#firstwavefeminism

[victoriamartinezwriter]

By the time Cuban women won the right to vote in 1933, Amalia Mallén de Ostolaza had been at the forefront of her country’s women’s suffrage movement for more than 20 years. During that time, she founded three organizations in support of women’s rights: Partido Nacional Feminista (National Feminist Party) in 1912, and Partido Sufgragista (Suffragist Party) and Partido Nacional Sufragista (National Suffragist Party) in 1913. She was also a writer and the editor of two women’s rights publications, including El Sufragista, the official publication of Partido Nacional Sufragista.

It was in her capacity of president of Partido Nacional Sufragista that she spoke at the Pan American Conference of Women in Baltimore, Maryland, in April 1922. This image has been preserved in the records of the National Woman’s Party and is part of The Library of Congress’ (@librarycongress ) “Women of Protest” online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/).

Amalia is one of the six women featured in my article, “Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism” (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT).

Image credit, including original caption: “Amalia E. Mallen de Ostalaza [sic], Pres. of Nat[ional] Suffrage Party of Cuba.” Dated circa 1910-1920. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000144/).

#History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #UnitedStates #Cuba #AmaliaMallendeOstalaza #NationalWomansParty #LibraryofCongress #photographs #femalefriday #writeaboutwomen https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp9t-ndA1XJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tj5938r4rs0h

[victoriamartinezwriter]

When this photo of Me-Iung Ting (1891–1969) was taken in 1919, an extraordinary medical career was ahead of her. Behind her was a bold escape from an arranged marriage and traditional life in China. Her dedication to women’s rights and health were reflected in her actions and activities throughout her life, and her presence at the first International Conference of Women Physicians in New York in the fall of 1919 was significant. In her senior year as a medical student at the University of Michigan Medical school, she was already committed to smashing the barriers preventing widespread sexual and reproductive health knowledge. She wrote to a friend in April 1919: “Really no man or woman should be married without some knowlege [sic] of sex hygiene. This subject is important because it concerns the present and the future. This is a new age. We can speak about the reproductive organs as any other parts of the body. I do not know the custom here, but in China we girls were never taught of these things. It was considered something we should not know. I hope to do a good deal of lecture work along these common things. I told you that I wanted to study public health. I guess I might have to go into general practice for a few years first.” (Source: The Me-Iung Ting Letters, 1915-1925. Mount Holyoke College Collection: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~dalbino/letters/mting1.html) Me-Iung’s image has been preserved in the records of the National Woman’s Party and is part of The Library of Congress's "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). She is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). Image credit, including original caption: “Miss Ting in attendance at the International Conference of Women Physicians being held at the Y.W.C.A. headquarters in New York. Miss Ting is a senior medical student at Michigan Medical University.” Dated 1919. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000176/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #China https://www.instagram.com/p/BqsOdMCAwRE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fge3zaisxdru

[victoriamartinezwriter]

This rather romantic image of French suffragist Emma Anatole France (Emma Thibault, née Laprévotte; 1871-1930) appeared on the cover of the September 3, 1927 issue of Equal Rights, a magazine published by the U.S. women’s rights organization the National Woman’s Party (NWP). Only seven years earlier, she had been the housekeeper of French writer Anatole France (François-Anatole Thibault) and the former chambermaid of his late mistress, the French literary hostess Madame Arman de Caillavet. Emma and France married in 1920, and the following year France won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The marriage apparently ensured that Emma was well-provided for after France’s death and could spend at least part of her time as a women’s rights activist, including serving as a member of the NWP’s International Advisory Committee. Unfortunately, she did not live to see French women secure the vote, a right they finally achieved in 1944. This image of her has been preserved in the records of the National Woman’s Party and is part of The Library of Congress's "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). Emma is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). Image credit, including original caption: “Emma Anatole France, Member, Int’l Advisory Comm. [of the NWP].” Dated circa 1927. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000016/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #France #UnitedStates #EmmaAnatoleFrance #EmmaLaprevotte #NationalWomansParty #LibraryofCongress #photographs #writeaboutwomen https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXmZHLARXN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pkwg9j99pp9o

