Feminism and Women's Issues

Women's Issues

• Ada Project, The (TAP)
  A clearinghouse for information and resources related to women in computing. The Ada Project - named in honor of Ada Lovelace - has created some beautifull pages about women in computer science: articles, organizations, statistics and discussions. In the linkage page contains all the latest online resources for women in computing. TAP is an official project of the ACM Committee on the Status of Women in Computing.

• Advancing Women
  An international network for women in the workplace. It helps women network together to meet workplace challenges by tapping into a larger, better connected world of successful women with common career goals and shared strategies.

• Affirmative Action and Diversity: A Web Site for Research
  A large, well-organized set of pages with links and information that represent diverse opions regarding affirmative action. Includes and annotated bibliography of research and teaching material. Editor: Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA).

• Amazon Connection
  Links to a wide variety of sites dealing with Amazons - ancient, contemporary, and future Amazons, from the real world as well as exemples from mythology, art, literature, and fantasy. Editor: Thomas Gramstad.

• Archives for Research on Women and Gender (ARWG) - University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
  In the "Collections" section you'll find an alphabetical list of holdings. There is also a page with links to women's primary source materials in other archives.

• Ariadne
  A searchable database of the women's studies holdings of the Austrian National Library. It contains a collection and documentation of women's, feminist and gender studies.

• Belle van Zuylen / Madame de Charrière
  A biography. In Dutch and French. Presented by the Genootschap Belle de Zuylen/ Association Isabelle de Charrière.

• Celebration of Woman Writers
  An extensive collection of links to texts and biographical material. Editor: Mary Mark Ockerbloom (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).

• Cybergrrl
  One woman can do a lot. Aliza Sherman created:
  • Bookgrrl
    Book reviews for women, by women.

  • Cybergrrl Village
    Forums and Chat.

  • Webgrrls Unite
    Links to women's personal websites and information about the international networking group of the same name.

  • FeMiNa
    Web Search for Women (Clearinghouse Guide).
    

    SafetyNet
    Domestic Violence Resources.
  
  
• Danish Centre for Information on Women and Gender (KVINFO)
  An information and cultural center concerned with the dissemination of information on women and gender research to a wider audience. KVINFO's primary activity is its research library, which is open to the public.

• Female
  The feminist alternative on the internet. An Austrian site from the Interuniversitäre Koordinationsstelle für Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien Linz. (German only)

• Emma Goldman Papers
  Emma Goldman Papers Selected documents & photographs relating to Emma Goldman's life & work as well as indexes to thousands of other documents & photographs available in collections around the world.

• Feminist Publications and Research - Feminist Majority Foundation.

• Femisa
  Feminist theory and gender studies. Deals with discussions about the interrelationships between gender, feminism and international relations or global politics.

• Flynn, John [1995]
  Women and Decadence. A Critique of Feminist Ideology

• Gender Equality
  Women and Gender Issues in the World of Work, presented by the International Labour Organization (ILO). You find information on ILO's work for equality and on labor standards.

• Huws, Ursula
  • Gender and equal opportunity issues
    An introductory page on which Ursula Huws presents her vision and publications on gender issues.

  • [1990] Women's Health at work
    Silent Health

  • [1999] Women, Participation and Democracy in the Information Society
    In: Citizens at the Crossroads: Whose Information Society? A conference held in London, Ontario, October 1999.

• International Labor Organization (ILO)
  The Feminization of Poverty,
  Presskit made by ILO for Beijng 1995 WCW. Households headed by women are more likely to be poor than households headed by men. Households headed by women with children to care for are among the poorest. And if they do not enjoy a minimum level of income, they transmit the poverty to their children. This is particularly true for the daughters who are often obliged to quit school to take care of their brothers and sisters while their mothers work. The feminization of poverty is accompanied by the feminization of survival strategies. In the developed countries, despite the decline in traditional industries, the relocation of certain productive activities to developing countries and the massive retrenchment in the public sector, the level of women's economic activity considerably increased. This means that at the level of households, social exclusion and the lowering of consumption levels were to a large extent compensated for by an increasing participation of women in the productive economy. The entry of women into the labour market permitted the majority of households to cope with the reduction in real incomes provoked by the economic crisis. This means that in hard times, women are more likely than men to exploit every possibility for work or income, including precarious activities and poorly paid work at home or in the unstructured sector, and including that which requires a change of residence or emigrating to the city or to a foreign country.

• Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (IIAV)
  Internatioan Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement.

• Jewish Women's Archive (JWA)
  The mission of the JWA is "to uncover, chronicle and transmit the historical record of Jewish women's lives, their impact on Jewish culture and their active participation in society at large." The site provides ressources, exhibits of famous Jewish women, and a virtual archive in which the rich history of Jewish women is recoverd.

