THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Ruth Herschberger
January 30, 1917 – October 14, 2014
“I never knew there was anyone else who felt as I did – this isolation of dissatisfied women.”
Poet; Playwright; Author. Author of Adam’s Rib, a book of feminist essays published in the U.S. in 1948.
Photo. Adam’s Rib, originally published in 1948, analyzes the anti-feminine sex-role stereotypes, both implicit and explicit.
More About Ruth:
- Ruth was honored by VFA at the Salute to Feminist Writers event, Barnard College , NYC. April 2002
- Ruth Herschberger papers, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History
- Ruth Herschberger Poems
- The ‘male mystique’ still a question mark, April 1972
- For and About Women, May 1970
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 212
