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enumerationofwomen-blog · 6 years ago

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Agnes Varde

director. photographer. installation artist.

“No, I don’t think so. I didn’t see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman. Slightly different.” (3)

Check out some of her work:

Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961)

Vagabond (1984)

The Gleaners and I (2000)

Faces Places (2017)

Read More About Her Here:

1. https://ascmag.com/articles/natasha-braier-asc-adf-and-the-female-gaze

2. http://www.natashabraier.com/

3. https://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/neon-demon-dp-natasha-braier-cinematographer-nicolas-winding-refns-colorful-cinematography-1201692062/

Interview with her here:

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Kimberly Peirce

writer. director. producer.

“You should never ask a woman why she hasn't made more movies. What you need to ask is, ‘Why are these brilliant people being stopped in their tracks?’” (5)

What to Watch

- Carrie (2015)

- Stop-Loss (2008)

- Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Read More About Her Here:

1. https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/interviews/a12663/kimberly-peirce-interview/

2. https://filmschoolrejects.com/interview-kimberly-peirce-makes-carrie-a-superhero-origin-story-285308fbfe8d/

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/carrie-is-back-so-is-kimberly-peirce.html

4. https://indie-outlook.com/2017/02/20/indie-flashback-kimberly-peirce-on-the-knife/

5. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-st-female-directors-film-to-tv-20180309-story.html

Interview with Kimberly Peirce:

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 6 years ago

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Annemarie Jacir

writer. director. filmmaker. poet.

“The audience I always have in mind is the Palestinian audience – I know very well that many of the jokes and the nuances of the film will only be fully understood by them. But as an artist I hope that the film is never limited to a specific audience. I do think that when a filmmaker is honest and specific, the work naturally becomes more universal.” (4)

Her Work:

Wajib (2017)

When I Saw You (2012)

Salt of this Sea (2008)

An Explanation – And Then Burn the Ashes (2006)

Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux (2005)

like twenty impossibles (2003)

The Satellite Shooters (2001)

A Post Oslo History (2001)

Read More About Her Here:

1. https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/wajib-annemarie-jacir-palestinian-father-son-wedding-drama

2. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/05/annemarie-jacir-auteur-in-exile-palestinian-director-when-i-saw-you

3. https://womenandhollywood.com/oscars-2018-foreign-language-contenders-annemarie-jacir-wajib-809a634d10f2/

4. http://emirateswoman.com/women-have-to-work-much-harder-than-men-do-says-this-palestinian-director/

Trailer for Wajib:

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 6 years ago

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Domee Shi

story artist. animator. director.

“I feel super honored and humbled to be the first female shorts director. Hopefully I’m the first of many and I’m going to be working really, really hard to help my fellow female filmmakers and storytellers and to bring them up as well. I feel like I’ve had a really strong support network at the studio too and I want to give back and maybe help the next short film director as well, or next feature film director. I just want to pay it back.” (1)

Her Work:

Bao (2018)

Incredibles 2 (2018)

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Inside Out (2015)

Read More About Her Here:

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/movies/julie-dash-daughters-of-the-dust.html

2. https://www.vogue.com/article/daughters-of-the-dust-julie-dash-interview

3. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-return-of-julie-dashs-historic-daughters-of-the-dust

4. https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-julie-dash/

You can find Daughters of the Dust streaming now on Netflix.

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 6 years ago

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Alice Guy Blache

director. writer. film pioneer.

Alice Guy started at Leon Gaumont’s photography company as a stenographer/typist. But after attending the famous Lumiere event in 1895 where they screened the first projection film “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory,” Alice decided that she could use film to tell a story. After years of being left off the history books, most scholars now agree that Alice’s first film, La Fee aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy), became the very first narrative film. After that, Guy was put in charge of Gaumont’s film production department.

When she moved to the United States, she helped open Solax with help from the Gaumont company. In her lifetime, she wrote, directed and produced over 700 films.