• Lesbian Resources (SocioSite)

• Michielsens, Magda
  Virtual Ties: Women and Information Technologies

• Marxism Feminism
  A list for marxist feminists to hang out. The site is hosted at Communications for a Sustainable Future (CSF) in Colorado. In the controversial relationship with marxist and socialist politics and analysis, it challenges marxisme to deal more directly with issues of gender/power differences, and presents a critique of mainstream feminism's failure to deal meaningfully with analysis of class structures and ethnic differences. A list for all those interested in the intersection of feminism and marxism.

• Mill, John Stuart [1859]
  The Subjection of Women
  Based on the Everyman's Library Edition, originally published in 1929, reprinted in 1992.
  Mill explains why the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the sexes --the legal subordination of one sex to the other-- is wrong itself, and is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. In his opinion it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one site, nor disability on the other.

• Mirza, Heidi Safia [1999]
  Black Women Into Leadership? Issues of Gender Blind Race Equality Post Macpherson
  Argues that despite all the new found politically correct attitudes to racism the future of minority women still looks bleak. See for her books.

• NONA - Multimedia Women's Center
  A place of conversation, creativity, and healing for women and children from Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina who live in the city of Zagreb, the capitol of Croatia.

• Power Surge
  A virtual community for women in the menopause. Hormones driving you to distraction?

• Promotiewerkplaats Vrouwen / Ph.D Study Centre for Women
  The study centre objective is to help women scientists, who wish to undertake a phd degree and do not hold a research or other similar position. The centre is a feminist initiative and is connected with the Univesity of Amsterdam since its foundation in 1990. Currently, there are 15 members, who write their thesis mainly in social sciences.

• Storia delle donne
  Italian women online.

• Syllabi Women' studies
  Send message: "index syllabi".

• Sylvester, Christine
  Feminist Theory and Gender Studies in International Relations

• United Nations
  • Women Watch
    A gateway to UN information and data on women world wide and an evolving forum on global women's issues in the follow-up to the FWCW. The WomenWatch Internet site provides up to date information on the UN's work on behalf of the women of the world, the global agenda for improving the status of women and constitutes an electronic space for exchange of information and ideas on women's issues.

  • United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
    Advocates the improvement of the status of the women of the world and the achievement of their equality with men. Includes news and the Beijing Platform for Action.

  • Commission on the Status of Women (CWS)
    A commission of the Economic and Social Council that prepares recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields. The Commission also makes recommendations to the Council on urgent problems requiring immediate attention in the field of women's rights.

  • United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

  • United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)

  • Women on the Net
    A collaborative project between SID and UNESCO. It aims to introduce a multicultural gender perspective to the on-going work of Women on the Net.

  • Links to other UN sites on women and gender

• 150 Years after Seneca Falls
  On the history of the suffrage in America. In July 1848, a political and social movement was born when hundreds of people marched to Seneca Falls, N.Y., for the first women's rights convention and proclaimed that all men and women were created equal. The questions now are: What does the women's movement stand for, and do American women even consider themselves part of a "movement?"

• Voices of Women
  Women tell their stories, discuss issues and share their wisdom. Publisher: Bonnie Raindrop. The site offers articles on a wide variety of women issues, a calendar of events, links to other women-related sites, a directory of goods and services, and a marketplace of woman-owned, woman-operated, and woman-friendly businesses.

• Vrouwen en de Bijstand (Amsterdam)
  Information on the function, mission, working methods en co-operations of the Dutch Committee Women and Social Security Income. (Dutch only)

• Vrouwenplein
  A place for online women in the Netherlands.

• Wollstonecraft, Mary [1792]
  The Vindication of the Rights of Women
  Based on the Everyman's Library edition, originally published in 1929, reprinted in 1992.
  The first clear declaration of women's rights. Wollstonecraft states the case at the beginning of the nineteenth century for women's rights, as no one had before.

• women.com
  A comprehensive portal for women that combines programming, community, commerce and services that serve the diverse needs and interests of online women.

• Women in Classical Mythology
  Almost everything you always wanted to know about de goddesses, the immortals, the mortals and groups in the extremely patriarchal Ancient Greek society.

• Women in Alaska's History
  A site where you can learn about some of the women that helped shape the Alaska we know today. Includes incformation about the women, crafts, stories and many resources. The search engine and time-lime allow you to search for a specific woman or time period. Editors: Elizabeth Beckett and Sarah Teel.

• Women in Global Science and Technology - Sophia Huyer

• Women in the Islamic World
  A selected list of readings prepared by Mary Anne McGill for the library of the World Affairs Council (WAC).

