General
 National
Women's History Project --
Women's
Studies Database - University of Maryland
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/index.html
An extensive database of resources for researchers in women's studies.
Covers a broad range of topics with particular emphases on the scholarly
usefulness of the material. Excellent primary source materials, government
documents, conference announcements, course syllabi, employment
opportunities, and more. Frequent updates.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -- Selected
Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Contains rich primary historical documents pertaining to women. Focus is Western Europe.
One of the key Web resources for primary source materials.
Women and Social Movements in the
United States: 1600 to 2000.
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/reviewSanAntonioArchives.htm [No
subscription at UNCA, however considerable free material on site.]
Diotima: Material for the Study
of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Begun in 1995 this is one of the older Web sites but it remains one of the
most valuable online resources for the study of women and gender in the
Ancient world. Breadth and depth of subject is well covered. See also
Perseus and the
Beazley Archive for additional resources on the Ancient world. The
bibliography is now linked to JSTOR for full-text articles.
Digital
Librarian - History
http://www.digital-librarian.com/history.html
Extensive site with links to electronic primary sources often by
unique subject. Search Eighteenth Century Studies, for example to retrieve
an extensive list of sites with information on the Enlightenment.
LLEK
de Bookmarks
http://www.wissenschaftliche-suchmaschinen.de/english/index.html
Can
lead you to specific sites in almost any discipline. This is a meta-meta site.
Use the icon at bottom of page to translate to English.
American
Women's History: A Research Guide
Extensive guide maintained by Ken Middleton, Reference Librarian at MTSU.
Center for the Study of Women in Society
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter
Ohio State University Women's Studies - Reference
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/wmnweb/ReferenceWorks/
A comprehensive list of women's studies materials.
Women's
Studies Resources
www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst
Jane Korenman's excellent annotated site index sets a standard for site
indexes for women's studies with its scholarly analysis of resources.
Women's Studies Librarian Office - Univ. of Wisconsin
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/
Scholarly lists of lists --- a meta-list. Bibliographic listing offers
core titles in a variety of subject areas pertaining to women's studies.
WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html
Maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College
and Research Libraries (ACRL). The focus on women's studies in the academic
environment is guided by discipline specific links to authoritative sites.
Feminist Bookstore Index
http://www.igc.apc.org/women/bookstores/bookmain.html
A source for those interested in the purchase or browsing of
collections of women's books. Contains general feminist bookstores as well
as lesbian and gay bookstores in the US and Canada. See, especially, the
web site publisher's "rant".
Women.com
http://www.women.com
A commercial site that serves the interests of the general public by
providing access to information on a variety popular topics such as Home,
Garden, Weddings, Family, Pregnancy, Fitness, Fashion & Beauty,
etc...Access to WomensWire an interactive site for women.
Feminist Theory Website
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
Biographical and bibliographical materials and geographically divided
section on ethnic and national feminism. Discipline specific
bibliographies and multi-lingual.
WWWomen
http://www.wwwomen.com/
A searchable directory of sites numbering in the thousands of interest to
women --- both academic and political. |
Activism
NOW!
http://www.now.org/
National Organization for Women homepage.
The Activist Women's Voices Project
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/activism.html
An oral history project at the Graduate Center - CUNY. Contemporary
women actively involved in community work.
Exoticize this! (Exoticize my fist!)
http://www.exoticizemyfist.com/
South Asian and a.p.i American feminist resources site. Leftist
activism and pop culture, pro-queer and anti-racist. Not updated since
1999, but worth the visit for the graphics!
Feminist.com
http://feminist.com
A site committed to helping end violence against women.
NOW - Violence Against Women in the United States Statistics
http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html
Feminist Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence Resources
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~akdclass/femlit/femjur.html
Key texts for activism (Wade v. Roe), etc., domestic violence, ERA, etc.
Gifts of Speech
http://gos.sbc.edu/
Speeches by contemporary women about women's issues. Some 200+ speeches by
some 70+ women from around the world.
