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Women of Color

This resource makes no attempt to be comprehensive on the subject of Women. The well-known cross-disciplinary nature  of women’s studies, and women's history, in particular, requires that the researcher be prepared to explore a broad range of disciplines for material that may be applicable to the subject topic. Women's studies is both a scholarly search and a critical analysis of political issues. This dual task can be daunting for the beginning researcher, particularly when the topic crosses many disciplines.

 What this guide seeks to do is to prime the research process and to provide direction to some of the more important reference resources available in Ramsey Library and to the rich, extensive and growing resources available on the Web.

The sources listed below cross many academic disciplines, several geographic and temporal structures, and explore a range of political architectures. Academic disciplines often mix with social and political movements and can lead the researcher on a variety of interdisciplinary adventures or mis-adventures. These journeys can be both frustrating and joyful.

This is a resource for the beginning researcher but one that requires the researcher to move beyond the simple behavioral objectives of learning where to locate databases and how to manipulate them. To research women's topics successfully the researcher needs a conceptual framework. A good conceptual framework would require the researcher to know the various types of reference sources, how to systematically search the literature, how to identify the variety of publication formats (newspapers, journals, databases, books, etc.); what the sequence of that publication format is; how to recognize a primary source and a secondary source. It would ask that the researcher know how to cite sources, how to use index structures like "keyword" and "citation" indexing. Of increasing importance, the knowledgeable researcher would know how to approach the many Web sites available with a critical and an analytical mind. In looking for good answers, the researcher would know how to ask good questions. In what time did the topic exist? In what place?- both geographic place as well as hierarchical place? What is the context of the topic? Who produced the Web site?

Many of the resources listed below are good places to begin. Persistence in researching a topic can build research skills. Few topics require as much persistence as do those in Women's Studies. Whether the researcher is looking for topics on women's political activism in the sixties, Harlequin Romances and women, Appalachian women coal-miners, or the feminist theory of Simone de Beauvoir, they will move through the process more successfully if they have a sound conceptual framework and can adapt that framework to their particular need.


General

National Women's History Project --

 

Women's Studies Database - University of Maryland
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/

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."


Archives

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)


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.

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.

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 1830. In progress.

Microform Collections --- UNCA


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/


Periodicals

Journals in Ramsey Library Call Number Broad Subject Link
American health for women RA773 .A55 MEDICINE View Record
Feminist Economics HQ1381.F46 ECONOMICS View Record
Feminist Studies HQ1101.F46 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Journal of women's history HQ1101 .J68 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Legacy (Amherst, Mass.) PS217.W6 L4 LITERATURE View Record
NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association HQ1101 .N3 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Psychology of women quarterly HQ1206 .P76 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Women studies abstracts AI .W6 INDEXES View Record
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health RG1 .W65 MEDICINE View Record
Women's history review HQ1101 .W382 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Woman rebel Microfilm SOCIOLOGY View Record
Working woman HQ1101 .W78 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Women's review of books HQ1101 .W768 SOCIOLOGY View Record
Electronic Journals FullText FullTextEnd Connect to Source
About Women & Marketing 1/94   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work 9/97 1/2000 InfoTrac
Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work 01/01/90   EBSC Host Academic Search Elite
American Health (Now: American Health For Women 11/96) 1/93 9/96 InfoTrac
Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women 3/94 1/96 InfoTrac
Cardozo Women's Law Journal 1996   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Circles: The Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy Spr 1992   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Harvard Women's Health Watch 1/95   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Harvard Women's Health Watch 01/01/94   EBSCOHost Health Resource Plus
Harvard Women's Law Journal Sum 1993   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Health Care for Women International 01/01/97   EBSCOHost Health Resource Plus
Hypatia Mar 2001-    
Journal of Women & Aging 1/1/95 1/1/96  
Journal of Women and Religion 1/1/95    
Journal of Women's History 1/1/95    
Journal of Women's History 1/97   InfoTrac
Marketing to Women 1/91   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Media Report to Women 10/1/97    
Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies Spr 1994   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
UCLA Women's Law Journal 1991   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
       
Violence Against Women 01/01/95   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law Fall 1994   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 1995   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Women & Environments 01/01/90 12/31/96 EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
Women & Therapy      
Women & Work 7/98   InfoTrac
Women and Language 3/93   InfoTrac
       
Women in Business 01/01/90   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
Women in Management Review 01/01/95   EBSCOHost Business Source Elite
Women's Fitness & Bodybuilding 05/01/96 01/31/97 EBSCOHost Masterfile
Women's Health Weekly 01/01/95   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
Women's International Network News 01/01/90   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
Women's Review of Books 07/01/96   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
Women's Rights Law Reporter Spr 1996   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Women's Sports & Fitness 08/01/93   EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite
Women's Sports and Fitness 1/89   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Women's Sports and Fitness (Was: WomenSports 4/85) 1/89   InfoTrac
Women's Studies 2/91 6/98 InfoTrac
       
Women's Studies in Communication 3/97   InfoTrac
WWD (Womens Wear Daily) 1/83   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe


Politics

Cox, Elizabeth, 1939-
Women in modern American politics : a bibliography, 1900-1995.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, c1997 HQ1236.5.U6 B13 1997


Religion and Spirituality

John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Methodist Archives and Research Centre
Resources documenting the role of women in the Methodist church in Great Britain. Includes literature on Susanna Wesley (1670-1742).


Science & Technology

4000 Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/
Biographies of some noted women in the sciences. Brief entries include photographs of the scientists.

Center for Women & Information Technology
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
News, books, links, and curricular resources on women as users and shapers of IT.

Frequently Asked Questions About Feminist Science Studies
http://www.aacu-edu.org/Publications/download.html#FAQ
First publication in the project "Women and Scientific Literacy: Building Two-Way Streets," http://www.aacu-edu.org/Initiatives/scilit.html


Sexuality

Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality
http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/sexbibl/
Covers from 1700-1945 in the U.S. and Canada and contains some 16,000 titles. Contains references to antique sexual history, and sexual history of the Middle Ages, as well as Contemporary material. Some non-Western cultures are also included.


Women of Color

African-American Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/digital.html
An archival collection of primary source materials in the Duke University Special Collections library.

African American Women Writers in the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa/9/
Gathers some 52 works by black women together. Scholarly and searchable by author, title and genre.

Chicana Web Pages
http://clnet.ucr.edu/women/womenHP.html
Published by CLINET (Chicana/o Latina/o Network) UC-Riverside

Isis - Art and Culture of the African Diaspora
http://scout7.es.wisc.edu/page/00001187.html
Features the cultural products of women from the African Diaspora and their descendents.

Native Shop (Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center)
http://www.nativeshop.org/
Activist agenda for Native American women. Few links to other like-minded sites.

SAWNET: South Asian Women's Network
www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/

The primary list of links to sites concerned with South Asian women's issues.

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
Biographies and criticism of North American women writers of color.

Web Sites on Native Women
http://www.miwrc.org
List published by the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center.


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