SUBJECT LISTING OF WOMEN AND GENDER RESOURCES

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August 13, 2007.

Agriculture | Anthropology | Art | Biography | Book Trade and Reviews | Business Information and Commercial Sites | Disability Resources | Domestic Violence | Education | Film and Video | Girls' Development | Health | Higher Education | History | Info. Tech. and Computer Science | International Conferences, Concerns, & Resources | Language and Linguistics | Legal Studies | Lesbian Sites | Librarianship | Magazines | Media, News, and Communications Sources | Military | Music | Native American Women | Older Women | Organizations | Peace | Philanthropy and Funding | Philosophy and Feminist Theory | Politics | Science/Math/Technology | Sexual Harassment and Assault | Sports | Statistical Resources | Theology and Religion | Welfare Reform | Women's Space on the 'Net | Women and Work | Women of Color in the U.S., Other Groups of American Women, and Women of Other Countries | Women's Studies Programs, Departments, Research Centers, Libraries, and Archives | Writers |

• AGRICULTURE
  • Gender Studies In Agriculture is or was a searchable bibliographic database from the Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands. [Bibliography not found, April, 2006.] Gender Studies site at that university.
  • Women in Agriculture website from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

• ANTHROPOLOGY
  • Feminist Anthropology, review essay by Angela Bratton, Indiana University student.

• ART
  • Art links maintained by Carrie Kruse as part of WSSLINKS.
  • A few additional sites and comments
    • ArtWomen.org is "dedicated to interdisciplinary exploration of visual culture, especially artmaking, art history, and feminist theory related to art and visual culture, all from a feminist perspective."
    • Herspace.com is a "creative space promoting and supporting female artists."
    • N. paradoxa feminist art journal site includes women's art organizations worldwide, links to women's art work on the Internet and fulltext current and back issues of the publication.
    • National Women's Caucus for Art
    • Smithsonian American Art Museum, search form
      Search for women artists by name.
    • Oriental Institute Museum at the Univ. of Chicago, collection highlights on women
      Pictures of archeological objects depicting women.
    • Women and Comics bibliography, by John Bullough and Michael Rhode.
    • Women Artists in History
    • Women Artists of the American West Past and Present is an online course at Purdue University, developed by developed by Susan Ressler of Purdue University and Jerrold Maddox of Penn State.
    • Women in the Book Arts: A Selection, online exhibit from Wellesley College

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• BIOGRAPHY, GENERAL
  • Distinguished Women of Past and Present
  • Museums related to women
  • Womynlynks! links to notable women in literature, t.v., activism, music, and the arts.

• BUSINESS INFORMATION AND COMMERCIAL SITES
  • BizWomen
    Online interactive marketplace for women in business.
  • Catalyst works to advance women in business and related professions. Site has descriptions of research reports conducted by Catalyst.
  • Center Women's Business Research
  • Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO)'s Online Women's Business Center, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Site includes descriptions of Women's Business Centers throughout the U.S.
  • Online Women's Business Center is a partnership among the SBA's OWBO, the North Texas Women's Business Development Center and SBA Women's Business Centers across. It is an interactive business skills training web site.
  • Women's Entrepreneurship Portal provides links to websites of organizations, networks, projects, and events related to female entrepreneurship. Site is from the European Commission.

• DISABILITIES
  • Women and Disability Resources, page maintained by Barbara Robertson.
  • Women and Girls With Disabilities: Defining the Issues, report from the Center for Women Policy Studies (summary only)
  • Reshaping, Re-thinking, Re-defining: Feminist Disability Studies, report from the Center for Women Policy Studies
  • Strong Proud Sisters: Girls and Young Women With Disabilities, report from the Center for Women Policy Studies

• DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE
  • Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse Electronic Clearinghouse includes links to statistical sites, bibliographies, and numerous links by subject, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and more.
  • Ending Violence Against Women is a report in Population Reports, from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Center for Health and Gender Equity.
  • "Does It Have to Be Like This?" Teen Women Ask Their Peers About Violence, Hate, and Discrimination," report from the Center for Women Policy Studies.
  • Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls report issued by UNICEF (June, 2000).
  • Domestic Violence Laws of the World
  • Review of domestic violence websites,, by Amy Shepherd, from Feminist Collections.
  • "Domestic Violence and Women's Employment," by Susan Lloyd.
  • Government documents, pamphlets, etc. on domestic violence on the State University of New York at Buffalo library's website.
  • Violence Against Disabled Women, report from the Center for Women Policy Studies.
  • Violence prevention information from the Canadian Health Network.
  • Women's Law Initiative provides" easy-to-understand legal information towomen living with or escaping domestic violence".

