Qiu Jin

Like any girl from the Qing dynasty and long before, going as far back as 900 AD, Qui Jin's feet were bound at a young age. Foot-binding was the traditional method of ensuring a captive female in a society which revered the males and disregarded the females within its hierarchy. Once a female's feet were...

The Raven

By Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—     While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my...

WHO CARES? Thoughts on Apathy

WHO CARES? Thoughts on Apathy, is a memoir written not because I think my life would be so interesting to others, but because life is so interesting to me. The pages herein will test the mud on everything from homelessness in America to DIY projects gone awry. We will be murking through the sludgy, slurping...

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The Proposal

Unfettered A global arena of the fairer sex An exploration of an archetype unfettered by geographical and geopolitical restraints and undaunted by time By Tami Richards A Book Proposal CONTENTS Introduction .............................................................................. The Case for a series of Heroic Vignettes …............................ Overview ….............................................................................. About the Author …................................................................ Length and Timetable …......................................................... INTRODUCTION The hero is...

Heroic Vignettes, Feminine Americans

The Players: Toypurina Deborah Samson Gannett Dorothea Lynde Dix Madam C.J. Walker Mary Jane McLeod Bethune Hazel Hall Dorothea Lange Katherine Sui Fun Cheung Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias Graciela Gil Olivarez

Biblio

The Bibliophile ---Book lover--- We live for books. Umberto Eco Some people read cereal boxes, encyclopedia entries, shampoo bottles, recipes, discographies, filmographies, and nearly every genre of recorded fiction and nonfiction imaginable. Old books, new books, hardback or paper. They read novels and the specs of engineering and mechanical marvels such as the Golden Gate...

Unfettered, A global history of women shedding their victimhood

Click here to read The Proposal Book One: Feminine Americans Book Two: Feminine West Africans Book Three: Feminine Europeans Book Five: Feminine Chinese Nien Cheng Book Six: Feminine Australians Book Seven: Feminine Russians/East Europeans Book Eight: Feminine South Americans Anabel Hernandez World map from the LOC. Where should we go next?

Heroic Vignettes, Book Eight: Feminine South Americans

Dandara of Palmares 17th century freedom fighter protecting freed and escaped slaves. Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Bolivia, South America Juana Azurduy was a leader of the Bolivian revolution in the 19th century. She fought for freedom from Spain's rule with such vigor as to attain the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Azurduy Leona Vicario. Despite having...

Opal Whiteley

Before long the public began to accuse Opal of writing the diary as an adult, not as a child, which became quite a scandal.

Graciela Gil Olivarez

(March 9, 1928 – September 19, 1987) Graciela Gil grew up in a small town near Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Damian Gil Valero was an immigrant from Spain and her mother, Eloisa Solis Valero, a Mexican-American. Damian Gil Valero worked as a machinist in the copper mines in order to provide for his five children....

Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias

(June 26, 1914 - September 27, 1956) “Before I was even into my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived." Mildred Zaharias THIS LIFE I’VE LED, 1955 Mildred Didriksen was so good at sports that the kids she...

Katherine Sui Fun Cheung

(December 12, 1904 - September 2, 2003) During the mid 1800’s the Chinese began coming to America in great droves with hopes of digging enough gold to support their families back home or to lay enough railroad tracks to earn a decent living. Looked upon by most of society as coolies, or unskilled laborers, the...

Dorothea Lange

(May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) Dorothea Lange was born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn in Hoboken, N.J. At the age of seven she contracted polio which left her with a life-long limp. Around the time that Dorothea was twelve years old, her father abandoned the family and Dorothea’s mother changed her surname back to her...

Hazel Hall

(February 7, 1886 – May 11, 1924) THREE GIRLS Three school girls pass this way each day, Two of them go in the fluttery way Of girls, with all that girlhood buys: But one goes with a dream in her eyes. Two of them have the eyes of girls Whose hair is learning scorn of...

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune

(July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955) “Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.” ---Mary Jane McLeod Bethune In 1875 Mary Jane McLeod was born near Mayesville South Carolina to former slaves Samuel and Patsy McIntosh McLeod. Mary Jane was the fifteenth of...

Madam C.J. Walker

(December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919) Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove, the fifth child of Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove. She was the first free-born child of the Breedloves, who were raising their six children in a small sharecroppers shack on a cotton plantation in Delta, Louisiana. When Sarah was seven years...

Dorothea Lynde Dix

(April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887) Dorothea (Christened Dorothy) Lynde Dix was born a pseudo-pauper, for although her paternal grandparents were well-off, her father and mother were rather underfunded. Dorothea was born to Joseph and Mary Dix on a tract of land owned by Joseph’s father, Elijah Dix, in Hampden, Maine. Her father was...

Whatever happened to Dorothea Lynde Dix and Nelly Bly?

An observation of Dorothea Lynde Dix and Nellie Bly concluding that a society neglecting it’s most vulnerable population is indeed wholly poor in virtue. "The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern." Proverbs 29:7 NIV. As a child, Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was a pseudo-pauper, for although her...

Toypurina

    TOYPURINA (1760 - 1799) Toypurina was of the Tongva Tribe near what is now known as the Los Angeles Basin area. As a young child she reveled in the native ways of her tribe, the Kumi-Vit, who had lived in the same area for hundreds of years and knew each rock and tree...