Our National Women's History Museum exists, it's virtual, and you can visit it now!
You don't have to visit a bricks and mortar museum in Washington, D.C. to be inspired about women's history. Almost 30 years old, the NWHM shares the history largely missing from our country's story told in the monuments to men, and by the Smithsonian history exhibits. In a website chocked full of the stories of women who have made extraordinary contributions, what was invisible is available to build a future where women's stories become another piece of our country's foundation for the future.
Online Exhibitions, Biographies, Articles, it goes on and on ... Enter the Museum here
The Portrait Monument in our Capitol Rotunda - the Museum's first victory
This sculpture also known as the Woman Suffrage Statue is a tribute to our suffragists, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. Read and see the First Wave of Feminism that tells their story, and much more going back to the French Revolution and playwright Olympus de Gouges who wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen" in 1791.
Gifted in 1921, the sculpture was promptly moved to the Capitol Crypt where it was essentially buried for 76 years. The first project of the National Women's History Museum was to unblock congressional opposition to raising the statue up to the Capitol Rotunda (the fifth time women had tried to do this.)
Read Founder Karen Staser's story of the Creation of the Museum and the story of the statue's move to the Rotunda.
Which wave of feminism do you identify with? visit these engaging exhibits, as though you were walking through a museum
At my age, I identify most with the Second Wave in the 1960's when Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was published, Gloria Steinem began Ms. magazine, and Women's Liberation took off.
My books all focus on a feminist character. I love creating women who one way or another, in different times, make the psychological journey into greater wholeness.
Perhaps my favorite is Liv, my Nonprofit Girl. Coming out of college with an unwanted pregnancy, she has one big decision to make that shapes her life through the Trilogy. Evolving into a feminist in the first book builds the strength of character that enables her to choose a future of her own making.
In book two, Karma Blues, set seven years later, we watch her strength and independence grow as she navigates the difficult waters of being a single mom, while looking for the right husband and father. (Neglected by many readers, this volume has some of my favorite scenes, including the wedding from hell!)
Seven years later again, in Shakti Rising, our girl Liv truly evolves into the nonprofit woman she's been trying to become. Spoiler alert! Yes, there's a guy, but the close is about Liv and the independence she's achieved. (This book stands alone if you want to start there.)
