Welcome!

Welcome to the Women's History Project!

I have begun this blog to provide news and communication to those interested in relating their history, able to help support the project, or interested in the results of this project.

The Women's History Project was created to collect the histories of women. The focus of the history is up to the woman herself. All women over the age of 30 are encouraged to participate, regardless of location. This is a global project. I'm interested in your childhood memories, your schooling, your attitudes and opinions. Your childrearing practices, how you clothe and feed your family, how you heal their hurts, and generally ANY thing that is in your life: your interests and passions.

A history includes the basics, such as your name, date of birth and location, and how your family was structured, including your birth order. From there, it can be fairly fluid, depending on local custom and culture.

At this time, histories must be taken in English, but I hope to expand to many languages as the project progresses.

Your history will be included in a book, outlining the history or women. It may also be used in other books, which may concentrate on child rearing practices and outcomes, fashion and clothing, feeding the family, frugality, home making, home health cures or folk remedies, and others.

I've already seen cancer in clusters, family patterns of abuse and health, and patterns of rejection and acceptance of parental values, among other results. So there may be a lot of research value in your history.

History is fading and dying daily. Any woman over 70 who passes is taking with her a history from 1942. Any woman older than 70 has seen more than most of us will ever see, of the most tumultuous century so far. We need to preserve this history.

Unless a woman is famous, it's unlikely her history has been preserved beyond dates of birth, marriage and death. This project looks to address this inequity. After all, men's history is all around us on the bookshelves. But we, women, are not.

Hoping to hear from you,
Morgen Marshall