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Women's Resources
See Also: African-American
Resources | Electronic
Texts | History
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Advancing Women
-- "International business & career community news, networking, strategy
for women in the workplace."
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African-American
Women - On-line Archival Collections -- Feature scanned images of manuscript
pages and full text of the writings of African-American women in the Special
Collections Library at Duke University. Consists of:
Elizabeth
Johnson Harris, Life Story, 1867-1923, Hannah
Valentine and Lethe Jackson Slave Letters, 1837-1838, and Vilet
Lester Letter, 1857.
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African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century -- "Collection of electronic
texts has been assembled from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture, focusing on the writers who founded the African American women's
literary tradition."
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American Association of University
Women (AAUW) -- Has a Gender
Gaps Fact Sheet.
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American Medical Women's
Association (AMWA) -- "Organization of over 13,000 women physicians
and medical students dedicated to the care of the woman patient."
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Andrea
Dworkin Online Library -- Nikki Craft, the creator of this web site,
received specific permission for the copyrighted texts that appears here.
(Including Letters
from a War Zone.)
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Archives
for Research on Women and Gender -- From the University of Texas,
San Antonio.
Uncovering
Women's History in Archival Collections is "a guide to WWW pages of
archives, libraries, and other repositories that have primary source materials
by or about women."
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Bibliographic
List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930
-- "Includes title, composer, publisher, date and city of publication,
and the existence of an accompaniment other than piano." (Christopher Reynolds,
Department of Music, University of California, Davis.)
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Breast Cancer Network
-- Keyword searchable
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BUBL: Women --
Catalogue of selected Internet resources from the Bulletin Board for Libraries,
Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Celebrating
Women's Achievements -- National Library of Canada.
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Celebrating
Women's History Resource Center -- Gale site includes over 60 biographies.
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Celebration
of Women Writers -- Extensive collection of links to texts and
biographical material, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Carnegie Mellon
University. The collection is browsable by author name, century, or country.
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Center for the
American Woman and Politics -- Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers
provides summaries and fact sheets about women office holders in the US
Congress.
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Child Support
Home Page -- Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. Includes
a link to related State
IV-D program Web sites.
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Civil
War Women: On-line Archival Collections -- Duke University
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Committee on Women in
Science and Engineering -- Made up of the National Academy of Sciences,
National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research
Council.
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CNN/SI: Women's Sports
-- From CNN and Sports Illustrated
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Diotima:
Women & Gender in the Ancient World -- Ross Scaife and Suzanne
Bonefas, University of Kentucky
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Duke
Women's Archives in the Special Collections Library -- Includes
Documents from the Women's
Liberation Movement.
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Early
Modern Women Writers -- Project at Montana State University, Bozeman
provides edited texts of Isabella Whitney's Sweet
Nosegay (1573) and Ephelia's Female
Poems on Several Occasions (1679)
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ElectraPages -- Directory
of over 9,000 women's organizations and businesses
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Distinguished
Women of Past and Present -- Danuta Bois provides biographies of women,
searchable by field of activity & name
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Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement -- On-line Archival Collection,
Special Collections Library, Duke University
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Dress for Success
-- National not-for-profit organization which distributes interview-appropriate
clothing to low-income women seeking employment.
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Early Music
by Women Composers -- Sarah Whitworth. See also her Romantix:
Women Composers Born 1760-1899
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Emancipation
of Women: 1750 - 1920
-- Spartacus Educational,
a small educational publishing company formed by a group of teachers in
1986 (UK).
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EMILY's List --
"An acronym for "Early Money is Like Yeast" (it makes the dough rise),
EMILY's List identifies viable pro-choice Democratic women candidates for
key federal and statewide offices."
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Eminent
women of the age being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent
women of the present generation. -- Full-text of the 1868 book (part
of the Making of America Project)
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Emma Goldman
Papers -- DL SunSITE
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Emory
Women Writers Resource Project -- Collection of edited and unedited
texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through
the nineteenth century.
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Female
Circumcision Comes to America -- Linda Burstyn, Atlantic Monthly,
October, 1995.
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Female
Genital Mutilation Research Homepage
-- Has
Site Map
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Femina: Web Search
forWomen -- Guide to "sites for, by and about women."
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Feminism:
Online Resources -- Paula Hammett reviews feminist resources in Library
Journal Digital's March 1st, 1998 Webwatch
column.
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Feminist
Bookstores Index -- Lee Anne Phillips, Women's Books Online
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Feminist.com
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Feminist Majority Foundation
-- Provides news, calendar, and a number of special sections including
the Affirmative
Action Information Center, Women
& Girls in Sports, Feminist
Research Center, Breast
Cancer Center. Feminist
Chronicles 1953 - 1993 provide a timeline of significant events from
1953 - 1993.
