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March 2006 Spotlight: Women's History Month
| Timelines | Research Guides & Web Directories | Online Photograph Collections | Special Topics |
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Did you know that there are about 82.5 million mothers in the United States right now? Or that, in 2002, businesses owned by women brought in more than 940 billion dollars? And did you know that the first photographs of an air-raid shelter in London during World War II came from a female freelance journalist?
March is National Women's History Month, and March 8th is International Women's Day. For our monthly feature, we've collected together a list of print, video, and online resources to celebrate the contributions of women worldwide. You can find all the facts mentioned above in the resources below, and a whole lot more-- so you go, girl!
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Timelines
American Women Through Time
A timeline of women's history in the United States, maintained by Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library.
Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.-- Timeline
Covers from 1848-1994 with links to more information for major figures and events, provided by infoplease.com.
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Research Guides & Web Directories
American Women's History: A Research Guide
A guide to over 2,100 print and Internet resources on the topic of Women's History, also maintained by Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library.
The History of Women's Sufferage
An introduction to the woman's sufferage movement by the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester, including links to several relevant timelines and biographical accounts of prominent sufferagettes online.
U.S. Census Bureau: Women's History Month, March 2006
A collection of women-focused statistics from the U.S. Census in celebration of the holiday, posted on February 22, 2006.
Hot Topics-- Women's History Month
"With the purpose of honoring all women, The Evergreen State College GovDocs [Government Documents] and Maps department has created this page with the intent of providing a comprehensive (but by no means exhaustive) list of links pertinent to Women's History Month and women's resources."
WSSLinks: Women's History
A comprehensive list of links to online collections, websites, databases, documents, and resources related to the study of women's history or the celebration of Women's History Month. Includes a link to a compilation of biographies of women mathmaticians, as well as sites dedicated to internationally influential women in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8th.
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Online Photograph Collections
Women Come to the Front: Journalist, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
This online exhibit from the Library of Congress features eight women and details their reporting from the front during the second world war.
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Sufferage Pictures, 1850-1920
"The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. 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--all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out."
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
"The National Woman’s Party, representing the militant wing of the suffrage movement, utilized open public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States." This online collection is also maintained by the Library of Congress.
Women in Leadership Database (WILD): Photographs
An online collection, through Rutgers University Libraries, of contemporary and historical photographs of major women leaders, with a broad, interdisciplinary scope.
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Samplings of Special Topics in Women's History
Salem Witchcraft Trials
In the devil's snare: the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton
At the UCC Library: 133.43 N
Damned women: sinners and witches in Puritan New England by Elizabeth Reis
At the UCC Library: 133.43 R
Women Writers
The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
At the UCC Library: 820.8 G
Masterpieces of women's literature
At the UCC Library: REF 809.89 M
Breaking the rule of cool: interviewing and reading women beat writers by Nancy M. Grace and Ronna C. Johnson
At UCC Library, in the New Books section: 810.8 B
Women Athletes
Shattering the glass: the remarkable history of women's basketball by Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford
At the UCC Library: 796.323 G
The women's sports encyclopedia
At the UCC Library: REF 796.082 W
Women's Sufferage
One woman, one vote: rediscovering the woman suffrage movement
At the UCC Library: 324.623 O
Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
At the UCC Library: VIDEO 305.42 N
Women in action: rebels and reformers, 1920-1980 by Elisabeth Israels Perry
At the UCC Library: 303.484 P
More power than we knew: the League of Women Voters in Oregon, 1920-1995 by Mary Alice Moore and Donald E. Moore
At the UCC Library: 324.623 M
Other
Phenomenal Women- Women of the Century
A collection of photographs, biographies, and links brought together by the Discovery Channel website, celebrating "more than 50 women who left an indelible mark on our nation." The biographies are seperated by area of influence: "Activists & Reformers," "Politics & Government," "Arts & Media," "Space & Science," and "Sports & Exploration."
Women in chemistry: their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century by Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
At the UCC Library: 540.82 R
The Spectacular Female Body: Dress, Fashion, and Modernity in Victorian Women's Fashion Magazines
"This [online] seminar, based on a paper given at the "Locating the Victorians" conference in July 2001, Kay Boardman, senior lecturer in English in the department of cultural studies at the University of Central Lancashire, describes and explores this complex relationship by looking at four particular items which are all related to the fashion system in one way or another: the fashion plate (a detachable, often coloured, page featuring models wearing the latest fashionable outfits), the corset, the bloomer and the bicycle."
Seen and heard: a century of Arab women in literature and culture by Mona N. Mikhail
At the UCC Library: 305.4209 M
Women's Rights and the Arab World
A Carnegie Paper written by Marina Ottaway in 2004 on the political and educational rights of women in Middle Eastern countries, and an analysis of the impact their inclusion into the political process would have.
Serpent of the Nile: women and dance in the Arab world by Wendy Buonaventura
At the UCC Library: 793.3195 B
And there's plenty more where these came from! Give our collection a spin and search our online catalog for even more books and videos dealing with women's history!
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