This timeline highlights women artists from Kentucky with a goal to position them alongside nationally recognized feminist figures and events. The timeline can be viewed in 2d or 3d mode by clicking the button at the bottom left. To navigate in either mode, the user can hover over the timeline itself and scroll, or drag the bar that runs along the bottom. The key at the top left is there to inform the user about how the timeline is organized and so the user can identify what category an event is placed in. Enjoy!
Women congregants petitioned for preaching licenses asserting that women in leadership roles advocating for women’s rights, including the right to vote, would benefit not only the AME Church but society as a whole.
The first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls over July 19-20, 1848.
The National Association of Colored Women is formed at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 1896.
Enid Yandell made her mark in the male-dominated field of sculpture by being the first woman to join the National Sculpture Society. Yandell was a Louisville native and had an astonishing career completing work in Kentucky, as well as all around the world.
Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY.
The third annual Provincetown Art Association exhibition showcases Ainslie's work. Ainslie was a very talented landscape painter and a native of Louisville, KY.
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is passed, giving women the right to vote.
Formerly known as the Handicraft Guild and created in 1914, the Louisville Art Center offered art classes to the community.
From roughly 1935-1940, Lange documented rural families and migrant laborers affected by widespread poverty.
Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women with a mission to "lead, advocate for, and empower women of African descent, their families, and communities."
"The Green Coat" was a self portrait by Ewen and was shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Ewen was known for her illustrations that gained commercial success in the world of greeting cards and children's books. Ewen worked professionally under the name "Douglas Ewen", a male name, in order to be paid fairly for her work.
Born in Viper, KY and a University of Kentucky alum, Ritchie has contributed a significant amount to traditional American music.
Diecks was born and raised in Louisville and was extremely active in the local art community. She worked mainly with oil and watercolor paints, but also sculpted and made jewelry.
Brooks is the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry Annie Allen.
Anderson is the first African American singer to perform here.
The first lesbian organization in the U.S. is formed in San Francisco as an alternative to lesbian bars.
Parks' refusal to move to the back of the bus and her arrest spurs the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Because of the social controversies of the birth control pill, it took the FDA seven months to approve the pill. Even then, it was only approved for short-term use.
President Kennedy establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women to investigate opportunities regarding equality in education, the workplace, and in law. Eleanor Roosevelt is appointed as Chairwoman.
Written by Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique has been credited with setting off the start of second-wave feminism. The book focuses on the dissatisfaction some women feel from being pinned into the category of housewife or mother.
Congress passed the Equal Pay Act with the end goal to fight wage discrimination based on sex in the workplace. Today on average, women still earn less than men and race affects these numbers even more.
Smith was a Maine Republican Senator and despite never winning a primary election, she was the first woman to receive nomination at a major political party's convention.
This law was created to protect employees from being discriminated based on race and sex.
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The National Organization for Women was created to try and end sex discrimination. Betty Friedan was elected as the organization's first president.
The New York Radical Women's group formed as an influential feminist political organization that pioneers "consciousness raising" methods to promote the women's movement.
President Johnson's Executive Order 11375 outlaws employment discrimination based on sex by the federal government. This Executive Order added the category of "sex" to a previous anti-discrimination order he had enacted in 1965.
WEAL is created as an alternative to the National Organization for Women (NOW) and did not support any radical or controversial views like abortion or sexuality.
S.C.U.M. is a radical critique of the patriarchy and has gone under multiple titles in various publications. The book was not well-known until 1968 when Solanas attempted to kill Andy Warhol. While many feminists defended Solanas' views, Betty Friedan considered her ideology too radical and therefore divisive.
The New York Radical Women's group argued that Miss America pageant is based in misogyny and further is a comment on how women are treated in America as a whole.
Redstockings is a radical feminist group formed after the breakup of New York Radical Women to raise consciousness about sexism and abortion.
Police persecution and raids were all-to-common at LGBTQ+ bars, but one police raid at the Stonewall Inn in NY sparked the beginnings of the Gay Rights Movement.
In Seneca Falls, NY, the National Women's Hall of Fame is determined to honor and give recognition to all that women have achieved throughout history.
This exhibition was organized by 12 women artists and opened at a museum in New York City.
This group was formed by Faith and Michele Ringgold around the issues of white supremacy and white-washing of the art world and academia.
Edited by Robin Morgan, this anthology is seen to be one of the first anthologies written focused on second-wave feminism work and is mainly conceived as a call-to-action.
Kate Millet based this book on her Ph.D. dissertation and it examines the effect patriarchy has on sexual relations. She notably rejects theories from a lot of established male scholars and accepts the work of gay writer Jean Genet.
Off Our Backs is a feminist news journal that ran from 1970-2008.
Published by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective is an extensive and radical text focusing on women's health issues, gender, and sexuality. It discusses in depth abortion and reproductive rights as well as women's masturbation, and was ground-breaking for its time.
Founding members include Lucy Lippard and Faith Ringgold and they were specifically focused on raising awareness around the lack of women artists in the Whitney Museum's Painting and Sculpture Annual. This group ultimately begins the Women's Artist Registry, as well.
The press was critical in publishing works during second wave feminism and also published the journal Women's Studies Quarterly. They aim to spark activist movements within society and they want to create a world where everyone can see themselves in a book.
Written by Shulamith Firestone when she was just 25, it is praised today as a one of the classics in radical feminist literature, especially considering the time. Firestone argues that in order to rid society of sexism completely, culture and even nature must be reordered and examined. She didn't just want to eradicate male privilege, but stop giving weight to genital differences and sex distinctions themselves.
Written by Germaine Greer and published first in London, The Female Eunuch is centered around critiquing the nuclear family as repressing women's sexuality.
The IRW has been a prominent leader in research on feminism and gender since its creation.
Organized by Lucy Lippard at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut.
Everywoman magazine was known for covering what was happening in the feminist art world as well as feminist art education. "Judy Chicago and the California Girls" is a documentary made by Judith Dancoff about the feminist art movement in the 70s and was part of the focus in this special issue of the magazine. This issue also featured articles on "inner space" imagery by Judy Chicago, Miriam Shapiro, and Faith Wilding.
Edited by Linda Nochlin and Thomas Hess, this anthology established that erotic art has been made by and for men, even though its subject matter is quite heavily women. Multiple different writers and scholars reimagine and analyze these works of art in a new light.
The Los Angeles Council of Women Artists (LACWA) protest and speak out against the omission of women artists from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition Art and Technology. The LACWA was a feminist art group that set a powerful precedent for similar groups that formed later on (like the Guerrila Girls).
Joan Snyder started these exhibitions at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library at Rutgers University and it is the longest-running, continuing exhibition program committed to showcasing women artists in America. Snyder was a painter who attended the all-female Douglass College, rose awareness around the fact that the studio art students had no female artists to look up to or inspire them. They were surrounded by an all-male faculty, as well as constant exhibitions of only male artists. She collaborated with the director of the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Daisy Brightenback, to start this idea and it took off with great success.
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