• Women on the Web - NL (WOW)
  A Dutch organization for women involved or interested in new media.

• Women's History
  A guide to library and internet resources at Middle Tennessee State University (USA). Includes links to bibliographies, online exhibits and other women's historical sites. Editor: Ken Middleton.

• Women's History - Resources from Yahoo!

• Women's Issues: 3rd World
  Information, news and web resources about women's rights in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Editor: Cicil Marie Cancel (About.com).

• Women's Health Action & Mobilization (WHAM)
  A direct action group committed to demanding, securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health care for all women. The goal of the Web site is to inform and to help you take action. It includes an events calendar, updated monthly, as well as numerous other resources on the Web to let you know what you can do to help the rights and lives of women around the world.

• Women's studies information sources - University of York Library
  A collection of bibliographies and resources on women issues. Edited by: Elizabeth Heaps.

• Womens's Studies Euromap
  The site offers detailed information about Women's Studies and Equal Opportunities

• Women's Studies Librarian - University of Wisconsin, USA
  Numerous bibliographies and core lists in women's studies on a variety of topics. Includes an extensive listing of links to maganizes & newsletters on women/gender on the Web. Includes Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources.

• Women's Studies Database
  Part of the University of Maryland at College Park InforM system. Provides access to conference, employment, program & biographical information. Includes a comprehensive listing of syllabi at colleges & universities throughout the USA.

• Women's Studies (R)E-sources on the Web
  Editor: Robyn Bissette (Special Collections Library, Duke University, USA).

• Women's Web
  Information for working women. Editor: Laura A. Klancer.

• Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA)
  The mission of the W.H.O.A. is to educate the Internet community about online harassment, empower victims of harassment, and formulate voluntary policies that systems can adopt in order to create harassment-free environments. W.H.O.A. fully supports the right to free speech both online and off, but asserts that free speech is not protected when it involves threats to the emotional or physical safety of anyone. The organization works with both men and women because harassment is not gender-oriented, it isn't just women who are harrassed online.

Women's History - Herstory

• 9000 Years of Anatolian Woman
  An exhibition on the history of the Anatolian women. The exhibition examines her place in religious belief, administration, daily life, professional life, and the family, focusing on her social status and problems in the context of faith, tradition and legislation. The broad spectrum of cultures have been classified under three headings: Prehistory to the Iron Age (7th millennium B.C.-7th century B.C.); Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods (7th century B.C.- 15th century A.D.); and the Seljuk and Ottoman periods (12th century A.D.-early 20th century).

• A Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections - University of Texas, San Antonio, USA.
  A guide to web pages of archives, libraries, and other repositories in America that have primary source materials by or about women. It is a project of the Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project (ARWG) at the University of Texas.

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
  A very good resource for anyone interested in US women's history. The site offers a large number of citations of print and online reference materials and primary resources, organized into three sections: 'General Reference and Biographical Sources', 'Subject Index to Research Sources', and 'State and Regional History Sources'. It also contains two sections on tools and strategies for finding additional sources and a collection of bookmarks. Editor: Ken Middleton (reference librarian and graduate student in American Women's History at Middle Tennessee State University, USA).

• Bibliographies on Women History

  • Mason, Moya K.
    Annotated Bibliography of Women in Classical Mythology

  • Biographies of Historical Women
    Brief biographies of women from Abgail Addams, via Emma Goldman & Mary Wollstonecraft to Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

  • Bibliographies for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World - Diotima

  • Bibliographies on Women's History
    Collected by Ken Middleton (Middle Tennessee State University, USA).

  • Bibliography of Russian Women's History
    A comprehensive unannotated bibliography split into 14 topics. Everything from pre-Pretine to post-perestroika. Compiled by Prof. Matthew Payne of Temple University, 1998.

  • ViVa
    A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals. Its a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles are selected from more than seventy European, American and Indian Journals. ViVa is short for "Vrouwengeschiedenis in het Vaktijdschrift", which is Dutch for "Women's history in scholarly periodicals". It is compiled at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

  • Women and Family
    Section of an annotated bibliography of Slavic and East European Medievalist Sources.

• Centre d'Invetigacio Historica de la Doña (CIHD) - Center for the History of Women in Barcelona

• Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
  A forum and materials for the study of women and gender in the Ancient world. Contains biographies for many important literary and historical figures, essays, articles, reviews, bibliographies and images. Editors: Suzanne Bonefas and Ross Scaife.

• History of the Women's Suffrage
  A chronology of events leading to women's right to vote and a bibliography of suffrage movement. Presented by the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership (ACWL).

