Bibliographies

American Women's History -- provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement -- An on-line archival collection from the Special Collections Library, Duke University.

H-Women -- this site provides bibliographies on gender, ethnicity and class, nationalism and world politics. This site includes a variety of interest areas such as history, religion, literary criticism, and the performing arts. "H-Net Reviews" in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review journal. H-Net is also an edited electronic discussion group for historians, teachers, archivists, and others interested in women's history.

Library of Congress Research Guides -- "Votes for Women" and other research guides listed under "women" are provided by the Library of Congress.

Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality and Gender -- A searchable index for journal articles, book reviews and essays in books dealing with women, gender and sexuality during the Middle Ages. MFI is sponsored by Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Sophia Smith Collection - Smith College Library -- Primary source materials documenting the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present. Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England. Many of these collections are rich sources of visual, as well as manuscript and printed material.

Southeast Asia Women -- Bibliography covering Southeastern Asia, which can be searched by area or country. Reflects materials held at UC Berkeley, but materials could be accessed either through our library or through Inter-Library Loan.

Women's Studies Core Lists -- Bibliography of books currently in print arranged by subject headings. The site is sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Women's Studies Section.

Women's Studies Librarian's Office - University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Includes feminist publications, bibliographies, extensive list of general resource links and a comprehensive subject listing on women and gender.

Communication and Exchange: Discussion Groups, Forums, Conference Postings

Conferences for Women's Studies -- An updated list provided by the University of Maryland (WMST).

On-Line Forums -- A site which provides a large selection of gender related e-mail lists that are open to the public. lists links for conferences, organizations and a activist calendar for feminists. This is part of the Women's Resource Project, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

WWWomen Chat Room -- An example of a more "popular" site containing various discussion groups relating to women's issues. Includes career and job seeking tips.

Feminist Theory and History of Women's Rights

Feminist Jurisprudence -- Contains the full-text of the U.S. Constitution and amendments related to women and civil rights.

Feminist Theory -- Site provides research materials and information for students, activists, and scholars interested in women's conditions and struggles around the world. Contains several bibliographies in english, french and spanish languages.

Feminist Theory, University of Iowa -- A comprehensive Web page including articles and Web sites addressing a variety of topics in feminist theory.

National Women's History Project -- An extensive chronology of important events on the route to women's equity. This site was established for the 150th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and includes excellent "favorite sites" on women's history, organizations and contemporary movement resources.

Suffragists Oral History Project -- University of California Berkeley Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office features full-length oral histories of seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history. The site also includes the contents of the University of California Black Alumni Series Collection.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 -- Examples of archival women's history projects and good Internet history sites on women.

Global Concerns

Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women (WCW) -- A resource page which lists networks, mailing lists, and WWW sites relating to the WCW and NGO (non-governmental organization) forums. Includes several useful United Nations sites.

Beijing: Voices of Global Women -- Site provides information on the radio series "Leading to Beijing: Voices of Global Women", including bibliographies of women leaders, biographical profiles of the women in the series and ordering information.

Center for Women's Global Leadership -- seeks to develop an understanding of the ways in which gender affects the exercise of power and the conduct of public policy internationally. A general information page for the Center, with hyper links to articles, speeches and related resources.

Chicana Studies -- Resources, organizations, Web sites, and a listserv relating to Chicana/Latino Studies can be found at this site.

Global Gender Agenda and the United Nations -- a UN site that describes what the United Nations has done for the equal treatment of women. It also lists committees within the UN responsible for supporting women's rights. The United Nations Charter was the first global treaty which called for equality between women and men.

Global Issues Resources -- site developed by "Feminist Activist Resources on the Net" and provides groups and networks organizing on issues affecting women throughout the world. Includes sites on "military sexual slavery" and rape.

International Gender Studies Resources -- Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley site features research and teaching materials meant to facilitate the integration of Women's and Gender Studies into International and Area Studies philosophy and curricula. This site offers general and specific bibliographies and filmographies on issues pertaining to women and gender.

International Women's Web Sites -- Selected sites on women outside the U.S. and Canada.

Yugoslavia: Women, State and Culture in the Former Yugoslavia -- Provides current news, bibliography, related links, and some full text journal articles relating to women's issue in the former Yugoslavia.

Welfare and Women -- An essay on basic facts about what women on welfare receive. (NOW publication)

Human Rights

Derechos Human Rights -- Contains over 4,000 documents and web sites covering human rights issues, including news, organizations, the death penalty, and freedom of speech. The site also has its own search engine and a comprehensive human rights by country and regions section. English and Spanish versions are available.

Diana -- Women's Human Rights Resources -- Resources-An extensive site, including catalogs, news, programs, documents, articles, reports, and press releases from governmental and non-governmental sources.

Human Rights in China -- HRIC provides up to date information on human rights in China, including topics covering children's and worker's rights, religious freedom, media and censorship, the environment,Tibet and Hong Kong.

Human Rights in Latin America -- America-Site contains articles, links, ngo's, and a hyper link map of Central and South America, which provides country specific reports.