Read More About Her Here:

https://nofilmschool.com/2017/03/alice-guy-blache-worlds-first-woman-filmmaker

https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-alice-guy-blache/

https://aliceguyblache.com/

Here is her first film, The Cabbage Fairy:

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Samantha Bee

comedian. writer. television host. producer.

"Men broke the country and now you need the ladies to come in and make it all better. No, it’s fine, honey, we’ll do it. You just go back to sleep. We were getting bored just holding down full-time jobs and raising our kids anyway." - Full Frontal w/ Samantha Bee

Read More About Her Here:

1. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/samantha-bee-interviewed-by-lena-dunham-trump-trolls-comedys-fraught-new-normal-997061

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Bee

3. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/how-samantha-bee-crashed-the-late-night-boys-club-20160630

4. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127217785

5. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/samantha-bee-full-frontal-glenn-beck/511217/

6. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/jo-miller-full-frontal-samantha-bee-interview

photo via TBS.com

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Audre Lorde

author. librarian. poet. activist.

“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”

Cross Section of Works

The First Cities (1968)

From a Land Where Other People Live (1973)

Coal (1976)

Between Our Selves (1976)

The Cancer Journals (1980)

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name (1983)

A Burst of Light (1988)

Photo by Elsa Dorfman via The Audre Lorde Project

To Read More Check Out These Links:

1. https://alp.org/about/audre

2. http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/02/the-magic-and-fury-of-audre-lorde-feminist-praxis-and-pedagogy/

3. http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aa-history-month-bios/audre-lorde

4. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Sara Bareilles

singer-songwriter, actress, author

Sara Bareilles released her first studio album in 2004. Nearly a decade and three more albums later she would be the composer for the score of a musical with an all female creative team, Waitress.

“I think more than being female, we are just the right collaborators for this show. I tend to find that I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're all girls. Moving on." [laughs] I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me (1.)”

Read More About Her Here:

1. https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a34732/sara-bareilles-waitress-the-musical-interview/

2. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-sara-bareilles-on-overcoming-her-fear-of-playing-solo-20131022

3. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/broadway/7751429/sara-bareilles-waitress-broadway-interview-debut

4. https://www.bustle.com/articles/127760-broadway-musical-waitress-has-an-all-female-team-behind-the-scenes-is-making-powerful-history-in-the-process

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Bareilles

6. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/sara-bareilles-talks-sing-off_n_1016060.html

Photo via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Bareilles

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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bell hooks

intellectual, feminist theorist, cultural critic, artist, writer, activist

“I think that we have to restore feminism as a political movement. The challenge to patriarchy is political, and not a lifestyle or identity. It’s as if we have to return to very basic education for critical consciousness, around what visionary feminist politics really is about. And let’s face it: visionary feminist politics is not about having a woman president. It’s about having a person of any gender who understands deeply and fully the need for there to be respect for the embodied presence of males and females, without subordination (1.)”

Cross Section of Works:

Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism (1981)

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)

Sister of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (1993)

Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995)

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996)

All About Love: New Visions (2000)

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000)

Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002)

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)

References and further reading:

1. http://bust.com/feminism/19119-the-road-ahead-bell-hooks.html

2. www.bellhooksinstitute.com

3. http://www.papermag.com/emma-watson-bell-hooks-conversation-1609893784.html

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

5. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/hooks-bell-gloria-jean-watkins-1952

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpKuLl-GC0M&list=PL23Xah1X_ZPEExjsUzsBeQl-exgDoJMMQ

Photo by Jesse Fox for Bust

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Manal al-Sharif

Activist. Author.

Manal al-Sherif drove a car in Saudi Arabia and ended up in jail. At the time, Saudi law had nothing in the books about women driving cars, but tradition had ingrained itself in society and it was just common knowledge that women were not allowed to drive cars. The origin of this rule came from a study that claimed women in countries that drove were more likely to take part in illicit activities than countries without women drivers.

