Welcome to Women’s History Wednesday, now in our fancy new home at the Iowa Women’s Archives tumblr! Despite our recent Mildred Wirt Benson gif-a-thon, we couldn’t resist one more post on Iowa’s most successful “ghost” for Halloween. In a 1973 essay for our Books at Iowa journal, Benson described getting her start as a ghost writer.Continue reading “Mildred Wirt Benson, Iowa’s most successful “ghost””
Monthly Archives: October 2013
eras of emma: the emma goldman clinic through four decades
eras of emma: the emma goldman clinic through four decades Join us for a panel discussion featuring women who have been active in Iowa City’s feminist health clinic founded in 1973. The clinic had its origins in an abortion referral service started by Iowa City’s Women’s Liberation Front in 1971. The Emma Goldman Clinic for Women opened September 1,Continue reading “eras of emma: the emma goldman clinic through four decades”