• History of Woman's Suffrage in America
  Information on the history of woman's suffrage from the 1848 concention in Seneca Falls, on the declaration of principles, the firsts in women's achievement. The site also includes in timeline with important date in the women's rights movement and biographies of women's rights leaders.

• International Joan of Arc Society (IJAS)
  A repository of scholarly and pedagogic information about Joan of Arc collected by the faculty (Southern Methodist University), independent scholars, and students.

• Medieval Feminist Index (MFI) - Libraries of the University of Iowa, USA
  A searchable and browsable database that covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

  Fill in one or more fields: Author: Title: Subject:

• Medieval Women - Georgetown University, USA
  A small link collection on the individual lives and works of medieval women (Hildegard von Bingen, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich)

• Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage
  An exhibit in the NMWH cybermuseum that examines the development of a distinct female political culture and imagery that evolved to promote voting rights for women. The gallery contains 50 images of a variety of artifacts with brief descriptions. You can take a more in-depth tour of the woman's suffrage movement. It traces the history of the woman suffrage movement and its political imagery with topical paragraphs and selected images. The site also presents some additional resources (online resources and books), a timeline, and a quiz.

• National Museum of Women's History
  Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848 - 1998
  Information on the history of the movement, a detailed timeline, history organizations and much more.

• National Women's History Project (NWHP)
  "History looks different when the contributions of women are included." The NWHP is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing education, promotional materials, and informational services to recognize and celebrate women's diverse lives and historic contributions to society. It is the source for updates about events, conferences, publications, films and other resources related to U.S. women's history.

• Women in American History - Encyclopaedia Britannica
  The writings and lives of hundreds of famous American women from the 16th century to the present. Information on women such as Emily Dickinson, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, Pocohontas, and Mae West. The site includes audio and QuickTime video clips. It also includes a great page on Women's History on the Web.

Bibliographies   Bibliographies on Women History

• Annotated Bibliography of Teaching Resources on Affirmative Action and Diversity
  Compiled by Shadi Alai, Christine Amaral, Gabrielle Klein, and Julie Redman. You can also read the non-annotated, but divided up by sub-topic version.

• Ariadne
  A German-language bibliographic database of 1000 records - mainly articles - from the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, focusing on international and women's studies literature.

• Bibliography on Women, Crime, and Justice - Nathalie J. Sokoloff (Townson University)

• gender Inn
  A searchable bibliographic database - with thesaurus - hosted by the University of Cologne. It provides access to over 6000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies, focusing on English and American literature. The complete database is available in both English and German.

  Search complete text author title abstract keywords index numbers publisher for andor complete text author title abstract keywords index numbers publisher for Year of Publication: 1950 1960 1970 1980 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 to 1950 1960 1970 1980 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

• Gender, Science and Technology
  An international bibliography, compiled by Sally Innanen and Sophia Huyer.

• Race, Gender, Class Bibliography
  ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class. Editor: Jean Ait Amber Belkhir.

• Women in Africa
  Selected and annotated bibliographies to information sources on women's issues in the library of the World Affairs Council (WAC).

• Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction
  Compiled by Christine A. Corcos.

• Women's Rights and Women's Issues in Law and Literature
  Compiled by Christine A. Corcos.

Academic Institutions:    Programs, Departments & Research Centers

Studies

Australia

ANU Centre for Women's Studies

ANU Gender Relations Centre

Centre for Research for Women (CRW)
A joint initiative of Edith Cowan University, University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, and Curtin University.

Deakin University: Women's Studies

Flinders University of South Australia: Women's Studies

Austria

Koordinationsstelle für Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien der Universität Linz - Austria

Koordinationsstelle für Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien Graz

Projektzentrum für Frauen- und Geslechterforschung - University of Vienna
The Project Center of Women's Studies and Gender Research is an on- and off-campus network organization promoting women's studies, feminist studies and gender studies at Vienna University.

Rosa Luxembourg Institut (RLI) - Technische Universität Wien, Austria
An interdisciplinary women's studies institute that produces theoretical and empirical contributions serving women's interests, strengthens information natworks, offers advisory services, writes evaluations on definite questions, and offer suggestions on women experts and consultants. The RLI is an association of women interested in a science that takes the experiences of women in society seriously, be it at the work-place or in science, politics or cultural life. They seek to develop research in interest of women and actively resist the hitherto elimination and suppression of women's expression in the sciences as well as the lack of concrete attention to our interests. In general, they promote research by and for women, without necessarily having to be scientists. They value constructive cooperation between women scientists, artists, journalists and all other interested women.

