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Feminist Women's Health Center Personal Stories

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Non-Profit
URL: 

http://www.fwhc.org/

Author: 
Feminist Women's Health Center
Excerpt: 

Pregnancy represents a true fork in the road of life. One can never know what would have happened had she gone the other way. Read women's stories to gain strength and connection with other women.

If you would like to share your story, please write it down and send it via email. We will assume you want us to publish it here.

Annotation: 

The Feminist Women's Health Center has a comprehensive website about issues related to women's health and also includes an amazing collection of stories submitted by visitors to the clinic or the website, becase they believe that "feminism begins with women sharing their experiences." The section "Many Voices - Many Choices" includes experiences with terminations of pregnancy, birth control, and related issues. Stories by teenagers are included in another "Many Voices - Many Choices" section, and poetry and prose from visitors to the site is featured as well. Stories and writings are submitted via email or through the guestbook on the website, where they also invite women to share their personal definitions of feminism.

Review: 

The Feminist Woman's Health Center (FWHC) of Yakima, Washington was established in 1980 by two women who wanted to "bring reproductive choice to women in the large rural area known as Central Washington." Now the Center operates three clinics throughout Washington State: the Cedar River Clinic in Renton, Cascade Family Planning in Tacoma, and A Woman's Choice Clinic in Yakima. Modeled after the Feminist Woman's Health Centers in California that grew out of the Women's Liberation Movement and inspired by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the FWHC of Washington State defines its mission as "to achieve reproductive freedom for women."

Primarily the FWHC website serves as a portal to information regarding women's health issues. Some highlights include medical, safety and legal information about abortion; health related information about birth control, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs); tips on breast care, sexuality education, and eating healthy; and information about the menstrual cycle, menopause, and woman's medical conditions and diseases. There is also a regularly updated portal to reproductive health news and editorial sources, as well as various "herstories" about reproductive rights and watershed events.

As a feminist organization interested in contemporary woman's rights issues, the FWHC helps to organize local, state, and national protests and rallies and encourages its visitors to get involved. Consequently it provides a links page dedicated to activist organizations and causes. The main links page supplies more than 400 links to pro-choice, feminist, and health websites, as well as online discussion groups and email newsletters . In addition, the site supplies links to a vast amount of resources, including books, videos, periodicals, woman's hotlines, and abortion providers.

Under the assumption that "telling personal stories heals us," the site gives visitors the opportunity to submit personal stories about their experiences with birth control, abortion, pregnancy, and other women's issues. Stories can be submitted by email or by signing the guestbook. Believing that "knowledge leads to empowerment," the site answers more than 40 reproductive and health related questions in its extensive FAQs section. There is also a merchandise section that sells various feminist books, posters, a self exam kit, a speculum, and other items.

The Feminist Woman's Health Center website is thoughtfully designed and content rich. The overall layout and aesthetic appeal is quite good; this reviewer found no broken links, unloaded images, or typographical errors. The search functionality is outsourced to a decent search hosting service, which provides clear and useable search results. Navigation is straightforward and user-friendly considering the vast amount of information on hand – although it would be more convenient to have a link to the homepage in the header of the site, not only the footer. Moreover, the homepage sidebar menu is so well designed one wonders why it's not also available throughout the site. Taken together the website is successful in presenting the wide-ranging issues behind abortion rights and woman's reproductive health.

Jim Safley
Center for History and New Media
March 16, 2004

Modern Science and Dialogue Among Civilizations

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Biographical
  • Consumer Technology
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Mathematics
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/phibalas/dialogue2001/index.htm

Author: 
Arun Bala
Excerpt: 

The United Nations has declared 2001 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS.

This site is dedicated to increasing awareness of the way modern science grew through the dialogue of civilizations, and the contribution dialogue can make to promoting the growth of science in the future.

Although the dominant view in the past has been that the historical roots of modern science only lie within Europe increasing evidence accumulated over the last fifty years reveals the need for a more dialogical approach to the history of science. Understanding the role played by civilizational dialogue in the growth of modern science would also enable us to take more seriously the emerging realization among many leading thinkers that premodern traditions of science contain reservoirs of knowledge urgently needed to deal with serious problems - like environmental and health concerns -that confront the global community.

Annotation: 

This site was designed as a resource for a class at the National University of Singapore. The site brings together a sampling of materials dealing with the history and philosophy of science from a multicultural perspective. The author of the site writes that in many instances western and nonwestern thinkers had difficulty integrating the modernist heritage of science with earlier inherited traditions of knowledge. The information included in the site is not always complete, but browsers will likely find the most useful information by following the link to the section "Science and Civilizations." This section is subdivided by scientific field (i.e. astronomy, chemistry, physics, etc.). After selecting a field, the visitor can choose from a list of civilizations or cultures, each of which has a number of links to historical information and, in many cases, a short essay. The site would be most interesting to those hoping to compare various cultural philosophies of science.

PeopleSoft: The Evolution of Manufacturing

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Corporation
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.nytimes.com/ads/peoplesoft/

Author: 
New York Times
Excerpt: 

This archive combines a series of New York Times archival articles outlining the evolution of manufacturing with an overview of Peoplesoft's role in continuing progress in the manufacturing field.

KIPnotes

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
URL: 

http://www.kipnotes.com/

Excerpt: 

For more than a decade we've been collecting books, films and interviews on the histories of industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction. And we've gathered essential books on management's investing, financing and operating decisions. The result: the largest multimedia collection of business histories and management titles available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author.

