Mad Libs: A Guide to (White) Women’s History Month
From high school textbooks, we all learned about famous woman’s name
who is known as the mother of traditionally masculine discipline
. But, few have heard of not famous woman’s name
, an intrepid, fearless, tenacious woman who historians consider the grandmother of closely related traditionally masculine discipline
, paving the way for millions of future women in traditionally masculine profession
_.
Raised by her strong female family member
, she beat the odds and was the first woman to significant achievement that would have been impossible without the underpaid and wildly unrecognized labor of people of color
.
Facing sexism at every turn, she was not allowed to verb forbidden unless male or white
in the United States. Refusing to accept defeat, she traveled to foreign country, probably France
where she earned her degree in traditionally masculine subject
with honors.
She returned to the United States and became the first traditionally masculine profession
, shattering gender barriers. Inspired from her struggles, she founded the not famous woman’s last name
Institute, which now remains the largest organization that fights for sadly still topical social and political issues
. Today, state
has a holiday dedicated to her memory.
Kathleen Tamayo Alves is an Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. She received her Doctorate of Arts degree from St. John’s University and her Bachelor of Arts from John Jay College, City University of New York. She is currently working on a book-length project, Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, a study of the intersections of female-centered medicine and the representations of women’s bodies in the comic novel.
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Brilliant