
Doctor Mary Walker
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
Women's Clothing - What's the Problem?
She was arrested for wearing men's clothing. She spent her time writing a book called hit, a collection of essays on women's rights and simultaneously joined the women suffrage movement that had been launched so many years ago when sh was in high school. Mobs would sometimes follow her, you know, she was often taken into custody to save her from the violence of the crowds around her. Her clothes just gave the opposition more ammunition. And she said, no matter what length of skirt i wear, somebody considered it his or her christian duty to tell me i ought to wear some other length. There's just no winning.
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