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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 22, 2021, 8:54 pm
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HTML https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/new-jersey-district-to-remove-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-high-school/
[quote]A New Jersey school district is planning to rename one of
its schools named after former President Woodrow Wilson due to
what critics say is a legacy of racism.
...
Woodrow Wilson, a Virginia-born Democrat, served as New Jersey’s
governor from 1911 to 1913 and as US president from 1913 to
1921.
His legacy has been challenged by activists and academics in
recent years due to his support of racist policies.
In June 2020, the board of trustees at Princeton University,
Wilson’s alma mater, voted to drop his name from his namesake
School of Public and International Affairs.
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the
standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil
service after it had been racially integrated for decades,
thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice,”
university President Christopher L. Eisgruber wrote in a
statement on the board’s decision. “He not only acquiesced in
but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country,
a practice that continues to do harm today.”
Also last June, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he would no
longer use Wilson’s desk at his office in Trenton.
“The country is having a reckoning and Woodrow Wilson, and his
legacy is being swept up in that, as it should be,” Murphy said
at a press conference at the time.[/quote]
More about Wilson:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race
[quote]Wilson was an apologist for slavery and the southern
redemption movement; he was also one of the nation's foremost
promoters of the lost cause mythology.[11] At Princeton, Wilson
used his authority to actively discourage the admission of
African-Americans.[1]
...
Wilson specifically criticized efforts to protect voting rights
for African-Americans and rulings by federal judges against
state courts that refused to empanel black jurors. According to
Wilson, congressional leaders had acted out of idealism,
displaying "blatant disregard of the child-like state of the
Negro and natural order of life", thus endangering American
democracy as a whole.[13][/quote]
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/western-democracy/msg9997/#msg9997
In contrast:
[quote]President of Princeton
...
Wilson appointed the first Jew and the first Roman Catholic to
the faculty
...
In 1909, Wilson received a letter from a young African-American
man interested in applying to attend Princeton; Wilson had his
assistant write back promptly that "it is altogether inadvisable
for a colored man to enter Princeton."[23] Wilson eventually
came to include in his justification for refusing to admit
African-American students that Princeton had never done so in
the past, though he knew such claims to be false. By the end of
his time as president at Princeton, Wilson had taken steps to
erase from the public record that African-Americans had ever
attended or instructed at Princeton, though neither was
true.[24] Princeton college would not admit a single black
student until 1947,[25] becoming the last Ivy League institution
to racially integrate.[26][27]
...
Exclusion of African-Americans from administration appointments
By the 1910s, African-Americans had become effectively shut out
of elected office. Obtaining an executive appointment to a
position within the federal bureaucracy was usually the only
option for African-American statesmen.[44] As Wilson named white
supremacists to the highest levels of his administration,
African-Americans were appointments in record low numbers. While
it has been claimed Wilson continued to appoint
African-Americans to positions that had traditionally been
filled by blacks, overcoming opposition from many southern
senators,[45] such claims deflect most of the truth however.
Since the end of Reconstruction, both parties recognized certain
appointments as unofficially reserved for qualified
African-Americans. Wilson appointed a total of nine
African-Americans to prominent positions in the federal
bureaucracy, eight of whom were Republican carry-overs. For
comparison, Taft was met with disdain and outrage from
Republicans of both races for appointing "a mere thirty-one
black officeholders", a record low for a Republican president.
Upon taking office, Wilson fired all but two of the seventeen
black supervisors in the federal bureaucracy appointed by
Taft.[46][47]
...
Not only were African-Americans almost completely excluded from
higher level appointments, the Wilson cabinet was dominated by
southerners, many of whom were unapologetic white
supremacists.[61]
...
Veto of the racial equality proposal
Japan had fought on the side of the allies during WWI and was
the only non-white nation of the five major powers (the others
being the Great Britain, France, the United States and Italy).
The first draft of the Racial Equality Amendment was presented
to the Commission on February 13, 1919 and stated:
The equality of nations being a basic principle of the League of
Nations, the High Contracting Parties agree to accord as soon as
possible to all alien nationals of states, members of the
League, equal and just treatment in every respect making no
distinction, either in law or in fact, on account of their race
or nationality.
...
For Wilson, even if it was inline with what his country claimed
to stand for, it was repugnant to his personal belief in white
racial superiority, an ideology that had guided policy in his
administration since he took office.[100][101]
...
