On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)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