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Women's History: the Ivory Divide
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WWW Women's
History, There are other sources than books |
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| Gillian
Polack |
| Posted: 13
Mar - 07:17 pm |
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Discussion Leader
Group: Discussion Leaders
Posts: 44
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Joined: 21-February 03
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In
all our discussion about books and why it
was so tough to produce enough of what readers
want, we all forgot the World Wide Web (well,
maybe the rest of you were thinking it to
yourself, but I admit, I forgot it! This
is acutely embarrassing, because I actually
use the Web in my teaching, haev a website
and even write occasional articles for posting).
In the last decade, so much material that scholars could not
share more broadly and that far-flung readers could not access
at all has been put on the Web. Maybe e-publication (of books,
of texts, of syllabi) is the way the log-jam is being broken
and the ivory divide slowly being crossed.
We have quite a few women's history pages on the Links page of
this website, but I know there are a lot more out there. Does
anyone have any favourite history sites they wish to share? Or
are there articles and bibliographies and images and texts that
you have come across that are absolutely worth a second and third
look?
And has anyone tried to use the web for extensive research -
what are its limitations?
Gillian |
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| Gillian
Polack |
| Posted: 26
Mar - 01:02 am |
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Group: Discussion Leaders
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While
it feels silly replying to my own post, I
have noticed that quite a few people are
accessing this thread. And since there is
nothing to find because there are no apparent
answers to my initial posting, I thought
a small explanation would help.
What has happened is that we have started talking about the WWW
and material available through the internet on other threads
(still in this topic, though) . Which is fine unless you are
hunting here for it. So I thought you might appreciate knowing
that the other two threads on the "Ivory Divide" topic contain
some discussion of the WWW as a place to access (or not to access,
as the case may be) historical stuff.
This comment is not aimed at closing the subject down, though
- it would still be cool to see some suggestions of WWW locations
for women's history!
Gillian (in useful mode) |
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