ABSTRACT
In 1873, Eliza Jane Thompson, convinced that alcohol consumption was the root cause of the abuse of women and the break-up of families, led a group of middle-class women into saloons in Hillsboro, Ohio, where they prayed, sang hymns, and urged proprietors to eliminate liquor from their premises. In 1972, at the Houston, Texas, Summit Auditorium, Denise Wells, after standing in line outside the women’s restroom for several minutes suffering severe discomfort, ducked into the men’s room. In 1994, Shannon Faulkner, convinced that the military education she desired could not be attained at any institution open to women, walked on to the previously all-male Citadel military academy campus to enroll in classes, armed with a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.
