High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eleanor Flexner (October 4, 1908 – March 25, 1995) was a distinguished independent scholar and pioneer in what was to become the field of women’s studies. Her much praised Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States relates women’s physically courageous and politically ingenious work for the vote to other 19th- and early 20th-century social, labor, and reform movements, most importantly the push for equal education, the abolition of slavery, and temperance laws.