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Feminist
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia -- Laura Quilter's site provides
author bibliographies with brief plot summaries, subject index, non-fiction
bibliography on feminist science fiction, fantasy, and utopias, and links
to related resources.
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Feminist
Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence on the WWW -- Kim Dayton
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Femmes
Ecrivains de la littératures africaines -- French Department
at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; also available
in English
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Fight
on Sisters and Other Songs for Liberation: Documents from the Women's Liberation
Movement
-- Full text of Carol Hanisch's
29-page song book with scores and lyrics, from Duke University's Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement.
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The
First Ladies
-- Whithouse site provides short
biographical essays on all the First Ladies.
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4000
Years of Women in Science -- University of Alabama
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Frauen
in Gesellschaft und Studium -- Martin Ramsch's list internet resources
(in German).
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Gender
Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database
-- "Searchable database providing access to over 5000 records pertaining
to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing
on English and American literature." Also available in German.(Universität
zu Köln Englisches Seminar.)
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Gifts of Speech
-- Liz Linton's collection of women's speeches from around the world.
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Hearts
at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War -- Online companion to the
University of Virginia exhibition held August 2 to October 15, 1997.
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Heroines of Peace:
the Nine Nobel Women
-- Irwin Abrams has
written short essays on the 9 women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize:
Baroness Bertha Von Suttner, Jane Addams, Emily Green Balch, Betty Williams
and Mairead Corrigan, Mother Theresa, Alva Myrdal, Aung San Suu Kyi, and
Rigoberta Menchu Tum. (c1994).
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History
Through Paper Windows: Diligently Seeking Susan -- Catherine Petroski
investigates the diary of Susan Hathorn, of Richmond, Maine, a sea-captain's
wife of the 1850s; Duke University Alumni Magazine.
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How
Females Choose Their Mates -- Lee Alan Dugatkin and Jean-Guy J. Godin,
Scientific American, April, 1998.
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Hygeia... An Online
Journal for Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss -- Michael R. Berman, M.D.
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Integrated History
of Women's Writing in the British Isles -- Orlando Project; University
of Alberta
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International
Alliance for Women in Music -- -- Sally Reid, Abilene Christian University
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International
Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) -- Virginia Tech; includes
guide to the collection, biographies of women architects, searchable by
name and country, text of selected IAWA Newsletters, and links to related
sites
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Internet
Women's History Sourcebook -- Paul Halsall, a graduate student at Fordham
University, has collected links to "online documents and secondary discussions
which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within
broadly defined historical periods and areas."
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Iowa Women's
Archives -- Highlights of the University of Iowa collection of primary
source material on the women of Iowa includes an online exhibition on Katharine
La Sheck: 1891-1971, a musician, actress and dancer from Iowa City
who toured on the Chautauqua circuit and a description of its African-American
holdings.
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JAMA
Women's Health Information Center -- Journal of the American Medical
Association site highlights include Journal
Scan, Newsline,
STD Information Center,
and and Contraception
Information Center
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Jewish Women's Archive
-- With online exhibitions on Rebecca
Gratz,
Lilian
Wald, and
Molly
Picon.
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Just SPORTS
for Women
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The
Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society (1872) -- Weekly
London newspaper "offering scientifically precise fashion advice and demanding
political rights for women"; Virginia H. Cope, University of Virginia English
Department
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League of Women Voters of the
United States
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Legacy: A
Journal of American Women Writers

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Library
of Congress Catalogs -- Includes the Z39.50
Gateway, Books
Cataloged Since 1898 or the Experimental
Search System (ESS), which provides MARC records and Advanced
Search capability and a Number
Search for ISBN, ISSN, Dewey, LC Class/Call or LCCN. Try a subject
search for Woman--Suffrage or Women's Rights.
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Mary Lyon on
the Web -- Information on Mary Lyon (1797-1849), founder of Mount Holyoke
College and early advocate for women's education
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Matrix:
A Collection of Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities,
500-1500 -- "Ongoing collaborative effort by an international group
of scholars of medieval history, religion, history of art, archaeology,
religion, and other disciplines, as well as librarians and experts in computer
technology. Our goal is to document the participation of Christian women
in the religion and society of medieval Europe."
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Medieval
Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender -- Maintained
by Margaret Schaus, the site "covers journal articles, book reviews, and
essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages".
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Menopause
-- Foundation for Better Health Care provides information on menopause.
