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CELEBRATING WOMEN

 

This Lens celebrates Women, especially during March - Women's History Month.

To honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of women's lives, we have chosen Women's Art: Women's Vision as the 2008 theme for National Women's History Month.

The history of women and art is quintessential women's history. It is the story of amazing women's accomplishments acclaimed at the time but written out of history. Join us in ensuring that their accomplishments are never forgotten.

This year's theme provides a special opportunity to discover and celebrate women's visual arts in a variety of forms and mediums that help expand our perceptions of ourselves and each other.

(Women's Health Month is May 1, 2009)

Women's History 

Events: Celebrate Women's History Throughout the Year!
The National Women's History Project's Mission
Notable Women Ancestors - Women's Web Links
WOMEN'S HISTORY LINKS
Cyndi's List - Female Ancestors
More than 250,700 links! 242,150 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 180 categories. Another 8,500+ uncategorized new links in the works.
Woman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about Women. For Lady, see Lady (disambiguation). For Women, see Woman (disambiguation).
A woman is a female
Marvelicious I Am Woman
Fantastic women of the 20th Century
National Women's History Project
Why Women's History?

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I Am Woman 

Helen Ready

You can bend but never break me
'cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

CHORUS

I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh yes I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong

FADE
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman

Three Degrees - I am woman / This is my life

I am woman / This is my life Solo: Sheila Ferguson

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Women's Stories 

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Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference by Penny Colman

Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference by Penny Colman

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The Price and Privilege of Being a Woman: Encounters with Global Women Who Search for Justice and Compassion by Winnie V. Williams

The Price and Privilege of Being a Woman: Encounters with Global Women Who Search for Justice and Compassion by Winnie V. Williams

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CONTEMPORY WOMEN MAKING HISTORY 

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MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA - Official Site of the Cause of Canonization

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Oprah.com is your leading source for information about love, life ...

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Queen Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom

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Annie Leibovitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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NOTABLE WOMEN of HISTORY 

Which women stand out the most in history? These are women that history would not be the same without.

Explore this list of women of achievement. You can nominate one of these women or someone else to the Honor Roll of Notable Women.

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Queen Elizabeth I

The last part of the 16th century was called the E more...3 points

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Marie Curie

The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physic more...1 point

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Cleopatra

For her actual beauty, it is said, was not itself more...1 point

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Eleanor Roosevelt

As first lady. she had regular press conferences w more...1 point

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Oprah

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Queen Bodicca

Boudica (also spelt Boudicca, formerly better know more...1 point

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Susan Brownell Anthony

(February 15, 1820 %u2013 March 13, 1906) was a pr more...1 point

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

November 12, 1815 %u2013 October 26, 1902), was an more...1 point

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H.P. Blavatsky

Founder of the Theosophical Society and author of more...1 point

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Sakajawea

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Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Who would you most like to meet? 

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YOUR OPINION COUNTS 

Post the Woman of History you would most like to meet here.

LeslieBrenner

Tischke Goldberg, the only Jewish Pilgrim at Plymouth Rock, who invented the bagel? :)

Posted February 27, 2008
PatinKC

Thanks for the suggestion. I am only including historical women in this lens. Helen, better known as Helen of Troy, was a Greek mythological figure, daughter of Zeus and Leda.

Posted January 04, 2008
Bluelittlewolf

Mother Teresa

Posted October 20, 2007
Ashlynn

Queen Boudicca of the Celts

Posted July 27, 2007
razorback

Helen of Troy

Posted July 25, 2007

Featured Reading 

"Daughters of Kerala" is a collection of short stories by award winning Malayalam authors translated into English. The original stories, written over a period of seventy years, depict the lives of women there-- women who are poor, rich, educated, not so educated, married, divorced and unmarried. Everyone who reads the book will identify with one story or other. The Dean of International Studies at Santa Monica College expressed that point saying: "We read to transport ourselves to another place, yet come to find ourselves in these stories." The stories have an additional appeal-most of them face up to social issues that remain relevant even today.



In her presentation on "Daughters of Kerala" Achamma Chandersekaran explains Kerala's unique culture and customs as they relate to the stories in the book in an interesting and insightful fashion. She has toured the United States, Canada and India speaking about "Daughters of Kerala." At the last NWSA conference in California she spoke about the Unique Dimension Provided by "Daughters of Kerala" in Developing Women's Studies as a Transnational Project.

Daughters of Kerala: Twenty-Five Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors

Daughters of Kerala: Twenty-Five Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors

Amazon Price: $13.46 (as of 07/26/2008)

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