Feminists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Helene Stöcker papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Overview
Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.
Dates:
1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943
Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Swanwick, Helena M.
Overview
Helena Maria Sickert was born in Germany and moved to England early on. She was an author, journalist, and lecturer involved in peace activism, feminism, and social justice. She became chair of the British Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a British delegate to the League of Nations. Her dream was that women, if they used their power, could make an end to war.
Dates:
1907-1938
