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A Pedestal Is A Prison, Like Any Confined Space
Gloria Steinem at an event in 2013.
A pedestal is as much a prison has any small,
confined space.
Here are some of my favorite quotes of feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, as Women’s History Month comes to a close.
If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top. Read the rest of this entry
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My Mom v. Stanford
By Blair Crangle-Hall
My mother, Colleen Crangle, was the first woman to take a sex discrimination case to trial against Stanford University.
In 1995, after receiving a Ph.D. at Stanford in Logic and The Philosophy of Science and Language she joined the university’s academic staff and was soon recruited to a bioinformatics research group. The American Medical Informatics Association presented her with a prestigious award, and an article in The Biochemist recognized that she had quickly established a reputation for excellence.
Sounds picture perfect. But it was not. Read the rest of this entry
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Grandma and Susan B Anthony
Queen of the Platform by Laura Madeline Wiseman
Imagine having a great-great-great-grandmother who fought for “votes for women” alongside Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Poet, Laura Madeline Wiseman’s great-great-great-grandmother, Matilda Fletcher Wiseman did just that.
Collected letters and newspaper clippings inspired a book of poetry that Ms. Wiseman calls, Queen of the Platform.
What prompted Matilda Fletcher Wiseman to join the lecture circuit? Luck, opportunity, the death of her only child, and a need for income. Talent and hope for the future, too.
It’s interesting to see the portrait Matilda Fletcher Wiseman paints of Susan B Anthony in her up-close-and-personal brushes with the icon:
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