Wilson exercised his power as Chairman and overturned the vote
unilaterally. Wilson proceeded to explain that this specific
amendment was so divisive and extreme it must have unanimous
support in order to pass.[102]
Wilson's decision garnered praise from the governments of South
Africa, Australia and Great Britain [/quote]
Thus Japan turned to Hitler.
Another point of contrast:
[quote]Though Wilson aggressively championed the cause of
self-determination for many stateless peoples of Eastern Europe,
his sympathy did not extend to the "backward countries" of Asia
and Africa
...
Wilson did insist that Poland and other eastern European
countries (whose borders were carved out of the defeated empires
of the Central Powers following the outcome of the war) ratify
binding treaties, obligating them to protect the rights of
minorities, mainly Jews, within their own borders.[122][/quote]
Thus we see that Wilsonism is the exact opposite of Hitlerism.
[quote]he consistently expressed the belief that all members of
the white race could and should be integrated into American
society as equals regardless of heritage.[119] This was a
recognition that Wilson never extended black
Americans.[6]: 103
...
Further dispelling claims he harbored anti-Semitic prejudices,
Wilson appointed the first Jewish-American to the Supreme Court,
Louis Brandeis.[123][/quote]
See?
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Re: Name decolonization
By: Dazhbog Date: December 23, 2021, 5:55 am
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=11.msg10229#msg10229
date=1640228093]Thus we see that Wilsonism is the exact opposite
of Hitlerism.[/quote]
Of course, as it is merely another kind of Duginism:
HTML https://euromaidanpress.com/2017/09/02/illusion-of-a-friendly-empire-russia-the-west-and-ukraines-independence-a-century-ago/
[quote]During the meeting on 30 June 1919 with Arnold Margolin,
UNR’s [Ukrainian National Republic - Dazhbog] representative at
the Paris Peace Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Robert
Lansing tried to persuade him that Ukraine should recognize the
authority of the “Supreme Ruler of Russia” Admiral Alexander
Kolchak and join her troops with White armies:
“When it came to the Wilsonian principles [the idea of national
self-determination promoted by then American President Wilson],”
Margolin writes, “Lansing declared that he was aware of only one
people of Russia and that a federation, like the United States,
was the only way to reconstruct Russia. When I tried to argue
that the existence of individual states, as entities, was the
prerequisite of their federation, as in the United States,
Lansing evaded the point and continued emphatically to call for
the recognition of Kolchak.[/quote]
[quote]In August 1920, Wilson’s new Secretary of State
Bainbridge Colby stressed that his government favored the
respect for the “territorial integrity and true borders of
Russia,” which would include the whole former Russian Empire,
except for Finland, ethnic Polish lands, and Armenia.[/quote]
Wilsonism was never chiefly about self-determination, but about
strengthening Turandom at the expense of the Central Powers!
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Re: Name decolonization
By: Zea_mays Date: December 29, 2021, 7:51 pm
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Although the one of the possible original etymologies of Georgia
is a word to distinguish agricultural ethnic groups from
non-agricultural ones, the specific spelling many nations use to
refer to Georgia came to them from the Russian language. In the
past decade, a number of countries have de-Russified their
official names for Georgia:
[quote]The Russian name for Georgia is Gruziya
(Грузия
[‘gruzʲɪjə]), believed to come from Persian
origin. This name first appeared as gurzi in Ignatiy
Smolnyanin’s travel documents dating back to 1389. Later, the
name grew popular among Slavic regions and across the Russian
Empire.
With the request of the Georgian government, Israel, Lithuania,
Japan, and South Korea changed their exonyms for the country to
“Georgia.” Lithuania plans to call Georgia by its native name,
Sakartvelo, in 2018.[/quote]
HTML https://theculturetrip.com/europe/georgia/articles/why-is-georgia-also-called-sakartvelo/
And Georgia de-Russified their name for Lithuania in return:
[quote]As a gesture of appreciation, Georgia also changed
Lithuania's Russian-derived name of "Litva" (Russian:
Литва) to its native
"Lietuva".[27][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Georgia#Abandoning_the_name
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 2, 2022, 1:07 am
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This topic was originally intended for place names, but why not
cover personal names also?
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-immigrant-want-reclaim-110159572.html
[quote]“Hi, Professor R, my name is Madhushree Ghosh.”
“Huh?”
“Madhushree.” He rolled his eyes and laughed.
“It’s too long, too difficult to pronounce. I will call you
Madhu.”
He held keys to the PhD kingdom. I didn’t even know I had a
choice. I became Madhu.
...
