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Women/Gender Studies
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Women's Studies: A Research Guide
- Sponsored by the Research Libraries of the New York Public
Library, this research guide offers listings of resources relating to Women's
Studies, separated into subject areas such as feminist theory, bibliographies,
biographies, and so on.
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Women's Studies Database
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University of Maryland women's studies web site, begun in September 1992, serves
those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's
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National Center for Curriculum
Transformation Resources on Women
- This center serves as a clearinghouse for information
relevant to universities and secondary schools that are striving to achieve a
more balanced curriculum by incorporating recent scholarship on women into
revised courses. This site provides listings of publications dealing with the
topic of curriculum transformation.
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Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites
- Annotated directory of web
sites, compiled by Joan Korenman from the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County. Includes a section focusing on activism. |
Diotima: Materials for the Study
of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
-Interdisciplinary resource that offers a bibliography and
links to articles, essays, journals, and other sources of information. |
GenderStats: A Database of Gender
Statistics
-Sponsored by the World Bank, this database provides access to statistical
reports for individual countries, offering gender profiles, demographic data,
and data related to population, labor force, education, and health. In
addition, the database features tables that provide international comparisons
regarding gender differences, education, and reproductive health. |
Genders
-Peer-reviewed scholarly journal
featuring essays on gender and sexuality as they relate to artistic, political,
social, economic, and legal matters. |
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Center for American Women and Politics
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of Rutgers University, the CAWP provides information and analysis on the
developing women's political movement. |
U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau: Statistics
and Data
- This resource provides statistical information regarding
women's occupations and earnings in the U.S.
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Institute for Women's Policy
Research
- Organization supporting research that fosters public policy
debate on issues relating to women and families, including poverty and welfare,
employment, health care, and domestic violence.
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Feminism and Women's Studies
- Published by EServer, which is based at the University of
Washington, this resource provides links to web sites devoted to such subjects
as activism, gender and sexuality, women's history, Women's Studies Programs,
and so on.
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WomenWatch:
Gender Equality and
Empowerment for Women
-WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and
resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women
throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat,
regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and
research institutions. |
Women's Human Rights Resources
- Produced by the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of
Toronto, this site provides access to information pertaining to international
women's human rights law. Divided into subject areas, the site offers annotated
citations to scholarly articles and documents (such as UN and NGO reports), with
links to full text in many cases.
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Sexual Harassment Resources
- Sponsored by the Jackson
Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this resource
features annotated links to numerous web sites and documents, providing coverage
of federal government information, academic institution materials, and Supreme
Court decisions.
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Feminista!
-Online feminist journal featuring diverse content, including
social commentary, articles on art and literature and humor. |
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Women's History: Collections within the Library of Congress
-Guide to several American Memory collections sponsored by the Library of
Congress. Covering women leaders whose work has focused on areas such as
the suffrage movement, the struggle for equal rights, and the workplace, this
resource offers links to various American Memory collections, which provide
full-text access to articles, pamphlets, and other materials. |
National Women's History Project
-This nonprofit organization offers information and
educational materials that focus on the accomplishment of women in history. |
American Women's History: A
Research Guide
-Created by Ken Middleton of the Middle Tennessee State
University Library, this comprehensive guide offers citations to both print and
online resources. |
Women and Social Movements in the
United States, 1820-1940
-Sponsored by the State
University of New York at Binghamton, this resource provides access to primary
documents on various topics related to women and social movements. |
Georgia Women of Achievement
-Honors women of Georgia who made extraordinary contributions to
society. |
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
-A substantial collection of online documents and secondary materials related to
women's history. Taken from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet
Medieval Sourcebook, and Modern History Sourcebook databases. |
World Wide Web
Virtual Library: Women's History
- Links to a wide variety of women's history resources.
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The National Archives, Reference at Your Desk: Women
-This resource by Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) provides links to
online versions of papers, articles, and bibliographies focusing on women's
history. |
WSS Links: Archival Sites for Women's Studies
- Sponsored by the Women's
Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this
listing provides links to a wide array of archive web sites that focus on women.
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From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home
Economics?
