History! She Wrote: Exhibition Guide

HISTORY! SHE

WROTE

A RESEARCH EXHIBITION ON WOMEN IN HISTORY MARCHÂ 2019

History! She Wrote, a Woman's History Month Exhibition, is a celebration of women: the work that they did and the contributions they have made to making the world a better place. Witness the talents and intelligence of these women that you may or may not know.

As women and minorities are often written out of history this acts as a commemoration to these women who may have been forgotten in time.

This exhibition includes women in all academic fields, women of different sexual orientations, transgender women, and alumnae of Randolph Macon Woman's College.

Hosted at Randolph College's Red Door, we welcome you to read and research these great women in history!

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Special thanks to all the wonderful women who have helped me to bring this exhibition to life: My Mother: Deborah Guzik, My Grandmother: Elizabeth Young, Laura McManus, Sarah Williams, Emalie Lawson & Blayne Stine

50 PHOTOS OF WOMEN YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN BEFORE

1. A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her from prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. (1941)

2. Maud Wagner,the first well known female tattoo artist in the United States.(1907)

3.Eighteen-year-old French Resistance fighter, Simine Segouin, during the liberation of Paris. (August, 19, 1944)

4. Saria Thakral, twenty-oneyear-old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license.

(1936)

5. Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon despite attempts by the marathon organizer to stop her.

(1967)

6. Afghan women at a public library before the Taliban seized power.

(1950)

7. Annette Kelierman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency.

(1907)

8. Photograph of a samurai warrior. (late 1800s)

9. The first women's basketball team from Smith College. (1902)

10. One-hundred-and-six-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. (1990)

11. Women boxing on a roof in L.A. (1933)

12. A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. (1985)

13. Women's league roller derby skaters in New York. (March 10, 1950)

14. Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. (1961)

15. Members of the Hell's Angels gang. (1973)

16. Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted.

(1918)

17. Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York.

(October 23, 1917)

18. Marina Ginesta, a seventeen-yearold communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. (1936)

19. Anna Fisher, "the first mother in space".

(1980)

20. Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer, climbing the Chrysler Building.

(1934)

21. A woman suffrage activist protesting after "The Night of Terror."

(1917)

22. A mother plays with her child on the beach. (1950)

23. Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. (1980)

24. Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto. (1937)

25. A woman drinking tea in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz. (1940)

26. Jeanne Manford marches with her gay son during a Pride Parade.

(1972)

27. Sabiha Gokcen of Turkey poses with her plane. She became the first female fighter pilot. (1937)

28. Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor. (c.1941-1945)

29. A captured Soviet soldier is given water by a Ukrainian woman.

(1941)

30. A mason high above Berlin. (c.1900)

31. Railroad workers at lunch. (1943)

32. Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps (August, 1918)

33. Parisian mother shield their children from German sniper fire. (1944)

34. Ellen O'Neal, one of the first professional female skaters.

(1976)

35. Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. (1944)

37.

Gertrude Ederie becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

(1926)

38. Aviator Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean.

(1928)

39. A British sergeant training member of the "mum's army" Women's Home Defense Corps during the Battle of Britain. (1940)

40. Afghan women studying medicine.

(1962)

41. Women's Liberation Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan. (1970)

42. A Los Angeles Police Officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk.

(1971)

43.. Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. (May 4, 1945)

44. A mother shows a picture of her son to returning prisoner of war in attempt to find him. (Vienna, 1947)

45. Leola N. King, America's first female traffic cop.

(Washington D.C. 1918)

46. Erika, a fifteen-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union.

(October 1956)

47. American nurses land in Normandy.

(1944)

48. A Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning.

(Burbank California, 1944)

49. A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier.

(1917)

50. Sukban Girls Gang fought against the sexualization of teenage girls. (1970)

LGBTQ+ WOMEN IN HISTORY

Alicia Garza,(January 4, 1981) alongside Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, is one of the cofounders of Black Lives Matter: one of the most influential social movements of our time. She also coined the phrase.

