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The Margaret Fuller Society
Source: Dept. of Eng., Texas A&M Univ.
Country: United States
E-mail: fuller@english.tamu.edu

A society devoted to the (arguably) most popular 19th century individualist feminist. Explore the links to other Fuller sites.

A Network for Women's History
Source: msu.edu
Country: United States

The site declares: "Welcome to H-Women, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-Women is free and open to everyone with a mature and abiding interest in the history of women, especially scholars, teachers and librarians." Includes dissertations, syllabi and a scholar's directory.

Portal for Women's History: Bibliographies
Source: H-Net
Country: United States

"H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web." This is its database of bibliographies of women's history. A vast resource.

Articles on Women's History
Source: about.com
Country: United States

A collection of generally scholarly articles on women's history, including Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's 1990 literary study of race and gender, "Between Individualism and Fragmentation."

The American eugenics movement
Source: National Human Genome Research Institute
Country: United States

In celebrating technology and the liberating impact of science, we can never ignore the dangers to freedom that accompany these advances. This site offers a chilling history of how eugenics was used as an excuse to sterilize human beings.

Salem witch trials and the persecution of women 'healers'
Source: University of Virginia
Country: United States

The "witch trials" that swept Europe and came to America -- most prominently with the Salem Witch Trial -- led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of women (arguably many more) at the hands of the authorities. An estimated 1/3 of them were killed for being midwives and healers -- those who cured through the use of herbs.

Conservative women's studies book list
Source: Clare Luce Booth Policy Institute
Country: United States

A collection of literature on women and feminism that provides a valuable alternative to the current flood of leftist material. It includes Cathy Young, Ann Coulter, Christina Hoff Sommers and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

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