Canada

Canadian Women's Studies On-Line - University of Toronto
Information about women's studies programs, resources and women's organizations in Canada with links to the virtual world of women.

Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)
Informations on projects and programs of the CWSE at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Denmark

Center for Kvindeforskning I Aarhus (CEKVINA) - Women Studies in Aarhus

Lebanon

Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) - Lebanon

Netherlands

Belle van Zuylen Instituut
Institute for multicultural and comparative gender studies (Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Centre for Women's Studies (CVV) - University of Nijmegen
The center offers about 25 courses, organizes lectures and symposia, has a documentation centre on women's studies & emancipation and publishes a newsletter called Raffia. Also provides a collection of links to various groups and associations, especially those that are based in the Netherlands. Editor: Tom Ammerlaan.

E-Quality
Experts in gender and etnicity.

Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Vrouwenstudies (NOV)
Netherlands research school for women's studies. It combines the forces of researchers of eight Dutch universities.

Women in Amsterdam - Amsterdam by Bite

New Zealand

Womens Studies Department - Victoria University of Wellington

Norway

Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK)
Provides a framework for joint Nordic research programmes and projects, post-graduate courses and researcher training, as well as Nordic and other international exchange programmes. NIKK organises Nordic meetings, seminars and conferences and co-ordinates Nordic information services. Editor: Maria Grönroos.

South Africa

African Gender Institute (AGI) - University of Cape Town
Aims to further gender euity in Africa by contributing towards transformation of inequitable institutions and social practices which contstrain women's leadership potential and the furtherance of gender equity goals in Africa. The site contains information about its programmes and projects, including course information. The site also privides access to the AGI newsletter and to some papers and reports.

Centre for Gender Studies - University of Natal
Committed to cross-disciplinary research and teaching in gender studies. The site informs on the research and courses of the centre, and publishes an electronic discussion list about gender issues in South Africa.

Institute for Gender Studies - University of South Africa
Information on courses, a newsletter, resources and links.

Women-in-Research: South African Gender Studies Programmes

Spain

Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Doña (CIHD) - Center for the History of Women in Barcelona

Instituto Investigaciones Feministas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Sri Lanka

Centre for Women's Research

Sweden

Gender Studies Seminar
Dept. of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Ukraine

Kharkov Center for Gender Studies
The first Ukrainian university women's studies program.

United Kingdom

Centre for Women's Studies - University of York (CWS)

Institute for Women's Studies - Lancaster University
Concentrates on six main areas: women's history, family live & sexual politics, women & literature, women & health, feminist cultural theory, and women & cultural representations.

U.S.A.

Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)
Egleton Institute of Politics - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
A university-based research, education and public service center. It promotes greater understanding and knowledge about women's participation in politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life.

Institute for Research on Women and Gender: Colombia University, Stanford University, University of Michigan

National Center for Women & Retirement Research (NCWRR) - Long Island University
A university-based life planning center for women committed to educating women on how to live independent, secure, satisfying lives as they grow older. The mission is clear: to offer women the necessary knowledge and skill to enjoy healthy futures -- emotionally, physically and financially.

Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies - University of Rochester
Sponsors research seminars, conferences, and a public lecure series. They offer undergraduate major and minor in women's studies, and a graduate certificate in gender and women's studies. The Institute is named to honer Susan B. Anthony, the nineteenth-century suffragist who led a successful campaign to have women admitted to the University of Rochester in 1900.

Wellesley Centers for Women - Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
A partnership of the Center for Research on Women and the Stome Center for Developmental Services and Studies. The site informs on program and projects, publications and happenings.

Women's Studies: UMBC and Beyond - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Includes a great international page with women studies resources outside UMBC, created by Joan Korenman.

References

EMILJA - Baltic and North West Russian Database for Women's Studies and Gender Research
Current and comprehensive information about research programmes, resources nad projects of institutions, organizations, networks and groups in the Baltic countries and North West Russia. Presented by the Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK).

Femina Borealis
Women and Development in the North. An action, education and research project that involves activists from five countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and the Sami region. The objective is to provide a forum and bring women together in discussions aiming at a more women-friendly regional policy within the North Calotte and the Barents Sea region, to develop various study programmes and courses.

Women's Studies and Gender Research in different countries
A link collection presented by the Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK)

Women's Studies Euromap
Detailed information about Women's Studies and Equal Opportunities. It offers addresses, links, calls and anouncements, information about European Women's Studies and Research Programmes. Presented by the Centre of Women's Studies of Antwerp, Belgium.

Women's Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers - Joan Korenman, Univ. of Maryland, USA

Associations and Networks

• AAUW - American Association of University Women
  An international organization of scholars and other persons interested in the study of women in the Middle East. It organizes conferences and symposia for the presentation of original scholarship. It also publishes the Middle East Women's Studies Review.