Historical Science and Technology Medical Devices at The Bakken Museum

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Biographical
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Engineering
  • Images
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Non-Profit
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://thebakken.org/artifacts/categories.htm

Author: 
The Bakken Library and Museum
Excerpt: 

These are the 18 artifact categories at The Bakken. Items can belong to more than one category. We have roughly 2500 artifacts. An electrostatic kit from the 18th century would be listed as a generator, a storage case, electrodes, a Leyden jar -- whatever was in the box the kit lived in. Here on the Web, we'll list things by their most noticeable attribute. You can learn a lot about a collection by studying the categories it is sorted into.

Annotation: 

This website contains a directory and description of the artifact holdings of the Bakken Library and Museum. The Bakken is a not-for-profit educational institute founded by the inventor of the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker. Fittingly, the collection is largely devoted to the use of electricity and magnetism in medicine and the life sciences. The directory is sorted and listed by categories, but unfortunately the collection is not searchable. The entries for each item include an image, a physical description including materials, size, and weight, and a list of remarks that note special features or the condition of the item. The website also features a commentary that supplements the collection directory with a historical overview.

Video Store Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Personal
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.videostoreproject.com/

Author: 
Joshua Greenberg
Excerpt: 

This site is part of a larger dissertation project on the history of video retail and shifting attitudes toward motion pictures in America in the 1970's and 1980's. The person responsible for both the design and maintenance of the site (as well as the dissertation) is Joshua Greenberg, a PhD student in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, e-mail Joshua at jmg48@cornell.edu

Annotation: 

The Video Store Project tracks the history of video retail and documents shifting American attitudes toward motion pictures in the 1970s and 1980s. The project has separate surveys for individuals who were video store owners, workers, and shoppers between 1975 and 1990. Please contribute by sharing your experiences with video stores and video rental.

Day Trading

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Links
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://echo.gmu.edu/daytrading/

Author: 
Echo: Exploring & Collecting History Online - Science, Technology, and Industry
Excerpt: 

Over the past forty years the world of finance has changed dramatically, and one way to trace this evolution is through the technology that mediates the interaction between man and his money. The advent of Instinet, the creation of Nasdaq, and the popularity of SOES, E*Trade, and Real Tick mark distinct and important periods in the history of stock market culture.

The present-day evolutionary descendent of these technological developments is day trading – a phenomenon that has brought instant fortune and instant ruin to many by allowing individuals to control their own finances online in real time. Echo seeks to collect and permanently preserve narratives about day trading for the historical record. Please share your experiences of this important social, economic and technological movement.

Annotation: 

Echo's Day Trading project seeks to collect narratives about individual experiences with the advanced technology that created the phenomenon of day trading in the 1990's. References and a bibliography are included, along with the online survey and responses.

Building the Washington Metro

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://chnm.gmu.edu/metro/

Author: 
Zachary Schrag
Excerpt: 

This site tells the story of the Washington Metro, a 103-mile rapid transit system serving Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia. Planning for Metro began in the 1950s, construction began in 1969, and the first segment opened for operation in 1976. Metro is one of the largest public-works projects ever built, and it is the second-busiest rail transit system in the United States.

Metro is the creation of thousands of planners, engineers, architects, and builders, and hundreds of thousands of neighbors and riders. Whatever your role, we hope you will share your own experiences as part of the Echo: Collecting History Online project.

Annotation: 

This site tells the story of the Washington Metro, a 103-mile rapid transit system serving the nation’s capital. Metro – one of the largest public-works projects ever built and the second-busiest rail transit system in the United States – is the creation of thousands of planners, engineers, architects, and builders. It remains a daily fixture for hundreds of thousands of residents of DC, northern Virginia, and southern Maryland, and visitors from around the world have toured DC on Metro’s underground trains. Users of Metro are invited to share their experiences on the site.

Business History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Business and Industry
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
URL: 

http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/GUIDES/business_history.html#INTERNET

Excerpt: 

Business History
Scope: This is a categorized and annotated list of selected cross discipline information sources for doing research on the history of business. Email the subject area specialist at lg30@umail.umd.edu or call 301-405-9278 for more information.

Table of Contents

Subject Headings
Guides to the Literature
Chronologies and Encyclopedias
Bibliographies
Biographical Information Sources
Corporation Reports
Company and Industry Overviews
Periodical Indexes
Federal Government Publications
Statistical Information Sources
Internet Sites
Other Information Sources

The Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Biographical
  • Consumer Technology
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/

Excerpt: 

Most Darwin texts on the internet exclude essential bibliographical information such as edition, publisher, place of publication, etc. Page numbers are nowhere to be seen. These factors vastly reduce the usefulness of these texts as they cannot be easily cited. It is impossible to know if one is reading a first or sixth edition. An example are the many online 'first editions' of Darwin's Origin of Species. Often these cannot be correct as the text contains the phrase 'survival of the fittest'—famously coined by Herbert Spencer and first included in the 5th edition of 1869. Many other online copies of the Origin purport to be the first edition yet contain the 'Historical Sketch', first found in Britain in the 3rd edition of 1861.

Annotation: 

The Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web, edited by Dr. John van Wyhe, is an effort to publish in original format all of Charles Darwin's writings. The site already contains almost all of Darwin's writings as well as an extensive bibliography, images, and a biographical essay. While many of these materials are available elsewhere on the web, according to the authors, many online sources confuse editions, make errors in footnotes, and do a poor job of rendering transcriptions of scholarly quality. The texts here are not available in facsimile, but the authors have employed painstaking care to preserve the text of the originals all the way down to the characters, formatting, and page breaks. Line breaks have been altered in the case of hyphenation in order to allow better accuracy when searching.

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