Tag: women’s rights

• An Ideal Woman and Why We Hate Her

  “. . . she carried out her duties as mistress of a small family with ‘piety, patience, frugality and industry’. Moreover, ‘… her ardent and unceasing flow of spirits, extreme activity and diligence, her punctuality, uprightness and remarkable frugality, combined with a firm reliance on God … carried her through the severest times of pressure,…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 11, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Women, Writing

  19th century, 19th century manners, abortion, cult of womanhood, Feminism, Men, pro-choice, Relativism, sex, women, women’s rights

• A Paradoxical Woman

  Helen Rosen Woodward sure had strong opinions. She made a way for herself in the world of advertizing when most of her female co-workers at the office were against suffrage. She was the first female account executive in the US and credited her success to having marketable talents and a likeable personality. In 1959 she…

  Adrienne Morris

  January 14, 2014

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, History, The Unknowable Past, Women

  Advertizing, Editors, Feminizing Men, History of Magazines, Opinionated Women, United States, Women’s Magazines, women’s rights, Writers