Alicia is a prolific writer and dedicated advocate for racial justice. She has also spoken out against the violent mistreatment of the trans community — a major problem — and the discriminatory exclusion she’s felt in LGBTQ spaces for being bisexual and black.

Ilse Elvenes (December 28, 1882-September 13, 1931) better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish transgender woman and among the early recipients of gender confirmation surgery.

Elbe was born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener, and was a successful painter under that name. During this time, she also presented as Lili,sometimes spelled Lily) and was introduced publicly as Einar's sister.

After successfully transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes and stopped painting altogether. The name Lili Elbe was given to her by Copenhagen journalist Louise Lassen.] She died from complications involving a uterus transplant. Her autobiography Man into Woman was published posthumously in 1933.

Nicola Adams (October 26, 1982) is the first woman is the first woman to win an Olympic boxing title, the first out LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing gold medal, and Great Britain’s most successful female boxer ever. She also happens to be bisexual.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Nicola won Great Britain's first gold medal in women's boxing. In 2016, she became the first female boxer to successfully defend an Olympic title. She is the reigning Olympic, world, Commonwealth Games, and European Games champion in the flyweight division, and she is the only female boxer to ever secure each of these titles. In addition to a successful athletic career, Nicola works to promote healthy living through Fight for Peace, an organization that brings boxing and martial arts to communities affected by crime and violence. And in 2013, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, which is just astoundingly cool.

Angela Morley (March 10, 1924-January 14, 2009) was an English classical composer who also became famous for her work as a soundtrack artist for television and film on BBC. Morley won two Emmy Awards for her work in music arrangement. These were in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction, in 1988 and 1990.

Morley received Emmy nominations for composing music for television series such as Dynasty and Dallas.

She was twice nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Music, Original Song Score/Adaptation: for The Little Prince (1974), a nomination shared with Alan Jay Lerner, Frederic Loewe, and Douglas Gamley; and for The Slipper and the Rose, which Morley shared with Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. She was the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award.

We'wha (1849-1896) was a Zuni Native American from New Mexico. They were the most famous lhamana, a traditional Zuni gender role, now described as mixed-gender or Two-Spirit, a term commonly understood in Zuni gender designation separate from the male/female binary. Lhamana were men who lived in part as women, wearing a mixture of women's and men's clothing and doing a great deal of women's work as well as serving as mediators. We'wha is the subject of the book The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe: written to bring more awareness to lhamana.

Julie D’Aubigny (16070-1707) was a famous 17th century French Opera Singer who took holy vows to enter a convent just so she could have sex with a nun. She was known for seducing women and dueling with men for their wives. She is documented to have killed ten men.

Lorraine Hansberry, (May 19, 1930-January 12, 1965) author of Raisin In The Sun and the first black playwright to win a “Best Play” award from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, spent the entirety of her short life in the closet — but that didn’t stop her from lending her voice to the movement. She published several letters anonymously in lesbian magazine The Ladder, identifying herself as a “heterosexually married lesbian” and an essay, in 1961, called “On Homophobia, the Intellectual Impoverishment of Women” and a “Homosexual Bill of Rights.” By that time, she’d already “quietly separated” from her husband Robert Nemiroff. So much of Hansberry’s writings have been found after her death, including incredible lists like the I AM BORED TO DEATH WITH list on which she included “lesbians,” “A RAISIN IN THE SUN!” and “silly white people.” Tellingly, she included “my homosexuality” on both “I Like” and “I Hate.”

Brenda Howard (December 24 1946-June 28, 2005) is often remembered as the “Mother of Pride,” Brenda organized the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March– the first Pride parade in the world. In 1987, she founded the New York Area Bisexual Network, which connects bisexual advocates from New York City as well as the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and is still active today. In honor of her memory, PFLAG Queens presents the Brenda Howard Memorial Award each year to a “positive and visible role model for the bisexual community.”

