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Women's History Resources |
Documents from the
Women's Liberation Movement
"The materials in this on-line archival
collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement
in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of
this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from
radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an
actual grassroots group."
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Birthdate Calendar
Index
From the Women's International Center:
See which inspiring woman was born on your birth date!
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Feminist Chronicles:
Feminist and Women's Movement Timeline (1953-1993)
This Web site outlines the yearly
development and events of the Feminist and Women's Movement. It tracks
there categories: Events, Lifestyles, Economic. Political, and The
Backlash. Each year provides tidbits of information on people and
events.
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Gifts of Speech
(Speech Texts by Influential Women)
A Web site dedicated to preserving and
creating access to speeches by influential women from around the world.
Has a nice timeline of the speeches, which lists the speaker's name and
the full text of the speech. A nice entry point to the collection. I
nice source of materials for public speaking assignments.
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American
Women's History: A Research Guide
Women's
History: A Guide to Library & Internet
Resources: Includes print and audiovisual
bibliographies, online books, book reviews,
and links to multimedia exhibits on the
Internet. The latter connects to a superb
exhibit, "Upstate New York and the Women's
Rights Movement: Manuscripts, photographs,
and memorabilia", a thorough, interesting,
well illustrated account including events
like the famous Seneca Falls Convention of
1848.
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The National
American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection
A Collection
of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts
donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime
president of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. Includes works from
other members of the organization including:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,
Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia
Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A.
Livermore.
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Votes for
Women (Pictures)
"This
selection of 38 pictures includes portraits
of many individuals who have been frequently
requested from the holdings of the Prints
and Photographs Division and the Manuscript
Division. Also featured are photographs of
suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and
an anti-suffrage display, as well as
cartoons commenting on the movement."
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California
Gold: Sidney Robertson Cowell in Northern
California
"From 1938
to 1940, while in her thirties, Sidney
Robertson, ethnographer and collector of
traditional American music, single-handedly
organized and directed a California Work
Projects Administration project designed to
survey musical traditions in Northern
California." See the results of her work
here.
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Distinguished
Women of Past and Present
A very
extensive, excellent collection of
background and biographical information
about famous and distinguished women.
Organized into areas of interest, from
"Activism/Social Service" and "Adventure and
Exploration" to "Stage and Screen" and
"Veterinary Medicine".
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Women Writers
and Feminist Criticism: Internet Resources
A collection
of links on a range of topics concerning
Women Writers. Includes a variety of
exhibits, more than just writing topics.
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Victorian
Women Writers Project
"The goal of
the Victorian Women Writers Project is to
produce highly accurate transcriptions of
works by British women writers of the 19th
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Feminist
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia
A collection
of links and information on Feminist Science
Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia. "Feminist
science fiction" is not a clearly-definable
term. It has been used to refer to
everything from utopias (utopias and
dystopias), to hard science fiction, to
fantasy, to magic realism; from only fiction
with a definite political agenda, to all
fiction which merely includes female
characters.
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Women's Bureau
(U.S. Department of Labor)
Excellent
collection of socioeconomic data and other
resources on Women. Includes an informative
set of fact sheets on Women in the
Workplace, plus full text Women's Rights
series covering Harassment, Family and
Medical Leave Act, plus Disability,
Pregnancy, Age and Wage Discrimination. Also
has information on their programs and
activities, plus a colorful collection of
posters.
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Women Who
Changed History
A section of
the Scholastic, Inc. Web site that features
in-depth reports and exhibitions about a
number of women whose lives and deeds shaped
history. (Rosa Parks, Amelia Earheart, Melba
Patillo, Sally Ride, etc.) Appropriate for
use by middle through high school grades.
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Women's
Studies Librarian's Office
From the
Office of the Women's Studies Librarian, for
the University of Wisconsin System, here is
a collection of informative links, including
an extensive bibliography.
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U.N. Fourth
World Conference On Women
The official
Web Page of the controversial conference in
Beijing, China. Find out about how women are
treated, their rights, and situation in
different countries of the world.
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National
Organization for Women
The
pioneering women's civil rights organization
offers a variety of resources for women.
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