• AMEWS- Association for Middle East Women's Studies

• AOIFE - Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe

• Athena
  Advanced thematic network in activities in women's studies in Europe. A higher education network of women's and gender studies programmes at universities, research institutes and documentation centres in about 20 countries in Eastern and Western Europe.

• Diotima
  A European Development project aimed at developing distant-education, part-time Gender & Politics Course Packages. 11 partners from 7 different European countries have been working together to develop these packages. The first aim has been to develop a European Comparative Course on Gender and Politics (ECGaP).

• FTGSS - Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA)

• NEXTGENDERation Network
  Young women students and professionals interested in women's studies and gender research are forming a new network to develop joint European activities, exchange ideas, and bring in perspectives and contributions from their respective countries, regions and personal experiences. The starting point of the network is a discussion list.

• NOISE - Network of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe
  If you are a student at one of the partner universities who is interested in following Women's Studies cources abroad, this Inter-university Cooperation programme might be something for you. The European universities that participate in the NOIS are: Antwerp, Bielefeld, Bologna, Dublin, Madrid, Odense, Paris VII, Thessaloniki, York and Utrecht, Turku (Finland). You have to be at least in your third year of study.

• SAWNET - South Asian Women's NETwork
  A forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues. Provides a list of South Asian women's organisations, books and articles by and for South Asian women, films and revies, information on health and domestic violence. Editors: Susan Chacko & Jyothy Reddy.

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class - American Sociological Association (ASA)

• Society for the Psychology of Women
  Section of the American Psychological Association (APA).

• Verein Feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz - Association Suisse Femmes Féminisme Recherche

• WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing
  A wolrdwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving statistics, research, programmes, and policies in support of womenin the informal sector of the economie.

• WIGSAT - Women in Glkobal Science and Technology
  Supports global networking on critical issues in science and technology for development. It includes women's formal and nonformal science and technology practices around the world, for policy advocacy and action which promotes their S&T contributions to sustainable development.

• WINGS - Women's Interdisciplinary Network on Gender and Society
  Students in Nijmegen, Aarhus, Barcelona, Lancaster, Leuven or Torino can follow a part of the courses at one of the other participating universities.

• WITI - Women in Technology International
  An association dedicated to advancing women in technology. The mission is to increase the number of women in executive roles in technology and technology-based companies, to help women become more financially independent and technology-literate, and to encourage young women to choose careers in science and technology.

• WMI - Women's Movement and Internationalisation: the "Third Wave"
  A Nordic and International Network for Research, financed by the Nordic Academy for Andvanced Study (NorFA). It concentrates on the civil society's rapid development in the context of increasingly multilevel and multicultural political orders.

• Women in Decision-Making
  A European Network of experts working for the European Commission. They carry out research and develop actions on how to reach a balanced participation of women and men in decision-making. The site provides recent facts and figures on the participation of women in political decision-making in all the European Union member states. Are you looking for a good argument on why it is important for as many women as men to participate in decision-making?

• Women and Science - European Commission
  The European Commission is undertaking a series of measures to promote women's participation in research. The objectives are to develop the dialogue among member states, and with the different stake holders, and to develop a "gender watch system" in the Fifth Framework Programme. An expert working group produced a report to identify challenges and review policy options in order to adress the gender balance in research policy. The dialogue among member states mainly carries on issues like policy review and development of gender indicators in research.

• WomensNet
  A non-profit computer network for women, activists and organizations using computer networks for information sharing and increasing women's rights. Provides email accounts, Internet access, WWW publishing, consulting and training.

• WSA - Women's Studies Association (New Zealand)
  A feminist organization formed to promote radical social change through the medium of women's studies.

• WSC - Womanist Studies Consortium - University of Georgia
  An interracial, intergenerational, regional affiliation of scholars. It bridges the isolation, social exclusion, silence, and intellectual desuetude among women-of-color researchers, students, and indemendent scholars within their home disciplines and home institutions.

Journals and Magazines

• A Web of One's Own [full text]
  An ezine for women, edited by webmistress Lut Verstappen. Twice a year it publishes a new issue focusing on one specific topic related to women's lives. Most contributions are written in Dutch, some in English.

• Advancing Women [full text]

• Arab Ambassador [table of contents]
  The first online magazine on Arab culture and women's issues.

• Aviva
  A webzine run by an international group of women based in London. It inludes a section on woman studies, with reviews of women related books. The site is divided into seven main continet areas: Africa | Asia | Australisia | Europe | Middle East | North America | South America

• Clio - Histoire, femmes et sociétés [table of contents + abstracts]
  A biannual Francophone journal of the history of women. It opens its columns to all – male and female, who undertook to make women visible in all periods of History or to those who propose a gendered reading of societies.

