Greetings, and I know just what you mean. Women's history seems to just get left out of our education system, along with what's going on around the world.

Here's a site that is all about women's history.

womenshistory.guide@about.com

If you sign on, they will send you an email every week or so, on women's history and individual women in history. It's really a great site, and I love women's history. There are just so much, so many BRAVEHEARTED women, and men, people don't even know about in our collective past.

Also, a couple of really good movie/videos I have gotten hold of that you might want to add to your teaching curriculum are,
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In fact, I would recommend that all women interested in our history watch these movies.

"IRON JAWED ANGELS," which stars Hillary Swank, and a lot of other great actresses. This movie is about what the women who fought for our right to vote actually went through.

Did you know that they were beaten, isolated and held incommunicado, and even tortured in jails. The authorities tried to have Alice Paul ( Swank's character, leader of the younger women in the "votes for women" movement, locked away in a psycho ward FOR LIFE!!!! To shut her up!

They also tortured her and other women by force feeding them when they went on hunger strikes, These brave women were strapped down in chairs that looked like an electric chair, then long, large "tubes" were rammed down their throats, and raw eggs poured in. OF course, they came right back up.

They said it felt as if your head was exploding, and did damage to their insides as well. This was done again and again to these women.

Can you imagine the courage and strength it took for them to endure this, all without the outside world knowing about it, until a note was finally smuggled out and published in the newspapers!

If you haven't seen this movie yet, you must see it. It's available in video rentals and stores.

Another is "NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE."
This is a comprehensive doc. on the women's right to vote movement, beginning in the early 1800's through to the early 1900s when women finally won the vote. Most people don't have a clue as to how few rights women once had in this country, or how long and hard our foremothers fought to gain those rights for us, though they knew they would never live to see most of them realized. That's dedication. For us! We can't let them just be forgotten!

All of this history is left out of our schools, which is why, in my opinion, young women and men have no concept of what women went through to win even the most basic rights for women, and contributes to the growing backlash against women's rights today.

Also, I would recommend "Changeling," with Angelina Jolie, directed by none other than Clint Eastwood! This is the true story of a woman whose son was kidnapped, and when the police tried to foist another boy off on her, she started a battle with authorities that brought down an entire city's corrupt leaders.

This movie also shows how the "Crazy Females" means was used to shut up this woman, Christine Collins, who they could not control.

Like the young women in "Iron Jawed Angels " this woman was declared insane and, in her case, locked away in a psycho ward for a time. Great movies all. And the site is just a treasure of information.

Hope I have helped you out some. And best of luck in your efforts to bring women's history to light in our education system.
Your BraveHeart Sister,
Ulyssa

Will let you know when I come across more. One more. "Women For Women International" is a really good site about what women are doing to help other women in third world nations. Present tense.

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Edited by Ulyssa at Mar 23, 2010 7:57 PM EDT


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