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Florence Howe (Florence Rosenfeld) was born on 17 March, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American feminist writer (1929–2020). Discover Florence Howe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

Popular As Florence Rosenfeld
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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 17 March, 1929
Birthday 17 March
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York
Date of death 12 September, 2020
Died Place New York, New York
Nationality United States

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1929

Florence Rosenfeld Howe (March 17, 1929 – September 12, 2020) was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian who is considered to have been a leader of the contemporary feminist movement.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 17, 1929, Florence Howe was the daughter of Samuel, a taxi driver, and Frances Stilly Rosenfeld, a bookkeeper.

Howe loved learning from a young age.

Her mother encouraged her daughter to follow a teaching career.

1943

In 1943, Howe entered New York City's highly selective Hunter College High School.

She was one of only five young women from Brooklyn to do so.

She graduated high school early and attended Hunter College.

1949

In 1949, she was awarded entrance to Phi Beta Kappa, the elite academic organization which commends superlative academic achievement.

Various people in power encouraged her to take graduate courses in literature and to become a college professor.

1950

After receiving a BA in English in 1950 from Hunter College, Howe entered Smith College and earned an MA in English in 1951.

Howe married three times during the 1950s–1960s, and took the last name of one of her husbands, Ed Howe.

1954

In 1954, Howe attended the University of Wisconsin, resuming her work in graduate studies for art history and literature.

1960

In 1960, Howe was employed as an assistant professor in the English department at a private women's college, Goucher College, located in Maryland.

She married Paul Lauter in the 1960s and divorced him in 1987.

1964

She taught African American children in a Mississippi freedom school during 1964 and chaired the Modern Language Association commission on the Status of Women in the Profession.

In 1964, Howe’s book Myths of Coeducation, featured one of her essays titled “Mississippi Freedom Schools: the Politics of Education.” In 1965, the essay was published in the Harvard Education Review.

This essay written by Howe explains her journey with feminism and how she was able to relate issues such as education, race and politics within feminism.

In 1964, while living in Baltimore, Florence Howe travelled to Jackson, Mississippi, as a Freedom Summer volunteer and was tasked with serving as a teacher in a Freedom School for black children.

There she met a 16-year-old girl, Alice Jackson, with whom she became close.

Jackson came with her to Baltimore and Florence became her second mother, although an adoption was never formalized.

Howe had no children of her own, and she was survived by Jackson, her two children and four grandchildren, who referred to Florence Howe as Baba.

1967

In 1967, she signed a public statement declaring her intention to refuse to pay income taxes in protest against the U.S. war against Vietnam.

1970

In 1970, Howe founded The Feminist Press, "an educational nonprofit organization founded to advance women's rights and amplify feminist perspectives", the organization had published three books by 1973.

1973

In 1973, Florence Howe took on the role of President of the Modern Language Association after being voted in.

1977

In 1977, Florence Howe was presented with an honorary doctorate in humane letters from New England College.

1978

In 1978, another essay written by Howe titled “Myths of Coeducation”, explains women's education and how it “functions within the patriarchal limits of the society in which it exists.” From 1972–1982, Florence Howe assisted in editing the Women's Studies Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal.

1979

In 1979, Florence Howe was presented with another honorary doctorate in humane letters, given by Skidmore College.

1983

In the years 1983 and 1993, Florence Howe served as a U.S. Department of State Grantee.

1987

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by DePauw University in 1987.

Florence Howe was responsible in co-editing various literature pieces throughout the years, such as “With Wings: An Anthology of Literature By and About Disabled Women (1987); Traditions and the Talents of Women (1991); and No More Masks (1993).” In 1982, Florence Howe published the Feminist Scholarship: The Extent of the Revolution, a journal article in which she wrote about her findings with feminism in higher education.

In 1987, Howe was employed as a professor of humanities at SUNY.

2003

She contributed the piece "The Proper Study of Womankind: Women's Studies" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan.

2020

Florence Howe died on September 12, 2020, in New York City, at the age of 91.

She lived on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and prior to her death received hospice care for Parkinson's disease.

The Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages is named in her honor.

The Florence Howe Award is an annual feminist scholarship acknowledging two outstanding essays by members of the Women's Caucus, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language.

The authors receive $250 and are honored at an event hosted by the Women’s Caucus at the annual MLA meeting.