• Feminism & Nonviolence Studies [full text]
  An interdisciplinary journal published by the Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association.

• Feminist Collection [full text]
  A quarterly of women's studies resources. Provided by the Women's Studies Librarian's Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It contains news of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies.

• Journal of South Asia Women Studies [table of contents + abstracts]
  It is meant to disseminate works which address theoretical and practical issues that are of interest to both scholars of South Asia and to women in and from South Asia. Subjects: law, civil rights, gender issues, religion, philosophy, politics, feminism and ecofeminism, classical and modern literature, poetry, dance, music, drama, language, translations, history, folklore, customs, medicine, architecture, discoveries and cultural or social products by women, etc. Editor: Enrica Garzilli.

• Lover - Journal of Feminism, Culture and Science [table of contents + abstracts]
  A quarterly magazine with articles on current subjects from various points of view, reviews of important Dutch and foreign theoretic-feminist magazines and a bibliographic survey of recent publications in the field of women's studies and women's movement. Summaries of articles in English.

• MEWS Review [table of contents]
  Middle East Women's Studies Review is a publication of AMEWS (Association of Middle East Women's Studies). Editor: Jennifer Olmsted.

• Nineteenth-Century Feminisms (NCF) [table of contents]
  Interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles on nineteenth-century women from a diverse feminist perspectives. NCF is edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan.

• NORA - Nordic Journal of Women's Studies [table of contents]
  An interdisciplinary journal of gender and women's studies and a channel for high-quality research from all disciplines. Emphasis is placed on giving a Nordic profile to feminist research.

• Les Pénélopes [full text]
  Magazine des Femme en ligne: de Montreuil, Paris. A French non-profit association that wants to promote, publish and diffuse information about and for women. French & English version.

• Resources for Feminist Research [table of contents] - University of Toronto, Canada
  A bilingual (English/French) Canadian scholarly journal published by the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. It addresses Canadian and international feminist research issues and debates.

• Signs: Journal of Women in Cultue and Society [table of contents]
  An international journal in women's studies that publishes articles from a wide range of disciplines in a variety of voices -- articles engaging gender, race, culture, class, sexuality, and/or nation.

• Spinsters Ink
  Publishes novels and non-fiction works that deal with significant issues in women's lives from a feminist perspectives, but — more importantly — encourage change and growth. It is committed to publishing works by women writing from the periphery: fat women, Jewish women, lesbians, old women, poor women, rural women, women examining classism, women of color, women with disabilities, women who are writing books that help make the best in our lives more possible.

• Womanist Theory and Research [full text]
  Journal of the Womanist Studies Consortium (WSC) at the University of Georgia, USA.

• WIN - Women's International Net [full text]
  A magazine about women, by women, for women, all over the world. WIN is devoted to three purposes: Furthering the knowledge of women's issues worldwide; Bringing together women from all over the world for dialogue and greater mutual understanding; Tapping new sources of talent in writing and enabling women from many countries to express their views and situations. Writers receive payments for articles. Readers receive a free e-mail copy of the magazine each month.

• Women & Performance [table of content]
  Journal of feminist theory. As a forum for discussion on gender and representation it features essays, scripts, intervieuws and articles on performance from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives. Crucial is the dialogue between varied fields of performance and scholarship: ethnography, dance & theatre history & criticism, performance studies, cinema studies, cultural studies), and the exploration of emerging feminist critiques of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, technology and nation.

• Women & Politics [bookreviews online]
  A quarterly journal of research and policy studies, presented by the institute with the same name at the American University, Washington. DC., USA. It wants to bring theory and practice together to describe, explain, predict, and assess the impact of politics on women, and of women on politics. Two types of studies are of primary interest: (a) studies focusing on sex and gender as variables within disciplinary frameworks and policy problems, and (b) studies that make gender and feminist theories central to reconstructing philosophical and empirical theories about politics and political life.

• Women in Judaism: A multidisiplinary journal [full text]
  An academic, refereed journal devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism. It is particularly intended to promote critical analysis of gender inequalities within Jewish religion, culture and society, both ancient and modern. Editor: Dina Ripsman Eylon.

• Women's History Review (WHR) [full text]
  A major international journal whose aim is to provide a forum for the publication of new scholarly articles in the field of women's history. The time span covered by the journal includes the 19th and 20th centuries as well as earlier times.

• Women'space [full text] - Canada
  A women's magazine from Canada, published quarterly.

