Women Activists Educational Posters, “D...-”
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Mary Daly
Emily Davies
Emily Wilding Davison

Dorothy Day
Ruby Dee
Charlotte Despard

Mary Daly
b. 10-16-1928; Schenectady, NY

Radical feminist philosopher, theologian, and author of The Church and the Second Sex Mary Daly taught at Boston College for 33 years. She ‘retired’ from the Jesuit-run institution in 1999 after refusing to allow male students in her Women's Studies classroom.

Mary Daly quotes ~
• “It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”
• “Courage is like – it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
• “Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.”
• “Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.”

Emily Davies
b. 4-22-1830; Southampton, England
d. 7-13-1921

Sarah Emily Davies was a feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's education rights to university access. She led the founding of Girton College in 1869, Britain's first women's college, which later became associated with Cambridge.

Emily Wilding Davison
b. 10-11-1872; Blackheath, London, England
d. 6-8-1913; skull fracture

Emily Davison was an suffragette whose actions inspired the slogan “Deeds not words.” of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). “The Suffragette”, the official organ of the WSPU newspaper and edited by Christabel Pankhurst, announced “Miss Davison, who made a protest at the Derby against the denial of Votes to Women, was knocked down by the King's horse and sustained terrible injuries of which she died on Sunday, June 8th, 1913.”

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Dorothy Day
b. 11-8-1897; Brooklyn NY
d. 11-29-1980; Maryhouse, NYC

Dorothy Day, a journalist, social activist, distributist (third way economic theory), anarchist, and devout Catholic convert. She worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist, movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

She is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.

Ruby Dee
neé Ruby Ann Wallace
b. 10-27-1924; Cleveland, OH

Ruby Dee, an actress whose career crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, is also a poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist.

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Charlotte Despard
neé French
b. 6-15-1834; England
d. 11-19-1939

Charlotte Depard was a feminist and socialist reformer who bemoaned her Victorian upbringing and lack of education. She was also a pacificist, much to the dismay of her brother who was commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in WWI; worked for Irish independence; and became a communist.

She was also noted for wearing a mantilla and open-toed sandals, and writing romantic novels with high-minded heroines, exotic settings, and happy endings.

Susan Dimock, M.D.
b. 4-24-1847; Washington, North Carolina
d. 5-8-1875; drown in shipwreck off England's Scilly Isles

Susan Dimock, a pioneer in American medicine received her qualification as a doctor from the University of Zurich in 1871 and was appointed resident physician of the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1872.

• Memoir of Susan Dimock: Resident Physician of The New England Hospital for Women and Children

Dorothea Dix
b. 4-4-1802; Hampden, ME
d. 7-17-1887; Trenton, NJ

Dorothea Dix was a social reformer who, on behalf of the indigent insane, created the first American mental hospitals, with government support. She also served as Superintendent of Union Army Nurses during the American Civil War, where she provided equal care for the wounded of both sides.

Marguerite Durand
b. 1-24-1864; France
d. 3-16-1936

Marguerite Durand was a French actress who turned to journalism after a failed marriage, and then became a women's rights activist after covering the Congrès Féministe International in 1896. Her daily newspaper, La Fronde, was a successor to Hubertine Auclert's La Citoyenne.

• Marguerite Durand (1864-1936): “La Fronde” féministe, ou, “Le Temps” en jupons (Chemins de la mémoire)