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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
November 12 - November 18
Birthdays
November 12
- In 1651, Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexico, poet/nun/feminist, whom the
Roman Catholic church made sell her 4,000 volume library and renounce
any desire for broad knowledge.
- In 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist (History of Woman Suffrage
(1881-1922) written with Susan B. Anthony and Joseyln Gage).
- In 1903, Bodil Begtrup, Danish delegate to United Nations and chair
of the UN Status of Women subcommission (1946). Under her direction
the first international statement for the Human Rights of Women was
adopted in 1946.
November 13
- In 1897, Tily Edinger, paleoneurologist, vertebrate
paleontologist. Her work was in the study of fossil brains,
proving that each species evolved its brain to its own needs.
November 14
- In 1907, Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer primarily of children's
books (Pippi Longstocking).
November 15
- In 1887, Georgia O'Keefe, painter.
Happenings
November 13
- In 1974, Karen Silkwood was killed in a car crash under suspicious
circumstances.
November 17
- In 1558, Elizabeth I, ascended the throne of England and
immediately settled the religious wars by siding with the Protestant
moderates. The daughter of beheaded Ann Boleyn, she had a brutal childhood
that included prison and the threat of death as her father, syphilis-infected
Henry VIII, became more and more irrational as he went
through wife after wife trying to get a healthy male heir.
- In 1975, the Supreme Court invalidated a Utah law that
claimed a woman in her third trimester of pregnancy should be presumed
unable to work and therefor not eligible for unemployment benefits.
November 18
- In 1805, 30 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine
and organized the Female Charitable Society (the first woman's club
in America).
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