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Muse Magazine - the Journal
of Women in Music
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National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League (NARAL)
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National Alliance of Breast
Cancer Organizations (NABCO)
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National Association of Women
Business Owners
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National
American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 -- 167 books,
pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign; Library
of Congress/American Memory
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National First Ladies
Library -- Offers brief biographies and bibliographies. (Stark State
College of Technology in Canton, Ohio.)
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National Museum of Women in
the Arts -- Washington, DC museum has a Library
and Research Center.
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National Museum of Women's
History -- Washington, DC. Includes online exhibition, Motherhood,
Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of
American Woman Suffrage
, includes 50 images
of the woman's suffrage movement.
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National Organization For Women
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National Women's
Hall of Fame -- Seneca Falls, New York. Highlights include biographies
of over 150 outstanding women in Women
of the Hall, information on the 1998
Inductees, and Our
History.
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National Women's History Project
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New York Times:
Women's Health -- Free registration
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100 Great
20th Century Works of Fiction by Women
--
Women's online forums and lists were canvassed to select the best 20th
century fiction by women. (Feminista!,,
vol. 2, no. 3/4.)
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Only
the Best for My Child: A Bibliography Of Children's Picture Books Featuring
Powerful, Positive Female Characters -- MaryHelen Lewis, Seattle, Washington
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Past
Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics -- Elisabeth Freeman &
Susanne Hupfer, Ada Project, Yale University
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Places
Where Women Made History -- A National
Register of Historic Places itinerary.
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Saving
Spring: A new biography of an environmental pioneer -- Robert B. Semple,
Jr. reviews Linda Lear's Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature in the
October 5, 1997 New York Times Book Review. Allows you to read the
first chapter,
and provides links to other reviews of Carson's books. (Free registration)
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SAWNET:
South Asian Women's Network -- Maintained by Susan Chacko and Jyothy
Reddy
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SCUM
Manifesto -- Valerie Solanas's manifesto, written in 1967, is an example
of extreme radical feminist theory
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Sexpectations:
Single White Females -- Monash University Library Rare Books Exhibition
catalogue
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"She
is More to be Pitied than Censured" -- Women, Sexuality, and Murder
in 19th Century America, exhibition from the collections of the John Hay
Library, Brown University.
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SisterSite
-- Margaret Susan Thompson maintains this "clearinghouse for information
on women's religious congregations, the history of religious life, and
the contemporary concerns of women in church and society"
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Society for the Advancement
of Women's Health Research -- Updated on Tuesdays
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Society of Women Engineers
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SmartGirl Internette
-- Isabel Walcott's site for teenage girls
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Sophia Smith
Collection: Women's History Manuscripts at Smith College -- "Internationally
recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other
primary sources in women's history." The exhibition, "A
Perennial Blessing" : Celebrating Sophia Smith, commemorates Sophia
Smith and her history-making bequest to establish a college for women
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United
Nations Fourth World Conference on Women -- WomensNet
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University
Publications of America -- "Leading publisher of documentary research
collections for libraries and scholars around the globe, " the site provides
detailed descriptions of publications and microforms; see for example the
Mary McLeod Bethune
Papers or the Margaret
Sanger Papers
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Underwire
-- Microsoft's weekly e-zine on women's issues (fitness and health, money,
sex and relationships).
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Upstate
New York and the Women's Rights Movement -- 1995 exhibition at the
University of Rochester Library
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Victorian Women
Writer's Project -- Indiana University
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Vindication
of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 -- Columbia University's
Bartleby Library
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Virtual
Sisterhood -- "Global women's electronic support network dedicated
to strengthening and magnifying the impact of feminist organizing through
promotion of electronic communications use within the global women's movement."
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ViVa: A
Current Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies
Journals -- International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Provides
a comprehensive collection of links
to women's studies resources which are international in scope
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Voices
From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color -- University of Minnesota site
"focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color"
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Voices
Heard
-- "Series of six features about and
12 personal essays from women worldwide...The series included Nairobi correspondent
Joyce Hackel's award-winning "Rwanda Portrait" on the effects of the 1994
civil war on women who experienced the genocide and who are now among the
strongest voices calling for reconciliation, and senior producer Margo
Melnicove's recruitment and training of women in 12 countries in creating
their own audio essays. Emerged from Christian Science Monitor Radio's
coverage of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing Aug.
30 to Sept. 8, 1995. (Requires RealAudio
Player, sound card, speakers or headphones.)
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Votes
for Women
-- Huntington Library online exhibition
offers a comprehensive collection of materials on the subject of women’s
suffrage.
