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Women's Studies
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States 
 This site "contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication 'American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States' ... with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site." Includes books, maps, manuscripts, music, images, and other research materials. Browsable and searchable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/ Topics: History, Libraries & Archives by Type, Musical Genres, Social Science, United States History, Women Last updated Feb 21, 2005 Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Texts and images of articles, pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published from 1969 to 1974 that "focus specifically on the early radical origins of this movement in the United States." Includes classics such as Pat Menardi's "Politics of Housework," "Notes From the First Year," the Radicalesbians' "The Woman-Identified Woman," and early works from Steinem, Bunch, Firestone, Alpert, and Freeman. Searchable and browsable. From the Special Collections Library, Duke University. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Social Science, United States History, Women Last updated Jan 31, 2007 Early Modern Women Database
"This database provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 ... Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access." From the University Libraries Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland College Park. Browsable and searchable. http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3 Topics: History, Social Science, Women Last updated Feb 21, 2005 Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
This searchable, annotated index "covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages." Over 8,000 records from more than 450 journals, beginning in 1992, are included. Materials in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian are indexed. There are also a few links to related sites. Edited by Margaret Schaus, a librarian at Haverford College. http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html Topics: History, Social Science, Women Last updated Feb 29, 2004 gender Inn
"A searchable database providing access to over 8,400 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature" and published from 1950 to 2004. Presented by the University of Cologne, Germany, there are English and German versions. http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, Social Issues, Social Science, Women Last updated Jan 31, 2007 The Scholar & Feminist Online
Archive of issues of a "triannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements." Topics of some of the issues include feminist television studies, Zora Neale Hurston, feminism and violence, the legacy of Margaret Mead, and feminist views of the family. Includes photos, videos of conference proceedings, and other material from the collection of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. From Barnard College. http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/ Topics: Social Issues, Social Science, Women Last updated Jan 31, 2006 ViVa Women's History Homepage
Thousands of articles published from 1975 onwards. "Viva is a current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages are selected from 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals." Includes basic and detailed lists of the journals indexed. From the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in the Netherlands. http://www.iisg.nl/womhist/vivahome.php Topics: Art by Region, History, Social Science, Women Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies
Collection of bibliographies on a variety of topics related to women's studies, such as women novelists and mystery writers, women in the performing and visual arts, ecofeminism, Jewish women, "the glass ceiling," women in higher education, and "Brave, Active & Resourceful Females in Picture Books." From the Women's Studies Librarian's Office, University of Wisconsin. http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/wi-biblio-series.html Topics: Social Science, Women Last updated Dec 2, 2007 womeninworldhistory.com: Women In World History Curriculum's Website
This site has biographies, lesson ideas, essays on women in history, brief reviews of books on women's history, and a briefly annotated directory of Web sites. The "Today's Heroes" section "features outstanding contemporary women whose accomplishments echo important themes in women's history." The Women In World History Curriculum project develops curricula for teaching "women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context." http://womeninworldhistory.com/ Topics: History, Notable People: Women, Social Science, Women Last updated Feb 21, 2005 Women's Studies Database
This directory "serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues." Contains conference announcements, calls for papers, course syllabi, and employment opportunities, a portrait gallery, a significant number of government documents, and much more. http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ Topics: Social Science, Women Last updated Feb 21, 2005 Women's Studies Librarian's Office, University of Wisconsin System
This site provides bibliographies; core book lists; Web links organized by subject, including magazines and journals, women's organizations, libraries and archives; and tutorials "that teach concepts and techniques for effective searching and retrieval of online information on International Women's Issues." Some of the material and databases are for University of Wisconsin students and staff only. http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/ Topics: Social Science, Women Last updated Dec 2, 2007 |
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