Human Rights Internet -- Site provides links to educational resources, forums, projects, official reports, and articles relating to human rights. HRI also has its own searchable Internet directory.

Human Rights Watch -- Contains current news, publications, campaigns, HRW reports, and a useful search engine. HRW is also available in Arabian, Chinese, French, and Spanish.

Human Rights Web Links-- Site provides general information, legal and political documents, and a thorough list of related links.

Hungarian Human Rights Foundation -- Monitors the treatment of Hungarian minorities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, and Ukraine. Text is in English and Hungarian.

Independent Commission on Human Rights Education -- This site describes the creation of the commission, its purpose, and who its members are.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission -- IGLHRC's mission is to protect and advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status. Useful news alerts and essays.

Iranian Human Rights Working Group -- Collection of articles, press releases, and cases relating to human rights issues in Iran and the world. Site is available in Persian.

Kosova Crisis Center -- This site provides up to date news and events on Kosovo.

U.S. Department of State reports on human rights -- Reports released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1997.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- An indispensable site for international human rights information, including news, treaties, programs, documents, and a large source of related links.

United Nations and International Organizations -- Organizations-Links provided to sites associated with the U.N and women's rights.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as adopted by the General Assembly of the UN, on December 10, 1948.

Women, Law & Development International -- research which will assist work with its partners to identify legal, cultural and economic impediments to women's enjoyment of human rights, to propose targeted approaches, to develop activist strategies, and to train women's groups to advocate before UN and governmental bodies. Lists news on projects and publications.

Journals

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources -- A list of the table of contents of past issues, along with some full text articles.

Journal of Women's History - Table of Contents -- a periodical subscription held at the University at Albany Libraries.

Jouvert - Journal of Postcolonial Studies -- Includes some full-text articles and reviews on gender and postcolonial identities.

Resources for Feminist Research -- provides abstracts and the table of contents of a periodical subscription at the University of Albany Libraries.

SIGNS, the leading international journal in women's studies -- This site offers the table of contents for past issues of Signs, published by the U. of Chicago Press and owned by our library. The focus of essays ranges from cross-disciplinary theory and methodology often focusing on concerns of women's studies.

ViVa Women's History -- a site providing a bibliography of articles about women's and gender history and is compiled by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The periods covered range from Ancient to Modern history. Articles are published in English, French, German, and Dutch.

Women & Politics -- provides abstracts for this journal which encourages research and the development of theory on women's political participation, the role of women in society, and the impact of public policy upon women's lives.

Women in Judaism -- a site which includes refereed online journals centered on gender issues in Judaism.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) Resources

ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights -- Provides news and legislation on (LGBT) Rights

BlackList -- A list of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people of African Descent.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission -- Contains international press releases, a bimonthly online journal published in English, Spanish, and French, links to similar international online resources organized by country. The site also has asylum information and support for people who are persecuted because of their sexual orientation.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resources -- Sites from Columbia University and Harvard University.

The Lesbian History Project -- intends to promote ongoing dialogue between academic lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (lgbt) scholars and lgbt community scholars and between academics and the (lgbt) communities in general.

Queer Resources Directory -- An extensive directory of 22531 files, it contains news updates, the APA resolution on treatment of homosexuality, and several related links.

Sexual Identity and Politics -- An extensive international hyperlinked directory of sites on gender and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered topics. The site also includes key international legislative sources on these topics.

Voice of the Shuttle - Gender Studies -- An extensive list of sites recognized as one of the most comprehensive social science meta sites.

WWWomen Search - Lesbian Resources

Literature

A Celebration of Women Writers -- a site devoted to providing biographical information on women authors and bibliographies that are searchable by name, time period, or country. This source is supported by Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science.

Feminism and Literature -- Contains numerous links to sites that concentrate on women's literature and gender studies.

Sawnet (South Asian Women's Network) -- An excellent source of information on women writers from South Asia and what they have written. This site also has many links related to women and Asia.

Women and World Literature Bibliography -- University of Maryland provides annotated guides to world literature by and about women.

Women's Writers Project Brown Univeristy -- The mission of the Women Writers Project is to create, develop, and make accessible a state-of-the-art electronic textbase of women's writing in English before 1830.

(Meta Sites)Gateway Systems and Sites to Women's Studies Internet Sources

Beyond the Black Stump -- A miscellaneous list of sites on women.

Femina -- was created to provide women with a comprehensive, searchable Web directory of links to female friendly sites. Also includes "The Adventures of Cybergirl."

Feminist.com -- A broad array of sites including speeches, essays, classifieds, links on activism.

Feminist Activist Network On the Web -- Focuses on global issues and broad social and economic focus from feminist perpsectives. The page is maintained by an individual and has not been updated recently. However, it is a useful beginning place for sites on activism. Includes a search engine which allows access to a wide variety of subject pages.

Social Sciences Information Gateway -- SOSIG aims to offer social scientists a quick and easy way of finding quality networked information that can support their work.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Women's Studies Issues -- A selective, alphabetical listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies/women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.

