Pioneers of the Women's Liberation Movement (description) ★ Impressions: History of Feminism

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In celebration of 100 years International Women's Day. A selection of pioneers of the women's movement, who lived in the 18th to the middle of the 20th Century, except the first woman! :-)) These suffragettes still have an impact on our lives even if we are not aware of it. In remembrance of the first International Women's Day, 19 March 1911★ Later it became the 8th of March in memory of the textile strike, 8 March 1857 in New York and textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912. "Bread and Roses" poem 1911/12 by James Oppenheim; dedicated to the strikers and in 1976 set to music by Mimi Farina Baez, the sister of Joan Baez. ★ DIGNITY, FREEDOM, HUMANITY and SOCIAL EQUALITY itself is universal, indivisible, and has neither gender nor a nation! ☮ 01 - Sappho the Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesvos, circa 630-612 BC - 570 BC. Painting: Sappho (Manchester Art Gallery, UK) 1877 by French painter Charles-August Mengin. 02 - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. 03 - Anne Lister (1791 - 1840) was a well-off Yorkshire landowner, diarist, traveller and known as "the first modern lesbian" for her clear self-knowledge and openly lesbian lifestyle. 04 - FANNY WRIGHT (1795 - 1852) first American woman who spoke publicly against slavery and for the equality of women. 05 - Flora Tristan (1803 - 1844) French socialist writer, activist and one of the founders of modern feminism. 06 - George Sand (1804 - 1876) birth name: Amantine Lucile Dupin but better known by her pseudonym. She was a French novelist, memoirist and she published numerous social-critical articles in which she demanded the emancipation of women. 07 - Pauline Roland (1805 - 1852) French feminist and socialist. 08 - Louise Otto-Peters (1819 - 1895) Initiator of the first German women's movement. 09 - Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) a pioneer of modern nursing. 10 - Tennessee Claflin (1844 - 1923) American suffragette and stockbroker and her sister... Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 - 1927) radical feminist, journalist, suffragette, stockbroker & a symbol of "free love". 11 - Anita Augspurg (1857 - 1943) German lawyer, women's rights activist and a pacifist. 12 - Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) and her 3 daughters, Christabel (1880- 1958), Sylvia (1882-1960), Adela (1885-1961) were activists of the British suffragette movement. In 1914 the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) agreed to end their militant activities and some members help the war effort. Sylvia Pankhurst disagreed with the WSPU's support for the war and joined the Women's Peace Army. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WpankhurstS.htm 13 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist and writer of short stories, poetry etc. 14 - Clara Zetkin (1857 - 1933) German feminist socialist activist. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933. 15 - Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940) a feminist anarchist well known for her political activism, writing and speeches in North America and Europe. 16 - Käthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) is one of the most well known German political artists of the 20th Century. 17 - Rosa Luxemburg (1871 - 15 Jan. 1919) Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, comrade of Clara Zetkin in the Spartacist League & Communist Party of Germany (KPD). She became arrested/murdered in Berlin. 18 - Alexandra Kollontai (1872 - 1952) Russian Social-Democrat, from 1890 active in international socialist women's movement. The first woman who was elected to Central Committee in 1917. 19 - Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) American feminist writer, publisher and art collector who lived in Paris. 20 - Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) British writer and publisher. With her avant-garde work, she belongs as Gertrude Stein to the first women of the modern classics. Virginia also influenced feminist writer Vita Sackville-West (1892 - 1962) who was her friend and lover. (Orlando) Later pictures: - Parliamentary election, the first time women allowed to vote, in illustration drawn by F. Matania. United Kingdom, Dec. 18, 1918 - 8th of March 1929 International Women's Day in Vienna. "We don't wanna be second class human beings!" - May Day demonstration 1930/1931. Front banner: "Women out! Women wake up! In your hands lies the power in your will is the victory; Class war!"