women's rights Archives - The American Scholar

The Firebrand and the First Lady

By Stephanie Bastek | 02/08/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Patricia Bell-Scott’s book about Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray

Privilege

By Diana Goetsch | 01/20/2016 |

Now that I’ve joined an oppressed minority …

Do Female Lives Matter?

By Judith Hooper | 10/14/2015 |

Uncovering forgotten history through fiction

Letter from Kakuma Camp, Kenya: Nowhere Girl

By Neil Shea | 03/04/2015 |

Ladies Last

By Brenda Wineapple | 06/10/2013 |

After the Civil War, both women and black men struggled to win the vote. Why the men succeeded