Loretta Cody
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Loretta Cody |
Loretta Cody is a historical writer and a freelance journalist who has lectured on the Women’s Rights Movement of the 19th Century. She has engaged in significant research in this area. Through her reading and interviews she became particularly interested in the important contributions made by many of the lesser known leaders of the movement whom she feels history has failed to recognize. One of them, Phebe Hanaford, has especially peaked her interest and is the subject of a new biography on which she has been working. Loretta says Phebe Hanaford and many of her companions can serve as models of courage and determination for women of today, around the world, who find themselves in desperate situations of economic repression and exploitation.
The movement for women in this country may not have reached all its hoped-for goals but its progress is well ahead of that in many other cultures. Mrs. Cody worked for 16 years providing medical services in an Islamic culture and saw firsthand the discrimination against women. The heroines of the past can provide role models of how to organize politically in order to build a unified movement.
Through her lectures the voices of these past heroines are heard in the hope that their words will bring hope for the future.
Joanne Rodgers Ph.D.
Rodgers and Associates,
Educational Consultants
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