Wisconsin Glass Ceiling Commission
http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/glassc/default.htm
Explores the issues which prevent women and minorities from achieving full
employment potential. Contains many studies and reports.
Temperance &
Prohibition
http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/
Includes information on the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union)
and the Women's Crusade of 1873-74, background for Frances E. Willard
(1838-1898), and the Anti-Saloon League. Also covers women during the
American Prohibition of the 1920s. |
Appalachia
Appalachian Women's Alliance
http://appalachianwomen.org/
Part of the Southern Organizing Cooperative, is a grassroots
organization that works to improve the lives of low-income and
disenfranchised Appalachian women.
Appalachian Women and Traditional Music (Berea College)
http://www.berea.edu/MUS/Solberg/AWTM/awtm.html
Extensive research funded by the Appalachian College Association. See
also the General
Bibliography pages
Appalachian Protest Song Writers
http://www.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersM/protestsongs.html
Biographies and information on Appalachian women who sing protest
songs -- Hazel Dickens, Jean Ritchie and others.
"Appalachia and the South: Place, Gender, Pedagogy"
http://nwsaj.appstate.edu/current.htm
The Fall issue of the National Women's Studies Association
Journal addresses women's issues in Appalachia.
Women's Studies - Archives of Appalachia
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/women.htm
A Celebration of Appalachian Women - Eastern Kentucky University
http://www.womensstudies.eku.edu/
Adolescent Appalachian Girls
http://ww.ael.org/nsf/voices/rpdreams.htm
Council on Appalachian Women Collection 1958-1995
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/afindaid/a101.html
East Tennessee State University Collection of material, including
information on the journal Appalachian Women.
Ewen & Nelson - Changing Lives & Potential Leadership
http://www.marshall.edu/jrcp/Vol_E1_1/Nelson_Ewen.html
Life Narratives of Appalachian Women in North Carolina
http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/research_aids/women_narratives.html
Bibliography and links to works in the collections of Appalachian
State University.
Women in Appalachia: A Bibliography (Christina Miewald, Univ.
of Ky. )
http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/wombib.htm
Lists books, journal articles, and video and films on women living and
working in Appalachia.
Serving Home and Community: Women of Southern Appalachia
http://www.si.edu/sites/exhibit/appalach.htm
Developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History this
traveling exhibit "pays tribute to these often forgotten women in a
thoughtful exhibition of fifty memorable photographs."
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Archives
WorldCat. Use Advanced Search. Limit type to: Archival
Materials
IN REFERENCE
Subject Collections: a guide to special book collections and subject
emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries
and museums in the United States and Canada ,
7th ed. Compiled by Lee Ash and William G. Miller, with the collaboration of
Barry Scott, Kathleen Vickery, and Beverley McDonough. New Providence, N.J.
: R.R. Bowker, 1993. UNCA REFERENCE Z731 .A78 1993, v.1-2
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.
Ed. by Anne Commire. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999. UNCA
REFERENCE HQ1115 .W6 1999, v.1-17.
Indicates location of manuscript collections for selected women.
ONLINE
American Memory Project - National American Woman Suffrage
Collection, 1848-1920
-Votes for Women
-Women Come to the Front (WWII)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
The Library of Congress describes this as an "extensive and varied resource related
to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures
includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the
holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured
are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display,
as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual way in
which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out. This online illustrated reference
aid is part of the "By Popular Demand" series. It is a pictorial partner for the
text documents in "'Votes for Women:' Selections from the National American Woman
Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920." 'Women Come to the Front' explores the role of women
journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during WW II.
Archival Sites for Women's Studies --- ACRL Women's Studies Section
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~mfpankin/archwss.htm
Set up by region in the U.S. and includes some links in foreign
countries.
Uncovering Women's
History in Archival Collections
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/links.htm
An extensive and authoritative list of Internet sites related to
women's studies maintained by the Archives
for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Arranged geographically
this is a good beginning place for researchers.
Similar to the ACRL site, above.
