On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and > thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor > Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West, > but she also ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher > Hubert Howe Bancroft, without attribution. She was a feminist: > > "But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter how > graceful or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the > idea of work for their less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of > the honestly struggling of their sex, reduce the wages that woman receives > for her work, and perpetuate their own moral enslavement" ([Dorothy D.], > "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning Call, April 25, 1875, 1). > > Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner > started the article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along > the way; I think it's a pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker > is an award-winning, contemporary English novelist, whose work centers > around memory, trauma, survival and recovery: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker > I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to > occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to > gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list, > please share your links too! > -Pete
My all-time favorite article I've ever worked on is a biography of Elsie MacGill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill who I knew nothing about, but stumbled across and she was so cool that I had to do some serious research. She was a Canadian who was the world's first female aircraft designer, during WWII, and was a major part of Canada's aircraft industry during the war; she had a comic published about her called "Queen of the Hurricanes"! She later went on to a career advocating for women's rights. She did all this despite being disabled by polio and never learning to fly herself. Also: if anyone is looking for an article subject, I just stumbled on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg_Institute_Women_of_Vision_Awards Lots of redlinks and promising article subjects in there! -- phoebe _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap