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...

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...

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