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• FILM AND VIDEO
  • Distributors of Women-Related Videos contact information maintained by the UW System Women's Studies Librarian along with WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English database.
  • Women and Film Websites, compiled by Marcia Barrett as part of WSSLINKS.
  • Feminist Film Reviews at the University of Maryland Women's Resources site.
  • Film Festivals:
    • Women in the Director's Chair Chicago-based; national tours; in process of shutting down for good.
    • Madcat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco)
  • Films and Videos on Women, Gender, and Feminism is an annotated master list of holdings in the Arizona state university libraries. Annotations include recommendations for showing in women's studies classes.
  • Gender Issues in Film bibliography, a section of Murray Pomerance's site at Ryerson Polytechnic U.
  • Groupe Intervention Video, distributes women's videos.
  • Leeds Animation Workshop: A Women's Collective
  • Michigan State U. Women and International Development Program site has a Media Resource Guide: Women in the Third World (Site has frames: click on "resources," then "MSU Film Guide.")
  • Telemanita from Mexico produces videos about women. For English-language reviews, click on BOLETÍN VIDEO-RED MUJER, then on individual issues in English of the Bulletin.
  • University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium Audiovisual Collection (borrowing restricted to residents of Wisconsin).
  • Women and Film in Europe lists and links to women's film festivals, associations, databases, distribututors, etc.
  • Women and Gender Studies videotapes in the Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, Univ. of California-Berkeley.
  • Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide (1994)
    Links to bibliographies, reviews, and film catalogs on the WWW.
  • Women in Film and Television International is a membership organization with several active chapters including New England, New York, Vancouver, and elsewhere. Several sponsor film festivals.
  • Women Make Movies is a non-profit distributor of films and videos by and about women.
  • Women's Image Network (Beverly Hills, CA) "encourages positive portrayals of women in theater, television and film to alter limited perceptions of women in all walks of life" through awards, seminars, screenings, and other special events.

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• LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
  • Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender and its affiliated journal, Women and Language.
  • Syllabi on Language and Gender.

• LEGAL STUDIES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
  • The Abortion Law Homepage contains information on legislation and jurisprudence relating to abortion in the U.S. See also Abortion Laws of the World.
  • Access to Justice Net (from Canada) has a category "women" with links to numerous other sites and documents.
  • Women in Legal Education section of the Association of American Law Schools, discussion list (Antigone) and bibliography compiled by Sara Robbins and Maria Okonska in 1999
  • Feminist Legal Studies Pathfinder from the University of Sydney Law School Library .
  • Review of websites on the legal history of reproductive rights, by Beth Fredrick, from Feminist Collections.
  • Abortion information sites linked from the Sunshine for Women site.
  • Girls in the Juvenile Justice System report "Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate Prevention, Diversion and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System"from the American Bar Association. Site links to the full report (in pdf) and press coverage.
  • Women's Human Rights site (the Diana Project), University of Toronto Law School
  • Women and Prison articles from the Prison Issues Desk of the Prison Activist Resource Center.
  • Women in Prison, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1991 data, and more recent statistics on criminal offenders (female and male).
  • The Center for Reproductive Rights offers searches by region and countries of the world of the status of reproductive rights, and numerous documents in pdf.
  • Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA) has a bibliography which "digests a limited number of readily accessible works which deal with the advancement of women in the legal profession, the economic structures currently in use in the profession, marketing, and other business issues"

• LIBRARIANSHIP
  • Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) of the American Library Association
  • Index Morganagus. Search for "gender" or "women" in this index of electronic library literature.
  • Feminist Task Force, Social Responsibilities Round Table, American Library Association
  • Women's Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association
  • Women's Issues Section, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
  • Wisconsin Women Library Workers organization, winner of the 1995 ALA Equality Award
  • Women in Information Technology is an annotated list of sites about and for women in the fields of library & information science, information technology, and computer science.
  • Women in Canadian Librarianship and Bibliography: 10 Pioneers is an exhibit from the National Library of Canada.
  • Bias in Subject Access Standards: A Content Analysis of the Critical Literature Project: Women, by Hope A. Olson, principal investigator.

