Feminism Is For Everyone

Oct 26, 2008,3:58 PM

FIFE T-shirts!

So, for the back of the T-shirts this semester we're going to have a list of our "heroes." In case you aren't familiar with all of them (I know I wasn't!) here's a brief description:

Sojourner Truth- abolitionist and women's rights activist, speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Eleanor Roosevelt- First Lady, promote status of working women, civil rights
Katherine Hepburn- film actress
Sally Ride- first American woman to go into space
Susan B. Anthony- women's rights and women's suffrage in 19th century
Harriet Tubman- abolitionist, Underground Railroad
Mary Wollstonecraft- A Vindication for the Rights of Women, first woman to run for president,
Judy Chicago- feminist artist, The Dinner Party & The Holocaust Project
Coretta Scott King- Civil Rights Movement (wife of Martin Luther King Jr.)
Amelia Earhart- first woman to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean
Lillian Hellman- playwright
Eartha Kitt- actress and singer
Sacagawea- accompanied Lewis and Clark
Golda Meir- Prime Minister of Israel
Ella Fitzgerald- jazz vocalist
Dorthea Dix- activist for insane, 1st mental asylums
Louisa May Alcott- novelist, Little Women
Billie Jean King- tennis player, beat Bobby Rigs in tennis match ("Battle of the Sexes")
Emily Dickenson- poet, writer
Lucy Stone- abolitionist, suffragist, 1st woman recorded to keep name after marriage
Margaret Sanger- birth control, negative eugenics (founded American Birth Control League which eventually became Planned Parenthood)
Clara Barton- American Red Cross
Billie Holiday- jazz singer and songwriter, nicknamed Lady Day
Betty Friedan- writer, The Feminine Mystique
Elizabeth Blackwell- abolitionist, women's rights, 1st female doctor in US
Rosa Parks- Civil Rights Movement, refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white woman
Alice Paul- suffragist leader, campaigned for 19th Amendment
Barbara Jordan- US House of Representatives
Annie Sullivan- tutored Helen Keller
Agnes de Mille- dancer and choreographer
Corazon Aquino- 1st female president of Philippines, women's empowerment, peace, democracy, religious piety
Gloria Steinem- journalist, social and political activist in 2nd wave feminism, founded Ms. magazine
Rachel Carson- environmental movement, Silent Spring
Joan of Arc- lead French army to victories in Hundred Years' War
Babe Zaharias- athlete (golf, basketball, track and field), named one of most versatile female competators of all time
Marlene Dietrich- actress, singer. & entertainer during World War II
Mother Teresa- humanitarain, won Nobel Peace Prize and Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilain honor)
Anne Frank- victim of the Holocaust, diary is one of world's most widely read books
Simone de Beauvoir- author and philosopher, The Second Sex

(I'm sure there's tons of stuff I've left out- I just did a quick Wikipedia search. Feel free to add anything!)