On Women: An Introduction to Women's Studies
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Glendon College, York University



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WOMEN'S STUDIES & FEMINIST THEORY
GAY, LESBIAN, & QUEER STUDIES

GENERAL RESOURCES


WOMEN'S STUDIES & FEMINIST THEORY

  • Aboriginal Women's Organizations (Canada)
  • Aboriginal Super Information Highway (Canada)
  • Abortion Rights & Other Feminist Issues Web (Laurie Mann)
  • Athena (zine)
  • Susan B. Anthony (Jody Litt)
  • Artsee Media (monthly zine by a women's media group)
  • Asian Immigrant Women Advocates ("AIWA works primarily with women employed as seamstresses, electronics assemblers, hotel room cleaners, nursing home aides, janitors and other low-paid women in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area and Santa Clara County's 'Silicon Valley")
  • Review of Women's Studies Textbooks (Women's Studies Page, Massey U., New Zealand)
  • Bust (zine)
  • Canadian Women in History (Susan Merritt / Cam Williams)
  • Catholic Perspective On: Women in Society and in the Church (Caltech Newman Center)
  • Robert Cavalier (Carnegie Mellon U.), "A Dialogical Perspective of Feminism and Pornography" (1996) (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine)
  • A Celebration of Women Writers (alphabetical list, with links to online resources) (Mary Mark)
  • Chicana-Latina Studies Gopher UCLA)
  • Hélène Cixous (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
  • Creating A Celebration of Women Writers
  • Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
  • Andrea Dworkin Web Site (Nikki Craft)
  • Early Music by Women Composers (Sarah Whitworth)
  • Electronic Guide to Research on Women, 2nd ed. (Hudson & Turek) (gopher)
  • Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Sheila Cavanagh, Emory U.)
  • English Server Feminism List
  • Femina (searchable database for information about women)
  • Feminism and Women's Resources (Jim Mansfield, Inst. for Biodiagnostics, National Research Center of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba)
  • Feminist Activist Resources on the Net
  • Feminist Chronicles: Bibliography (report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women)
  • Feminist Ethics (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • Feminist Majority Foundation
  • Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia (Laura Quilter)
  • Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (Femisa) (archives of Femisa listserv) (gopher)
  • Film and Destroy ("presents, supports and encourages independent and experimental work by, for and about women") (Bridget Irish)
  • Film Reviews (reviews from a feminist perspective) (Priya Sridharan / Inform)
  • FMST: Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal (Otago U. and Massey U. Women's Studies Program, New Zealand)
  • FRENCH FEMINISM List: Archives (U. Virginia)
  • Global Fund for Women ("international grantmaking organization")
  • Guerrilla Girls ("a group of women artists and art professionals who make posters about discrimination")
  • Donna Haraway (on Cultural Studies Page)
  • Sara Hartland, "Cut With A Kitchen Knife" ("I will consider the discursive potential of images and ask if images can work to rupture the construction and representation of women by which 'woman' is that which is 'not-man' ") (EVA: Electronic Visual Arts Journal)
  • Herspace (well-developed "space" of women's resources on the net) | Cafe Life @ Herspace (metapage of links)
  • Inform's Women's Studies Resources (U. Maryland at College Park) (deep, well-organized page of links)
    1. InForm: Picture Gallery
  • Internet Subject Guides: Women's Studies Resource Guide (U. Alberta)
  • Isis (metapage for art and culture of women of African descent)
  • Journal of Women's History
  • Kassandra Project: Visionary German Women Around 1800
  • Ann Leffler, Dair L. Gillespie and Elinor Lerner Ratner, "Academic Feminists and the Women's Movement" (1973) (Nikki Craft)
  • Materialist Feminist (MatFem) (archives of MatFem listserv) (gopher)
  • National Women's History Project
  • Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Web (Tyler M. Steben, Wayne State U.)
  • Not Bad for a Birl (support site for documentary film based on interviews with women musicians of the alternative rock community by clinical psychologist Lisa Apramian; Apramian "specializes in gender and women's issues, on matters concerning the meanings and functions of music and the various permutations gender plays in their development and current position in the rock world") (Spitshine Productions)
  • NOW: Feminist Resources on the Net
  • October 71 (Winter 1995): Special Issue on Feminist Issue
  • On-Line Literary Resources: Women's Literature & Feminism (Jack Lynch, U. Penn)
  • Online Resources for African American Women and Womanist Studies
  • The Original Women's Network (Manitoba, Canada)
  • Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles (multi-volume print and electronic project to create "the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles") (project headquarters: U. Alberta)
