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About Women's History: A Short Overview
A basic introduction to the ideas behind the study of "women's history." From your About Women's History Guide.

About Women's History: Basic Assumptions
What are the basic assumptions behind the study of "women's history"? Is women's history objective? Is any study of history objective? From your About Women's History Guide.

About Women's History: Four Perspectives
Women's history tends to use one of four basic perspectives in deciding how to present the evidence. The differences are sometimes great, sometimes subtle, but it helps to know the perspective of a write (or your own). From your About Women's History Guide.

What Is Subjectivity in Women's History?
"Subjectivity" describes one approach to women's history. What is the definition of subjectivity, what are its key features, and what is the major criticism of this approach?

Mary Ritter Beard Quotes
Quotes by Mary Ritter Beard - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, pioneer in women's history and women's studies, moved in her career from leftist to conservative.

Gerda Lerner Quotes
Quotations from Gerda Lerner, a founder of the field of women's history.

Myths of Women's History
Some myths of women's history, and an assessment of the truth -- or not -- of the stories.

Why I Don't Trust Wikipedia - Women's History and Women's Topics on Wikipedia
I don't trust Wikipedia to be a place to find truthful and verifiable fact on topics related to women's history and women's issues. Here's why.

Chodorow, Nancy
Biographical sketch and summary of the work of psychoanalytic feminist and sociologist Nancy Chodorow, a participant and documenter of 1960s and 1970s feminism and early participant in developing women's studies methodology.. Includes bibliography.

Creation of Feminist Consciousness: Summarizing Gerda Lerner
Summary of Gerda Lerner's work, Creation of Feminist Consciousness (medieval times to 1970s).

Feminist and Womanist Criticism
Commentary on feminist and womanist criticism of the Bible, this short essay also illustrates a feminist/womanist approach to women's history in general.

From Liberation to Lack
Mira Schor, in Winter 1999 in Art Journal, writes of the failures of each generation of feminism to pass along both consciousness and history, and how this puts feminists into the position of defending feminism even when they'd like to move on to other issues without abandoning feminism.

History on Trial
Issues in history today, relevant to women's history, in this excerpt from the 1997 book by Gary Nash.

Interview with Patricia Oldham
Not about women's history specifically: an interview with an experienced teacher (female, black) on the profession of teaching history.

Market Value of a Women's Studies Minor
Short description of some benefits that may come to those who minor in women's studies. From the Women's Studies program at Marshall University.

Pathfinder: Theory
Part of a bibliography from the National Archives on women's history resources.

Rest of the Story
Questions and issues in women's history, from a millennium-honoring article in the New York Times Magazine.

Talking History: Forum on Women's History
September 1998 forum, still open for discussion and comments, on Women's History, moderated by Gerda Lerner, pioneer women's historian.

What is Women's Studies?
Universities often include Women's History in their Women's Studies department -- what is meant by "women's studies"? From the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Why Women's Studies?
Announcing a grant to support the college's Women's Studies Program, the President of Woodrow Wilson reflects on the value and state of women's studies programs.