British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives Division
http://www.blpes.lse.ac.uk/
Major archives include the Women's Co-operative Guild, the Eileen Palmer Archive, the
Hall-Carpenter gay and lesbian archive (1958- ), and the Women's International League of
Peace and Freedom archive and more.
Documenting Women's Lives: A User's Guide to Manuscripts at the
Virginia Historical Society. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society,
1996. REF
HQ1438.V5 B13 1996
Documents for the Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Transcribed texts and images related to the Women's Liberation Movement in 1969 to 1974.
Many classics from the early radical feminist movement.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -- Selected
Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html
Contains rich primary historical documents pertaining to women. Focus is Western Europe.
One of the key Web resources for primary source materials.
Godeys Lady's Book
http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys
Researchers of 19th century popular culture will find this women's magazine a rich
resource for women's issues and concerns. [Note: very slow to load.]
Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.nara.gov./gils/gils.html
The government's card catalog of archival collections.
Newcomb
College Center for Research on Women
http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/
RLG "Studies in Scarlet" Digital Collections Project
http://www.rlg.org/strat/projdcp.html
Marriage, Women and the Law, 1815-1914. Begun in 1996, this growing digital collection
contains some 200,000 images of documents on family law and domestic relationships. A
searchable database and primary source materials make this a unique and valuable resource
for women's studies.
Women's Archives & Special Collections on the WWW
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/
Located at Duke University this list is an good starting place for those looking for
primary source materials. Includes many full-text versions of rare materials on women such
as the Women's Liberation Movement, African American Women, Civil War Women, and the
Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA).
Women's History Links on the WWW
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cyber.html
A growing and useful listing of sites for those interested in Women's Studies and
specifically history as it pertains to women.
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections in the Center for Archival Collections
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/womenbb1.html
Largely Ohio sources. |
Arts/Exhibits
The Visual Arts
A Ramsey Library Research Guide
Creative Women.com
http://www.creativefolk.com/
Celebrating women with arts, humanities and technology.
National Museum of Women's History
http://www.nmwh.org
Rotating exhibits chronicle women's lives and history and suffrage.
Women Artists Archive
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/special/waa/
Artist biographies and visual repository of works located at Sonoma State University.
Coverage is from Middle Ages to the present. Scholarly in approach.
World's Women Online
http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/toc.html
A large collection of women's art from around the world. |
Biography
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes articles about people in reference books and Biography Index. UNCA users
only.
Distinguished Women of the Past and Present
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/
Explores the lives of women who have contributed to the our culture in a variety of
professions and disciplines.
Emma Goldman
Papers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
A model for later biographical sites.
Britannica.com
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
National
Women's Hall of Fame
http://greatwomen.org/
National notable profiles of women living and dead.
Sophia Smith Collection
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/home.html
Internationally recognized collection of women's material. |
Databases (CD-ROM)
Primis: Introduction to Women's Studies Database
http://www.mhhe.com/primis/catalog/pcatalog/D23-1.htm
Includes readings in some 25 general topical areas with introductory essays, headnotes,
and biographical information on authors. Advertised as "a database of diverse
voices" the readings are carefully selected for their importance and their currency
with relation to the field of Women's Studies. Entire database is not available for
purchase, but instructors may select from the readings and the publisher,
McGraw-Hill will assemble a text for a specific class --- your own anthology. Cost depends
on reading selections.
