Diving Into the Wreck:

the history missing from text books

Here are some large, general women's history sites and articles, pages, and web sites in chronological order starting with prehistoric times

The Internet Women's History Sourcebook is an amazingly comprehensive source, definitely worth looking at. It has an extensive amount of information and many pages.

The Women's History Page at About.com is an extremely large collection of link

The H-Women Discussion Network is an internet discussion forum that anyone with an interest in women's history can join. It has an extensive list of links to other pages on women's history and related topics.

This comprehensive list of women's history links was from the University of Iowa.

Women's History: Men's Voices  has the good, the bad, and the hideous

VIVA: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals

Women's History Magazine has only one issue online,  but it has some good articles 

on a variety of herstory topics

The Virtual Museum of Gender and History comes from Temple University

History of Women Through Art is an interesting online art exhibition highlighting some famous and important women throughout history.

Daughters of Eve has cryptographs with pictures of famous women. If you put the letters into words they form quotes by or about the woman in the picture.

Some primary texts from the Women's Project of New Jersey are on this site. They start with documents from the 18th century.

Manuscript Diaries and some cookbooks by women, primarily from the 19th century, from the University of Pennsylvania can be viewed online.

Distinguished Women of the Past and Present is an extraordarily large collection of women's biographies that you can search by field of activity or by name.

The Virtual Museum of Gender and History comes from Temple University.

Notable Women Ancestors has biographies of women who contributed to many fields but have not received much recognition. You can vote for women to add.

Women of Acheivement and Herstory has 25,000 biographies and much more.

The Lesbian History Project is a large collection of links to papers and web sites.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives is another site listing important information on historical lesbian women

The Jewish Women's Archive has online exhibits and a newsletter.

100 Celebrated Chinese Women has biographies translated from Chinese.

15 Women from 15 Centuries has a quiz and brief discussions about important women from 15 different centuries.

Amazons  gives the history of Amazon women in various countries and centuries.

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World is a good resource for students.

"The Creation of Patriarchy"  is a paper detailing how this sexist system came to be.

Our Many Mothers has archeological discoveries starting from the year 250,000 BCE

Women of History contains biographies of women from 400 AD to 1700 AD.

Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt from Prehistory to Late Antiquity is an online version of a museum exhibition.

Excursis II: The Status of Women in Ancient Egyptian Society is a research paper.

From "Diving Into the Wreck"

I came to explore the wreck.

The words are purposes.

The words are maps.

I came to see the damage that was done

and the treasures that prevail.

I stroke the beam of my lamp

slowly along the flank

of something more permanent than fish or weed

the thing I came for:

the wreck and not the story of the wreck

the thing itself and not the myth

-Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck, 1973