Over the period of 2006 to 2015, nominations of women account for just 19 percent of all non-acting Oscar nominations (327 women compared to 1,387 men), the Women’s Media Center analysis has found.
This year-long project in weekly installments aims to immerse users in a cumulative temporal experience of the atmosphere, networks, and associations for Dickinson’s writing around 1862.
Created in 1996 to uncover, highlight, and share the works of marginalized artists, predominately women writers of color living and working in North America.
The voices of women in American literary history reflect visions and styles as diverse as their experiences. Collecting the literary record of these authors—some very well known, others often neglected, some anonymous—is the purpose and goal of the…
Francis John Stainforth (1797-1866), an Anglican clergyman, owned the largest private library of Anglophone women’s writing collected during the mid-nineteenth century. His library catalog lists 7,122 editions (over 8,000 volumes) authored and edited…
The Kapralova Society is a Canadian non-profit music society, founded in 1998 in Toronto. An affiliate member of the International Alliance for Women in Music, the Society's mission is to promote interest in Kapralova and other women in music through…
A mobile trading library and interactive biblio installation that features a collection of 850 books written by Black women. The library uses books to build community, and explore intersections of race, class, culture and gender while creating space…