Today is not simply another Women’s Equality Day. Aug. 26, 2010 marks the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to full citizenship, that is the privilege and responsibility to vote.
I looked up the text of the 19th Amendment and found it to be two simple sentences of merely 39 words:
The [...]

In 1920 it took only 39 words to give U.S. women the right to vote. In 1971 192 words were deemed necessary to proclaim Aug. 26 Women’s Equality Day. But, hey, we’re happy to have both.
In July 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls and declared females strong [...]

Georgia Ann Mullen will discuss her books and how they complement the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment at the League of Women Voters luncheon Monday, Aug. 23, in Wilmington, NC. Her address will take place at 11:30 a.m. at McAlister’s Deli on College Road, across from the UNCW campus. The public is invited to [...]

As I wrote in A Shocking & Unnatural Incident, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was no fan of organized religion. She felt all religions held women down. She even took apart the Bible explaining how many passages were demeaning to women and attempted to justify unfair and often brutal treatment of wives, daughters, sisters, nieces and mothers.
If [...]

In a July 18 Wilmington StarNews review, Ben Steelman states,
“Mullen serves up a particularly tasty, and painless, history lesson. Few young-adult writers are as deft with dialogue. Mullen proves particularly handy at inserting period slang–like “foofoos,” an 1850s phrase for foreign immigrants–into everyday conversation.
“Nor does the book lack for action. A climactic scene, played [...]