| WOMEN
AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Additional databases from Alexander Street Press are always welcome
to teachers, students, historians, librarians, and researchers.
ASP has the cleanest, most responsive search apparatus in the
business. The
uncluttered presentation and ample hypertext anticipate users’
needs with extensive data on primary texts, sources, and translation
and offer keyword searches in context, line-by-line, or by author or
year. Keywords appear in
red. The table of
contents sorts terms under the headings of organizations, historical
events, persons, publications, and broad or narrow topics along with
the number of hits in primary or secondary sources.
An exhaustive bibliography covers 825 sources.
The presentation offers full coverage of fascinating progress
in women’s history along with teaching tools, document projects,
and a delightful album of historic photos, including a temperance
flier, an anti-lynching poster, editorial cartoons, head shots and
portraits of female activists, and pictures of women in actions
making upholstery, canvassing voters, and striking shirtwaist
factories and Texas pecan orchards.
The breakdown of documents into advertisements, diaries,
letters, speeches, legal papers, and images simplifies the job of
sorting through extensive historical texts and ephemera.
Faults are few. The
author index would be more thorough with the addition of pertinent
images, and easier to read if there were less distance between
entries and sources.
Summing up: Highly recommended. All
collections. Reviewer: M.E. Snodgrass, independent scholar

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