03-08-1995 Women of Achievement and Herstory - March is Women's History
Month ...

      I have a full year Calendar of Events and Women of Achievement and
Herstory available for school or educational use ... one entry per day.
      Email irenestuber@delphi.com and in the SUBJECT LINE, write - Send
Women's Herstory Calendar.
      It is sent in four parts, and contains one listing for each day of the
year.  Please, for educational use only.  I have just finished a NEW
EDITION that corrected some of the errors so those who received the "old"
copy, please write for the new one that was just finished today...03/08/95. 

03-09 Anniversaries ...........................................

     Event 03-09-1906, Irene Miller was arrested for knocking at 10
Downing Street, the home of the British Prime Minister and demanding a
reply to her request to see the prime minister about women's vote.  During
the arrest, Mrs. Flora Drummond dodged inside 10 Downing and was also
arrested.  Annie Kenney was arrested outside for simply speaking to the
crowd that had gathered.  Such were women's rights in England.

     Event 03-09-1907, the Indiana legislature passed "an act to prevent
the procreation of criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists." After 120
operations to sterilize were performed, the act was declared
unconstitutional on the grounds of due process.

     B. 03-09-1935, Keely Smith, pop vocalist, best known number "That
Old Black Magic."

     B. 03-09-1936, Glenda Jackson, English actor, winner of two Academy
Awards, I always remember her as Elizabeth I. 

Quotes du jour ...........................................

     "Let's begin by asking (the expert) about the root causes of
domestic violence.
     " (The expert) sighed and said in a lofty lecturing tone:
     "'Assuming we are talking about more or less normal people, and not
about a true psychopath or sociopath, it is not merely an individual, but
also a social problem.
     "'It is, to some degree, a holdover from male-dominated societies. 
These men believe they have the right, even the obligation, to dictate to
women what they may do, say, wear, be.  
     "'These men blame the women for the beatings.  They see no fault
in themselves, although they may experience enormous guilt afterward. 
Even then, however, they will blame their own guilt and misery on the
women.'
     "'That is right!" (Another expert said, 'In my group counseling, they
say, 'I hated to hit her, I begged her to act right!  If she would only do
what I tell her to, I wouldn't have to hit her!'
     "It is a question of power and dominance - and it is nearly identical
to the rationalization that goes through the minds of a parent who hits a
child." 
     -- Nancy Pickard in _Marriage is Murder_.

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     "The door behind which the battered wife is trapped is the door to
the family home."
     -- Del Martin in _Battered Wives_.

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     "Women are expected to be subservient in Kenya, and beating a wife
is widely considerd no worse than spanking a child."
     -- Associated Press, February 1993.

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     (C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR
71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with
copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there weren't
notable and effective women throughout history.  They were always there,
but historians failed to note them in our histories so that each generation
of women has had to reinvent themselves.