  • Camille Paglia Interview (Tracy Quan)
  • National Center For Women & Retirement Research (Southampton C., Long Island U.)
  • Passages from the Bible on Women (UPenn gopher)
  • Philosopher All-Stars Trading Cards: Wollstonecraft (Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick)
  • Rain Without Thunder (page for the film; "an Orion Classics Release which offers a glimpse at how life in America might be for women if the current legislative and judicial weakening of Roe versus Wade continues")
  • Resources for Feminist Research (journal; Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto)
  • Resources of Scholarly Societies - Women's Issues (U. Waterloo)
  • David N. Rodowick (Cornell U.), Preface to The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory (1991)
  • SassyFemme
  • SAWNET: South Asian Women's Net ("forum for south asian women, and those interested in issues relevant to south asian women. 'South Asia' is taken to include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka")
  • Soc.Feminism Homepage
  • South Asian Feminist Literature (Murali Damodaran, Nanyang Technological U.) (bibliography; text file)
  • Jon Stratton, "Man-Made Women" (1996) ("considers the cultural fetish for manufactured versions of women in the 20th century") (Australian Humanities Review)
  • Terry Threadgold, "Cultural Studies, Feminist Values: Strange Bedfellows or Sisters in Crime?" (1996) (Australian Humanities Review)
  • U. Iowa Libraries Gateway to the Internet: Women's Studies
  • U. Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office (metapage )
  • Virtual Sisterhood
  • VOWworld: Voices of Women - Power Tools for Visionary Women
  • Webgrrls! - Women on the Web
  • WMST-L Listserv (Joan Korenman, U Maryland, Baltimore County)
  • Women and Environment (EcoFem) (archives of EcoFem listserv) (gopher)
  • Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
  • Women & Politics (journal; Janet M. Clark, West Georgia C.)
  • Women and Social Progress (Gateway to World History)
  • Women Homepage (metapage of women's studies resources) (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah)
  • Women in World History Curriculum (resources for secondary-level teachers and students) (Lyn Reese)
  • W O M E N H O U S E ("collaborative, multi-authored site that explores the politics of domesticity and gender relations through virtual "rooms" and conceptual domestic "spaces" by 24 artists, architects, poets,art historians, and cultural theorists")
  • Women in Higher Education (monthly newsletter)
  • Women in the Humanities Page (resource page for women's studies and women in the arts and humanities; Johanna Blakley, UCSB)
  • Women Leaders Online
  • Women's Literature, Women in Literature, and Feminist Literary Criticism: A Guide to Reference Resources (annotated guide to relevant resources in the McGill U. library; serves as general guide to materials in the field) (Diane Sauv, McGill U.)
  • Women's Memoirs and the Study of Holocaust History (essay by Andrea Lixl-Purcell, U North Carolina, Greensboro)
  • Women Nobel Prize Laureates (Nobel Prize Internet Archive)
  • Women's Resources on the Internet (Amy Goodloe)
  • Women's Resources Project (U. North Carolina)
  • WomenSpace ("dedicated to young women and girls," a place to "hang out" and discuss issues relevenat to growing up) (A. Ormond)
  • Women's Studies Page (Massey U., New Zealand)
  • Women's Studies Resources (Duke U. Libraries)
  • Women's Studies RoadMap (The Reference & U. of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Women's Studies WWW Pages and Gophers
  • Women's Suffrage (Meredith Goldstein-LeVande)
  • Women's Wire ("online magazine for women")
  • Women Writer's Project (Brown U) (information page for large, sophisticated project that is creating a SGML textbase of women writers' texts)
  • Worcester Women's History Project (site devoted to the first U.S. Women's Rights Convention held in Worcester in 1850; includes pages on rediscovered mid-nineteenth-century authors, information about a planned reenactment of the 1850, and an archive of related historical and literary documents) (Assumption C., Worcester, Mass.)
  • WWWomen! The Premier Search Directory for Women Online! (well-organized and -supported guide to women's resources; searchable)
    1. Main Categories Include:
    2. Arts & Entertainment
    3. Working Women
    4. Community & Government
    5. Women in the Age of Computers
    6. Diversity Among Women
    7. The Education of Women
    8. Feminism
    9. Health & Safety Issues
    10. Women Throughout History
    11. Lesbian Visibility
    12. Personal Time for Women
    13. Publications
    14. Women's Resources
    15. Science & Technology
  • WWWomen: Diversity/Culture (interesting collection of links bearing on women around the world and cultural diversity)
  • DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS, & INSTITUTES
  • COURSE SYLLABI & TEACHING RESOURCES

  • CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS

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