Women worth knowing
Extraordinary women, overlooked stories, and a more complete history. Explore the lives, ideas, and achievements that changed the world.
Women who established or ran newspapers, journals, and publishing ventures.
Louise Otto-Peters founded a newspaper that invited women to speak for themselves. When Saxony barred women from responsible editorship, she kept the paper going beyond its borders.
She turned women’s everyday grievances into a campaign for political rights, using journalism, organizing, and persistent lobbying to challenge restrictions on their independence.
She used journalism to argue for political rights and practical clothing, linking women’s ability to move freely with their right to participate in public life.
She built schools and a newspaper to advance Black freedom and opportunity, using education and publishing to challenge slavery and support communities across national borders.
She used poetry, journalism, and revolutionary organizing to demand education and freedom for women, risking her life to challenge the political and social order.