REBEL WOMEN
Defying Victorianism
Some of the women in the exhibition wrote themselves into history books — including suffragists and social reformers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the investigative journalist Nellie Bly. But many of the other working-class and nonwhite women are lesser known today (though that is starting to change), partly because they existed outside what many middle- and upper-class white women considered the bounds of “true womanhood.”
“A lot of women didn’t have the access or resources to record history, but it’s not just white, middle-class women — especially in the Victorian period — that are the movers and shakers here,” Ms. Micucci said.
Museum of the City of New York
Curated by Marcela Micucci
Team included: Jean Colangelo, Rayna Weingold
Photographs courtesy of Brad Farwell