With a shortened name, for nearly three decades I became Madhu,
life, or honey. It isn’t me. It wasn’t me. But I didn’t want to
inconvenience my PhD advisor who held the power to grant my
degree. My business cards soon said Madhu Ghosh. I introduced
myself so. I didn’t want to inconvenience any Americans. After
all, I was the grateful immigrant. One didn’t have to be
difficult, did one?
As immigrants, we don’t want to create trouble. Trouble is
“foreign” names. Trouble is our “otherness” — we are responsible
in how we erase ourselves.
...
It took me till I was editing my memoir to realize the
significance of what I had erased. I had erased my culture with
my name. Isn’t it something when you don’t even know you’ve
minimized yourself to fit in the box you’re expected to be in?
During the pandemic, I posted about my name on social media.
Some white friends who I’d known forever DM’d me — “You told us
to call you Madhu, so how are we to know?”
True, true. But I heard no such comments coming from people of
color.
I slip up constantly and introduce myself as Madhu. Like I don’t
believe I deserve to hold my own name.
The trouble with difficult names is that we are trying to fit
in. The trouble is, when it’s unfamiliar, how do you ask for the
pronunciation without insulting someone? The trouble is, we are
all either too cautious or too flippant. The trouble is, we
didn’t even notice when we erased ourselves.
I hope we can claim ourselves back.
To start, my name is Madhushree Ghosh, daughter of Sudhin and
Sila Ghosh. Immigrant.[/quote]
Well done. Also, you are American. Your PhD advisor, on the
other hand, was not American, but a Western colonialist
occupying territory that does not belong to him.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 21, 2022, 4:49 am
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HTML https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/18/washington-elementary-school-renaming-yuri-kochiyama
[quote]The renaming of Washington Elementary, the last Berkeley
public school named after a slave owner, has been delayed until
the end of the school year by a controversy surrounding one of
the luminaries who’d been shortlisted to be the school’s new
namesake.
Yuri Kochiyama, a survivor of Japanese incarceration camps known
for speaking out against American imperialism, had been chosen
as one of seven finalists. A supporter of reparations for
Japanese Americans, she worked alongside Malcolm X against the
oppression of Black Americans, famously cradling his head in her
arms after his assassination.
Her name was taken off the list after parents notified the
school principal that Kochiyama had once expressed admiration
for Osama bin Laden. Though her name was reinstated shortly
afterward, the removal brought up what some parents say is the
all-too-familiar erasure of a figure who they called a “revered
and respected hero.” She lived the final years of her life in
Berkeley, where she died in 2014 at age 93.[/quote]
Not only should admiration of bin Laden by American civil rights
activists not be a problem, but there should be schools named
after bin Laden himself! He was an American ally FFS!
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden
[quote]Some sources have alleged that[1][2][3] the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) had ties with Osama Bin Laden's
al-Qaeda and its "Afghan Arab" fighters when it armed Mujahideen
groups to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War.
About the same time as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the
United States began collaborating with Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) to provide several hundred million dollars a
year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the
Afghan pro-Soviet government and the Soviet Army in Operation
Cyclone. Along with native Afghan mujahideen were Muslim
volunteers from other countries, popularly known as "Afghan
Arabs". The most famous of the Afghan Arabs was Osama bin Laden,
known at the time as a wealthy and pious Saudi who provided his
own money and helped raise millions from other wealthy Gulf
Arabs.
...
In conversation with former British Defence Secretary Michael
Portillo, two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto
said Osama bin Laden was initially pro-American.[6] Prince
Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, has also stated that bin
Laden once expressed appreciation for the United States' help in
Afghanistan. On CNN's Larry King program he said:[7]
Bandar bin Sultan: This is ironic. In the mid-'80s, if you
remember, we and the United - Saudi Arabia and the United States
were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the
Soviets. He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to
bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the
atheists, he said the communists. Isn't it ironic?
Larry King: How ironic. In other words, he came to thank you for
helping bring America to help him.
