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SUNY historians, creators of
top-rated Women and Social Movements, again partner with Alexander
Street Press: Primary Sources of the Women's Movement is now
live.
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alexandria, Virginia August 22,
2006
Contact: Eileen Lawrence
Alexander Street Press, LLC
800-889-5937 extension 211
lawrence@alexanderstreet.com
Thomas Dublin
and Katherine Kish Sklar of Binghamton University (SUNY), the
scholars who created Women and Social Movements in the United
States, one of the most heavily used women’s studies Web
sites, and Alexander Street Press have created a new resource of
primary documents for the study of post-1960 feminism.
Primary Sources in the Women's Movement, 1960 to Present:
Publications on the Status of Women is now live.
Dublin and Sklar are two of the most distinguished
historians in the field (Sklar is the first women's history scholar
to have been appointed as the Harmsworth teaching fellow at Oxford
University; Dublin has been a senior research fellow at Oxford and
winner of several book awards, including Bancroft, Merle Curti, and
others). They wanted to create a searchable archive of primary
materials documenting the history of changes in women’s lives in the
United States in the latter part of 20th century. The
two again chose to work with Alexander Street Press, based on the
success of their previous partnership on Women and Social
Movements, which was recognized by CHOICE as an
Outstanding Academic Title of 2004.
Following JFK’s 1961 creation of the President’s
Commission on the Status of Women (he appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to
chair it), state and local commissions have been producing
statistical reports, training manuals, self-help guides, pamphlets,
posters, and a broad range of other content rich in personal
testimony, chronologies, milestones, biographies, laws and legal
challenges, and recommendations. Searchable together, these
previously inaccessible and very rare materials chart the variety of
responses to women’s reach for greater opportunities in American
society.
The new project
has an associated free, online scholarly community, moderated by
three well-known scholars in the field of post-Sixties feminism.
Primary Sources of the Women's Movement: The “Second Wave” and
Beyond is hosted by Kimberly Springer, King’s College, London;
Judith Ezekiel,
Université de Toulouse
le Mirail; and
Stephanie Gilmore, Independent Scholar. The forum
brings together feminist thinkers to analyze compelling questions
about feminist activism and theories and to collaborate on new
directions for historical research on this period. Scholars and
activists share, in an integrated and searchable database,
bibliographies, unpublished papers, chronologies, images, oral
histories, links to and reviews of external Web sites, book reviews,
syllabi and other materials.
Alexander Street
Press, L.L.C., is an academic publisher of electronic online
databases, including collections in music, history, literature,
women’s studies, black studies, sociology, psychology, ethnic and
diversity studies, religion, social theory, popular culture, film
studies, the arts, and other areas.
Alexander Street databases have
won numerous awards, and the company is known for its unique and
powerful organizing and indexing methods. Alexander Street Press is
located in Alexandria,
Virginia.
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