Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers
by Pamela M. Henson (reprinted with permission) With a hint of spring finally in the air, my thoughts turn to the sights, sounds and...
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She Visited 187 Countries Before 1940, Many Alone
Homebound during the pandemic, I've been thinking a lot about Ava Hamilton Singer, an early member of the Society of Woman Geographers....
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The Sea Was Boiling With Lights
Else Bostlemann was an early member of the Society of Woman Geographers who enjoyed a fascinating job. Trained as an artist, she worked...
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Books about Woman Explorers
Looking for adventure or a new heroine to love? Here's some recommended reading! Here's some films by or about early members of the...
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Celebrate Women Explorers
For National Kick Butt Day, I have prepared blog articles on ten women who were members of the Society of Woman Geographers: Amelia...
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A Pioneer in Gay and Prisoner Rights
Blair Niles was a courageous writer who helped millions of readers understand the the injustices faced by marginalized people.
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Gloria Hollister and her Disappearing Fish
Gloria Hollister was the first woman to dive below the ocean in a bathysphere.
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Headhunt Revisited: Chasing a Melanesian Dream
“They said no female outfit such as ours could go alone to paint headhunters and come back with their own heads. No man had done it.”
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Louise Boyd: First Woman Polar Explorer
“My brain left all of me that was feminine, and, with a man-size stride I set out, bound to prove I belonged there as much as the men."
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Unwrapping the Mummy with Rebeca Carrión Cachot
She had come a long way from the romantic college student who thought that the museum purchased its antiquities in a store.
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Do we trust science to prevent tragic injury?
He tried the drug on his secretary before giving it to his cow. It shows the relative value placed on women and cattle in Texas.
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Mary Vaux Walcott, on Brainless Politicians
Politicians don’t seem to have any brains, or at least of they have them, they do not use them
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Old School Explorer, Mickie Akeley
Explorer Mickie Akeley was afraid of two things: lions and elevators.
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Walk on the Wild Side with Lucile Quarry Mann
Who doesn’t love a woman with a snake? Do you admire women who seize the chance to do what few people have done? To count down the days...
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Amelia Earhart Kicks Butt
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. It is reckless, maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
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Banned from the Explorer’s Club
The Society asked explorer Roy Andrews, president of the Explorers Club, to explain his comment that "Women are not adapted to exploration."
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The Spirited Mother of Our Plundered Planet
I do not know whether the human race is going to survive much longer, and I sometimes wonder if we deserve to. But Alaska must be preserved.
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Men mocked Annie Peck's clothes to diminish her accomplishments
Can a woman get as much publicity for her accomplishments as her appearance?
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The Tragic Fate of America’s Radium Girls, A Guest Post by Samantha Wilcoxson
After years of sharpening the brush tips with their lips and using the paint as makeup, the women wondered if the radium was poisoning them.
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Ella Riegel, Iron-Jawed Suffrage Angel
“Of course the picketing was embarrassing. We meant it to be. This was no time for manners.”
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