Women's and Gender Studies Subject Guide


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Education Resources

  • Office of Women in Higher Education
    This division of the American Council of Education provides national direction for women's leadership development and career advancement.
  • Peterson's.com the Grad Channel
    Provides a searchable database to help in locating Women's Studies graduate programs in the United States as well as other countries- more information on graduate programs may be found in the print Peterson's Guide to Graduate and Professional Programs in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Reference Table 3 in the Middleton Library Reference area
  • Women's Institute for Financial Education
    The only non-profit organization dedicated to providing financial education to women in their quest for financial independence.
  • Women's Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers
    This site links to many programs and departments and includes links to several additional lists.
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Organizations, Associations and Forums

  • National Women's Studies Association
    The primary organization for Women's Studies. The NWSA "supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession."
  • American Association of University Women
    Includes AAUW research studies on girls and education, fellowship and grants information, AAUW Voter Education Campaign, and more.
  • National Organization for Women
    Includes NOW press statements, hot topics essays, and copies of organization's newsletter.
  • The Feminist Majority Foundation Online
    Maintained by The Feminist Majority Foundation, a leading women's rights organization. This site includes a wealth of information including the Feminist Career Center, up to date news on issues in politics that concern women and steps to take, a calendar of events,listings of current women's studies books by publishers, photo gallery,and many other items.
  • League of Women Voters
    "a nonpartisan, political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy."
  • WMST-L: Women's Studies List
    The principal electronic discussion forum for women's studies faculty, researchers, librarians, and program administrators.
  • Gender-Related Electronic Forums
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History and Archives
  • Celebrating Women's Achievements
    Maintained by the National Library of Canada, this site gives biographical information, pictures, audio files as appropriate and references for important Canadian women.
  • Core list in Women's Studies for International History U.S. History
    Maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association for College and Research Libraries, this document lists up to 50 in-print sources considered essential for this discipline.
  • Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
    Collection of diaries, letters, photographs,etc that document women's experiences during the American Civil War. Maintained by Duke University.
  • Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
    Collection of resources concerning gender in the Mediterranean world. Includes a searchable bibliography, links to art collections, anthology of translations and desired translations of primary sources, and links to many other resources.
  • Distinguished Women of Past and Present
    Compilation of biographical information links on women throughout time. Indexed by name and by field of endeavor.
  • The Emma Goldman Papers
    Comprehensive site describing the collected papers of this famous activist, including finding aids to the collection, photographs, selected writings, and bibliographical essays and references.
  • Feminist Internet Gateway: Women's History and Education Links
    Annotated list of women's history sites provided by the Feminist Majority Foundation. This site includes the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, Lesbian History Project, multimedia sites on women's history, and much more.
  • Godey's Lady's Book
    Digitized version of issues of this important 19th century literary publication. Maintained by the History Dept of the University of Rochester, NY.
  • H-Women (discussion group)
    Keyword search the archives of this academic discussion group on women's history.
  • International Women's Air and Space Museum
    The home page for this museum, located in Cleveland, OH, includes biographies and photographs of early women pioneers in aviation, as well as related links.
  • Living the Legacy 1848-1998
    Organized by the National Women's History Project, this site celebrates 150 years of the organized Women's Rights Movement. Links include The Learning Center, National Women's History Month ,FAQs (frequently asked questions)items for purchase,and more.
  • Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
    This site indexes over 300 journals and essay collections in this growing area of women's history scholarship.
  • Multimedia Sites in Women's History
    This site, maintained by Ken Middleton at Middle Tennessee State University, lists and annotates internet accessible multimedia sites.
  • Votes for Women - Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
    Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory digital collection of historical documents. It consists of 167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the U.S. suffrage movement, an overview of the history of suffrage, and other bibliographies.
  • National Women's History Project
    Informative site from the organization that instituted March as Women's History month. Contains information on current celebrations,activities to promote gender equity in education, collection of feminist quotes, biographical sources, and a substantial collection of links too their women's history sites.
  • Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
    Complete information on this important library and its collections,policies, special events, etc.
  • Additional Women's Collections
    Collected and maintained at the University of Texas, San Antonio, this site offers links by state to archival collections that include primary source materials on women.
  • ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History
    Compiled in Amsterdam at the International Institute of Social History, ViVa is a current bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals from 1995 to the present. The articles are in English, French, German and Dutch.
  • W.A.S.P. on the Web
    This site celebrates the Women Air Force Service Pilots, the first women in U.S. history authorized to fly military aircraft. Includes a scrapbook, pictures, history, quotes, and links to other W.A.S.P. sites.
  • Women Come to the Front
    This site, from the Library of Congress, documents the work of women journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II. It focuses primarily on the work of eight women, including scanned images of their work.
  • Canadian Women's History Month
    Information on the Canadian celebration held during the month of October.
  • Feminist Majority Foundation's Women's History Month
    Detailed celebration of the month with facts of the day, feminist events around the world, a quiz, and teaching guide.
  • National Women's History Month
    Sponsored by the National Women's History Project, this site offers information about the 2001 celebration, as well as history of the month and the Congressional Resolution designating the month. Links available to the official memorabilia of the most recent celebration These links are portions of the complete site maintained by the National Women's History Project.
  • Women's History Readings
    Compiled by Kay E. Vendergrift (Associate Professor, Rutgers University).
  • Women's International Center
    This nonprofit organization includes several informative history links on its homepage, including biographies in calendar order, a long article on the history of women in America, and other biographical links.
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Health, Sexuality, and Reproductive Issues
  • Million4Roe.com Sign the petition today!
    This site is a project of the Feminist Majority and is dedicated to the fight to keep abortion legalized.
  • Women with Disabilities
    This site from the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)offers general sources about critical health issues for a variety of disabilities, including physical,neurological, hearing, speech, and visual impairment. Includes laws and regulations, support services, full-text publications, and links to organizations. There's a useful section on statistics and some publications available in Spanish.
  • National Women's Health Information Center
    "...a service of the U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health. The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources." Includes a Men's Health section as well.
  • Breast Cancer Information Center
    Maintained by the Feminist Majority Online, this site includes information, bibliographies, directories of hotlines, and other information.
  • Corelist in Women's Studies for Health and Mental Health
    Maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this document lists up to 50 in-print sources considered essential for these disciplines.
  • FGC Education and Networking Project
    This site is devoted to information and research on FGM. It includes news updates, a worldwide listing of advocacy groups, bibliographies, and links to other FGM sites.
  • Infertility and Adoption Resources
    Collection of online resources, printed material, and organizations focusing on infertility. Maintained by Tapestry Books.
  • National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
    Full of useful information, including a state by state analysis of the status of abortion/reproductive laws and sex education, full text of NARAL publications, fact sheets, press releases, results of polls on choice issues, primary material including Supreme Court decisions, etc.
  • Red Ribbon Net
    A comprehensive site dealing with the human side of disabilities.
  • Office on Violence Against Women
    Comprehensive site with many links to topics such as date rape, sexual harassment, men's activism, victims resources, etc.
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