Replay: Carol Kino shares Five Things She's Learned about The Forgotten Heroines of American Feminism

Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.

“We’ve all heard of the can-do Rosie the Riveters who kept the American economy going while men served overseas during the Second World War: how they rose to the call, left their homes and children and went to work, and experienced an exciting flash of freedom, only to be sent home when it was all over. While writing my new book, Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines, I discovered that the desire to work wasn’t only a wartime phenomenon”.

– Carol Kino, Five Things I’ve Learned about The Forgotten Heroines of American Feminism

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Last week, Carol Kino joined us on Five Things to share all she’s learned about the untold stories of ambitious young women in the 1930s and 1940s who defied expectations, balancing careers and personal lives well before the iconic Rosie the Riveter era.

Through captivating historical insights, Carol’s class, Five Things I’ve Learned about The Forgotten Heroines of American Feminism explores how these "forgotten heroines" shaped early American feminism, modern fashion, and the legacy of women’s autonomy.

Carol’s writing about art, artists, photography, museums, and contemporary culture has appeared for many years in publications like The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Town & Country, The Atlantic, Slate, and just about every major art magazine. Her first book, Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines, was awarded a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Previously she received two USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism fellowships for her stories.  She grew up in the Bay Area and lives in Manhattan.  

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