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"Women changed the world!?"
The Online-Project of the working group „ women’s history" at ZAWiW, University of Ulm |
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Who knows for example Bettina von Arnim, Helene Lange, Hedwig Dohm or Anita Augspurg? What can you find about them in the Internet? This online women's project with an international scope was created by the women participants of the working group SENET who are interested in literature. While researching in the net during their SENET activities, these women have noticed, that German women writers and other important female personalities are hardly represented in the Internet. In the project "Library Gutenberg" (http://gutenberg.aol.de) for example, only a few women writers are named and even less introduced with their works in own web sites. Also other searches for references to women writers were not successful. Carmen Stadelhofer's article "Frauen im Aufbruch" (Women awakening) has encouraged the women from the working group and other interested individuals to set out on their own search. In this online project, they want to introduce women who in their opinion are important not only as writers and chroniclers of their time, but who through their consequent struggle for equal opportunities for women also contributed to changes in the position of women in society. The objective of the group is to document with the aid of short biographies, relevant links to existing web pages and literature references the life and work of these women and to point out in the background texts the political and social conditions of their time, which officially excluded these women from social participation. The focus of their work is currently "Women in the 19th /beginning of the 20th century". The participants of this working group have ascertained during their work, that through this project they learn a lot about the life and influence of very interesting women in Germany - however, that they know much less about important women from other countries. Thus they are seeking combatants from all countries, who want to co-operate in filling these blank pages in the Internet and to learn during this process. The beginnings of such co-operation are in contributions from U3A partner groups from the LiLL-network from Créteil, Vicenza and Jyväskylä, in English, French and Italian and some individual persons. For this reason, welcome to participate in this project are also people who are prepared to translate the texts into the other LiLL languages, so that as many people as possible can profit from this project. Furthermore, the group is interested in exchange with other women and men about historical themes relevant to women and would also like to read books together and discuss relevant issues in an Internet forum. The group can be contacted through ZAWiW: AK Frauengeschichte c/ o ZAWiW Universität Ulm D-89069 Ulm http://www.uni-ulm.de/LiLL/3.0/D/frauen/ Moderation: Carmen Stadelhofer |