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  • Newcomb College, 1886-2006

    Higher Education for Women in New Orleans

    Edited by Susan Tucker, Beth Willinger ...
    In 1886, Josephine Louise Newcomb donated funds to Tulane University for the founding of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College. Her contribution created the nation's first degree-granting coordinate college for women. For more than a century, Newcomb College educated thousands of young women in the liberal arts and sciences, preparing them for positions in the civic and economic world of New ... Read more

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  • Louisiana Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    Series Book 16 - Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
    Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of ... Read more

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    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Read more

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    Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

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    The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideasOn a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world.It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club*.* Its members were ... Read more

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