March is National Women's History Month and the one in which six more states held caucuses or primaries for the 2008 presidential election. In honor of the history-making campaigns this year by both a woman and a black man, let's pause to remember Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American to run on a major party ticket in 1972, and Victoria Woodhull, who represented the "Free Love" platform exactly one hundred years before that. OhioLINK gives us several typo candidates for feminist* and feminism, including Fminis* (two), Feminisn (one), Femenist* (six), and Femenism (four)—the latter two initially striking me as witty, if unwitting, bids for inclusion. Upon further inspection, it seems as though a few of them actually were "ment" to be puns. (Photograph of Shirley Chisholm from Wikimedia Commons.)Carol Reid
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