Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association – later the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta’s career in life was inspired by both of her parents, mother’s independence and entrepreneurial spirit was one of the primary reasons she became a feminist. Although her parents divorced, she was fiercely proud …
Jane Goodall is an activist, primatologist and anthropologist who is considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. Goodall was born in London, and at a young age was given a toy chimpanzee which inspired her lifelong love of animals. She travelled to a friends farm in Kenya in 1957, where she met notable Kenyan archaeologist and …
Eleanor Rathbone was an independent British MP, social reformer, suffragist and feminist who is best known for her success in fighting for family allowance and women’s rights. Rathbone was born into a influential family in Liverpool, her father was social reformer William Rathbone VI and her mother, his second wife, Emily Lyle. Rathbone’s parents encouraged …
Frances Glessner Lee is known as the ‘mother of forensic science’ for her creation of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, most of which are still used for training homicide investigators. Glessner Lee was born in Chicago to a wealthy family, but the privilege of wealth was not enough to allow her same education as her …
Comfort Momoh is a FGM Consultant/Public Health Specialist and a staunch campaigner for the eradication of FGM. Momoh was born in Lagos, Nigeria. In 1981 she moved to the UK to train as a nurse at North Middlesex Hospital. While at the hospital, she discovered the practise of FGM and the impact this had on women’s lives. …
Efua Dorkenoo, affectionately known as ‘Mama Efua’ was a Ghanaian-British campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM) who pioneered the global movement to end the practice. Dorkenoo began her career in health while working as a staff nurse at various hospitals including the Royal Free. While training as a midwife, she became aware of the practise of FGM while …
The biography for this weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Hayley Jackson. Baroness Tessa Jowell 17th September 1947 – 12th May 2018 Tessa Jowell was born in London in 1947 and was the eldest of three children. Her father was a physician and her mother a radiographer. The family moved to Aberdeen when …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Patti Mcjones. It is featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which is available here http://etsy.me/2nMhm6n I saw a series of photographs of Forough Farrokhzad – Iranian poet and film-maker – recently when her former lover Ebrahim Golestan spoke of how much he still …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Taylor Anne Mordoh. It is featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which is available here http://etsy.me/2nMhm6n Yi So-yeon is an astronaut and biotechnologist who became the first Korean to fly in space. Yi was born and raised in Gwangju, South Korea. In 2006, …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was illustrated by B Newman. It is featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which is available here http://etsy.me/2nMhm6n Dusty Springfield was born in 1939 in West Hampstead, London. She began singing with a group called the Lona Sisters before forming the Springfields with her brothers. The …