Welcome to Femilogue!
These pages include a sampling of the women who forged our nation—abolitionists and artists, suffragists and scientists, authors and athletes, inventors, public servants, and more.
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a
world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human
enterprise and women are at the margin “helping” them. Such a world does not
exist—never has. Men and women have built society and have built the world.
Women have been central to it. This revolutionary insight is itself a force, a
force that liberates and transforms.
—Gerda Lerner, historian
Note: I intended to commemorate a woman each day of the year. Any gaps are due to my inefficiency and not to a lack of accomplished women to choose from! With any luck (or fortitude) I will fill in the blanks over the coming weeks and months.