Celebrate Women's History: Women "In the Media"
Women "In the Media"
Coco Before ChanelISBN: 1435992962A portrait of the early life of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel - from orphan to fashionista, this is a true rags to riches story of a persistent woman.
Sample films based on the stories of unforgettable women that left an imprint on our history as a gender.
The DuchessISBN: 1415745889Based on the true story behind the Duchess of Devonshire's demands of day-to-day responsibility coupled with a crumbling marriage.
FridaISBN: 0788844989Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who reached international recognition started from meager beginnings and reached a pinacle in the career of an artist on her own and alongside her husband, Diego Rivera.
The Magdalene SistersISBN: 0788850881The Magdalene Laundries professed to take in girls cast out by society. A riveting story about sisterhood and survival.
Shut Up and Sing
Freedocumentaries.org offers a goldmine of documentaries about women and by women. Check out the movie from two time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple and Cecelia Peck that chronicles the lives of the Dixie Chicks from 2003 to the start of their 2006 tour.
Watch the film online in its entirety. Run time approximately 92 minutes.
What's On the Web
- National Council of Women's OrganizationsNCWO membership is broad-based and diverse and includes organizations working on a wide spectrum of issues as well as the concerns of specific constituencies: mid-life and older women, girls and young women, women of color, religious women, business and professional women, lesbian women, homemakers and retired women.
- Documents from the Women's Liberation MovementSearch primary source docs by keyword or subject heading. An On-line Archival Collection
Special Collections Library, Duke University - National Council for Research on WomenThe National Council for Research on Women is a network of 120 leading research, policy and advocacy centers committed to improving the lives of women and girls.
- Library of Congress Spotlights Women in HistoryA gateway to the Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States.
- Women's International CenterWomen’s International Center was founded in 1982 as a non-profit education and service foundation with the mission to ‘acknowledge, honor, encourage and educate women’.
- National Museum of Women in the ArtsThe National Museum of Women in the Arts is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.
- The National Women's Hall of FameThe museum is located at Seneca Falls, NY, and features an alphabetical directory of famous women and their backgrounds.