SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A new group of inductees into the National Women’s Hall of Fame include pioneers of social justice, groundbreaking physicians, and women who have championed Jewish feminist theology and the economic well-being of Native Americans. included, the institute announced on Wednesday.
“When I was young, I wanted to be popular more than anything. By the time I was 35, I decided I wanted to be useful more than popular,” said Peggy McIntosh, an activist and Hall of Famer known for her exploration of privilege. said in an email after the winners were announced.
She and the other living inductees (Kimberly Crenshaw, Judith Plaskow, Loretta Ross, and Archer Roseanne “Sandy” Stone) are leaders in the fight against white privilege, systemic racism, and reproductive justice. She has contributed to the public discussion of issues in , transgender studies, and feminist theology.
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.
Located in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held in 1848, the National Women’s Hall of Fame inducts a new model every two years to recognize the contributions of women in fields such as the arts, sports, education, and government. Introducing a class.
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“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. .
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.
Crenshaw, 63, helped develop the academic concept of critical race theory, the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions. The academic framework dates back to the 1970s, but the term has become a political flashpoint in recent years as parents and politicians debate how race and American history should be taught in public schools. ing.
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 found).
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 an engineer sounding 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.
“This remarkable recognition by the National Women’s Hall of Fame honors what the Hall recognizes as its enduring usefulness,” McIntosh wrote. “I admire the values of this year’s inductees. Each of us, her eight women, tried to be helpful from where we were.”
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