Description
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer and public health reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She also wrote fiction and envisioned a future where women were equal to men. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) was a United States writer, economist, feminist, most famous for her utopian novels and the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which exposes the medical establishment’s mistreatment of women suffering from what is now known as post-partum depression. Egypt’s great feminist and M.D., Nawal El-Sadaawi (1931-2021), was a secularist, humanitarian, author, activist, physician, and psychiatrist, who wrote many books on the subject of liberation of women, paying particular attention to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM – aka “female circumcision”). All three women faced limitations and prejudice, yet remained outspoken and future-thinking, hoping to make the world better and safer for women. Join me for an inspiring look at some of these heroic and hopeful women.
