Quote Originally Posted by Catty1 View Post
Eugenics weren't all that unfashionable then. Anyone can make a mistake. Katherine Hepburn's mother worked with Margaret in the birth control campaign as well.

Here's a longer list that includes Clara Barton: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activi...en/notable.htm

As for Hepburn...trousers for women weren't exactly all the rage in her time.
But that does not mean eugenics was a good thing, just because it was "fashionable" = slavery used to be "fashionable," too!

And there were women wearing trousers long before Katherine Hepburn, they just didn't get the fame she did! Even as far back as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smith_Miller, who popularized what became known as "bloomers" - loose-fitting pants that were gathered at the ankle, before Amelia Bloomer ended up giving them her name. Now ""bloomers" has come to have a different meaning, but they were indeed long pants then!