Prof. Pavlac's Women's History Resource Site

This site provides materials concerning historical women and issues concerning women throughout history. For information on contributors, see below.

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Disclaimer/Warning/Caution
The site contents have mostly been written by students, of varying ability. Some pages have been only minimally edited and may contain inadequate information. The content of pages we link to are the responsibility of their own authors. You should use these pages as only a starting point for research about the facts, scholarship and internet sites available concerning historical women. And Prof. Pavlac usually does not have much further information on any subjects beyond that which is already provided on any particular page. If you do inquire, it is best to include identifying information: who you are and why you are asking (if it is related to a class or just personal curiosity).

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Annotated Bibliographies

Ancient West
Oracles	Sappho	Vestals
Cleopatra	Mary Magdalene

Medieval Europe

Queen Margaret of Denmark

Renaissance Europe
Caterina Sforza	Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England	Queen Isabel I of Spain
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England	Queen "Bloody" Mary Tudor of England	Queen Elizabeth I of England
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots	Catherine de Medici, Queen of France	Theresa of Avila

Early Modern Europe
Erzebet Bathory of Hungary	Marguerite of Navarre	Glückel of Hamelin
Queen Christina of Sweden	Queen Anne of England	Maria Theresa Habsburg, Archduchess of Austria
Madame de Maintenon of France	Madame de Pompadour of France	Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun	Tsar Elizabeth I of Russia	Tsar Catherine II "the Great" of Russia
Mary Wollstonecraft of England	Luise, Queen of Prussia	Émilie du Châtelet

19th-Century
Jane Austen	Queen Victoria	Florence Nightingale	Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Gaskell	Josephine Grey Butler	Harriet Taylor Mill	Hannah More
Clara Schumann	Georges Sand	Clara Zetkin	Marie Curie

European Topics
Women and Medicine in Early Modern Europe	Women and Science in Early Modern Europe	European Witch Hunts

Asian Women
Trung Trac and Nhi, Vietnamese Heroines	Tzu Hsi, Empress of China	Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India	Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist in Myanmar

Asian Topics
Purdah	The Taliban in Afghanistan	Concubinage

Some General Links

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: created by Danuta Bois. Upon discovering some interesting women previously ignored by historians, Ms. Bois wrote these numerous useful biographies with links.

National Women's History Project: created by an educational,non-profit organization. Its goals is providing materials for learning about women and recognizing their accomplishments.

Women's Hall of Fame: created by the Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. It provides some brief biographies of inductees, limited to Americans.

The Nation: Women's History Month: created by the magazine of progressive opinion. It offers some articles from its archives going back to 1866 and links to feminist websites.

Women in Western Civilization, Fall 2000:
Dawn Drumin | Matt Gingo | Paul Lindenmuth | Tricia Tait | Karen Woods