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Afro-American History
African-American women in the 20th Century
This link is to About.com's sites and links concerning the history of
African-American women in the first half of the 20th Century.
Ayer Company Publishers
Ayer offers 15,000 titles, mainly reprints of works judged by experts
as being worthy of staying in print forever, in all fields. This link
takes you to the home page, but I particularly recommend their
Afro-American and Women's Autobiographies pages, which I think are
particularly valuable as a resource.
Emancipation
Family Relationships
Genealogy
Notable Women Ancestors
Immigration
Pier 21
Pier 21 in Halifax, Canada, opened in 1928 and closed in 1971. Through
its gates passed 1 million immigrants; 100,000 displaced persons and
refugees; 50,000 war brides and their 22,000 children; 3,000 British
evacuee children, escaping the ravages of war in their native lands;
494,000 Canadian troops bound for Europe during World War II. In
Canada, war brides have been named "Women of National Historic
Significance". A number of stories by war brides and immigrants and
refugees can be found at this site.
Literacy
My History is America's History
A site devoted to looking at the country's
past through the "triumphs and trials" of ordinary families. You can
read stories and/or post your own. This link takes you to a page of
stories, but you'll want to explore the whole site.
Memoirs
Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You. The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter, is the story of Sonia Pressman Fuentes, one of the pioneers of the Second Wave of the women's movement and her family.
Oral History
Women's History
Oxygen Our Stories
Oxygen.com, a website for women, offers a
feature called "Our Stories". Check out these imaginative presentations
of real women's lives.
Women’s Studies
Erratic Impact
This award winning site features hundreds
of annotated links and text resources in the fields of feminism,
feminist philosophy and women in philosophy.
Salon Mothers Who Think
Salon.com has an unusual feature that runs
in nearly every issue called "Mothers Who Think"; the writers venture
into areas, and express thoughts and feelings that women have been
silent about for centuries. The archive is most interesting and worth a
visit.
Euronet
A multitude of links to women-related websites.
Women's International Net
Women's International Net is a free magazine for, by and about women
worldwide. A place to go to read articles by women from different
countries and cultures. The magazine is also seeking new writers.
Women's Suffrage
Resources
Femina
City Lore
National Archives
A Million Lives
Organizations
American Library Association
Womens Organizations
Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)
National Council of Women's Organizations
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Feminist Majority Foundation Online
Books
I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives,
by Ellen Goodman & Patricia O'Brien. Goodwin and O'Brien
interviewed women from all stages of life, most in longtime
friendships, some who became business partners, others in politics,
others who have watched each other progress out of welfare dependency,
and famous friendships to examine the nature of friendship among women,
the unspoken competition they experience, and the empowering effect of
friendship.
Woman: An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier, a Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer. If you've had it with the multitude of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't analyses of the female, check out this book that unabashadedly celebrates womanhood. Brain food that will give any thinking woman a high.
Possibly Useful Merchandise
The Century Book
A potentially useful tool for journal writers, this book displays a
chronology of history dates of the 20th Century next to blank pages for
the writer to fill in or use to nudge the memory.
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