“There was this official study that was presented to the Shura Council -- it's the consultative council appointed by the king in Saudi Arabia — and it was done by a local professor, a university professor. He claims it's done based on a UNESCO study. And the study states, the percentage of rape, adultery,illegitimate children, even drug abuse, prostitution in countries where women drive is higher than countries where women don't drive. I know, I was like this, I was shocked. I was like, "We are the last country in the world where women don't drive." So if you look at the map of the world,that only leaves two countries: Saudi Arabia, and the other society is the rest of the world (1.)”

In Saudi Arabia, women live under guardianship. The closest adult male in their lives is their guardian for life. This could be a father, a husband, a brother, a son who is of adult age. They have to rely on these men to help them live their lives - this includes driving. When women are divorced, or their husbands have to travel for work, or when there is no man left in the family, it is incredibly hard to live and work and take care of their family. Some women hire drivers who can sometimes take a third of a persons salary, some women unreliably have to make arrangements with male co-workers, some - in desperate times - make their male children drive them, which can be very dangerous. The crux of the matter, as al-Sharif states in the original video of her driving, is “ This is a volunteer campaign to help the girls of this country [learn to drive]. At least for times of emergency, God forbid. What if whoever is driving them gets a heart attack? (2.)”

When al-Sherif learned that the law did not actually say women couldn’t drive, she started a campaign called “Women2Drive.” They set a date, June 17 2011, for any woman who could to drive in the streets - testing the rules. But before that happened, the women in the campaign had to test the boundaries of the law, and that is what landed her in jail without an official charge.

Eventually, she was released and the campaign moved forward. On June 17th about a hundred Saudi women took to the streets and drove. No one was arrested. (1.)

Manal al-Sharif has a much longer fascinating story not only of her driving, but of her activism in general which you can follow in the reference links below. But more specifically in her piece for the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/opinion/sunday/saudi-arabia-women-driving-ban.html

And you can see the video of her driving here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sowNSH_W2r0

References:

1. https://www.ted.com/talks/manal_al_sharif_a_saudi_woman_who_dared_to_drive

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_al-Sharif

3. https://manal-alsharif.com/about-en/

4. https://www.npr.org/2017/06/08/532068532/for-one-saudi-woman-daring-to-drive-was-an-act-of-civil-disobedience

Photo - Manal al-Sherif via Wikipedia

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Marty Langelan

Activist. Leader. Educator. Author.

Langelan has been a lot of things throughout the years - she’s been a past president of the DC Rape Crisis Center, a president of the National Woman’s Party, a founder of one of the first Federal Women’s Committees... she’s been a lifelong activist.

But her main focus is harassment. Langelan is an expert in all forms of harassment - by that I mean, she’s done the research on re-education and de-escalation. She even wrote a book on the subject (Back Off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment.)

In the late 80′s, Langelan organized the “first major city-wide anti-harassment campaign (1.)” She has conducted research on harassment and harassment prevention, and developed the Direct-Action Toolkit to give people tools to help stop harassers. On top of all of that, “she teaches self-defense and has tested more than a hundred ways for women to respond to unwanted attention from men in public spaces (2.)”

Recently, she’s been doing work for Hollaback! and Stop Street Harassment, organizations focused on harassment educating and giving a voice to people who have been harassed.

For more information, check out my references here:

1. http://www.nwhp.org/2018-theme-honorees/

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/dcs-fight-against-street-harassment/2011/07/24/gIQAJSfe8I_story.html?utm_term=.92d45be96ed8

3. http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/12/20/you-too-heres-what-to-do/

4. https://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139667519/holla-back-dc-calls-out-street-harassment

5. http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/tag/marty-langelan/

Photo by Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post via NPR

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Hiromi Arakawa (aka Hiromu Arakawa)

Prolific Manga Artist.

Hiromu Arakawa, a pen name the artist took on to combat discrimination against women in the manga world, grew up on a dairy farm in Tokachi, Hokkaido, Japan. She is the youngest daughter in a family of five children and worked on the farm not only while she was growing up, but years after graduating high school as a part of a deal she had with her parents - 7 years working on the farm, and then she could move to the city to pursue her dream of becoming a manga artist. Farm life was something that would never leave her and has influenced her work - including her self portraits, which are her as a dairy cow.

