The course project this semester is to focus on a particular group or community and trace how social factors (both historical and contemporary) influence the health of their group or community.
Envisioned as a site of intellectual collaboration across disciplines, the Black Feminist Theory Project aims to enhance the visibility and accessibility of black feminist discourse on campus, in the archives, and beyond.
Through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the project showcases African women or women of African descent. It demonstrates that historically, women have distinguished themselves in the history of the continent in areas as diverse as politics (Gisele Rabesahala), diplomacy and resistance against colonization (Njinga Mbandi), defence of women’s rights (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), and environmental protection (Wangari Maathai).
A research for the study of women's history, spanning four centuries and 15 languages.
This collection is considered to be the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages. The broad scope of Gerritsen Online allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. Gerritsen Online consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.
Provides access to books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities from colonial times to the-present.
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. The resource, which examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the-present, was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of the State University of New York at Binghamton in an internationally-renown website of the same name.
A collaboration between member institutions of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to create an online archive devoted to documenting the lives and work of Black women who fought for the right to vote and worked to better their communities. Includes the papers of Ida B. Wells and many other key figures in the Abolitionist and Civil Rights movements.
SheShreds, a site dedicated to documenting the careers of women guitarists and bassists, has compiled this celebratory list "to prove the disparity between the history we're told and the history that exists." Listen as SheShreds founder Fabi Reyna highlights seven Black women who, she says, were pioneers in music history in a February 7, 2021 interview on NPR.