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Wellesley Centers
for Women
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Where
Women Stand
-- Christian Science Monitor's
five-part series, July 16 - July 22, 1998. Includes RealAudio tour of the
"150 Years of Sisterhood" event, and an 'Interactive Landmarks for Women
Time Line' which allows you to choose dates from the Seneca Falls Women's
Rights Convention in 1848 to the present.
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Women
and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
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Women.com -- Network
of six separate Web sites, (Crayola Family Play, Stork Site, Money Mode,
Beatrice's Web Guide, Prevention's Healthy Ideas and Women's Wire.News),
the site provides information on careers, style, health, finance, fashion
and parenting.
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Women Connect
-- Susan Williams DeFife's site is "a unique community of professional
women and women business owners."
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Women
in Baseball -- National Baseball Hall of Fame site provides a selective
bibliography and a timeline.
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Women in Computing
Newsletter
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Women
in Information Technology -- Annotated list of resources
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Women in
Math Project
-- Extensive collection of biographies
on women mathematicians, as well as bibliographies, statistics, information
on associations and conferences and links to other resources. Project directed
by Marie Vitulli, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon.
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Women Leaders Online -- "Organization
dedicated to mobilizing women over the Internet, empowering women politically
and stopping the anti-women agenda of the Radical Right"
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Women Nobel
Prize Laureates -- Nobel Prize Internet Archive
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Women
of NASA -- NASA K-12 Internet Initiative formed to encourage more young
women to pursue careers in science and technology. Site offers profiles
of women working at NASA, live webchats, teaching tips, and resources for
students and teachers
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Women
of Science at the Marine Biological Laboratory -- Founded in 1888,
the MBL, located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, encouraged the enrollment
of women students of science on an equal basis with men. Biographies of
13 women scientists are provided.
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Women Writers Project
-- The mission of this Brown University project is "to create, develop,
and make accessible a state-of-the-art electronic textbase of women's writing
in English before 1830"
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Women's Bureau
Home Page -- U. S. Department of Labor
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Women's
Business Ownership -- Small Business Administration
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Women's Health Hotline
-- Charlotte Libov
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Women's Health Interactive
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Women's International Center
-- Site offers a useful Biography
Index
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Women's
Manuscript Collections Project -- University of Louisville "collections
concern the lives and careers of attorney Laura Miller Derry, poet Diane
di Prima, poet Hortense Flexner, pediatrician and West Louisville neighborhood
activist Grace M. James, civil rights activist and Louisville alderman
Lois Morris, constitutional historian and women's rights advocate Mary
K. Bonsteel Tachau, Louisville radio columnist and ballet co-founder Louise
Weiller, and circuit court judge Rebecca Westerfield"
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Women's
Studies -- Joan Korenman maintains this site at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. Highlights include an annotated directory of Gender-Related
Electronic Forums, links to various Women's
Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites, and Internet
Resources on Women: Using Electronic Media in Curriculum Transformation
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Women's
Studies: Manuscript Diaries
-- Full-text
facsimiles of the diaries of Susan Sherman of Brookfield, Connecticut (1850-51),
Elizabeth Cowperthwaite of Philadelphia (1857-58), Fanny Ruschenberger
of Philadelphia (1858-1881), Margaret T. Spaulding of Riverdale-on-Hudson
(1870-74), New York, Margaret A. Eadie of Flushing, New York (1901-1909),
Grace Gilchrist Frend of Hampstead, England (1907-1941). Provided by the
Center for Electronic Texts
and Images (CETI) at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Women's
Studies Resources -- Megan L. Hollmann, University of Maryland; database
contains collections of conference announcements, calls for papers, and
employment opportunities, as well as a picture gallery, and a significant
number of government documents
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Women's Wire -- Divided
into seven categories: News, Style, Body, Buzz, Work, Cash and Shop. Best
Companies for Women is based on salary, benefits and opportunities
for advancement.
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WomensNet
-- Institute for Global Communications, San Francisco
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Women's Rights
National Historical Park -- National Park Service site provides historical
background on the first Women's Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan
Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 & 20, 1848
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Women's
Studies: A Research Guide -- New York Public Libary
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Women's Voting Guide
-- "Non-partisan, personalized voting guide allows you to compare your
positions on issues important to you with your current U.S. Senators and
Representatives, as well as the candidates who are running against them."
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Worcester
Women's History Project -- Site includes online archive, information
about the 1850 convention and "Rediscovered Voices" highlighting the work
of mid-nineteenth-centry women
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WSSLINKS: Women
and Gender Studies Web Sites -- Developed and maintained by the
Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association
of College and Research Libraries
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