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Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism
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“With what ineffable pleasure have I not gazed—and gazed again, losing my breath through my eyes—my very soul diffused itself in the scene… I pause, again breathless, to trace, with renewed delight, sentiments which entranced me, when, turning my humid eyes from the expanse below to the vault above, my sight pierced the fleecy clouds that softened the azure brightness; and imperceptibly recalling the reveries of childhood, I bowed before the awful throne of my Creator, whilst I rested on its footstool.” -Mary Wollstonecraft, “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark,” 1796. As an admirer of Mary Wollstonecraft and her 18th century feminist philosophy, it's been a pleasure to study her personal and physical journey in Scandinavia in 1795, as well as to partly follow in her path here in Sweden. This week last year, I published an article entitled “The Scandinavian Salvation of Mary Wollstonecraft,” and share it here as a #TBT. https://abitofhistoryblog.com/2017/11/13/the-scandinavian-salvation-of-mary-wollstonecraft/ Image credit: Northern Lights by Swedish artist Anna Boberg (1864-1935), public domain, courtesy Nationalmuseum Sweden. #history #womenshistory #scandinavia #marywollstonecraft #writeaboutwomen #annaboberg

#OTD (November 14) in 1917, 33 suffragists were systematically beaten by the male guards of the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. This was the culmination of the horrific treatment these women suffered in the workhouse following their imprisonment for “obstructing traffic” while conducting peaceful pro-women’s suffrage protests in front of the White House. Russian-Jewish immigrant Nina Samorodin, who had completed her sentence in Occoquan before the Night of Terror, was one of the women deprived of basic sanitation and hygiene, served rancid food, and subjected to physical mistreatment and beatings for which they were denied critical medical care. One modern account mentions Samorodin’s treatment in Occoquan alongside that of more historically well-known activists, including Lucy Burns: “…prison guards manhandled the suffragists, pushing Lavinia Dock down the stairs, choking and clubbing Dorothy Day, and stripping Lucy Burns of her prison shift and leaving her to huddle in a blanket. A relative of Nina Samarodin [sic], an immigrant from Kiev, wrote the Russian ambassador begging for health care for prisoners; another supporter, Maria Moravsky, charged that Nina would get better treatment in a czarist prison.” (Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States, Vols. 1-2. 2015. Mary Ellen Snodgrass) Nina is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). This image of her is preserved in @libraryof_congress "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" (@nationalwomansparty ) online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). Image credit, including original caption: “Miss Nina Samarodin [sic], of Kiev, Russia, one of the members of the National Woman’s Party who has served a prison sentence for carrying a suffrage banner to one of the White House gates.” Dated 1917. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000162/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #NightofTerror #UnitedStates #Russia #NinaSamorodin #writeaboutwomen

Anne Azgapetian, pictured in 1921, was a passionate and tireless advocate of humanitarian relief for the victims of what is now widely acknowledged as the Armenian Genocide, particularly for women and children. This work brought her into contact with the National Woman's Party (@nationalwomansparty ), and her image is now preserved in The Library of Congress’ (@librarycongress ) "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). Anne was born in Grodno, Russia (now Belarus) in 1888. She and her family emigrated to the U.S., settling in Indianapolis, Indiana, when she was still a child. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1893, trained as a nurse and moved to New York City. Her life took some incredible twists and turns after she married in 1915 General Mesrop Nevton Azgapetian, an ethnic Armenian born in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, in 1865, who had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in the 1890s. She is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). Image credit, including original caption: “Lady Anne Azgapetian, wife of General Azgapetian, of Armenia, who will be one of the many representatives of women of foreign countries who will speak at the convention of the National Woman’s Party during the consideration of a future program.” Dated 1921. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000079/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #UnitedStates #Russia #Armenia #AnneAzgapetian #NationalWomansParty #LibraryofCongress #photographs #writeaboutwomen

In solemn and respectful remembrance. #armisticeday #veteransday #remembranceday

By the time Cuban women won the right to vote in 1933, Amalia Mallén de Ostolaza had been at the forefront of her country's women's suffrage movement for more than 20 years. During that time, she founded three organizations in support of women’s rights: Partido Nacional Feminista (National Feminist Party) in 1912, and Partido Sufgragista (Suffragist Party) and Partido Nacional Sufragista (National Suffragist Party) in 1913. She was also a writer and the editor of two women’s rights publications, including El Sufragista, the official publication of Partido Nacional Sufragista. It was in her capacity of president of Partido Nacional Sufragista that she spoke at the Pan American Conference of Women in Baltimore, Maryland, in April 1922. This image has been preserved in the records of the National Woman's Party and is part of The Library of Congress' (@librarycongress ) "Women of Protest" online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). Amalia is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). Image credit, including original caption: “Amalia E. Mallen de Ostalaza [sic], Pres. of Nat[ional] Suffrage Party of Cuba.” Dated circa 1910-1920. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000144/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #UnitedStates #Cuba #AmaliaMallendeOstalaza #NationalWomansParty #LibraryofCongress #photographs #femalefriday #writeaboutwomen

"The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review" was founded by British activist Dora Marsden (1882-1960) in 1911 as a forum for radical voices within the women's movement, which Marsden felt was dominated by relatively conservative women who focused mainly on suffrage. The essays covered subjects like sexuality, reproduction, gender roles, education, and poverty. The serious and scholarly nature is evident with titles like: "Feminism under the Republic and the Early Empire"; "The Immorality of the Marriage Contract"; "Population and the Food Supply." Unfortunately, the publication lasted only a year. Marsden began publishing its successor, "The New Freewoman," in 1913, which kept the feminist focus while increasing the literary content, but that was also short-lived. "The Egoist" followed in 1914 as a fully literary journal, with Marsden as the first editor. In many ways, Marsden was ahead of her time, and her later philosophical writing was not well-received. She suffered a psychological breakdown after her mother died in 1935, and lived in a sanitarium for the remainder of her life. A database of her publications can be found at: http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=mjp.2005.00.114&view=mjp_object. #history #WomensHistory #feminism #womensrights #womenpublishers #doramarsden #thefreewoman

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