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The "Second Wave" and Beyond

A new FREE online Scholarly Community - click here to visit the site now.
A resource of Women and Social Movements in the United States: Scholar's Edition

The “Second Wave” and Beyond is a free, online community that brings together feminist thinkers and historians of women to analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories and to collaborate on new directions for historical research on this period. Scholars and activists will find and share, in an integrated and searchable database, bibliographies, unpublished papers, chronologies, images, oral histories, links to and reviews of external Web sites, book reviews, syllabi and other materials. The site offers a new venue for publishing, writing, and recording the history of contemporary feminism.

The content, constantly updated through participation of the members of the scholar community, provides unique, personal insights and quality primary materials. Sample items so far include:

An interactive chronology of the Women’s Movement from 1960, always growing with new information contributed by community members
Photo of Gay Pride, New York City,1977
Archives and Webographies in women’s history with a list of links
Two original memoirs: Judith Ezekiel on "Moving Up to the Old Country" and Stephanie Gilmore on "Coming to the F Word."
A previously unpublished book review. Moderator Stephanie Gilmore reviews Maryann Barakso’s Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005)

Anyone can view the site. To ensure the quality of the discussion and content, scholars are asked to register, indicating their interest and contribution to the field. Viewing the site and becoming a registered community participant are both free.

In the future, the site will host guided discussions with influential guest editors on specific themes including “local” feminism, abortion, religion and feminism, young feminists, and other topics. The concept of “collective reviews” will be explored, and participants will experiment with other new forms of online publishing.

ABOUT THE EDITORS OF WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History and Co-director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995) and other books and articles on women and social movements. Her first book, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973), analyzed how women reshaped gender identities and gender relationships in the antebellum era. She is currently completing a study of women and social movements in the Progressive era, 1900-1930.

Thomas Dublin is Professor of History and Co-director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979), and winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Merle Curti Award. His latest book, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century, explores the gendered dimensions of deindustrialization in the anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania since 1920.

ABOUT THE EDITORS OF "THE SECOND WAVE" AND BEYOND

Stephanie Gilmore received her Ph.D. in women's history from The Ohio State University in May, 2005. After a year as assistant professor of women's history at the University of Toledo, she decided to pursue life as an independent historian, a move that allows her to write about, teach, and do feminism and social justice work. She is currently editing Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, which is under contract with the University of Illinois Press and will be published in 2007. She is also completing her monograph on NOW chapters and grassroots activism, tentatively titled, Beyond the Friedan Mystique.

Judith Ezekiel is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse – le Mirail. She is the author of articles on American and French feminism in journals such as Les Temps Modernes, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, and Women's Studies Quarterly. She co-founded Women's International Studies Europe, the Worldwide Organization of Women's Studies (WOWS) and the Association Nationale des Etudes Feministes (ANEF), created and runs the European and French-language Women's Studies email lists, WISE-L and etudesfeministes-l, and is an associate editor of The European Journal of Women's Studies.

Kimberly Springer is the author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and editor of Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism (New York University Press, 1999). Her articles on black feminism, popular cinema, and race have appeared in Signs, Meridians, and numerous anthologies. Dr Springer also produced and scripted the Southern Regional Council / Public Radio International series, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and WAMC Northeast Public Radio's "The Good Fight.” She is the recipient of awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the American Association for University Women.

Sherri L. Barnes is the women’s studies and U.S. history librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her Web based bibliography, Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography, won the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Women’s Studies Section’s 2003 Award for Significant Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship. In 1999 she was the recipient of a Women’s Studies Excellence Award from Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. She is an occasional contributor to Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources. From 1998 -2003 she was a regular reviewer for Library Journal. In addition to her Masters in Library and Information Studies, she has an M.A. in liberal studies, and a B.A. in women’s studies.

ABOUT ALEXANDER STREET PRESS'S SCHOLARLY COMMUNITIES

The “Second Wave” and Beyond, the online scholarly community, is a resource of Women and Social Movements, a subscription online database that is published jointly by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender and Alexander Street Press, and edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin. The Women and Social Movements Web resource and The “Second Wave” and Beyond online scholarly community complement one another, but participants in the scholarly community need not be affiliated with institutions that subscribe to Women and Social Movements.

Alexander Street Press will be offering scholars other online communities later this year. The next will be a community for historians that will work with Alexander Street ’s In the First Person, available free to all users at www.inthefirstperson.com.

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