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What is Women's History Month?
"National Women’s History Month grew out of an effort to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of women in American History. In 1978, the Education Task Force the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week.” Later in 1987, at the request of museums, libraries, and educators across the country, the National Women’s History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March. A National Women’s History Month Congressional Resolution was quickly passed with strong bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate."
For more information, explore the National Women's History Project web site -- http://www.nwhp.org/

There are wonderful resources about women's role in history on the World Wide Web. Read on to find links to our own campus "women's history" web space that you may find of interest. Below, you will also find links to some of the best online women's herstory sites. Enjoy!

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Cal Poly Pomona's 2002 Women's Herstory Month Calendar of Events - .pdf / html

March is Women's History Month web site -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~ecgibson/womenhis/web_sources.html
Compiled by Emma Gibson, Reference Librarian

PHL 499/EWS 499: The Abortion Course -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/abortion_course.htm
one of several Ethnic and Women's Studies by philosopher Laurie Shrage, this course investigate questions related to the contemporary controversy over abortion.

The Center -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~center/
The driving force behind campus celebration of women's herstory month, the Center concentrates on two main programming areas: Re-Entry Services and Women's Resources. The CENTER is a place where students can find a comfortable group of people and a familiar environment on cacampus, which in turn gives a sense of belonging that is essential to the well being and success of returning adult students.

A Celebration of Women in Chemistry -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~jis/1995/burke.pdfhttp://www.csupomona.edu/~jis/1995/burke.pdf
Article by Chemistry prof. Barbara Burke, published in the Cal Poly Pomona Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. This PDF document that require the free Adobe Acrobat reader to view.

CEIS Ethnic and Women's Studies Department home page -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~ceis/EWSIndex.html

Educational Legacy of Medieval and Renaissance Traditions: The Education of Medieval Women, Christine de Pizan -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/christine1.html
from Patricia Lin's LS 201 website.

Ethnic Women: Syllabus for EWS 390 -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~pabyaneh/ews145/ews390.html
one of many online ethnic and women's studies syllabi by Parvin Abyaneh.

History 202 Internet History Project -- Women's Herstory -- http://www.class.csupomona.edu/his/skpuz/hst202/Hwww4.html
For at least three decades, historians have paid increasingly more attention to women's role in history. Women make up approximately half the human race. Women have had an impact on and been affected by every major historic event and trend, sometimes as key players. This Internet assignment focuses on Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, an extraordinary social reformer - and one who is absent from most American history survey texts.mpus, which in turn gives a sense of belonging that is essential to the well being and success of returning adult students. From Susan Kullmann Puz's HST202: History of the U.S., 1865 to the Present.

HST 202 Online U .S. History Archives -- http://www.class.csupomona.edu/his/skpuz/hst202/Archives.html
Annotated listing, including Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848 to 1921, sixty-five books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the campaign for woman suffrage. Topics: family, government and politics, women.

HST 202 Topical online US history resources-- http://www.class.csupomona.edu/his/skpuz/hst202/Topics.html
Annotated listing, including American Women's History: A Research Guide: Bibliographies, encyclopedias, biographical sources, indexes, journals and more.

Indexes and Abstracts for Women's Studies -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~ecgibson/womenstudies/indexes_abstracts_womenstudies.html
by Emma Gibson, Reference Librarian. Indexes and abstracts are tools that help you locate articles, newspapers, or chapters in books. Most indexes and abstracts are available on the first floor of the library. The following indexes are good resources for finding articles on topics in Women's Studies. These databases are available to Cal Poly Pomona students, faculty, and staff only. If you access these databases from off campus without a campus PPP account, you will be asked for your Name, Social Security Number, and Library PIN. To access some of these databases, you must configure your browser.

ENG201: Modern Fiction, Women in Time course web site: http://www.csupomona.edu/~khua/eng201/books/tteotd/tteotdlinks.htm
Instructor, Frank J. Torres.

To Speak the Unspeakable: Implications of Gender, "Race," Class, and Culture, Introduction (full text)-- http://www.csupomona.edu/~delashgari/readings/tospeak.html
from EFL professor Deirdre Lashgari's Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression (Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995), a cross-cultural exploration of responses to violence in texts by writers from twelve non-Western countries as well as the United States and England.

US Women's Herstory (1865-1920) Term Project -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~skpuz/vhst202/projects/wmhst/wmhst.html
Summer 1997 collaborative term project for Cal Poly Pomona's first online history class, Virtual History 202

Using the Library Catalog To Locate Books and Periodicals in Women's Studies - http://www.csupomona.edu/~ecgibson/womenstudies/locating_books_womenstudies.html
by Emma Gibson, Reference Librarian

HST 349: Women in American History -- http://www.vcsun.org/~nancy/H349home.html
CSUN history course taught by Nancy Page Fernandez, Director (effective Jan. 2, 2001), Interdisciplinary General Education Program

Women and Development -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~jmvadi/342/women.html

The political involvement of women varies according to class but as the film "In Women's Hands" shows, women show up at the critical moments in a country's history when the most vital of issues are at stake: survival, home, family, the fundamental issues involving human life and death. -- from an essay by Jose Vadi in his PLS 342:Political Development web site

Women Artists web pages by Ethnic and Woman's Studies professor Dr. Patricia Lin
* Self-Portraits and Representations of Womanhood from the Medieval Period to the Present -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women/womenart.html
* Women Artists of the 20th Century -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women2/women2.html

Women's Studies Internet Reference for Cal Poly Pomona -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~dhanne/women.html
Compiled by Emma Gibson, Reference Librarian

Women's Studies Periodicals -- Arranged by call number on the second floor of the Library. They can be in several locations: film, fiche, or shelf. For the exact location of the year or volume you want, check the Library Catalog. See the section on Locating Books and Periodicals for instructions on using the Library Catalog for finding periodicals. -- http://www.csupomona.edu/~ecgibson/Public_Admin/Resources/locating_books_soc.html

Two Personal Favorites....
Past Notable Women of Computing and Mathematics -- http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women.html Includes a photogallery of women and computers. Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852) The first computer programmer Yahoo! Ada Byron web sites
Legal Contender: The First Woman to Run for President http://www.csupomona.edu/~skpuz/hst202/Woodhull/WQart.html If you spliced the genes of Hillary Clinton, Madonna, Heidi Fleiss and Margaret Thatcher, you might have someone like Victoria Woodhull. Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 - June 10, 1927) She ran for US President in 1872. (She lost.) Lycos listings for Victoria Woodhull Coming Soon -- Hollywoodizing Woodhull

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http://www.csupomona.edu/~faculty_computing/march
compiled by Susan Kullmann Puz

Cal Poly Pomona web sites "discovered" with the Google "search csupomona.edu" engine at:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~faculty_computing/core/search.html