Anthropologist and academic celebrity Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901-November 15, 1978) had a relationship with Ruth Benedict, who’d been a professor of Mead’s at Barnard. The two worked together and apparently Benedict, the first American woman to gain status in a male-dominated academic field, was cured of her depression through her relationship with Mead. Mead believed that sexual orientation could be fluid and shift throughout one’s life. Mead married three times: Luther Creesman from 1923-28, Reo Fortune from 1928-35, and Gregory Bateson from 1936-1950. From 1955 until her death in 1978, she lived with and had a romantic and professional relationship with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux.

RenĂŠe Richards (August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist, author and former professional tennis player. In 1975, Richards underwent sex reassignment surgery. She was denied entry into the 1976 US Open by the United States Tennis Association, citing an unprecedented women-born-women policy. She disputed the ban, and the New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor in 1977. This was a landmark decision in favor of transsexual rights. Through her fight to play tennis as a woman, she challenged gender roles and became a role model and spokesperson for the transgender community.

Civil rights leader and progressive politician Barbara Jordan (February 21, 1936- January 17, 1996) was outed in her obituary, when she became the first black woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery. She was already the first woman to serve in the Texas House of Representatives, the first post-reconstruction African-American State Senator and the first black woman to keynote the Democratic National Convention. She met educator Nancy Earl, who would become her partner of over thirty years, on a camping trip, and Earl often helped Jordan write her speeches.

TRANS WOMEN ARE NOT CIS WOMEN AND THAT'S OKAY.

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN AND THAT'S A FACT. --Â HARI NEF

Carlett A. Brown (born 1927) discovered that she was intersex during physical examination while serving for the Navy in the 1950's. Upon the end of her service, she worked as a female impersonator and shake dancer in order to earn money for her affirmation surgery.

Reassignment surgery was not legal in the United States at the time, but she found a surgeon in Denmark that would work with her. Before she could leave the United States to get her surgery she was arrested for cross-dressing and charged to pay back money she owed to the government, Though it is unclear if she ever became the first woman of color to have a sex change, she remains well known for her perseverance, having been quoted saying, "I feel that female impersonators are being denied their right of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness when they are arrested for wearing female clothes."

Sir Lady Java (born August 20, 1943) worked as a performer and female impersonator in Los Angeles, California in the 1960's when it was illegal to cross-dress. She became a very popular figure and was targeted by the authorities with this law, which she fought back as she recognized that the No. 9 law was in violation of hers, and other trans peoples' civil rights. Along with help from the ACLU, Java took Rule No. 9 to court. It was found that she had no legal standing to file the lawsuit and was therefore waved from her trail. The law was removed two years later after her attempt.

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886 1954) spent nearly 60 years as a woman and was a pioneer in the fight for marriage equality; fighting for the legal right to be herself with a man she loved.

After marrying her second husband in California in 1944, it was discovered that she was assigned male at birth. Upon this discovery from authorities the couple was charged with perjury, resulting in ten years of probation. They were charged a second time years later for fraud after she received federal money reserved for military spouses. They were both sent to prison and band from Oxnard, California upon their release.

Standing up to the charges held against her, Anderson said, "I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman."

Miss Major (born October 25, 1940) is considered to be one of the most significant pioneers of modern transgender movements. She has been a voice for trans women for nearly four decades and is the executive director of the Transgender Variant Intersex Justice Project which fights against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures as well as seeks to creates a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.

Marsha “Pay No Mind” Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an activist, performer, model, sex worker, and mother figure for young trans women in New York. Along with Sylvia Rivera, a fellow trans ativist, they together founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970 which worked to provide basic needs and support for young trans women.

WOMEN OF INTEREST

Wilma Rudolph (June 23, 1940-November 12 1944) was the 20th of 22 kids. Born prematurely at 4.5 lbs, she suffered infantile paralysis, polio, and scarlet fever. She eventually became the world's fastest woman in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, winning four medals. As an Olympic champion in the early 1960s, Rudolph was among the most highly visible black women in America and abroad. She became a role model for black and female athletes and her Olympic successes helped elevate women's track and field in the United States. Rudolph is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. In 1962 Rudolph retired from competition at the peak of her athletic career as the world record-holder in the 100- and 200-meter individual events and the 4 × 100-meter relay. After competing in the 1960 Summer Olympics, the 1963 graduate of Tennessee State University became an educator and coach. Rudolph and her achievements are memorialized in a variety of tributes, including a U.S. postage stamp, documentary films, and a made-for-television movie, as well as in numerous publications, especially books for young readers.

