Background
Noun, Louise Rosenfield was born on March 7, 1908 in Des Moines. Daughter of Meyer and Rose (Frankel) Rosenfield.
(To understand fully the history of the woman-suffrage mov...)
To understand fully the history of the woman-suffrage movement in the United States, it is necessary to know how this movement developed within the various states and to trace the effect of the personalities and actions of nationally know suffrage leaders on the emerging state organizations. The Iowa story poignantly reveals the hopes and disappointments of a small band of idealistic women, who were encouraged by politicians to believe that suffrage would be granted to their sex as soon as the Negro was enfranchised. It recounts their first faltering steps toward organization and their courage in the face of ridicule. Dealing primarily with the period of most active agitation in the state, from 1848 until 1872, this book describes the actions of such strong-minded women as Annie Savery of Des Moines, Amelia Bloomer of Council Bluffs, and Carrie Chapman Catt of Mason City who led the national suffrage movement to final victory with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution in 1920.
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(More Strong-Minded Women chronicles the emergence of femi...)
More Strong-Minded Women chronicles the emergence of feminism in Iowa in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the voices of women who launched that revolution. These are Iowa stories that illuminate national and international developments as much as they reflect local problems and opportunities.
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(Chronicling Noun's struggle for feminism, this memoir not...)
Chronicling Noun's struggle for feminism, this memoir not only provides an account of one woman's emerging politics, but shows how the women's movement was affected and in fact created by remarkable women such as Noun.
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Noun, Louise Rosenfield was born on March 7, 1908 in Des Moines. Daughter of Meyer and Rose (Frankel) Rosenfield.
Bachelor, Grinnell College, 1929. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Grinnell College, 1973. Master of Arts, Radcliffe/Harvard, 1933.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Drake University, 1991.
Curator exhibitions, Des Moines Art Center, 1980, 94; research assistant, Des Moines Art Center, 1971; board directors, Des Moines Art Center, 1956-1963; founder, board directors, League of Women Voters, Des Moines, 1944-1960; president, Iowa Civil Liberties Union, 1964-1972; founder, board directors, National Organization for Women, Des Moines, 1971-1976; founder, board directors, Young Women's Resource Center, Des Moines, 1975-1982; founder, president, Chrysalis Foundation, Des Moines, 1989-1996; founder, Iowa Women's Archives, Iowa City, 1991.
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Member Consortium Club.
Married Maurice Henry Noun, December 19, 1936 (divorced May 1968). 1 child, Susan Noun Flora.