| 11-23 TABLE of CONTENTS:
White Male Attitudes
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Voltaraine de Cleyre.
Excerpt from Herstory
"My discussion concentrates
upon two broad areas: upon the ideology held concerning women, children,
blacks, American Indians, and foreigners and upon the reality of
their lives...
"Among my particular concerns... is the similar
treatment that WASMs (white, Anglo-Saxon males) gave to all human beings
other than themselves, as well as to the environment. There are more similarities
than differences between the white male attitude toward women, Indians,
black slaves, forest, and wildlife than historians have realized. [This
book] though largely concerned with women's lives and thoughts, also includes
material about these other less privileged humans and about the preyed-upon
environment. The intention is to point out the multiple examples of WASM
consistency of attitude and behavior throughout the American past.
"Herstory
surveys each major historical period in light of the life stories, experiences,
and thoughts of some of its forgotten Americans."
-- excerpted from the
preface of Herstory, A Record of American Woman's Past, by June
Sochen of Northeastern Illinois University. Sherman Oaks California: Alfred
Publishing Co., Inc. 1974 & 1981. ISBN 0-88284-115-7.
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11-23 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-23-1882, Helen Rogers Reid, advertising
manager and vice president of New York
Herald Tribune. Although her husband owned the paper, she was acknowledged
to be the best man for the jobs she held. Born to a wealthy family that
went broke, she worked her way through the final part of college in 1903
rather than drop out.
B. 11-23-1903, Ruth Etting, one of the most
popular singers from the 1920's through
most of the 1940's, had more than 60 big hits. Best known today for her
gangster connections because of the movie about her life Love Me or
Leave Me, (1955).
Event 11-23-1935, Ethel Legins conducts her
opera Gale at the Chicago City
Opera. It is the first opera by a woman to be mounted by a major opera
company.
B. 11-23-1939, Betty Everett, almost legendary
soul singer who was never able to make
it big.
Event 11-23-1942: Lieutenant Commander Dorothy
Constance Stratton appointed commanding officer of the Coast Guard
Women's Reserve.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
De CLEYRE, VOLTARAINE:
"Every
individual should have room or rooms for himself [sic] exclusively... a
'closet' where each could 'pray in secret' without some person who loves
him [sic] assuming the right to walk in and do as they please. And do you
know how I was pleased beyond measure the other day to find that William
Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft taught and as far as possible practiced
the same thing, just 100 years ago."
-- Voltaraine de Cleyre (1866-1912) in a letter to her mother. (The awkwardness
and the sexism of the English language is beautifully illustrated in this
quote. Voltaraine was speaking of women and yet had to use the masculine
"him.")
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