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Selected Women's Studies Web Sites
Women's
Studies Resources | Women
in the World | Women's
History
Feminist/Activist
Sites | Women
and Health | Directories
Women's Studies Resources
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E-Books on Women's Studies
Made available by netLibrary, check out new electronic books on women's
studies.
- University of
Maryland Women's Studies Database
Links to sources on conferences, bibliographies, computing, employment,
government, class syllabi, film reviews, gender issues, other WS web sites,
and WS program support. Includes a reading room and a reference room with
full-text resources. The bibliographies are especially useful for research.
- Selected
Women and Gender Resources on the World Wide Web
Links to just about everything related to women and gender issues from Art
to Women's Studies programs.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Gender Studies
Page
Links to sources on women's studies, feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies,
men's studies, and gender studies in the cyberworld.
- Women's
Resources on the Internet
Links by subject to sites by and about women. Sites are primarily scholarly.
Collected by the Women's Resource Project, University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill School of Information and Library Science.
- Gifts of Speech
A collection of speeches (full-text) by hundreds of women, from Bella Abzug
to Victoria Woodhull. (Most are recent.)
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National Women's
Hall of Fame: The Women of the Hall
Biographies of important American women from Abigail Adams to the present.
Choose from a list of more than 150 women to see portraits and 1-2 page
biographies.
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WWW Women's
Sports Page
Links to women's and girls' sports pages around the World Wide Web.
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Women in the World
- The UN Internet Gateway on the
Advancement and Empowerment of Women
The gateway to United Nations activities for and information on women.
- Women Watch:
Women of the World
Divided by continent (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, Latin
America and the Caribbean, Western Europe, and Others) and country, with
statistical data taken from:
- Statistics
and Indicators on the World's Women
The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, an official document
prepared for a special session of the General Assembly to review the position
of women in the world. Provides the latest data on women's progress worldwide
in health, education and communication, work, human rights and political
decision-making, population, and family.
- Women's Issues - Third World
A wide-ranging and continuously updated collection of articles, statistics,
brief notes, and links to information on women in the Third World. Subjects
range from marriage customs and health issues to political rights, violence
against women, and war. Sponsored by About.com.
- WIDNET - Women in Development
NETwork
An international database on women's information. Bilingual (French and
English) access to worldwide statistical data, information and links to
women's organizations, reference information, and other links.
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Women's History
- American
Women's History: A Research Guide
A list of print and Internet reference sources, including reference works,
archives, state and regional sources, and information about other resources
researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and
primary sources.
- Women's History
Articles, biographies, quotes, trivia, bibliographies, and links to other
information on all aspects of women's history, from the ancient world to
the 60's and 70's. Covers art, science, sports, medicine, marriage, religion,
the workplace, and much more. Sponsored by About.com.
- The National Women's History Project
Especially designed for educators, this site includes curriculum information
and ideas, links to organizations and sites dealing with women's history,
the NWHP catalog, and other related information.
- History of the
Suffrage Movement
A chronology, biographies, contemporary documents, and a bibliography on
the Suffrage Movement, compiled and maintained by the Susan B. Anthony University
Center at the University of Rochester.
- Votes
for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection, 1848-1921
Full text and images of documents from the historical collection of 167
books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign,
selected from the Library of Congress' larger collection of materials donated
by Carrie Chapman Catt.
- Votes for
Women: Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
A selection of 38 pictures from the holdings of the Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Includes portraits
of many individuals, photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists,
and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement.
- Internet Women's
History Sourcebook
A subset of texts derived from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook,
the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and the Internet Modern History
Sourcebook. Sections cover history from ancient Egypt to the modern
world, focusing on women's lives, activities, and social issues for each
period and country. Includes excerpts from ancient and modern texts.
- Documents from the Women's
Liberation Movement
Duke University's on-line archival collection documenting various aspects
of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States. Focuses specifically
on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early
1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to
the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
- African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century
A digital collection of more than 50 works by 19th-century black women writers
published before 1920. Includes the full text of selected books and pamphlets
from the Schomburg Center collection, digitized by the New York Public Library.
- Victorian Women Writers
Project
A digital collection of works by British women writers of the 19th century,
including selected anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts,
children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Produced by the
Library Electronic Text Resource Service at Indiana University Bloomington
Libraries.
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Feminist/Activist Sites
- Guerilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women artists and arts professionals
who make posters about discrimination. Dubbing themselves the conscience
of the art world, members wear gorilla masks to focus on the issues rather
than personalities.
- The Feminist Majority
The Feminist Majority and The Feminist Majority Foundation are committed
to empowering women and winning equality through research, the sharing of
information of value to feminists everywhere, and effective action. The
site provides information about current issues through news, press releases,
and a calendar of events.
- Feminist.com
The primary goal of Feminist.com is to help make networking for women easy
to do. The site is a place where women can meet, exchange ideas, get information,
build a business, become active, participate in government and empower themselves
and the world around them.
- Global Sisterhood Network
The Global Sisterhood Network monitors electronic and print media for developments
in agriculture, economics, employment, environment, health, law, militarism,
politics, technology, trade and science which have a direct impact on the
realities of women's lives. The GSN site provides regularly updated information,
critical comment, and newspaper and journal articles, as well as links to
international action groups.
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Women and Health
- National Center for Health Statistics
NCHS is the primary Federal organization responsible for the collection,
analyses, and dissemination of health statistics. This site provides access
to the health information that NCHS collects and produces.
- Women's Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health. Information
on a wide array of topics concerning women's health.
- National Women's Health Information
Center
A one-stop gateway for women's health resources and materials for consumers
and professionals, sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service's Office
on Women's Health.
- Center for Reproductivity Law and
Policy
This site contains a review of women's reproductive freedom in countries
around the world. Pertinent laws and policies on a wide range of topics
are discussed.
- Women of the World: Formal
Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives
This site contains a review of women's reproductive freedom in countries
around the world. Each country's pertinent laws and policies are discussed
on a wide range of topics.
- American Medical Women's Association
The American Medical Women's Association is an organization of over 10,000
women physicians and medical students dedicated to serving as the unique
voice for women's health and the advancement of women in medicine. The site
includes the full-text of the AMWA journal, selected chapters from the AMWA's
Women's Complete Healthbook, and consumer information on a variety
of health topics.
- JAMA's Women's Health
Information Center
The JAMA Women's Health Information Center is designed as a resource for
physicians and other health professionals. The site is produced and maintained
by JAMA editors and staff under the direction of an editorial review board
of leading women's health authorities. It includes feature articles from
the weekly Women's Health Newsline, and abstracts of articles from
other medical journals on a variety of women's health topics.
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Directories
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