American theatre owes a great debt to Susan Glaspell...for she dared envision and bring to life onstage her own New Women. These women experience their own anarchy, challenging and rejecting male-defined norms, including such concepts as woman's honor, abstract justice, and the male's ri...

Before the women's movements in the United States, women who were treated unfairly and not given any equal rights as men had suffered great tragedy. There tragedy was the way the society had treated them cruelly such as 1women once only had the option of teaching, and nursing, as career opportu...

Introduction Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859 into a cultured and affluent family. Her family was actively devoted to social reform. Her father, Congressman William (Pig Iron) Kelley, fought passionately to persuade government to uphold the rights of the poor and weak. He str...