• Women Today Magazine [full text]
  A site for women's health, careers, advice, relationships, spirituality, shopping and more. Here you might find answers to questions like: 'Are you fighting daily battles on your own? Are all fast foods bad for you? How to improve your quality of life and relationships?

Discussion Lists on Women's Issues

• Ecofem
  Studies in women and the environment. Managed by dr. Stefanie Rixecker.

• FEMISA
  Women in the global economy.
  Send "Subscribe FEMISA <your_full_name>" to: listproc@csf.colorado.edu

• MARXISM-FEMINISM
  A useful and thought-provoking forum for discussion for all those interested in the intersection of feminism and marxism.
  Send message "subscribe marxism-feminism" to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu

• Virtual Sisterhood
  A global women's electronic support network, dedicated to strengthening and magnifying the impact of feminist organizings through promotion of electronic communications use within the global women's movement.

• women_sri_lanka
  A mailing list that deals with women's issues relating to women and gender in Sri Lanka and around the world. Moderated by The Centre for Women's Research (CENWOR).

• WMST-L
  Women's Studies.
  Send Send "Subscribe WMST-L <your_full_name>" to: listserv@umdd.umd.edu

• Gender-Related Electronic Forums
  A frequently-updated, annotated listing of approximately 300 women- and gender-related e-mail discussion forums. In addition to the main listing, it has 12 topical sub-sections to make it easier to find lists in, say, the social sciences, or sexuality/sexual orientation, or women's health. Editor: Joan Korenman (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County).

News Groups

• alt.feminism

• alt.feminism.individualism

• clari.news.women
  Discussion of women's issues, including sexism and harassment.

• soc.feminism
  Moderated discussion of feminism and feminist issues.

• soc.women

References: Guides and Search Engines

• L'Annuaire au Feminin
  A directory of women in Europe with information about official organizations, national organizations, speakers' bureaus, and documentation centers. French and English version.

• Digital Librarian: Women's Resources
  A long list of links in alphabetical order of titel. Editor: Margaret Vall Anderson (librarian in Cortland, N.Y., USA).

• ElectraPages
  A comprehensive directory of women's organizations featuring over 9.000 feminist groups searchable by geographic location, category, and name.

• Femina
  A comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female-friendly sites and information on the WWW. The site features the ability to perform keyword searching in addition to browsing by category.

  Case Sensitive Whole Words Boolean OR Boolean AND search of Full Search Only Website Descriptions Only URLs Only Keywords showing at most 10 25 50 100 200 500 results.

• Feminism - Resources from Yahoo!

• Feminism and Women's Studies:
  An annotated list of links, organized by subjects such as activism, gender & sexuality, health, work, history, academic discourse, and women's studie programs. From: The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Feminist.com
  Resources and links, articles and speeches, information on activism, women owned business, and women's health issues. Editor: Marianne Schnall (Clearinghouse Guide)

• Feminist Internet Gateway
  Mediated listings of the best on the net: women's health; women & girls in sport; women & work; women's organizations; global feminism; women in politics; violence against women; lesbian issues; feminist arts, literature and entertainment; general women's sites. From: Feminist Majority Foundation.

• Finnish Maiden
  A collection of Finnish women's links. Editor: Eva Isaksson (Helsinki, Finland).

• International Archive of Women in Architecture [MOVED TO ..?]
  A short collection of links, created by Janet R. Carlton (Special Collections Department, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, USA.

• Russian Feminism Resources
  Check out the state of feminism in Russia and other post-Communist countries. A collection of links and info relating to Russian women, and the development of independent grass-roots feminism in Russia in recent years.

• Vrouwenplekken op het Net
  A collection of links on women issues from the Netherlands.

• Where the Girls Are
  Links to women pages (academic, organisation-type and personal). Editor: Susan Dennis.

• Woman's Resources
  Located at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Provides access to local and other Internet resources in women's studies.

• Women's Studies/Women's Issues WWW Sites
  A frequently-updated, mostly annotated, selective listing of information-rich sites. It has a main listing with more than 200 entries and also eight topical sub-sections. Editor: Joan Korenman (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County).

• WSSLINKS - Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
  Presented by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The major thematic sections include general sites, archives, art, business, culture, education, film, health, history, international, lesbian sites, music, philosophy, politics, science & technology, and theology. Each section is maintained by a subject librarian at a different university library. Great work.

• WWWomen Search Directory
  A comprehensive search engine for women online. Includes resources for arts, business, computers, internet, education, feminism, health, lesbians, magazines, shopping, fashion & sports.
  

Editor	dr. Albert Benschop Social & Behavioral Studies University of Amsterdam
Created	August, 1997
Last modified	04th February, 2006