Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt that the stirrings of emancipated women rocked Islam's elders most, for it took place in the very shadow of the mosques and chambers where the high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...
...already ventured experimentally into the world of unions, of feminist movements, of the "ill fed and ill housed." She began the incessant traveling, the incessant high-voiced speeches, the incessant do-gooding of the New Deal...
...clashed most frequently with the French philosophers, e.g., Rousseau, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Condorcet and their disciples. Adams reveals himself as one of the greatest conservatives who ever helped to make a revolution. Sample dialogue between Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft, mother-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an ardent feminist, and author of an urgent work entitled Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution...
Died. Anne Morgan, 78, youngest of Financier J. Pierpont Morgan's four children, philanthropic Francophile, kid-gloved feminist; of a coronary occlusion; in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Turning her hereditary power drive to good works, she plunged into war relief during World War I with her American Committee for Devastated France, was at it again in World War II with her American Friends of France, became the first American woman to be made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor. Between wars, as longtime (1928-43) president of the American Woman's Association, she was a suave...
...live in these surroundings for four years hopes to get out of them is unclear. Like their male counterparts, many Smith girls have only fuzzy notions about what they expect to do once they get their degrees. Rarely do they want a career, in a sense that a feminist of the twenties insisted upon a career. Often what they look forward to is a job which can serve as a worthwhile way to spend time between marriage and graduation, and then, preferably, between marriage and children. The mating-instinct, as one magazine writer noted, is strong; marriage is the number...