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Women's Resources

See Also: African-American Resources | Electronic Texts | History
Advancing Women -- "International business & career community news, networking, strategy for women in the workplace."
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.
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."
American Association of University Women (AAUW) -- Has a Gender Gaps Fact Sheet.
American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) -- "Organization of over 13,000 women physicians and medical students dedicated to the care of the woman patient."
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.)
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."
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.)
Breast Cancer Network -- Keyword searchable
BUBL: Women -- Catalogue of selected Internet resources from the Bulletin Board for Libraries, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.
Celebrating Women's Achievements -- National Library of Canada.
Celebrating Women's History Resource Center -- Gale site includes over 60 biographies.
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.
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.
Child Support Home Page -- Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. Includes a link to related State IV-D program Web sites.
Civil War Women: On-line Archival Collections -- Duke University
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.
CNN/SI: Women's Sports -- From CNN and Sports Illustrated
Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World -- Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas, University of Kentucky
Duke Women's Archives in the Special Collections Library -- Includes Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement.
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)
ElectraPages -- Directory of over 9,000 women's organizations and businesses
Distinguished Women of Past and Present -- Danuta Bois provides biographies of women, searchable by field of activity & name
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement -- On-line Archival Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University
Dress for Success -- National not-for-profit organization which distributes interview-appropriate clothing to low-income women seeking employment.
Early Music by Women Composers -- Sarah Whitworth. See also her Romantix: Women Composers Born 1760-1899
Emancipation of Women: 1750 - 1920  -- Spartacus Educational, a small educational publishing company formed by a group of teachers in 1986 (UK).
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."
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)
Emma Goldman Papers -- DL SunSITE
Emory Women Writers Resource Project -- Collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century.
Female Circumcision Comes to America -- Linda Burstyn, Atlantic Monthly, October, 1995.
Female Genital Mutilation Research Homepage  -- Has Site Map
Femina: Web Search forWomen -- Guide to "sites for, by and about women."
Feminism: Online Resources -- Paula Hammett reviews feminist resources in Library Journal Digital's March 1st, 1998 Webwatch column.
Feminist Bookstores Index -- Lee Anne Phillips, Women's Books Online
Feminist.com
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.
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.
Feminist Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence on the WWW -- Kim Dayton
Femmes Ecrivains de la littératures africaines -- French Department at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; also available in English
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.
The First Ladies  -- Whithouse site provides short biographical essays on all the First Ladies.
4000 Years of Women in Science -- University of Alabama
Frauen in Gesellschaft und Studium -- Martin Ramsch's list internet resources (in German).
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.)
Gifts of Speech -- Liz Linton's collection of women's speeches from around the world.
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War -- Online companion to the University of Virginia exhibition held August 2 to October 15, 1997.
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).
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.
How Females Choose Their Mates -- Lee Alan Dugatkin and Jean-Guy J. Godin, Scientific American, April, 1998.
Hygeia... An Online Journal for Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss -- Michael R. Berman, M.D.
Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles -- Orlando Project; University of Alberta
International Alliance for Women in Music -- -- Sally Reid, Abilene Christian University
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
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."
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.
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
Jewish Women's Archive -- With online exhibitions on Rebecca Gratz, Lilian Wald, and Molly Picon.
Just SPORTS for Women
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
League of Women Voters of the United States
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 
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.
Mary Lyon on the Web -- Information on Mary Lyon (1797-1849), founder of Mount Holyoke College and early advocate for women's education
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."
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".
Menopause -- Foundation for Better Health Care provides information on menopause.
Muse Magazine - the Journal of Women in Music
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL)
National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO)
National Association of Women Business Owners
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 -- 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign; Library of Congress/American Memory
National First Ladies Library -- Offers brief biographies and bibliographies. (Stark State College of Technology in Canton, Ohio.)
National Museum of Women in the Arts -- Washington, DC museum has a Library and Research Center.
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.
National Organization For Women
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.
National Women's History Project
New York Times: Women's Health -- Free registration
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.)
Only the Best for My Child: A Bibliography Of Children's Picture Books Featuring Powerful, Positive Female Characters -- MaryHelen Lewis, Seattle, Washington
Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics -- Elisabeth Freeman & Susanne Hupfer, Ada Project, Yale University
Places Where Women Made History -- A National Register of Historic Places itinerary.
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)
SAWNET: South Asian Women's Network -- Maintained by Susan Chacko and Jyothy Reddy
SCUM Manifesto -- Valerie Solanas's manifesto, written in 1967, is an example of extreme radical feminist theory
Sexpectations: Single White Females -- Monash University Library Rare Books Exhibition catalogue
"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.
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"
Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research -- Updated on Tuesdays
Society of Women Engineers
SmartGirl Internette -- Isabel Walcott's site for teenage girls
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
United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women -- WomensNet
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
Underwire  -- Microsoft's weekly e-zine on women's issues (fitness and health, money, sex and relationships).
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement -- 1995 exhibition at the University of Rochester Library
Victorian Women Writer's Project -- Indiana University
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 -- Columbia University's Bartleby Library
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."
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
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color -- University of Minnesota site "focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color"
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.)
Votes for Women  -- Huntington Library online exhibition offers a comprehensive collection of materials on the subject of women’s suffrage.
Wellesley Centers for Women
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.
Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
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.
Women Connect -- Susan Williams DeFife's site is "a unique community of professional women and women business owners."
Women in Baseball -- National Baseball Hall of Fame site provides a selective bibliography and a timeline.
Women in Computing Newsletter
Women in Information Technology -- Annotated list of resources
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.
Women Leaders Online -- "Organization dedicated to mobilizing women over the Internet, empowering women politically and stopping the anti-women agenda of the Radical Right"
Women Nobel Prize Laureates -- Nobel Prize Internet Archive
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
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.
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"
Women's Bureau Home Page -- U. S. Department of Labor
Women's Business Ownership -- Small Business Administration
Women's Health Hotline -- Charlotte Libov
Women's Health Interactive
Women's International Center -- Site offers a useful Biography Index
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"
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
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.
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
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.
WomensNet -- Institute for Global Communications, San Francisco
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
Women's Studies: A Research Guide -- New York Public Libary
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."
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
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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