Women's Studies on Disc (G.K. Hall) 1999 [Not at UNCA]
Windows based resource for searching literature (periodicals and essays) relating to
contemporary women. Includes 10 years of the well-known Women's Studies Index
[at UNCA] and the following:
An Index to Women's Studies Anthologies
1980-84[at UNCA]
An
Index to Women's Studies Anthologies 1985-89 [at UNCA]
The Women's Movement: References and Resources [at
UNCA]
Women's Periodicals and Newspapers from the 18th Century to 1981
[various locations]
Women's Resources International (ROMWright Software) [Not at
UNCA]
A CD-ROM index of the feminist press that provides access to difficult to find
articles with a feminist perspective. Coverage is from 1972 - present. Also available in
Web version. Includes nine databases on one CD-ROM:
Women's Studies Abstracts (1984-present)
Women's Studies Database (1972-present)
Women's Studies Librarian (4 files from the Univ. of Wisconsin)
New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-present)
WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's
Studies (1985-90)
Women, Race, and Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-90)
The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to
the Professions and the Disciplines (1970-95 - selective coverage)
European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography (1610-present)
Women of color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research
(1975-1995)
Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (200
records)
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Economics
Economics and the World Wide Web
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/webs4econ2.htm
Includes links to Web sources for women's
Part of the EcEdWeb: Economic Education Web
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/
Economics and Women Links
http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/
Institute for Global communications |
Education
Equity Online
http://www.edc.org/CEEC/WEEA
Women's Educational Equity Act
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Biennial/125.html
The History of Education and Childhood -- Women
http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/links10w.html
Begun in 1997 at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, this
is an excellent site for the role of women in the education of children.
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European Women
EUROPEAN WOMEN'S
HISTORY - Prehistory to 1700. Bibliographic
instruction at UNCA. Directs student to local and Web resources.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe --
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html
Contains rich primary historical documents pertaining to women. Focus is
Western Europe. One of the key Web resources for primary source materials.
British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives
Division
http://www.blpes.lse.ac.uk/
Major archives include the Women's Co-operative Guild, the Eileen Palmer
Archive, the Hall-Carpenter gay and lesbian archive (1958- ), and the
Women's International League of Peace and Freedom archive.
Women
in America 1820-1842
Looks at European women travelers in America and their reflections
on the United States.
European
Women: A Documentary History 1789-1945 [book]
A
history of European Women's Work : 1700 to the present
by Deborah Simonton
European
Women Writers Series [check
WNCLN catalog for individual holdings]
Feminist Theory
Feminist Theory Website
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
Biographical and bibliographical materials and geographically divided section on
ethnic or national feminism. Discipline specific bibliographies and multi-lingual access. Institute
for Feminist Theory and Research
http://www.iftr.org.uk/
"The Institute for Feminist theory and Research aims to support
feminist theory and research by improving communication between
researchers and to support teaching and learning by disseminating the good
practice developed in and through feminist pedagogy."
Portions of site require membership registration.
Gender Inn
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm
A searchable database containing some 7,500+ records related to
feminist theory, gender studies and feminist literary criticism. Contains
useful bibliographies. |
Health & Fitness
Global Reproductive Health Forum
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/healthnet/
Published by the Harvard School of Public Health. The site seeks to provide information on
health issues of interest to women worldwide.
National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
http://www.4woman.gov/
The primary government meta-site for women's health issues produced by the Dept. of Health
and Human Services. Reliable and extensive. Contains specialized information for women of
color. FAQ list of women's health topics.
Women and Health Resources
http://www.igc.apc.org/women/activist/health.html
An activist site advocating for women's health issues.
Women's Sports
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/~lewisa/womsprt.html/
Extensive site index to resources on women in sports. Indexed by sport.
BBC --- Women's Health
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/womens/index.shtml
About -- Women's Health
http://womenshealth.about.com/mbody.htm |
History
Diotima
http://www.stoa.org/diotima
Classical studies and women. Women in the ancient world.
Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/links.htm
A rich site, organized by state, with a brief section for international sites. Links are
annotated for usefulness and content.
History of
Women's Suffrage
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html
History of the movement. Key texts, including the 19th Amendment, the Seneca Falls
Declaration of Sentiments, and others.
Bibliography of Women's Suffrage --- Chicago Public Library
http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/010ssh/suffrage.html
Living the Legacy 1848-1998
http://www.legacy98.org/
Connected to the National Women's History Project which celebrates the 15th anniversary of
the Women's Rights Movement. Is an ideal site for an overview of the Rights Movement for
students of history and others.
World Wide Web Reviews - Medieval Women Websites [Cynthia Ho,
et
al.]