Arakawa moved to Toyko in 1999, and became an assistant to Hiroyuki Eto, helping him with his series Mahojin Guru Guru which eventually led to publishing her very first work Stray Dog in Square Enix’s Monthly Shonen Gangan. It placed 9th in the 21st Century Enix Awards and launched her career. Though she worked on things in between, it wasn’t until Fullmetal Alchemist that she became one of “the most successful manga artists of this century (1.)”

Fullmetal Alchemist was first published in Monthly Shonen Gangan in 2001. The series would span 108 chapters, twenty-seven volumes, and several anime series (though she was not involved in writing the scripts for them.) It would resonate with many of her female fans thanks to writing and featuring well-rounded female characters.

“Arakawa herself has commented that she makes an active effort into maintaining a varied and complex female supporting cast. In one of the afterwords of her art books, she worried there were not enough female characters in Fullmetal Alchemist yet. More were introduced soon after (1.)”

To read more about her, check out my references!

1. https://www.themarysue.com/hiromu-arakawa-part-1/

2. https://www.themarysue.com/hiromu-arakawa-part-three-women/

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromu_Arakawa

4. http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2015/10/15/feature-monthly-mangaka-spotlight-4-hiromu-arakawa

Self Portraits by Hiromu Arakawa via The Mary Sue

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Mary Blair

Animator. Designer. Artist.

Mary Blair was first interested in fine art. She attended San Jose State University until winning a scholarship to the Chouinard Art Institute where she graduated in 1933. After, she married fellow artist, Lee Everett Blair, and became a member of the California School of Watercolor. The couple began to be known for their individual work, but art was not very lucrative for them, so reticently, they ventured into animation.

Blair’s first job was for MGM, but she left soon after to join her husband at Walt Disney Studios and started at a sketch artist - working on early drawings for Lady and the Tramp and other “stranger, more ambitious projects (1.)”

At one point, Walt Disney invited several Disney artists - including Blair and her husband - to South America as a sort of artistic inspiration trip, and it was here that Disney fell in love with her work. Soon, she’d be working on concept art for Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros and that would turn into more work/special projects for Walt.

Eventually, excited by her previous work, Disney assigned her to bigger projects like Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, but many of the animators didn’t care for her artistic style and used the excuse that if you “moved her art, it might not be as wonderful as it is static (1.)” On Cinderella, the animators essentially rebelled against using her work. Oin Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, there was some incorporation, enough that you knew her work, you could tell they drew inspiration from it, but not enough to be overly recognizable.

After Peter Pan, Blair moved on to advertising outside of the Disney corporation. Walt was disappointed to see her leave, but after Blair left, he realized how important it was to start incorporating varying artistic style to his films, so they did - starting with Sleeping Beauty. Much later, Blair was invited back to Disney to help design “It’s a Small World” for the 1964 World’s Fair. She also worked on murals for Tomorrowland and the ninety-foot Grand Canyon Concourse mural in the Contemporary Hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort. She also drew many of the Disney Golden Books illustrations which are still in print today.

Today, Mary Blair’s contributions to animation and design has influenced generations of animators and artists.

To learn more about Mary Blair and to look at her work, check out my references here:

1. https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2016/06/11/mary-blair-history/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Blair

3. http://magicofmaryblair.com/about-mary.htm

4. https://waltdisney.org/exhibitions/magic-color-flair-world-mary-blair

5. http://leonardmaltin.com/rare-movie-art-by-walt-disney-favorite-mary-blair/

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Photo - Mary Blair in her Studio via Magic of Mary Blair

Photo - Mary Blair Portrait - The Walt Disney Family Museum

Concept Art “Alice Falling Down the Rabbit Hole” by Mary Blair via The Walt Disney Family Museum

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Mino/N’Nonmiton (Dahomey Warrior Women)

Originally formed as a hunting group called the gbeto created by King Houegbadja. They would hunt elephants and dangerous animals proving their prowess with weapons and their courage as hunters.