Voice of the Shuttle -- An extensive list of sites recognised as one of the most comprehensive social science meta sites.

WMST - University of Maryland Women's Studies Database -- A key women's studies site, The University of Maryland women's studies database, began in 1992. Their page includes regularly maintained lists of sites.

Women'sNet (IGC) -- WomensNet supports women's organizations locally, nationally and worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work.

Women Online -- Listings of general and popular sites.

Organizations

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women -- this group brings international attention to all forms of sexual exploitation, including prostitution, pornography, sex tourism, and bride trafficking. This group spearheaded the creation of a new United Nation Convention Against Sexual Exploitation and now seeks governmental and non-governmental endorsement for establishing it as international legislation.

Center for Indigenous Studies --An independent research and educational organization concerned with understanding and appreciating indigenous peoples and their cultures. Includes research on domestic and international policy. "Fourth World Institute" and related sites are also included.

Feminist Law Student Organizations -- Woman law student provides links between different groups of women and men who are interested in women's issues regarding social justice, human rights and the law.

Feminist Majority Foundation -- An organization promoting social, economic, and political equality for women.

Global Fund For Women -- An international organization focusing on female human rights

Global Network for Rural Women -- A newsletter for rural women. Through on-line communication, printed newsletters, personal mail and international meetings, rural women have ready access to a global forum to debate vital issues such as trade agreements, food security and women's rights.

Institute for Women's Policy Research -- IWPR is involved in researching and promoting women's policy issues.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) -- Includes information on key issues, news, NOW chapters, and NOW Political Action Committees (PAC's).

Pacifica Radio -- Alternative news and public interest reporting often addressing issues of concern to feminists. An example of online audio news transmissions (for those with an audio-enabled computer.)

PACT - Towards a Civil Society -- The organization sponsors international programs, with localized non-governmental organizations (NGO's), in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to promote social, economic and political improvements.

United Nations Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) Contains a world-wide list of NGO's and links to non-UN sources relating to gender and women's studies.

Women's Research Centre -- The Centre's focus is on action research to make visible women's experience as the basis for action for change. The Centre's primary aim is to make work against oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, ability, and other forms of discrimination. A new collective composed of Aboriginal women and women of colour that has formed within the existing Women's Research Centre. The Centre produces publications on community building.

Violence and Violence Prevention

Hate Crimes Archive -- Lesbian & Gay Anti-Violence Project of Sydney Australia serves to educate and work against hate crimes.

Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan -- Good sites which document and discuss "comfort women", sexual slavery and violence within the military.

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of women and their children. Internet links include advocate pages for battered lesbians, immigrants as well as links on domestic violence prevention and support to victims of incest.

Non-Violence Links -- An extensive list of sites on non-violence with particular emphasis on international peace organizations.

Sexual Assault Information Page -- An extensive list of sources on sexual assault, sexual harassment and domestic violence.

Trafficking of Women and Children -- A useful list of sites on ending trafficking of women and children as well as contact information on activists working toward international legislation World Congress Against the Commercial, Sexual Exploitation of Children.

Violence Prevention Bibliography and Web Sites -- A site containg a bibliography of books and journal articles on the medical, psychological impacts of violence on women, children and society.

Women's Health

Female Genital Mutilation Research -- Contains introductory level information on incidence of female genital mutilation as well as relevant cultural and social perspectives on the practice.

Midwifery -- American College of Nurse Midwives

Midwifery Resources -- Advocacy pages on midwidery.

RU486 -- NGO Forum Panel assesses worldwide use of RU486.

Women, Biology and Health -- A Web page developed for a University at Albany Women's Studies course on Women's Health by Jennifer Clunie. The "Related Links" section lists several sites including those dealing with reproductive rights.

Women's Health Issues -- Feminist.com extensive list of general and specific sites on health.

Women in Science

Four Thousand Years of Women in Science -- Site includes biographies, photos and references on women in science.

Women and Science Bibliography -- Bibliography on women and science from the University of Maryland.

Women Leaders, Biographies and Speeches

Biographies of Women -- Women's International Center established a permanent information and educational home for women, worldwide, to learn, teach and create. The Women's International Institute provides biographies of women.

Gifts of Speech -- Women's Speeches From Around the World

One Hundred Celebrated Chinese Women -- a glimpse of China's past can be seen through the experiences, often tragic and violent, of women who have come to represent different aspects of the societies and eras in which they lived.

Speeches by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

Women Leaders Online -- A grassroots organization which provides information on women leaders world wide. Includes updated "action alerts".

Women Nobel Prize Laureates -- Documents women Nobel Laureates from 1903 to the present. Includes biographies, bibliogrpahies and related links.

Women's Studies Departments and Campus Community

List of Women's Studies Departments -- Women's Studies Program at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This site has extensive links to employment opportunities, scholarships, general resources and women in engineering and science.

Women's International Electronic University -- An international, independent non-profit association/consortium dedicated to promoting cross-cultural communication, educating and empowering women through computer-modem technology.

Women's Community - University at Albany

Women's Studies Department - University at Albany