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fc/fewebbho.htm
Medieval
Feminist Index (MFI)
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
A growing bibliographic database derived from journals, book reviews, and essays on women
in the Middle Ages.
National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Founded in 1980 this non-profit organization seeks to provide access to historical
materials by and about and for women.
Women's History in America - Radcliffe Archives
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/
Letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral
histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women,
families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contains many biographies.
IISH Women's History - ViVa
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html
Citation index to articles in key historical journals which pertain to women's history.
Selections from some 60+ European and American journals.
Yahoo!-Arts: Humanities: History: Women's History
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Subject/Women_s_History/
Lists sites which have information on women's history.
Yahoo!-Social Science: Women's Studies: History
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Women_s_Studies/
Like the Arts and Humanities site, above, the Social Science search will link to Women's
History sites. Some overlap, obviously. |
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Images
Harvard University - Schlessinger Library of Women's Studies
Art
Images for College Teaching
AICT is a free exchange (royalty free) of image resources for and
among members of the educational community. Managed by MCAD the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design supplementary textbook
concordances are available to instructors. EXCELLENT.
ARTstor. [REQUIRES
LOG-IN] A database
of more than 300,000 digital images from many
time periods and cultures.
Relevant for study of architecture, painting, sculpture,
photography, decorative arts, design and other forms
of visual culture. Users can search,
view, and save images for
scholarly use.
CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images
Online.
[UNCA users only]
Offers
rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class
projects, course Web sites, lectures, presentation. |
International
Latina, Chicana, Caribbean
http://clnet.ucr.edu/women/womenHP.html
An activist web site with a comprehensive list of Web sites for the women of South and
Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. Includes link to the Latina Web Pages, another
rich web site for topics related to Latin American women. http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/women/latinawebs.html
International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement
http://www.iiav.nl/
A clearing house for information on international women's organizations, biographies
of women from 1870 to the present, and general information on the women's
movement. The Information Centre is located in the Netherlands and is rich in Dutch
women's movement information (English and Dutch). Comprehensive from 1935-. Difficult
to search but extensive. |
Gender Studies
Lesbian.org
http://www.lesbian.org/
A 4-star site with reliable links.
Queer Resources Directory
http://qrd.tcp.com/grd/
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
http://www.clga.ca/archives/
Includes the Woman's Common of Metropolitan Toronto and other Canadian gay and lesbian
organizations.
Human Sexuality Collection
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/HSC/
Feminism and Sexuality Bibliography
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/sex.html
An extensive general list of women's issues with an emphasis on issues of sexuality in
cultural practice, identity issues, and women and sex. |
Library Reference
Brownmiller, Sara and Ruth Dickstein
An Index to Women's Studies Anthologies : Research Across the disciplines,
1980-1984. New York: G.K. Hall, 1994.
An Index to Women's Studies Anthologies : Research Across the disciplines,
1985-1989. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996
Carter, Sarah.
Women's studies : a guide to information sources. London, England
: Mansell ; Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1990.
Dickstein, Ruth, et. al.
Women in LC's terms : a thesaurus of Library of Congress subject headings
relating to women. Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1988.
Fast, Timothy and Cathy Carroll Fast
The Women's Atlas of the United States. Rev. ed. New York: Facts
on File, 1995.
Harlan, Judith
Feminism: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
Hauser, Barbara R. and Julie A. Tigges, eds.
Women's Legal Guide. Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 1996
Hine, Darlene Clark, et al., eds.
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, NY:
Carlson Publishing, 1993 (2 vols.)
Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, ed.
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. New York: Garland, 1997.
MacLam, Helen, ed.
Choice Reviews in Women's Studies: 1990-1996. Chicago: American
Library Association, 1997.
Mainiero, Lina, ed.
American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the
Present. New York: Ungar, c.1979-1994 (5 vols.)
National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and Gay History
The Lesbian Almanac. New York: Berkley Books, 1996.
Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Schmittroth, Linda, ed.
Statistical Record of Women Worldwide. 1st and 2nd. eds.Detroit:
Gale 1991/1995
Stromquist, Nelly P.
Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues.
New York: Garland, 1998.
Kinnear, Karen.
Women
in the Third World: A Reference Handbook
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1997
The ... information please women's sourcebook.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1994-
Barbara Ryan
The Women's Movement: References and Resources. New York : G.K.
Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1996
A Women's thesaurus : an index of language used to describe and locate
information by and about women
/ edited by Mary Ellen S. Capek. New York :
Harper & Row, c1987.
Zophy, Angela H. and Frances M. Kavenik
Handbook of American Women's History. New York: Garland,
2000. |
Literature & Culture
Women's
World
http://www.wworld.org/
Created "...because nowhere on earth are women's voices given the
same respect as men's." Focused on writers and writing, the site
explores gender-based censorship and supports publishing and political
involvement of women.
A
Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Seeks to promote the works of women writers in a variety of genres.
Works are chosen from a variety of interest areas. Search by author or by
category. Contains biographical information as well as excellent bibliographies. 10,347
women writers were included in 2001. Collection is updated frequently.
Feminists Bookstores, Publishers, Reviews, Lists, and First Chapters of Women's
Studies Books
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/books.htm
A useful site to begin to build a bibliography of core materials in women's studies.
Feminist
Canon
http://www.feminist.org/research/books4.html
A list of important books on feminism from the Feminist Majority Foundation
100 Great
20th Century Works of Fiction by Women
http://www.feminista.com/v2n3/100.html
A list compiled by the online journal Feminista! with commentary on the male dominated
Modern Library list.
Society for
the Study of American Women Writers
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/SSAWW1.html
Publishes Legacy a journal which promotes "the study of American women writers
through the research, teaching, publication, and the strengthening of relations among
persons and institutions...". Scholarly and well designed site. Contains a browsable
index of women authors and book reviews.
See also Nineteenth Century Women Writers Web, another Legacy offering.
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/
Women's Words: 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World
http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/003cpl/womensbib.html
A thoughtful list of books from the Women's National Book Association (WNBA) and provided
via the Chicago Public Library.
Women's Writers Online
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html
A database of English full texts written by women and spanning the centuries from 1330 to
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Music
Ladyslipper Music: Recordings by Women
http://www.ladyslipper.org
Extensive lists of resources.
Women's Early Music
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/
Women Composers and Women's Music
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~highnote/composers.htm
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
http://www.michfest.com/
Women in music -- Duke Pathfinder
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/mutoc.html
Women in Appalachian Music
http://www.berea.edu/MUS/Solberg/AWTM/awtm.html
International Alliance for Women in Music
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/home.html |
North Carolina
Women in Western North Carolina
http://dd1.library.appstate.edu/Women/default.htm
A work in progress to document the lives of women who have contributed
to the culture and welfare of western North Carolina.
Documenting the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Guide to Women's Archival Materials in North Carolina
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/ncwomen.html
A comprehensive guide to collections in North Carolina, compiled by Ginny Daley, the
Women's Studies Archivist at Duke.
A Guide to Women's Resources in the Special Collections and University Archives
Division of Walter Clinton Jackson Library, UNC Greensboro
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/women2.html
Details the Women's Collection (some 8,000 volumes), and manuscripts and archives by
and about women. Covers a wide range of subjects including the arts, literature,
librarianship, public service and social reform, science and medicine, domestic and social
life of women, and more. Originally a women's college, the historical papers of
the institution are also rich primary source materials.
North Carolina Historical Review
A journal covering issues of state interest. An index search for women's issues is very
productive.
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/nchr/default.htm
North Carolina
Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/
North Carolina Division of Archives and History
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/
Use search engine to look for "women". |
Organizations & Associations
AAUW -American
Association of University Women
http://www.aauw.org/
Feminist Majority Online
http://www.feminist.org/
Like NOW (?) this organization leads the fight for women's rights.
League of Women Voters - North Carolina
http://rtpnet.org/~lwvnc
A-political organization that supports active participation across the political
spectrum in government.
National Organization of Women - NOW
http://www.now.org/
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