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Websites
American
Women's History: A Research Guide
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
An excellent guide from Middle Tennessee State University that provides
citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected
large primary source collections.
Feminist.com
http://www.feminist.com/
A gateway to women's issues that features tens of thousands of women's
resources, plus information on politics, health and business issues.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Gender Studies Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711
University of California Santa Barbara resource page list resources for:
Women's Studies & Feminist Theory; Gay, Lesbian, & Queer Studies;
Men's Movements & Men's Studies; and Cybergender & Techgender.
Women's
Studies Database
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/Specific/Gender/WomensStudies/
The University of Maryland women's studies site covering the women's studies
profession and in general women's issues.
Women's
Studies Librarian's Office
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/home.htm
University of Wisconsin System resources created to help faculty and
students in women’s and gender studies locate material relevant to their
course work and research interests.
Women's
Studies Resources
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/
Links to web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or
gender-related e-mail lists; women's studies files from the WMST-L File
Collection; links to women's studies programs around the world and to the
Center for Women and Information Technology; financial aid for women;
updates to Internet Resources on Women; and more.
Center
for Reproductive Law and Policy
http://www.crlp.org/
Site is dedicated to promoting "women’s equality worldwide by
guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights".
Feminist
Theory Website
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
Information about the various fields within feminist
theory, different national/ethnic feminisms, and individual feminists.
Gifts
of Speech http://www.giftsofspeech.org
Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and
creating access to speeches by influential contemporary women from around
the world.
Global
Fund for Women
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
Grantmaking organization that provides funds to groups in support of women's
issues.
The
Sophia Smith Collection
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/ssc/home.html
The site includes brief descriptions of over 300 manuscript collections,
lesson plans for using primary source materials, links to additional women's
history resources, and selected digital images. A permanent exhibition,
Agents of Social Change, showcases some materials online. The exhibit
contains pictures and digitized documents on eight 20th- century women and
organizations working for women's rights. (description from the Internet Scout Report)
The
United Nations and the Status of Women
http://www.un.org/Conferences/Women/PubInfo/Status/Home.htm
Gateway to the UN's various divisions related to women.
US
Department of Labor Women's Bureau
http://www.dol.gov/wb/
Gateway to the federal agency mandated to represent the needs of wage
earning women in the public policy process.
Women
of Color Web
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/WoC/
This site is dedicated to providing access to writings and
online resources created by and about women of color in America. The
materials emphasize issues relating to feminism, sexuality, and reproductive
health.
Attending
to Early Modern Women Resources
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3
This Web site provides annotated links to high quality academic resources
useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas.
Although most of the resource links are free, some require a license for
access.
Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century,
includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts,
children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama
Celebrating
Women's History Resource Center
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm
Gale Publishing's collection of activities and information to complement
classroom topics.
Women and Social Issues in the United States, 1600-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
A collection of almost 650 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements
in American History.
4000
Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
Emphasizes women of the past - mainly pre-20th century.
ADA
Project
http://tap.mills.edu/
A clearinghouse of information and resources related to women in computing.
Contributions
of 20th Century Women to Physics
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/index.html
Limited to citations of 20th century women whose contributions to physics
were published before 1976.
Syllabi
on the Web for Women and Gender Related Courses
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/syllabi.html
Contain approximately 600 syllabi for women- and gender-related courses.
Women
in Higher Education http://www.wihe.com/
Monthly publication on topics related to women on college and university
campuses.
Women's Studies Programs
http://www.feminist.org/research/wst.asp
Links to American women's studies programs.
Women's
Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
http://libr.org/WSS/
Definitive directory of links to women's studies collections and services in
academic and research libraries.
Association
for Women in Science
http://www.awis.org/
AWIS is dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in
science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
Center
for American Women and Politics
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/
A research, education and public service center with a mission to promote
greater understanding & knowledge about women's participation in
politics & government and to enhance women's influence & leadership
in public life.
Feminist
Majority Foundation
http://www.feminist.org/default.asp
Organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and
non-violence.
Global
Fund for Women
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
Grant making organization that provides funds to groups in support of
women's issues.
National
Council for Research on Women
http://www.ncrw.org/
Gateway to over 92 women's research and policy
centers, 3,000 affiliates and a network of over 200 international centers.
National
Organization for Women
http://www.now.org/
Offers extensive information about issues NOW is involved in.
Society
of Women Engineers
http://www.swe.org/
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
"is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career
aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those
aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and
achievements as engineers and leaders."
Women's
Information Network
http://www.winonline.org/
The Women's Information Network
(WIN) is an all-volunteer organization for young, pro-choice, Democratic women
in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
Women's Organizations
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/orgs.htm
An online directory of
international women's organizations.
The websites above are suggestions to aid in your research. They are not intended to be a specific endorsement of content, other than that the Randall Library believes it to be a useful research resource. They are not a comprehensive list of resources for this topic and should not be the reseracher's only resource. The Randall Library is not responsible for the validity or relevance of content on the websites above, nor does it purposefully mean to mislead the researcher towards a specific topic, philosophy, or concept.
Last Update: December 12, 2005