Bandar bin Sultan: Right.[8][/quote]
It was the US' fault for not turning against Israel after the
Cold War ended. Had the US turned against Israel promptly, bin
Laden would surely have remained pro-American to this day. After
the US turns against Israel in the future, it should not forget
to belatedly honour bin Laden:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Beliefs_and_ideology
[quote]In a December 1998 interview with Pakistani journalist
Rahimullah Yusufzai, bin Laden stated that Operation Desert Fox
was proof that Israeli Jews controlled the governments of the
United States and the United Kingdom, directing them to kill as
many Muslims as they could.[90] In a letter released in late
2002, he stated that Jews controlled the civilian media outlets,
politics, and economic institutions of the United States.[66] In
a May 1998 interview with ABC's John Miller, bin Laden stated
that the Israeli state's ultimate goal was to annex the Arabian
Peninsula and the Middle East into its territory and enslave its
peoples, as part of what he called a "Greater Israel".[91] He
stated that Jews and Muslims could never get along and that war
was "inevitable" between them, and further accused the US of
stirring up anti-Islamic sentiment.[91] He claimed that the US
State Department and US Department of Defense were controlled by
Jews, for the sole purpose of serving the Israeli state's
goals.[91] He often delivered warnings against alleged Jewish
conspiracies: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in
treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or
the next."[92][/quote]
Related:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/military-decolonization/msg6761/#msg6761
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 13, 2022, 8:14 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/msg10984/#msg10984
now:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tear-jerking-ad-celebrates-beauty-164043584.html
[quote]“For the AAPI community, belonging starts with a name.
Join us to celebrate and learn AAPI names,” the caption read.
The ad follows the story of a Korean American girl named Yeong
Joo Park. As her mother holds Yeong Joo as a newborn, the mom
explains why she bestowed the name upon her daughter. She also
warns of how some may not understand Yeong Joo’s name but how
others will make the effort to learn and connect.
“Your name will make you feel different, like they don’t want to
get to know you. But I promise there will be those who try,” the
mother tells Yeong Joo.
The narrative fast-forwards to Yeong Joo as a young girl. She
meets a friend on the bus who will pronounce her name and a
soccer coach who mispronounces it but is willing to learn.
“Do you remember what Yeong Joo means?” the mother explains. “It
means ‘strong and resilient’ because I know you will be.”
The tear-jerking ad certainly had people on TikTok in their
feelings.
“I don’t have an English name and keep the Korean name my
parents gave me. This campaign is beautiful,” someone commented.
“Got me over here crying. Love the Korean representation,”
another said.
“Best ad ever. Made me feel comfortable about my Asian name,” a
person wrote.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 5, 2022, 11:04 pm
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At least the issue is being discussed:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDX1qzIV8NA
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Philippines#Proposed_names
[quote]Kapatiran ("Brotherhood"), or its semi-equivalent
Katipunan ("Assembly"/"Gathering").[39]
Luzviminda. A portmanteau of the first syllables of the
country's three major island groups: Luzon; Visayas; and
Mindanao. The term has sometimes been interchanged with
Luzvimindas, due to the territorial claim of the country on
eastern Sabah in Borneo.
Mahárlika (Sanskrit: mahardhikka
(महर्द्धिक
),
"freeman"[40]). In Pre-Hispanic Philippines, the mahárlika was
the common Tagalog term for freedmen, not for the royalty.[40]
The maharlika were the largest sector of society, and included
warriors, artisans, artists, and others.[41] Unlike the rulers,
maharlika did not participate in politics.[42] In 1978,
then-president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos supported a House
Bill mandating the country's renaming to Mahárlika under
military rule.[43] Marcos claimed that Mahárlika was the name of
the guerilla force he allegedly led during World War II. This
claim would later be disproven, as testified by an Army
investigation which "found no foundation" for the late
dictator's claims.[44] Eddie Ilarde, who filed the bill,
wrongfully[45] stated that Maharlika connoted royalty and
wrongfully translated the term as "nobly created".[45] In the
book, "Vocabulario de la lengua tagala", the term translates
into "alipin na itinuring na malaya" or "a slave that was
treated as free".[46] Historians noted that in some accounts,
the term means "big phallus" or "large male genitalia".[47][45]
The bill did not pass since the term was seen by numerous ethnic
groups as "imperial in nature".[39] The proposal was revived by
populist president Rodrigo Duterte in February 2019,[48] but the
name was dropped a month later.[49] The name change is still
supported by the government, although a new name has yet to be
determined.[49][/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 10, 2022, 8:00 pm
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With each renaming, the US becomes less Western and more
American:
HTML https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/22022.htm
[quote]MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park
announced today that Mount Doane is now named First Peoples
Mountain. Today’s announcement follows a 15-0 vote affirming the
change by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal
body responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage
throughout the federal government.
First Peoples Mountain is a 10,551-foot peak within Yellowstone
National Park east of Yellowstone Lake in the southeastern
portion of the park. The peak was previously named after
Gustavus Doane, a key member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane
expedition in 1870 prior to Yellowstone becoming America’s first
national park.
