Lydia Moland

So happy to see this getting so close, so looking forward to reading!

Here she is with Jane Addams, am I right? And is Addams actually *smiling*? (Rare.)

#philsky #womenshistory #herstory #janeaddams

I'm loving Melinda Plastas' book that puts Addie Hunton in the context of women's #WWI #peace activism.

Hunton also traveled to Haiti with Emily Balch (see Day 11!) to document US occupation there as part of a Women's International League for Peace and Freedom delegation.

@wilpf.bsky.social #IWD

Day 12 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US #peace activist and organizer Addie Hunton!

Hunton rethought Black #internationalism and promoted racial justice as a condition of peace. To quote Melinda Plastas, she “helped usher in a reconfigured Black political consciousness."

#herstory #blackhistory

Thank you and for your fabulous podcast!

Am listening to Courtney B. Vance’s audiobook reading of David Levering Lewis’s bio of WEB Du Bois and it is a MASTERPIECE.

I have 12 hours to go on vol 1 and never want it to end.

Happy birthday to an incredible voice.

Thank you so much! Credit goes to these fascinating women themselves . . .

American Feminist Socialism 1830–1930: A Century of Social Experimentation AbstractCritics have used the labels “socialism” and “feminism” to vilify American reform movements since the term socialism came into the American lexicon

For more on Emily Green Balch: Judy Whipps traces the history of Balch and other fascinating feminist socialists like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Florence Kelley here--

#womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #pacifism #philsky

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Day11 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch!

Balch rethought economic justice for immigrants and working women. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for rethinking international law and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

#herstory

Congratulations! Please take that day off but tell us your title in the meantime!

Love this! Huge thanks to Anna and Katie for making a brilliant thinker more accessible

For more on Zetkin, this wonderful podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
#philsky #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth @kristingjesdal.bsky.social @herplacepod.bsky.social @ennhistphil.bsky.social

For more on Helene Stöcker, here's a short piece I wrote in @psyche.co last year--her complicated fight against war and fascism is more relevant than ever.

#womenshistorymonth #herstory

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Day 10 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: German philosopher, feminist, and pacifist Helene Stöcker!

Stöcker used #Nietzsche to rethink the value of the values holding women back. She also rethought the value of war; her radical #pacifism forced her to flee the Nazis in 1933.

#womenshistory #philsky

Ballot Blocked Episode 2 - The Transnational Activism of Mary Church Terrell (U.S. National Park Service)

For more on Mary Church Terrell's pacifist activism, I loved this interview with Dr. Noaquia Callahan Banks.
#womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #blackhistory

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Day 9 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US suffragist & activist Mary Church Terrell.

Terrell rethought #pacifism to foreground racial justice, arguing that “you may talk about permanent peace till doomsday, but the world will never have it till the darker races are given a square deal.”

#herstory

Clara Zetkin with Kristin Gjesdal

For more on Zetkin, I highly recommend @kristingjesdal.bsky.social's incisive interview with @herplacepod.bsky.social, especially re Zetkin's analysis of fascism. She died in exile in 1933--she knew what she was talking about.

#IWD #IWD2026 #herstory #womenshistory

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Day 8 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld HAD to be philosopher Clara Zetkin!

Zetkin rethought women's role in socialism, insisting on working women's inclusion in feminism. She also originated International Women's Day!

#herstory #IWD #womeninphilosophy #IWD2026

American Idealists: Redrawing the Social Order AbstractThis chapter charts the critical reception of Hegel’s social and political philosophy in the hands of Susan Blow, Anna Brackett, and Marietta Kies,

Andreja Novakovic wrote beautifully about Blow and other American women Hegelians here: it's a rich tradition!

#philsky #Hegel #womenshistory
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Day 7 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and educator Susan E. Blow

Blow rethought American education by using Hegel (yes, Hegel) to advocate for American kindergartens. Opposing industrialized schooling, she insisted on play as a crucial to all children’s education.

#herstory

I hope they also stock Hegel.

Great tip. Am doing this now by reading Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Jessie Fauset as I research Mary Church Terrell’s pacifism. All three are fabulous thinkers and writers!

Staël’s Influence on Cooper and Alcott AbstractThe works of French Revolution–era philosopher Germaine de Staël were popular in nineteenth-century America. Her conception of human perfectibility

Bad news, good news: in posting about @sandrineankara.bsky.social's wonderful essay about Anna Julia Cooper, I accidentally attached ANOTHER wonderful essay about Cooper by Rachel Falkenstern. An embarrassment of riches! Apologies to Prof Bergès and here is the right one!
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Day 6 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Hungarian feminist Rosika Schwimmer!

A radical #pacifist & refugee, Schwimmer rethought American citizenship by refusing to swear to take up arms to defend the country. She took her case to the US Supreme Court & lost in 1929. She died stateless

#womenshistory

Anna Julia Cooper and Philosophy AbstractAnna Julia Cooper (1858/9–1964) was an intellectual powerhouse, dedicated educator, and tireless activist, best known for her Black feminism. Her w

For more, see @sandrineankara.bsky.social 's wonderful essay tracing Germaine de Stäel's influence on Anna Julia Cooper and Louisa May Alcott

#philsky #womeninphilosophy #louisamayalcott #womenshistorymonth #herstory

Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper!

Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.”

#blackhistory

I got caught in the middle of a smuggling ring on a train between Estonia and Warsaw in the mid 1990s

Congratulations to @sandrineankara.bsky.social and @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social on this important book!
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory #herstory

Continuing to listen to David Levering Lewis's riveting biography of Du Bois.

In today's chapter, Lewis suggested that Du Bois combined the voices of Sojourner Truth and Schopenhauer and I have not been able to think straight since.

#DuBois #sojournertruth #blackhistory #schopenhauer #philsky

Thank you--so enlightening, if discouraging, to read this history.

Christine Ladd-Franklin AbstractChristine Ladd-Franklin was an American mathematician, logician, psychologist, and philosopher who studied at Vassar and Johns Hopkins and worked i

Read more on Christine Ladd-Franklin here!
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #herstory #womenshistory
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