Posts by Pamela
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and a Couple of Answers with Lorissa Rinehart
Lorissa Rinehart is a women’s historian, author, and social entrepreneur whose work explores the intersections of women’s history, politics, war, and peace. She is the author of Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become America’s First Congresswoman, praised by Publishers Weekly as “an illuminating biography,” and First to the Front: The…
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Dr. Florence Sabin: A Career with a Second-Act Twist.
Dr. Florence Sabin (1871-1953) was one of the first women doctors to build a career as a research scientist. Sabin was interested in math and science from the beginning. She attended Smith College, where she majored in zoology. One of her professors encouraged her to study medicine at Johns Hopkins new co-educational medical school.[1] Sabin…
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Talking About Women’s History: Four Questions and an Answer with Missy Gibson and April Grossinger
Last year, a writing friend of mine, Michele Hollow, introduced me to the hosts of the Sheela Na Gig podcast, Missy Gibson and April Grossinger.[1] She’d enjoyed being on the podcast and thought Sigrid Schultz and I would be a good fit for their concept. They agreed. The rest is, ahem, history. Missy Gibson, a…
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