Research has shown that earlier that same year (1870), Doane led
an attack, in response to the alleged murder of a white fur
trader, on a band of Piegan Blackfeet. During what is now known
as the Marias Massacre, at least 173 American Indians were
killed, including many women, elderly Tribal members and
children suffering from smallpox. Doane wrote fondly about this
attack and bragged about it for the rest of his life.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 15, 2022, 9:08 pm
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The most literal name decolonization of all:
HTML https://www.foxnews.com/sports/george-washington-university-drops-colonials
[quote]George Washington University’s sports teams will no
longer be known as the Colonials.
The school said in an announcement Wednesday the school’s board
of trustees and a special committee determined the name
Colonials "can no longer serve its purpose as a name that
unifies."
...
"Colonials means colonizers who stole land and resources from
Indigenous groups, killed or exiled Native peoples and
introduced slavery into the colonies."
The committee said George Washington "firmly rejected" the term
colonial, and the term itself "was not used during the 1607-1776
Colonial era, and it did not become popular until the Colonial
Revival period of the late 19th and 20th centuries."
[/quote]
Yes, believe it or not, there was once a Colonial Revival
movement by the anti-American Western occupiers of the US:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Revival_Movement
[quote]The Colonial Revival is generally associated with the
eighteenth-century provincial fashion for the Georgian and
Neoclassical styles.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 24, 2022, 2:48 am
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HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/opinion/jlo-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck.html
[quote]Why It Matters That J-Lo Is Now J-Aff
...
given the cringe-y history behind the practice, a woman taking
her husband’s last name feels to me like a submission — a
gesture that doesn’t say “I belong with him” so much as “I
belong to him.” And at this fraught moment for feminism in
America, a woman like the former Jennifer Lopez deciding to
change her name feels especially dispiriting.
Sure, taking your husband’s name might be a way of saying “this
is for keeps.” But it is also a gesture inextricably rooted in
peak patriarchy
...
Dr. Rachael Robnett, an associate professor in the psychology
department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, told me in a
telephone interview that it reflects “men’s greater status and
power in relationships, and also in society.” [/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname#Family_name_discrimination_against_women
[quote]In England and cultures derived from there, there has
long been a tradition for a woman to change her surname upon
marriage from her birth name to her husband's family name. (See
Maiden and married names.)[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_and_married_names
[quote]"the custom of calling women Mrs. John This and Mrs. Tom
That and colored men Sambo and Zip Coon, is founded on the
principle that white men are lords of all."[34][35] Later, when
addressing the judiciary committee of the state legislature of
New York in 1860 in a speech called "A Slave's Appeal", she
stated in part, "The negro [slave] has no name. He is Cuffy
Douglas or Cuffy Brooks, just whose Cuffy he may chance to be.
The woman has no name. She is Mrs. Richard Roe or Mrs. John Doe,
just whose Mrs. she may chance to be."[36][37][/quote]
Similarly:
[quote]Russia
There is a widespread, though not universal, custom for a newly
married wife to adopt the husband's family name.[/quote]
In contrast:
[quote]China
Traditionally, unlike in Anglophon Western countries, a married
woman keeps her name unchanged, without adopting her husband's
surname.[66] ... Amongst the Chinese diaspora overseas,
especially in Southeast Asia, women rarely legally adopt their
spouse's surname.
...
Iran
It became mandatory in 1918 to use surnames in Iran, and only in
this time, the heads of families had the right to choose their
family members' (including the wife) surname. It is stated in
the article four of the law on Civil Registration in 1925, that
"Everybody should choose his/her own name. The wife... maintains
her family name that was called by."[/quote]
so once again we confirm that Western civilization is more, not
less, sexist than non-Western civilizations. Indeed Western
colonialism is to blame for increasing the sexism among those
whom they colonized, for example:
[quote]Hong Kong
Due to British influence, some people in Hong Kong have also
adopted the tradition of women changing their English last
name[/quote]
As for the US, those who resisted are the Americans (as opposed
to Westerners), as they are in effect calling for the US to be
less like Britain/Russia/etc., and more like China/Iran/etc.:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone_League
[quote]Its motto is "A wife should no more take her husband's
name than he should hers.
...
The League became so well known that a new term, Lucy Stoner,
came into common use, meaning anyone who advocates that a wife
be allowed to keep and use her own name. This term was
eventually included in dictionaries.[6] Women who choose not to
use their husbands' surnames have also been called Lucy
Stoners.[7][/quote]
Related:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-and-sexism/
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