Jackie Mitchell (August 29, 1913-January 7, 1987) was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. Pitching at seventeen years old for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. A few days later, her contract was voided and women were declared unfit to play baseball.

Jenny Saville (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter who works and lives in Oxford, England. She is associated with the Young British Artists and is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painterly style has been compared to that of Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are usually much larger than life size and are strongly pigmented; giving a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. She sometimes adds marks onto the body, such as white "target" rings. Since her debut in 1992, Saville's focus has remained on the female body,slightly deviating into subjects with "floating or indeterminate gender," painting large scale paintings of transgender people. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients.

Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. She was inspired by Surrealism and often attended coffee house talks with other painters regarding manifestos, demonstrations, and convocations. She was also seen as a muse for Pablo Picasso and held a relationship with him, which she ended upon her career with painting. After turning from Picasso and his influence, she took on cubism and photography.

Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877-September 14, 1927) helped lead the revolution towards modern dance with her signature expressiveness. After the deaths of her children, she tended more towards tragic themes.

(Her own death was dramatic and tragic: strangled by her own scarf when it was caught in the wheel of the car she was riding in.) She founded dance schools around the world, including in the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, and France. Most of these schools failed quickly; the first she founded, in Gruenwald, Germany, continued for a longer time, with some students, known as "Isadorables," carrying on her tradition.

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. She danced and taught for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: The Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer.

It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant.

Sometimes it is fearful.

But nevertheless, it is inevitable."

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a Nuclear Physicist.

After fleeing Nazi Germany, she was part of the team that discovered and explained nuclear fission although unlike her partner, was not acknowledged for her contribution.

Though this discovery is often credited as what led us to the atom bomb, Meitner adamantly refused to work on the Manhattan project. Her other discoveries include the isotope protactinium and the cause of the auger effect. The element Meitnerium is named in her honor.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was a Biochemist. When at school in England, she was one of two girls allowed to study chemistry with men. She was the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her determinations by x-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances. She is credited with the development of protein crystallography as well as the discovery of three-dimensional biomolecular structures. She also determined the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin by perfecting x-ray crystallography techniques.

Valerie Thomas (1943-2009) was one of the two women who majored in physics at Morgan State University. After graduation she worked as a data analyst for NASA and managed the development of the first satellite to send images to earth from space. She also invented the illusion transmitter, which is still used today and is being explored for use in surgeries and even television screens. She helped to develop computer program designs that supported research on Halley's Comet, the ozone layer, and satellite technology.

Sophie Germain (1776-1831) was denied a formal education and her parents tried to stop her from studying by not allowing her to have fire or warm clothes at night. She taught herself Latin and Greek so she could study classic mathematical texts from lecture notes from a university. She corresponded her work to a male professor's name.

It was her pioneering theories on elasticity that helped build the Eiffel Tower and she was the first person to progress in providing the proof for Fermat's last theorem, which mathematicians had been struggling with for 200 years.

Emily Roebling (1843-1903) was the first woman field engineer in her time. She oversaw the design and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. She learned an extensive knowledge of strength of materials, stress analysis, cable construction, and calculating catenary curves through both her husband (Chief engineer of the bridge) and a prior interest in the subject. With this knowledge she spent 14 years planning the construction alongside her husband and took over some of his duties including project management and day to day supervising. As a reward for this she was the first to cross the bridge and not long after this success became one of the first female lawyers in New York.

May Edward Chinn (1896-1980) was a pioneering black and Native American doctor that advocated for early cancer screening in low-income communities. She was the first black woman to graduate from Bellevue Medical College as well as the first black woman to hold an internship at Harlem Hospital, where she was the first woman ever to ride with the ambulance crew. She opened her own practice to treat patients who did not have access to medical care and accompanied her patients to clinic appointments to learn about biopsy techniques. Her work with the Strang Clinic helped to develop the pap smear, which tests for cervical cancer. She also started a society that helped Black women attend medical school.

