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Women Crossing Boundaries, Creating New Realities

"We need to be connected not through identity politics, but through political activism and history"
-Brenda Stokely, President of 215 Social Services Employees, African American Delegate

“The Global Women’s History Project offers a great learning opportunity not easily available in classrooms. The themes/topics are always up-to-date and about pressing issues that require immediate attention….I believe that’s what liberal arts education is about- helping individuals broaden insight and encouraging them to develop the ability to think critically…We are fortunate to have this project [at Westfield State University].”

Hugh Jo, Faculty, Political Science

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“We are creating a living history as seen through the eyes of women, that will fill a serious gap in the historical literature for generations to come.”

Eyes and Stones

Our Programs

• Living Room Conversations • World Cafe •
• Refugee Oral History Project • Africa Alive!
• Conferences: 1999 to present

The Goals of the Global Women’s History Project are:

-To provide an opportunity for the public to engage with women from around the world as they learn about one another’s histories, visions, achievements, and concerns, and to share creative pedagogies.

-To archive women’s history and to make primary source materials presented at conferences available to researchers, activists, and others.

-Through workshops and presentations, through film, music, and meetings with local women’s organizations, to offer an environment conducive to communication and constructive interaction between and among women across national, religious, ethnic-racial, gender, sexuality, age, and class divisions.

-To develop and coordinate projects in the areas of community based preventive health care, education, housing, and politics, de-militarization, sharing of resources, war trauma, and refugee and immigrant status.

-To network with grassroots organizations, schools, and universities, in order to share research and create avenues for support and interaction.

The Global Women’s History Project invites women from around the globe involved in bringing peace to their regions through political structures and through grassroots organizations to meet with one another and with women from the United States in order to learn about and develop common strategies for peace and for justice.

Acknowledging that the destinies of women in the United States are linked with those of women globally, The Global Women’s History Project exists to create and support international networking in order that women may have a venue for addressing issues of common concern, and in order that women may have a venue for advocating for one another across nationalist boundaries.

Women from a range of backgrounds in the U.S. struggle daily with life threatening concerns, including poverty, racism, domestic violence, and health related issues. The Global Women’s History Project seeks to educate students, faculty, and our communities about the histories and current struggles occupying women in many regions of the world, and about common strategies of women facing similar issues in the U.S.

Our conferences are designed to highlight and to document the visions, strategies, challenges, and triumphs of women. These programs provide important insights and critical information for activists, scholars in all disciplines, students, women from a range of backgrounds in the United States, and policy makers from electoral politics to grassroots organization.