Tag: gender equality

  • Georgia O’Keeffe: feminist forever

    Georgia O’Keeffe: feminist forever

    Right from the get-go, Georgia O’Keeffe resisted patriarchy. “I have always resented being told that there are things I cannot do because I am a woman,” she told a National Woman’s Party audience in 1926. “I remember how I used to argue with my brother about which were best, boys or girls. When I argued…

  • Georgia O’Keeffe on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1942

    Georgia O’Keeffe on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1942

    It is hard to realize that any group still has to work for equal rights before the law. . . . Surely today when women are taking their place everywhere we should not think in terms of reservations and prejudices of the past, but of a joint effort, the freedom of peoples and of human…

  • What would Georgia O’Keeffe say about Hillary?

    What would Georgia O’Keeffe say about Hillary?

    After the emotional overdrive of Hillary’s nomination last week, I’ve been wondering what Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) would think – and feel, and say. One hundred years after the pioneering modern artist got her first group exhibit in New York City, O’Keeffe would likely be saying, “It’s about time.” Popularly recognized today as the…