Eleanor Flexner

Author

1908 – 1995

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Who was Eleanor Flexner?

Eleanor Flexner was a distinguished independent scholar and pioneer in what was to become the field of women’s studies. Her much praised Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States relates women’s physically courageous and politically ingenious work for the vote to other 19th- and early 20th-century social, labor, and reform movements, most importantly the push for equal education, the abolition of slavery, and temperance laws.

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Born
Oct 4, 1908
Georgetown
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • New York City
Died
Mar 25, 1995

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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