Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aphrodisiac Arabian tales, these sketches are almost feminist documents. Author Celarie tells only what Moroccan women told her about their shut-in lives. Batoul's husband wanted to divorce her, nagged her to admit she had a lover till in desperation she fell into the trap. His concealed lawyer-witnesses made the divorce. Batoul was sent away; when her son was born he was taken from her; she never...
...relationships. To aid the unwary reader who does not realize that No Surrender is a sequel to The Rebel Generation, she has prefaced this book with a revealing but formidable genealogical table. Good and caustic when it comes to describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director of the Leyden gas works. Other translated books: Tantalus, The House of Joy, Jenny Heysten's Career...
...sleeping dog was somewhat rudely roused last Saturday night, January 24, at the Massachusetts Business and Professional Women's dinner in the Hotel Bellevue, when Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, notable militant and feminist, touched on the subject of the late-lamented scrubwomen. She suggested that the $25,000 which was left the University by the late A. E. Pillsbury to combat feminism, should be devoted in part to returning the scrubwomen to their homes, in accordance with Mr. Pillsbury's wish that "college authorities create and develop sound public opinion against impairment of the family by taking women...
...unsolicited, embarrassing bequest came with the New Year to Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale, when the will of the late Albert Enoch Pillsbury, onetime Attorney General of Massachusetts, who died last month at the age of 81, was made public. Said the will: "Believing that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her in politics, government or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as a basis of civilization and its advance, I bequeath to Harvard. Yale, Princeton and Columbia colleges $25,000 each . . . [to be used] toward creating...
Awarded. To Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 71, feminist; by Pictorial Review: $5,000 for being "the U. S. woman who contributed most to her country in the year...