Highlighted E-Resources and More
Browse Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents in its new searchable, online-only format!
Women's Health in Wisconsin 2008 provides Wisconsin-specific data on a range of women's health issues. It comes from the Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation. Includes information throughout on American Indian, African American, Asian American and Hispanic American women.
Read the full Status of Girls in Wisconsin Report (11/2007) or the Executive Summary of the study conducted by the Alverno College Research Center for Women & Girls, in conjunction with the Women's Fund of Milwaukee. It analyzes girls' education, television & computer use, mental health, juvenile crime, reproductive health, substance & alcohol use, violence & abuse, physical activity, and social support. There are also associated Research Appendices. Includes information throughout on American Indian, African American, Asian American and Hispanic American girls.
Sex Politics: Reports from the Field is a 412-page “comparative study of the politics of sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights” in Brazil, Egypt, India, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam, and within the United Nations and the World Bank.
Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study: Thirty One Year Update, 1977-2008 shows the highest ever participation by women in intercollegiate athletics programs in the U.S., although the data also continue to show a depressed representation of women as head coaches.
THE AMERICAN WOMAN ON THE WEB: A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT provides information previously published in print in the biennial report The American Woman by the Women’s Research and Education Institute (WREI). For current information on Women in the Military (Section Seven), see WREI’s Women in the Military & Women Veterans project
Women's Studies in Digital Collections describes how to find women-focused material in several digital collections. The site is a project of the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
The Global Gender Gap 2007 site from the World Economic Forum contains a 173p. report and related information from 115 countries. It measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health and survival.
GenderBiology.net is a gateway to news and resources about gender-specific medical and biological research.
Researching Violence Against Women Online is a guide from VAWNET to finding the most appropriate online resources on the topic.
Women in Congress website provides biographical information about all 244 women who have served in the U.S. House or Representatives or Senate. Watch their faces fill up the screen!
"A RESEARCH REVOLUTION IN THE MAKING: GOOGLE BOOKS AND MORE AS SOURCES FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY" is an article from Feminist Collections detailing how and why to use Google Books, Amazon Books, and more for academic research.
Newly updated: Our Annotated Bibliography on American Jewish Women's History (Supplement)
More electronic resources are described and linked from the "E-Sources" column of the current issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources and in earlier issues published by the UW System Women's Studies Librarian's Office.