated male-dominated fields, like firefighting, while others dared to change law, lead businesses, forward higher education, or fight for social justice. These women help shape our dreams and give Michiganians someone local to provide inspiration.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1899
Birthplace
Springfield, Illinois, USA
Death Date
2000
Occupation
Printing shop owner
Biographical Text
Ruth Ellis was an African-American woman who was widely known in the Detroit community for her long-standing open support and activism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual rights. She came out as a lesbian around 1915—a potentially dangerous move for anyone at the time, but even more so for a black woman. She and her partner, Ceciline Franklin, moved to Detroit in the 1930s where Ellis opened the first printing business owned by a woman in that city. Their house was as a haven for LGBT African Americans. Ellis was known for her generosity and helping young people, especially with educational costs. Inspired by her, some of her friends opened the Ruth Ellis Center to provide social services for runaway, homeless, and at risk LGBT youth. The Center, however, will not turn away any youth in crisis regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Ellis is honored in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her activism and for her leadership in business.
Bibliography
<p>Ruth Ellis Center: <a href="http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/">http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/</a></p>
<p><a title="Michigan Women's Hall of Fame" href="http://hall.michiganwomen.org/honoree.php?C=83&A=253~20~114~96~172~79~2~62~238~113~263~271~46~280~80~272~3~152~167~74~138~63~92~196~4~242~32~84~48~229~153~231~192~41~129~82~69~109~42~254~93~97~56~175~281~103~273~13~249~260~207~21~126~104~230~5~288~98~131~27~53~38~195~282~139~239~219~106~57~22~147~58~274~107~127~6~255~173~144~286~85~17~148~250~47~261~208~228~49~221~251~43~205~135~168~256~181~33~115~232~176~23~14~75~169~130~162~44~198~204~99~7~118~119~8~136~275~222~50~227~15~157~65~150~108~24~154~170~163~76~9~209~283~110~140~70~264~276~59~155~265~16~158~156~241~60~182~191~257~116~190~28~164~243~125~160~197~279~86~270~193~223~29~266~134~39~159~111~61~177~132~87~52~199~54~35~210~211~64~112~200~183~165~277~245~284~258~100~10~122~71~267~262~240~77~51~94~120~11~259~36~25~244~224~151~178~55~287~88~45~184~128~72~246~78~171~268~233~121~141~180~206~189~269~73~235~123~83~89~145~18~66~26~237~30~212~188~142~220~90~19~40~161~218~133~81~247~225~67~37~248~146~217~91~143~12~236~31~68~1~213~101~117~214~174~102~285~226~278~137~185~124~234~95~216~166~187">Michigan Women's Hall of Fame: </a></p>
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Ruth Ellis
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LGBT activism
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African-American woman known for her activism for LGBT rights in the early 20th century
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Amy French
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Leadership/Governance
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The leadership and governance collection highlights those women who dared to lead or govern. These women may have led countries or industries. They may have governed organizations or companies. Because women have historically been excluded from positions of power, it is important to acknowledge those women who were able to achieve positions at the top. Although a glass ceiling still exists in most societies, these women give us hope that someday that ceiling will be destroyed and that top roles in a company, government, or institution will fairly represent the half of the population comprised of women.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1930
Birthplace
El Paso, Texas, USA
Occupation
Judge
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Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female appointed to the highest court in the land, the US Supreme Court. She attended Stanford where she earned a B.A. in Economics; she then graduated from Stanford Law in 1952. O'Connor graduated from law school at a time when it was still legal to bar women from certain programs or severely limited the number of women admitted to a program (Title IX of 1972 changed this). After graduation, she faced sexual discrimination when trying to find a job. Although she had graduated with high honors from an Ivy-league school, her gender proved a deterrent in finding a paying job. She ended up working as a deputy county attorney in San Mateo, California after offering to work for no pay. O'Connor worked tirelessly up the legal ladder. After a stint in the Arizona State Senate, she was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court in 1975. In 1979, she was appointed to the Arizona State Court of Appeals. In 1981 , Ronald Reagan appointed her to the US Supreme Court fulfilling a pledge that he had made during his 1980 presidential campaign to appoint the first woman to the Court.
Bibliography
<p>PBS, Biography of the Robes: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/robes_oconnor.html">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/robes_oconnor.html</a></p>
<p>Decisions and biographical data, Cornell University Law School: <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/oconnor.bio.html">http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/oconnor.bio.html</a></p>
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Law
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An account of the resource
First woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court
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Amy French
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Title
A name given to the resource
Reform (Social or Labor)
Description
An account of the resource
The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1939
Death Date
1945
Occupation
War workers
Biographical Text
Geraldine Hoff Doyle is the real life model for the famous World War II woman-worker recruitment poster titled “We Can Do It!” A photographer from the United Press snapped a photo of Doyle wearing the iconic polka-dotted bandana made famous on the poster depicting a woman flexing her muscle. Doyle didn’t know until 1984 that it was she who inspired the print and the name “Rosie the Riveter”. "Rosie" symbolizes the many women who entered the workforce in World War II to help the Allied forces win the war. Although denied equal pay and discriminated against, American women fought the war from the plants, many of them choosing to stay in paid employment after the war.