-This exhibit was a collaborative effort
between Cornell University's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the
Human Development 455 course Archival Research: Exploring the History of Home
Economics. The site includes scanned images, photos, bibliography, timeline, and
oral histories concerning one of the few socially acceptable professions open to
American women in the early 1900's. |
Railway Women in Wartime
-Photos taken during World War I and II of women
working for the British Railway. |
Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper
Midwest
-Created by the Jewish Historical Society
of the Upper Midwest, this site contains many personal photos and images of the
life a Jewish woman experienced during the settlement of the American Great
Lakes and Plains regions. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony Papers Project
- Based at Rutgers
University, this project strives to locate and make copies of all public and
private writings by these leaders in the fight for women's rights. This site
provides access to electronic versions of many of these primary documents. |
Emma Goldman Papers Project
- Located at the
University of California, Berkeley, this project collects documents written by
and about this late 19th- and early 20th-century leader of American radicalism
and feminism.
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Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the
World
- Full text of speeches
made by influential women, including many contemporary activists, artists,
writers, and educators. The web site is searchable by topic, speaker's name, and
year of speech.
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Margaret Sanger Papers Project
- Established by the Department
of History at New York University, the project offers an archive of the papers
authored by the founder of the U.S. birth control movement. |
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and
Culture: On-line Archival Collections
- Part of the Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, this
online resource provides access to archival collections focusing on African
American women, women during the American Civil War, and the women's liberation
movement.
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Sophia Smith Collection
- Located at Smith College, this collection holds primary sources
relating to women's history. This site offers subject guides to the collection
and access to an online exhibit called "Agents of Social Change: New Resources
on 20th Century Women's Activism," which features a number of documents.
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Distinguished Women of Past and Present
- This resource provides
biographies, plus links to other biographical sites focusing on women. |
4000 Years of Women in Science
- Brief biographies organized by
century of birth, by field of scientific study, or in alphabetical order. |
Past Notable Women of Computing and Mathematics
- Sponsored by the Ada Project,
an online gateway to information and resources concerning women in computing,
this site provides access to biographies and images of pioneers in the fields of
mathematics and computing. |
Women's Legal History Biography Project
- Compiled by law students at the
Stanford Law School, this resource offers historical biographies on women
attorneys in the U.S. |
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Women Writers
- Biannual e-zine devoted to women writers on the Internet.
Features scholarly articles, original poetry and fiction, interviews, book
reviews, a listserv, and links to other women writer web sites.
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A Celebration of Women Writers
-Vast collection of links to biographical and bibliographical resources, as well
as access to the texts of books written by women. |
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century
-Digital library collection of the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. |
British Women Romantic Poets,
1789-1832: An Electronic Collection of Texts
- Electronic texts made available by the Shields Library of the
University of California, Davis.
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The Complete Poems of Emily
Dickinson
- Online version of an anthology originally published in 1924
by Little, Brown, now available through Bartleby.com.
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Electronic Text Center: Women
Writers
- Based at the University of Virginia, this online archive
provides public access to a wide range of texts and images. The archive is
searchable by word or phrase. Some texts are restricted to University of
Virginia users.
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Jane Austen Information Page
-Biographical information, scholarly articles, bibliographies, and links to
e-texts of select works by Austen. |
Victorian Women
Writers Project
-Edited by Perry
Willett of Indiana University, this project features novels, children's books,
poetry, political pamphlets, and much more. |
Voices from the Gaps: Women
Writers of Color
-Voices
From the Gaps is an internet project that focuses on the lives and works of
women writers of color in North America. Author information is searchable
by name, birthplace/geographic location, or racial/ethnic background. |
H-Net Book Reviews for H-Women
- Book reviews published by
H-Net, an online scholarly journal focusing on the humanities and social
sciences.
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Women in Art and Artists
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Images of Women in Ancient Art
-Created by Chris
Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, this site was constructed in conjunction with an
honors seminar studying images of women in ancient art. It also forms part of a
mammoth web guide for research into all areas of the history of art (simply
remove the "imageswomen" section from the url to visit the homepage for the
larger guide). The ancient art section is divided into geographical regions. |
Women Studies Resources, Art and Performance
-Created by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa. A
wide-ranging web guide exploring individual women artists and women's art
organizations, arranged alphabetically. The links at the top of the page lead to
women's studies resources in related areas, such as feminist theory and history.
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Women Artists
-Created by Patricia Lin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, this
site focuses on self-portraits by women arts, and other representations of women
in the arts, from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Short
biographies of and a representative image by women artists are included. If
possible, relevant web links are provided.
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Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to
the Present
-Based out of Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia,
this virtual exhibition of prints dating from the Renaissance to the present
entitled "The Power of Woe, The Power of Life," is the companion to the 1998
exhibition of the same name. The virtual tour allows you to move the physical
space of the museum by clicking on particular wall numbers. Images are
accompanied by brief textual annotations, and the entire exhibition has a useful
introduction.
