Women's Studies
Lists of Links to Reliable Web Sites
- Best Information on the Net- Women's Studies - http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Women/womindex.htm
This set of links covers women's health Women's Studies and Women's magazines and journals.
- Women and Gender Studies Web Links - http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html
From the Association of College and Research libraries, this excellent set of links is kept up to date and arranged by subject.
- Women's Studies Links - http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/wstudies/wslinks.html
Links selected by MC's Women's Studies Department.
- Women's Studies Online Resources - http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/
From UMBC, this page is a collection of hundreds of "information-rich, high-quality Web sites focusing on Women's Studies or women's issues."
General Information
- Voice of the Shuttle Women's Studies and Feminist Theory - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2828
A compilation of online full-text resources and Web links chiefly dealing with women and literature.
- Women's Studies: Core Books - http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ACRLWSS/
An extensive bibliography of Women's Studies books.
- Women's Studies Librarian Website - http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/
This site contains a good list of links but in addition it has research tutorials, provides helpful information on tracking down relevant videos a good list of feminist publishers and women's bookstores etc.
Health
- 4 College Women - http://www.4collegewomen.org/
A user friendly page discussing the health issues of college aged women.
- Medline Plus Women's Health Issues - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealthissues.html
A great guide to reliable information on Women's health from the National Institutes of Health.
- National Women's Health Information Center - http://www.4woman.gov/
A wide array of helpful women's health information from the Department of Health and Human Services.Some resources are also available in Spanish.
- Our Bodies Ourselves Companion Website - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/default.asp
A woman's health information center containing excerpts from the book, unique content and Web links.
Politics
- Eagle Forum - http://www.eagleforum.org/
Web page of an anti-feminist organization which also advocates for other conservative causes.
- Eldis Gender Resource Guide - http://www.eldis.org/gender/index.htm
A gateway to hundreds of online papers and other resources on women's issues.
- Feminist Majority Foundation - http://www.feminist.org/
"... works for social, political and economic equality for women by using research and education to improve women's lives."
- National Organization for Women - http://www.now.org/
"Information on women's issues for women's activists."
Statistics
- Department of Labor Women's Bureau - http://www.dol.gov/wb/
A good place to start looking for statistical information on American Women.
- Gender Stats - http://genderstats.worldbank.org/home.asp
Menu driven Web page from the World Bank which offers general statistics on women and men by country.
Women's History
- American Women's History: A Research Guide - http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
Contains "[o]ver 2100 citations to Internet and print sources (digital collections of primary sources, archival collections, bibliographies, biographical sources, etc."
- Early Modern Women Database - http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3
This amazing resource "
provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas." Coverage is limited to 1500-1800.
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
A wonderful guide to reliable Web resources on Women's history from ancient times to the present.
- Women in World History - http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/
Fairly comprehensive site on the history of women. The site includes reviews of Web pages,
curriculua, primary sources etc.
- Women Working, 1800-1930 - http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
"...focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images..."
Women's Literature
- A Celebration of Women Writers - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
"A large collection of material written by women in many fields. Also contains links to biographical material on women writers. It can be searched by author, country, century, & ethnicity. "
- Literary Works By Women - http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Fiction/
A collection of important online fiction books written by significant authors such as Jane Austen the Brontes, Kate Chopin and George Eliot.
- Other Women's Voices - http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/
Collection of non- U.S. Women's writing from ancient times to the present.
- Texts by Women Authors from the Modern English Collection -
http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/Women-Writers.html
Full text of works by more than 150 women authors.
- WSS Links: Literature and Culture -
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html
Online texts, guides to criticism, bibliographies, literature of women of color, links to feminist bookstore etc.
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