Womens Studies

Selected List of World Wide Web Sites

For Women’s Studies

Listed below are useful links to women’s studies sites on the Internet. They are listed alphabetically by site title.

Women’s Studies Sites

Canadian Women’s Studies On-Line

http://www.utoronto.ca:80/womens/cdnwomen.htm

WMST-L File Collection

http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/wmsttoc.html

Women’s Studies Resources

http://www.inform.umd.edu/edRes/Topic/WomensStudies

Yahoo Women’s Studies Page

http://www.yahoo.com/social_science/Women_s_Studies/

Other Sites of Interest to Women

Human Rights Library

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/women.html

FeMiNa

http://www.femina.com/

Feminist Activists Resources on the Net

http://www.igc.apc.org/women/feminist.html

http://sobek.colorado.edu/POLSCI/RES/act.html

WWWomen

http://www.wwwomen.com/

Classics

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html

This site includes sections on course, a bibliography, visual images, an anthology with the translations of the full text for a number of primary documents, essays, Biblical studies section, Perseus, De Feminis Romanis and the Kentucky classics, department home page. The anthology includes links to other sites with translations of interest. The Biblical studies section has links to numerous other religious texts.

Government Information International and US

United Nations 4^th World Conference on Women

http://www.now.org/issues/global/beijing.html

Documents from the September 1995 UN 4^th World Conference on Women and some on actions and events growing out of that conference.

Women’s Bureau

http://www.dol.gov/dolwb

The U.S Labor Department site includes news releases, full of text of some Women’s Bureau publications, Federal Register notices concerning the agency and other agency information.

Women’s Studies Resources

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies

Though listed as one of the general sites above, this site is included here because it includes a “significant number of government documents”.

History

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World – see note above under ‘Classics’.

Feminist Chronicles 1953-1993

http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/chronicl.html

This site allows you to read portions of the book Feminist Chronicles 1953-1993 on-line. It has a search engine, which allows keyword searching of the publication. A neat feature is a year-by-year chronology with sections covering major events, lifestyle changes, economic developments, political developments and “the backlash”.

Women’s History Project

http://www.nwhp.org/

The address given here is for the portion of the Women’s Studies History Project Site which contains a considerable list of links to “Women’s history resources sites available through email and on the WWW.”

Law

Gender Equity in Sports.

See entry under Sports

Women of the World

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/world/

This site contains a review of women’s reproductive freedom in six countries around the world- Brazil, China Germany, India, Nigeria and the United States. Each country’s pertinent laws and policies are discussed on a wide range of topics. Links are provided from each country’s overview to the relevant texts of laws, court citations, and other documents.

Literature

Celebration of Women Writers

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

These are just two examples of a large numbers of sites dedicated to individual women writers or to just topical groups of women writers. These sites typically have biographical information. A number of assorted other features such as summaries of on-going research or full text copies of the author’s works.

Minorities

Association of College Research & Libraries: Women’s Studies Section

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/crwoc.htm

This (reference) list is limited to titles on women of color in the United States. An emphasis is on overview texts and useful anthologies. This list was together by Bernice Redfern, from the University of Wisconsin System, Women's Studies Librarian's Office.

Reproduction and Sex

FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) Research Home Page

http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/fgm.html

http://www.fgm.org/

Pornography & Feminism

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-878250-0

This site gives the Oxford University Press listing of various contributors and content within the controversial discourse of pornography and feminism. Links to web sources and related information are also provided.

Reproduction Rights

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6708/choireso.html

The New Zealand Equality Education Foundation has put together this listing of Virtual and Actual Organizations about Reproduction Rights concerning the reproductive rights (choices for men and abortion).

Science and Technology

Links to STS-Related Information Sources

http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/stslinks.html

This site serves as a resource to other links concerning Science, Technology and Society. Some of these categories of links include Activist, Computer & Information Technology, environment & ecology, genetics & biotechnology, government and women & minorities in science, engineering and technology.

Sports

Gender Equity in Sports

http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/proj/ge/

Iowa University has this page which covers Title 9.It includes links to the law, complaints, and court cases. Also available are NCAA Charts and graphs, news, statistics, documents and lots more.

Women’s Studies

All above listings- they are your jumping-off points. Additionally, see below.

Pheminist Cyber Roads

http://www.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at:8001/~lisa/wost.html

Just wanted to know where to reach other Women’s Studies Department and programs? Use this alphabetical listing.

Feminist Fairy Tales

http://www.wp.com/DRAGONTREE/newfairy.html

http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/bibs/fairytales.html