Women's Studies

 

National Woman's History Project

March is National Woman's History Month. The theme for the 2003 selection of honorees is "'Women Pioneering the Future', highlighting women from history and from today, who led and won struggles for equality and civil rights, created and advanced educational and professional opportunities, and made great contributions to the arts, sciences, and humanistic causes..."

 

Women in Sports

A wonderful site that clearly illuminates the accomplishments of women in a variety of sports from dog sledding to mountain climbing.

 

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

Special Collections Library at Duke Universitye sponsors this site in which... 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..."

 

Women of the Century - 100 Years of American Heroes

An excellent celebration of phenomenal women in the fields of Art and Media, Politics and Government, Space and Science,Sports and Exploration and those women who are Activists and Reformers. Wonderful pictures and biographies. Sponsored by the Discovery Channel, women are also studied in the context of the decade of their accomplishment!

 

Gifts of Speech - Women's Speeches from Around the World

Sweet Briar College offers a search by keyword or year, or browse it's collection of speeches from 1874 to 2001. Read the full text of Hillary Rodham Clinton's commencement speech at Wellsley College on May 31, 1969.

 

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

This site was put together by a woman interested in filling the void of information about interesting, accomplished women who are not necessarily mentioned in history books, but who have contributed greatly to the growth and development of our world..