[victoriamartinezwriter]

#OTD (November 14) in 1917, 33 suffragists were systematically beaten by the male guards of the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. This was the culmination of the horrific treatment these women suffered in the workhouse following their imprisonment for “obstructing traffic” while conducting peaceful pro-women’s suffrage protests in front of the White House. Russian-Jewish immigrant Nina Samorodin, who had completed her sentence in Occoquan before the Night of Terror, was one of the women deprived of basic sanitation and hygiene, served rancid food, and subjected to physical mistreatment and beatings for which they were denied critical medical care. One modern account mentions Samorodin’s treatment in Occoquan alongside that of more historically well-known activists, including Lucy Burns: “…prison guards manhandled the suffragists, pushing Lavinia Dock down the stairs, choking and clubbing Dorothy Day, and stripping Lucy Burns of her prison shift and leaving her to huddle in a blanket. A relative of Nina Samarodin [sic], an immigrant from Kiev, wrote the Russian ambassador begging for health care for prisoners; another supporter, Maria Moravsky, charged that Nina would get better treatment in a czarist prison.” (Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States, Vols. 1-2. 2015. Mary Ellen Snodgrass) Nina is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). This image of her is preserved in @libraryof_congress "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" (@nationalwomansparty ) online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). Image credit, including original caption: “Miss Nina Samarodin [sic], of Kiev, Russia, one of the members of the National Woman’s Party who has served a prison sentence for carrying a suffrage banner to one of the White House gates.” Dated 1917. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000162/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #NightofTerror #UnitedStates #Russia #NinaSamorodin #writeaboutwomen https://www.instagram.com/p/BqKwSialy0W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nusxf32w83x1

[victoriamartinezwriter]

Anne Azgapetian, pictured in 1921, was a passionate and tireless advocate of humanitarian relief for the victims of what is now widely acknowledged as the Armenian Genocide, particularly for women and children. This work brought her into contact with the National Woman's Party (@nationalwomansparty ), and her image is now preserved in The Library of Congress’ (@librarycongress ) "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" online photograph collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/). Anne was born in Grodno, Russia (now Belarus) in 1888. She and her family emigrated to the U.S., settling in Indianapolis, Indiana, when she was still a child. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1893, trained as a nurse and moved to New York City. Her life took some incredible twists and turns after she married in 1915 General Mesrop Nevton Azgapetian, an ethnic Armenian born in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, in 1865, who had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in the 1890s. She is one of the six women featured in my article, "Faces of Diversity in American First-Wave Feminism" (https://wp.me/p95c4A-fT). Image credit, including original caption: “Lady Anne Azgapetian, wife of General Azgapetian, of Armenia, who will be one of the many representatives of women of foreign countries who will speak at the convention of the National Woman’s Party during the consideration of a future program.” Dated 1921. Courtesy Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000079/). #History #WomensHistory #FirstWaveFeminism #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage #UnitedStates #Russia #Armenia #AnneAzgapetian #NationalWomansParty #LibraryofCongress #photographs #writeaboutwomen https://www.instagram.com/p/BqFbH9OFw3t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n5qlk3rwgk9f

[pleaseusetheformal-usted]

#WonderGirl wearing a t shirt saying "Hands Off I'm Mine" t shirt while posing as a runaway thief is life #DC #dccomics #teentitans #teentitanswasteland #donnatroy #firstwavefeminism

[cartysfolly]

Happy International Working Women's Day. As it was known originally. #1916 leader Countess Markiewitz featured. #women #feminist #firstwavefeminism #li www.writingsinrhyme.com

[misslocs]

The gender/culture exclusive realness in Mellie's slap though? O_O Yes I'm still thinking about it.