The new group of National Women’s Hall of Fame inductees includes social justice pioneers, groundbreaking physicians, and women who have championed Jewish feminist theology and the economic well-being of Native Americans, the institute said. It was announced on Wednesday.
The National Women’s Hall of Fame, located in Seneca Falls, where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held in 1848, inducts a new class every two years to recognize the contributions of women in fields such as the arts, sports, education, and government. It is being introduced.
Critical race theorist Kimberly Crenshaw is one of the living laureates, along with activists Peggy McIntosh, Judith Plaskow, Loretta Ross, and Alquer Roseanne “Sandy” Stone, and their Voices has helped popularize issues of white privilege, reproductive justice, transgender studies, and feminist theology. Public discussion.
Three women will be appointed posthumously. Dr. Patricia Barth (1942-2019) was an early pioneer in laser cataract surgery and the first Black female doctor to receive a medical patent. Dr. Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954) isolated a strain useful in treating diphtheria. and Elouise Pepion Covell (1945-2011), known as the “Yellow Bird Woman,” founded the first bank established by her tribe on the Browning, Montana reservation.
“For 50 years, since our first induction ceremony in 1973, the Hall of Fame has continued to tell the voices and stories of outstanding women who changed the world,” said Jennifer Gabriel, executive director of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, in a news release. mentioned in. .
Crenshaw, 63, helped develop the academic concept of critical race theory, the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions. Although this academic framework dates back to his 1970s, the term has taken on new political life in recent years as parents and politicians debate how race and American history should be taught in public schools. It has become tinged with.
McIntosh, 88, has written extensively about privilege in her 1989 essay “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” in which she argues that white people can count, but not necessarily black people. In everyday life, we described the “invisible package of unearned assets” that is not necessarily.
“Most of the time, I feel confident that I can go shopping alone and not be followed or harassed. I am confident that the curriculum will be given,” she wrote.
Plaskow, 76, is considered the first Jewish feminist theologian to point out the lack of women’s perspectives in Jewish history.
“We must make visible the presence, experiences, and actions of women that have been erased in traditional sources,” she wrote in her landmark 1990 book, On Sinai. In “Standing Again: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective.”
Ross, 69, founded the National Center for Human Rights Education in Atlanta. A Smith College professor and 2022 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, she uses her experience as a survivor of rape and non-consensual sterilization to advocate for reproductive justice, especially among women of color. (a theory she helped create).
Stone, a transgender woman born in 1936, is considered the founder of the academic field of transgender studies and is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Communication Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin. She entered college after a career in the 1960s and her 1970s as a sound engineer for Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful She Dead, and other musicians. She is a station engineer at radio station KSQD in Santa Cruz.
According to the National Women’s Hall of Fame, inductees are nominated by the public and judged by a panel of experts across the field of nominees.
The induction ceremony is scheduled for September 30th.