If my  previous post highlighted T.S. Eliot’s contempt for female writers and Virginia Woolf’s feminist response, today I look at the history of academic and social institutions. After remembering the battle of Elena Cornaro, who first shattered the all-male university walls, we celebrate the birth of a woman who merged education with grassroots activism. «We […]

“We shall beg no more”: The Forgotten Feminism of Helen Keller