词汇 | lucy stoner |
词源 | Lucy Stoner. Use of the “Ms.” form of address for a woman today recalls the all-but-forgotten Lucy Stoners active earlier in this century. A woman who refused to change her maiden name upon marriage was often called a Lucy Stoner. The term recalls American feminist Lucy Stone (1818–93), who deserves far greater recognition than she has received. On graduation from Oberlin, the only college accepting women at the time, Lucy Stone was 29, and she plunged headlong into the woman suffrage and antislavery causes. Her important work included helping to form the National Woman’s Association, of which she was president for three years, and the founding of the Women’s Journal, the association’s official publication for nearly 50 years. An eloquent speaker for women’s rights, Lucy Stone became well-known throughout the U.S. In 1855 she married Dr. Henry Brown Blackwell, an antislavery worker, but as a matter of principle she refused to take his name, and she and her husband issued a joint protest against the inequalities in the marriage law. Lucy Stone would never answer to any but her maiden name all her married life, and the Lucy Stone League later emulated her, defending the right of all married women to do so. |
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