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, as well as published research on Haitian voodoo. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, her most popular is the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston's works touched on the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades, but interest revived after author Alice Walker published In Search of Zora Neale Hurston in the March 1975 issue of Ms. Magazine.

Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of her poetry is now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem: the "Ode to Aphrodite". As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Sappho was a prolific poet, probably composing around 10,000 lines. Her poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was among the canon of nine lyric poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.

Sappho's poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers. Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women, with the English words sapphic and lesbian being derived from her own name and the name of her home island respectively.

Tullia d’Aragona, (1510-1556) the illegitimate daughter of a cardinal and a courtesan, was known across Italy for her beauty and her skill with words, both in literary and philosophical writing, as well as in social settings. Her main philosophical text is Dialogues on the Infinity of Love, a Neo-Platonist work that discusses the necessity of female sexual and emotional freedom in romantic love. This came at a time when women generally had little autonomy, although the Renaissance had begun to provide a bit more space. She truly practiced as she preached, taking lovers everywhere she went in Italy and driving multiple men to write odes and sonnets to her. She also wrote poetry throughout her life, primarily sonnets, along with one epic poem.

Frances Perkins (April 10,1880-May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D.Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency. During her term as Secretary of Labor, Perkins executed many aspects of the New Deal. With the Social Security Act she established unemployment benefits, pensions for the many uncovered elderly Americans, and welfare for the poorest Americans. She pushed to reduce workplace accidents and helped craft laws against child labor.

Through the Fair Labor Standards Act, she established the first minimum wage and overtime laws for American workers, and defined the standard forty-hour work week.

Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. In 1872, she ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality of her run. They disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35. However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue; this may, however, be due to the fact that no one took the candidacy seriously. An activist for women's rights and labor reforms, Woodhull was also an advocate of "free love", by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children without social restriction or government interference."They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform," she often said. "The world moves."

RANDOLPH MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE ALUMNAE

Lucy Somerville Howorth (July 1, 1895 – August 24, 1997) Howorth was an American lawyer, feminist and politician. She is known for being an extreme advocate for the civil rights of minorities and women as well as her New Deal legislative efforts. In the State Capitol Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 18, 1917, she witnessed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified, giving women the right to vote.

Sara Lawrence (23 November 1984 Present) Lawrence is a medical practitioner who brings awareness to illnesses ranging from heart disease and cancer to mental illness and other psychological illnesses through a program that she created entitled “Doctor’s Appointment”. Not only does Lawrence work in the medical field but she was also the representative for Jamaica and the Caribbean in the Miss World 2006 beauty pageant. In March 2007, she relinquished the Miss Jamaica World title upon announcing her pregnancy, becoming the first winner in the Jamaican contest's 23-year-history to do so.

Anne Wilkes Tucker (October 18, 1945 – Present) Tucker was hired as a consultant to act as curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Huston. In 1978, she became the MFAH curator,and in 1984 she was named the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography. She has increased the museum's holdings of photographs to over 24,000 in 2008.

Tucker organized more than forty exhibitions for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and elsewhere. Many of her exhibitions led to the publication of catalogues and books of photographs. Her book The Woman's Eye includes the work of ten women photographers. Tucker states, "The Woman's Eye represents the first major attempt to bring together notable photographs by women and to consider, through them, the role played by sexual identity both in the creation and the evaluation of photographic art.”

Publications •The Woman's Eye (1973).

•Unknown Territory: Photographs by Ray K. Metzker. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984. ISBN 978-0890900338. Photographs by Ray Metzker.

Accompanies an exhibition.

•Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia (1986).

•Brassaï: the eye of Paris (1999).

•This was the Photo League: compassion and the camera from the Depression to the Cold War (2001).

•Louis Faurer (2002).

•Target III, in sequence: photographic sequences from the Target Collection of American Photography (1982).

