June 11, 1999

Lesbian-Studies Pioneer Traces 'What Lesbians Have Done for America'

By PETER MONAGHAN

Jane Addams -- founder of social work. Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw -- champions of women's suffrage. Emily Blackwell -- public-health pioneer. M. Carey Thomas and Mary Emma Woolley -- turn-of-the-century college presidents.

All inhabit the pantheon of American social reformers of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

They and many other women of similar stature had something else in common,

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