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ArtWomen.Org
-ArtWomen.org focuses on the life of contemporary women artists.
The site also has a link to current issues for women artists and reviews of
exhibitions of contemporary women artists. |
National Museum of Women in the Arts
-This is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to the exhibition and
promotion of the work of women artists. The web site provides a series of
virtual tours with the museum's founder, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. The extensive
table of contents leads to links for best exploring the richness of the entire
site.
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Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series
-Based at Rutgers University Library, the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series is
the longest running art exhibition series devoted to exhibiting and championing
the work of emerging and established contemporary women artists. The virtual
catalog for each year provides information about the series, statements from the
exhibiting artists, and sample images from each artist.
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The World's Women On-line!
-An international "global exhibit" of female artists. The
site does not provide a count of the number of artists included, but, it is
estimated at over 1000 participating artists provide one individual work for
display on the Internet. |
n.paradoxa
- International feminist art journal focusing on the art
practices of contemporary women visual artists and writers. The online version
of the journal (published quarterly) offers articles, book reviews, and links to
the homepages of artists and art organizations.
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Organizations (U.S. and
International)
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National Organization for Women
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League of Women Voters
-This nonprofit, nonpartisan organization strives to support
citizens' active involvement in the processes of government. |
US Women Connect
- Established after the 1995 U.N. Fourth World Conference on
Women in Beijing, this network links women who are working as activists for
women's rights and empowerment in the U.S. to their counterparts around the
world. The web site provides reports published by various working groups.
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American Association of University
Women
- Organization that strives to promote lifelong education and
support equity for women and girls in the realm of education. This web site
features fact sheets, position papers, the Action Alert monthly
newsletter, and information regarding public policy.
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National Women's Studies Association
-This site provides information about publications and
scholarships sponsored by the organization; links to web sites related to
affiliated caucuses, task forces, and interest groups; and a listing of online
research resources concerning Women's Studies. |
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Multi-Cultural Resources
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Jewish Women's Archive
- Features a searchable database
of archival documents and images relating to Jewish women. Also provides an
online exhibit dedicated to "Women of Valor."
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Making Face, Making Soul...Chicana Feminist Website
-This site contains a variety of resources ranging from short
biographies of Chicanas, to Chicana poetry and literature, cultural resources,
academic resources |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
-The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of The New York
Public Library, is a major research center for the documentation of those of
African descent throughout the world. The site provides a changing array of
online exhibitions, as well as a section on digital resources including a rich
collection of Images of African Americans from the 19th Century. Online
resources include links to selected Internet resources on Africa and the
Africa[n] Diaspora. |
Women of Color Web Sites
-Noteworthy sites that
focus on women of color in the United States and around the world:. |
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Beyond Nancy Drew - Girls' Literature in the Sallie
Bingham Center For Women's History and Culture
-A Duke University project, this bibliography of
American girls' literature dates from 1869 through the 1990's. Mostly an
historical list of girls reading materials, it is liberally sprinkled with small
scanned images of books covers. The reading material is arranged in various
topics: Early Literature for Girls; A Christian Upbringing; Etiquettes and
Girls' Behavior; Nurses in Girls' Literature; Outdoor and Adventure Series; Girl
Detectives: Mysteries for Girls; Tomboys and Working Girls; Lollipop Power
Press; Heroines; and Reference Works, Bibliographies, Scholarly Writings.
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Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies
- Published by the University of
Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office, this resource offers a
collection of online bibliographies on various topics related to Women's
Studies.
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H-Women Bibliographies
- Directory of links to
bibliographies focusing on women, organized into subject areas such as "Gender
Issues and Relations," "Ethnicity and Class," "Religion," "Sexuality," "War,"
and so on. |
Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database
- Sponsored by the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, with the assistance of the United Nations Development
Programme, this searchable database provides access to bibliographic records for
books, journal articles, reports, and other documents dealing with the
participation of women in politics. |
Women in Science: Guide to Reference Resources
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Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide
- (University of Virginia)
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Internet Directories / Search Engines
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Librarians' Index to the Internet: Women
-Searchable directory of women-related web sites, which have been
selected and evaluated by librarians. |
BUBL Link Subject
Menu: Women
- Selected Internet resources in academic subject areas regarding women. Sites
are reviewed and cataloged before inclusion in the portal. (University of
Strathclyde, Glascow) |
Google Directory:
Women
- Directory of various subjects related to women's issues; includes a
subject-oriented search function. |
Yahoo!: Women's Studies
- Directory of various categories related to women's issues.
Includes a search engine. |
