Agnes Ryan
Agnes Edna Ryan | |
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Born | November 10, 1878[1] |
Died | 1954 |
Occupation(s) | Activist, editor |
Agnes Edna Ryan (November 10, 1878 – 1954) was an American pacifist, vegetarian, suffragist and managing editor of Woman's Journal, 1910-1917.[2][3]
Biography
Agnes Edna Ryan was born in Stuart, Iowa, to Edward and Mary A. Ryan. She had two siblings, John and Katherine Ryan.[4]
Graduating from Boston University in 1903, Ryan went on to work for the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a staff member of the Congregationalist and National magazines, as well as the Boston American. In 1910, she became managing editor of a suffrage publication, the Woman's Journal. In 1915, Agnes E. Ryan married Henry Bailey Stevens, who worked as the assistant editor for the Woman's Journal.[4] In order to keep her last name, she went to court and successfully challenged the law that required women to take their husband's last name. The couple adopted two children, Peter and Patricia.[4]
In 1917, Ryan and Stevens resigned from the Woman's Journal in part because of their opposition to World War I.[4] In 1918, when Henry accepted a job in Durham, N.H., as the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, later the University of New Hampshire, Agnes followed, organizing the New Hampshire Peace Union, writing poetry, becoming active in the MacDowell Colony of Peterborough, New Hampshire,[4] and serving as a speaker for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Ryan was among the feminist vegetarians who, during World War I, made a connection between meat eating and the killing of human beings in the Great War.[5]: 123
In Ryan's unpublished novel, "Who Can Fear Too Many Stars?," she depicts vegetarianism as a way of resisting male dominance. [5]: 132
Ryan's papers are archived at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and include unpublished novels, diaries, correspondences, an autobiography, and other writings.[2]
Reception
Carol J. Adams argues that Ryan's "the Cancer Bogy" was perhaps the first modern vegetarian health guide.[5]: 149
Josephine Donovan mentions that Ryan is one of the many first-wave feminists who advocated for animal rights.[6]: 359
Selected publications
- The Torch Bearer. A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement (1916)
- A Whisper of Fire (1919)
- For the Church Door (1943)
- A Ph.D. thesis, "Priestess of reform: The life of Agnes Ryan, 1878-1954," by Marcia Rollinson is housed at the University of New Hampshire.
External links
- The Torch Bearer. A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement (1916)
- "If You Are a Minister," woman suffrage postcard. Social Welfare History Image Portal, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.
References
- ^ "Agnes Ryan" Archived 2019-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^ a b "Ryan, Agnes E., 1878-1954. Papers of Agnes E. Ryan, 1904-1955: A Finding Aid". Oasis.lib.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "Guide to the Henry Bailey Stevens and Agnes Ryan Papers, 1891-1974" Archived 2019-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Guide to the Henry Bailey Stevens and Agnes Ryan Papers, 1891-1974". University of New Hampshire Library. Archived from the original on November 13, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ a b c Adams, C. J. (1990). The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum.
- ^ Donovan, Josephine (1990). "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory". Signs. 15 (2): 350–375. doi:10.1086/494588. JSTOR 3174490. S2CID 144733868.
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reports,
journals
- On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
- An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (1802)
- Vegetable Cookery (1812)
- A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
- Reasons for not Eating Animal Food (1814)
- Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
- Nature's Own Book (1835)
- Fruits and Farinacea (1845)
- The Pleasure Boat (1845)
- The Ethics of Diet (1883)
- What is Vegetarianism? (1886)
- Shelley's Vegetarianism (1891)
- Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses (1892)
- Why I Am a Vegetarian (1895)
- Figs or Pigs? (1896)
- Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)
- Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian (1903)
- The Meat Fetish (1904)
- The New Ethics (1907)
- A Fleshless Diet (1910)
- The Benefits of Vegetarianism (1927)
- Living the Good Life (1954)
- Ten Talents (1968)
- Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
- The Vegetarian Epicure (1972)
- Moosewood Collective Cookbooks (1973)
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- Laurel's Kitchen (1976)
- Moosewood Cookbook (1977)
- Fit for Life (1985)
- Diet for a New America (1987)
- The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990)
- Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (1997)
- The China Study (2005)
- Skinny Bitch (2005)
- Livestock's Long Shadow (2006)
- The Bloodless Revolution (2006)
- Eating Animals (2009)
- Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2009)
- The Vegan Studies Project (2015)
- Animal (De)liberation (2016)
- The End of Animal Farming (2018)
- Vegetable Kingdom (2020)
- Making a Stand for Animals (2022)
- Meat Atlas (annual)
- The Animals Film (1981)
- Diet for a New America (film) (1991)
- A Cow at My Table (1998)
- Meet Your Meat (2002)
- Post Punk Kitchen (2003–2005)
- Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
- Earthlings (2005)
- A Sacred Duty (2007)
- Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)
- Planeat (2010)
- Forks Over Knives (2011)
- Vegucated (2011)
- Live and Let Live (2013)
- Cowspiracy (2014)
- PlantPure Nation (2015)
- What the Health (2017)
- Carnage (2017)
- Dominion (2018)
- Eating You Alive (2018)
- The Game Changers (2018)
- Maa Ka Doodh (2023)
- You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (2024)
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