THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Linda Hirshman

April 26, 1944 – October 31, 2023

“As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things and we’ll all be better for it.”

Lawyer, cultural historian, member of Chicago NOW and NYT best-selling author of The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation; Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment; Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World; Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution and many other books. Dedicated her career to social and economic equality. J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Taught philosophy and women’s studies at Brandeis University.

Photo. Ms. Hirshman’s provocative 2005 article in The American Prospect managed to offend just about everybody. She turned it into a book the next year. (Credit: Penguin Random House)