King Agaja, Houegbadja’s son, then decided to use these women as bodyguards armed with muskets. Ceremonially, they were married to the king, though most of these marriages were never consummated. During Dahomey’s defeat of Savi in 1727, he also used them as soldiers.

Eventually, these women warriors were folded into the general military of Dahomey, and fought in battles between neighboring kingdoms and eventually with French colonists. They were active until the French colonized Dahomey after the Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892-1894.)

“The Dahomean female soldiers were known for their decapitation. They went through fierce and rigorous physical training, which consisted of arms exercises, making use of prisoner enemies as their targets for executions. The women wrestled one another, climbed walls, underwent vicious physically painful tasks, and were sent to fend for themselves for up to nine days with small rations to build and test their endurance. They were even more applauded for how their clothes stayed clean and tailored, their tools kept sharp, and their marches crisp and quiet” (4.)

Their origin and tales are varied, so I recommend reading the articles and listening to the podcast to find out much, much more.

References:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons

2. https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-amazons-of-dahomey.htm

3. https://www.themarysue.com/the-amazons-of-dahomey/

4. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-panther-dora-milaje-dahomey-amazons

5. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dahomeys-women-warriors-88286072/

Photo from Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen via Wikipedia

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enumerationofwomen-blog · 7 years ago

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Sara Josephine Baker

Doctor, Department of Health Inspector, pioneer of preventative medicine, woman who took down Typhoid Mary.

Set to go to Vasser, Baker’s future was derailed when her father died of typhoid while she was sixteen years old. Instead, she decided - against the judgement of her family - to become a doctor and make her the sole financial supporter for the Bakers.

She enrolled in the New York infirmary’s Women’s Medical College - founded by Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell - and then interned at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Immediately after, she opened a private practice and joined the New York City Department of Health for extra money.

She found the Department of Health in disarray and dove in to do real work that would help people. Her main focus was preventative medicine, which was a novel idea at the time.

“The way to keep people from dying from disease, it struck me suddenly, was to keep them from falling ill. Healthy people don’t die. It sounds like a completely witless remark, but at that time it was a startling idea. Preventative medicine had hardly been born yet and had no promotion in public health work.

— Sara Josephine Baker, Fighting For Life, page 83″ (1.)

Using that as her main focus, she honed in on the startling statistic of infant mortality in New York City - babies accounted for 1500 of the weekly deaths - most due to dysentery, which could be prevented by infant hygiene. So she started training mothers and their older daughters on how to care for their children - how to bathe them, keep them from suffocating, keep them on a good diet, how to maintain their temperature. She also invented an infant formula so that women could go back to work to support their families. She set up training for midwives to lower the number of deaths from childbirth. She also set up a system of silver nitrate distribution (a medicine used in the prevention of blindness in infants thanks to a scourge of gonorrhea transmitted during birth) that prevented contamination and created consistency in dosage.

On top of that, she put a doctor and nurse in every school, so that children were routinely checked for infestations and infection. This reduced head lice and trachoma that was also running rampant.

At a certain point, Baker’s programs worked so well, city doctors noticed a loss of business and started protesting - attempting to remove Baker from the Department of Health. She continued working and even helped find and quarantine Typhoid Mary - the woman who worked as a cook and spread typhoid to over 50 people.

She dedicated herself to the pursuit of preventive medicine with a focus on women and children throughout her life. It changed the way the country viewed health management and improved the quality of life for everyone.

To find out more about SJB (and believe me, she’s done SO MUCH MORE - this woman is amazing) here are my references:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Josephine_Baker

2. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_19.html

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/health/josephine-bakers-fighting-for-life-still-thought-provoking-decades-later.html?mtrref=undefined

Photo is from the U.S. National Library of Medicine

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