Highlighted E-Resources and More
Announcing the first electronic-only, searchable issue of Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents (v. 28, no. 1).
Announcing a series on Girls' Studies , in our Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
The Status of Girls in Wisconsin website includes a report released in November, 2007, analyzing girls' education, television & computer use, mental health, juvenile crime, reproductive health, substance & alcohol use, violence & abuse, physical activity, and social support.
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. The Report 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.
NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE ON ACADEMIC WORKLIFE at the University of Michigan's Center for the Education of Women is a database of articles, research and policy reports, policies, demographics, websites, and narratives on institutional policy change.
PLAYING HOUSE: HOMEMAKING FOR CHILDREN is a digital collection at the University of Wisconsin libraries of five volumes of housekeeping instruction for young girls, published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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.