College Women talk October 2016
For the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference presentation, "Crossing Institutional Boundaries to Create a Collaborative Digital Archives: The Collegewomen.org Project"
The Contested Body of the College Woman
The Seven Sisters: Space and Structure in Women's Colleges to 1900 (Omeka site proof of concept, work in progress!)
Archive as Dataset
The Contested Body of the College Woman
- Charles Eliot, Inaugural Address for President Caroline Hazard, Wellesley College, October 1899
- "It remains to show how an elaborate intellectual training may be given women without affecting injuriously any of their bodily powers and functions. This has not been accomplished for young men; for in past centuries the elaborate education of men has too often resulted in serious impairment of their physical vigor. Indeed, to this day there are many cases at universities for men in which bodily excellence is sacrificed to intellectual, or intellectual to bodily" (Eliot 16-7).
- "Sterilizing the Fittest" by Henry R. Carey, The North American Review, November 1927.
- Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward H. Clarke
- "There have been instances, and I have seen such, of females in whom the special mechanism we are speaking of remained germinal,—undeveloped. It seemed to have been aborted. They graduated from school or college excellent scholars, but with undeveloped ovaries. Later they married, and were sterile" (Clarke 40).
- "Sports" theme on Collegewomen.org. How is the health of the college women represented here? Why?
- Selections of letters describing physical health. How do these descriptions talk back to or reinforce the discourse around the college woman's health? Does it share or work against the concerns expressed in the media?
The Seven Sisters: Space and Structure in Women's Colleges to 1900 (Omeka site proof of concept, work in progress!)
Archive as Dataset
- Creating a Basic Dataset from Collegewomen.org
- Sample dataset of letters: Shows basic information to record and a possible naming convention.
- Zipped collection of letters plain-text
- Pivot tables lesson
- Dataset of Academic Images: Shows 52 images, the whole "academic" theme as of summer 2016. Standardizes by date and includes info on subject, posture, number of people, facial expression, etc. Other sheets include sample pivot tables and charts.
- Pivot tables lesson: Walks through a possible lesson using the pivot tables.
In case Voyant dies: visualization of "sample dataset of letters"