Bibliography
<p>Anderson, Karen. <em>Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II.</em> (New York: Berkley Books, 2001).</p>
<p>Wise, Nancy Baker and Christy Wise. <em>A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II.</em> (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994).</p>
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Rosie the Riveter
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Working women during WWII
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Example of the varied positions that women took on during World War II that were outside the "accepted" sphere for women
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Amy French
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Reform (Social or Labor)
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An account of the resource
The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1880
Birthplace
Russia
Death Date
1925
Occupation
Garment worker
Biographical Text
The story of Rose Gollup Cohen's life is one of the standard immigrant worker. Cohen was sent from her home of Russia to the United States (he father had already emigrated) to escape Russian persecution of Jewish families. Born Rahel, she changed her name to Rose to avoid discrimination. She went to work in the sweatshops of the garment industry to help her father raise money to secure passage for her mother and siblings. Rose may have looked at the newly installed Statue of Liberty and thought that with a woman standing watch over its harbor that the US was truly an equitable place—she would have been incredibly wrong. Cohen lived in a slum area called a tenement—dirty, rundown, crowded buildings where workers lived and disease and violence was rampant. At work, she continually suffered sexual harassment. The first sentence that she learned in English was, "Keep your hands off, please." (Cohen, 85) Although not her first language, Cohen became comfortable enough writing English to publish an autobiography, <em>Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood in the Lower East Side. </em>In her story, Cohen provides a detailed account of the garment trade, unionization, and the life of a Jewish immigrant. Her autobiography and other writings detail the poor treatment of workers, and those of immigrants. Wage-earning women were treated as dispensable. They were used and abused and then tossed away when the industrial machine had taken their value. Cohen managed to gain an education and rise above the sweatshop, but her death at the age of 45 under uncertain circumstances (thought to be suicide) provides a tragic ending to her story.
Bibliography
<p>Cohen, Rose. <em>Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood in the Lower East Side</em>. (New York: George H. Doren Co., 1918). Original copy available for free download on Google books.</p>
<p>Kessler-Harris, Alice<em>. Out to Work: a History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States</em>. (Oxford University Press, 2003).</p>
<p>Jewish Women's Archive: <a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohen-rose-gollup">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohen-rose-gollup</a></p>
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Rose Gollup Cohen
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Sweatshop labor
Description
An account of the resource
Immigrant sweatshop worker who wrote about the abuses suffered by workers during the Industrial Revolution
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Amy French
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
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Title
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Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences
Description
An account of the resource
The broad collection of "Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences" highlights those women who dared in the areas of the arts (visual and performing), the humanities (philosophy, law, history, literature, religion, languages, communication), and the social sciences ( anthropology, archaeology, sociology, economics, psychology, political science). It also includes female intellectuals who were excluded from formal methods of education, but who advanced our collective knowledge of the aforementioned fields. Each of the fields represented started off as a male-dominated field. Although women have integrated all of these areas, they are still not representative in many such as religion, political science, law, economics, psychology, archaeology, history, and so on. This collection hopes to expand the readers' knowledge of women in these subjects and encourage their further study by women.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1864
Birthplace
Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, USA
Death Date
1922
Occupation
Journalist, industrialist
Biographical Text
Nellie Bly was the penname of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. As a teenager, Cochrane wrote a letter to the editor of the local Pittsburgh paper to refute a misogynistic article that the paper had printed. The editor was impressed with her writing and offered her a job. Her first story focused on the plight of working women. Eventually, Joseph Pulitzer of the <em>New York World</em> newspaper heard of her writing and offered her a position at this paper. Cochrane faked insanity in front of a judge and went undercover to expose the real story of how patients at asylums were treated. Her investigate journalistic style was original for the time. After Jules Verne published <em>Around the World in 80 Days</em>, Cochrane left on a trip and did it in 72—just to prove that it could be done. She investigated prison conditions and her writing was a boon to social reformers. After marriage in 1895, she left writing for some time. It was thought unseemly for married women of a certain status to work outside the home. Her husband died in 1904 and Cochrane became one of the leading female industrialists of the time. She went back to writing and covered the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. She then reported from the Eastern European front in World War I. She died in 1922.<br /><br />"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly-a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly."--Nellie Bly<br /><br />"People of the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed neverending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of." --Nellie Bly<br /><br /><em>Ten Days in a Mad-House</em> by Nellie Bly: <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html<br /><br /><br /></a>
Bibliography
<p>Kroeger, Brooke. <em>Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist</em>. (New York: Times Books, 1994).</p>
<p>Nellie Bly--a Resource Website: <a href="http://www.nellieblyonline.com/">http://www.nellieblyonline.com/</a></p>
<p>National Women's History Museum: <a href="http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/youngandbrave/bly.html">http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/youngandbrave/bly.html<br /><br /></a>Biography.com website on Nellie Bly: <a title="Biography.com website on Nellie Bly" href="http://www.biography.com/people/nellie-bly-9216680#synopsis">http://www.biography.com/people/nellie-bly-9216680#synopsis</a></p>
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Elizabeth Jane Cochrane "Nellie Bly"
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Journalism
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Investigative report who revolutionized journalism
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Amy French
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feminism
investigate reporting
journalism
New York World