•Chaotic Harmony Contemporary Korean Photography (2009).

•War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Edited by Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt.

•George Krause: a Retrospective. Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1991.

Photographs by George Krause. Edited by Tucker.

Awards •1983: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

•2001: "America's Best Curator" by Time.

•2005: International Award from the Photographic Society of Japan.

•2006: Focus Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Griffin Museum of Photography.

•Alumnae Achievement award from Randolph Macon Women's College.

•Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

•Fellowship from the Getty Center.

LaShawn Worsley McIver ’98 Worsley has had various opportunities and careers in public health care such as: leading numerous health initiatives, speaking to members of the United States Senate regarding affordable healthcare and diabetes research funding, being director at the Baltimore City Health Department and an inaugural HIV/ AIDS fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus’ Center for Policy Analysis and Research.

She is now currently the senior vice president of Government Affairs & Advocacy for the American Diabetes Association. Her winding path eventually brought her to her current role as senior vice president of Government Affairs & Advocacy for the American Diabetes Association.

Kathy Webb (1949 – Present) Webb served in the Arkansas House of Representatives as the first woman of the Co-Chair of the Joint Budget Committee. She also served on the Rules, Education and Facilities Committees, the Executive Committee of Legislative Council, as well as Co-Chair of the Governor's Working Group on Public Safety and Corrections, Co-Chair of the Sustainable Building and Design Task Force and Co-Chair of the Governor's Commission on Global Warming. In 2014, Webb was elected to represent Ward 3 on the Little Rock City Board as the first openly gay person to serve in the Arkansas General Assembly. She resides in Little Rock where she is Executive Director of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance.

Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker (April 23, 1917 – July 7, 2008) Known professionally as Dorian Leigh,Dorian was an American model and one of the first and earliest modelling icons of the fashion industry. Prior to her modelling career, she worked at Bell Laboratories, then during World War II, was a tool designer at Eastern Air Lines. She assisted in the design of airplane wings, beginning at 65 cents an hour and ending up with an hourly wage of $1.00. After failing to be promoted because she was a woman and because of a wartime freeze on positions, Dorian quit and took a job with Republic Pictures as an apprentice copywriter and later found her career in modeling.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (Also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973)

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Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.

In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". Pearl was the first women to ever receive this award. After returning to the United States from China in 1935, she continued writing, became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Chinese and Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption.

Awards Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: The Good Earth (1932) William Dean Howells Medal (1935) Nobel Prize in Literature (1938) Museums and Historic Houses The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The Zhenjiang Pearl S. Buck Research Association in Zhenjiang, China Pearl S. Buck House in Nanjing University, China The Pearl S. Buck Summer Villa, on Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province, China The Pearl S. Buck Memorial Hall, Bucheon City, South Korea Pearl S. Buck International, 520 Dublin Road, Perkasie, PA

Kakenya Ntaiya ’04

Ntaiya,born in Enoosaen, Kenya of the Maasai people was engaged to marry upon turning 12. was engaged at 5 years old and expected to marry when she turned 12, but she persuaded her father to annul the marriage and allow her to continue schooling. With much persistence she was allowed to be the first woman of her village to attend school in the states, but in doing so she promised her father that she would participate in the rite of passage into womanhood in Maasai culture which included Female genital mutilation. Enduring the pain of this Ntaiya continued on with her education which soon led her to be an advisor for the UN Population Fund. Ntaiya has traveled the world to speak about issues of young girls: bring up topics such as education, women’s rights and child marriages. She has received numerous international recognitions for her efforts including being named one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes, earned the Global Women’s Right Award from the Feminist Majority Foundation, and being recognized by the Women of the World as a “Woman of Impact.”.

Dorothy (Dot) Braden Bruce (? – Present) Bruce worked with 10,000 other women as a “Code Girl” during World War II. As a codebreaker for the Army Signal Intelligence Service’s cryptology program, she decoded messages about troop deployments and supply ships from the Japanese navy. This information has been classified for the past 70 years and has now been released recently.

Dorothy is now the featured in Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II,written by Liza Mundy.

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