• MILITARY AND WAR
  • H-Minerva discussion list on women, war, and the military.
  • Military Woman Home Page
  • Vietnam Women's Memorial Project
  • Women in Vietnam

• MUSIC
  • Archive of Syllabi in Women's Studies in Music
  • Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930, by Christopher Reynolds, Univ. of California, Davis.
  • Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music, compiled by the Committee on the Status of Women of the Society for Music Theory
  • International Alliance for Women in Music
    Links to a variety of resources on women composers and women-in-music topics.Click on "Resources."
  • Fight on Sisters: and Other Songs for Liberation, songbook by Carol Hanisch, digitized by Duke Library Special Collections.
  • Ladyslipper Music: Recordings By Women catalog
  • Folksinger Geri Gribi's homepage includes a section of resources for women's folk music and history as well as information on her CDs, cassettes, and performances.
  • Marian Anderson: A Life in Song virtual exhibit from Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • Women in Music Information Page, Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• OLDER WOMEN
  • Senior Women Web

• SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
  • Bibliography on The History of Rape, by Stefan Blaschke.
  • Information on Sexual Harassment page by Nancy Wyatt
  • "Sexual Harassment in Higher Education From Conflict to Community," ERIC Digest ED364134 93, by Robert O. Riggs et al.
  • Sexual Harassment Hotline Resource List on the Feminist Majority Foundation site.

• SPORTS
  • WWW Women's Sports Page is a collection of links to women's sports.
  • Gender Equity in Sports
  • Gender Equity in Athletics and Sports section of the Feminist Majority Online includes Empowering Women in Sports, a report from the organization, which includes a historical description of Title IX.
  • Play Like a Girl Sports is a company for female athletes in non-traditional sports for women. Site includes news, a directory, and forum for female athletes.
  • Women in Sport, Health, Physical Education, Recreation or Dance (WISHPERD) links.
    

• WELFARE REFORM
  • Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy, edited by Katherine A. Rhoades and Anne Statham, the Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Women's Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium, October 29-31, 1998. The collection of papers offer a variety of viewpoints on the topic of welfare reform. The authors provide historical perspectives and policy critiques, examine how welfare reform is taking place in various states in the U.S., and report on what the idea of welfare means in other countries. Some studies offer resources and strategies for teaching about poverty in the classroom, while others discuss the experience of welfare recipients, and some analyze literary explorations of poverty. Several scholars speak from the viewpoint of having themselves been poor and/or on welfare at some point. Speaking Out is a PDF file. Read the hints for using.
  • The Center for Women Policy Studies has several reports on education and welfare reform, some of which are online in pdf, including From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Reform (December 2002).
  • The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has many studies on federal welfare policies, such as "The Initial Impacts of Welfare Reform on the Economic Well-Being of Single Mother Families," (August 1999).
  • The U.S. Dept. of Heath and Human Services' Administration for Children & Families has a website on welfare reform with links to numerous guidelines, statistics, reports, etc.
  • The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services' Office of Family Assistance oversees the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program. The site includes links to the authorizing legislation, provisions of state programs, etc. This office makes annual reports to Congress about the Program. Read the Fifth Annual Report, transmitted in February 2003.
  • Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Site includes links to Poverty-Related sites and numerous publications and special reports that can be downloaded from the site.
  • The Institute for Women's Policy Research has several papers assessing welfare reform, including "Feminist Perspectives on TANF Reauthorization: An Introduction to Key Issues for the Future of Welfare Reform," by Janice Peterson (February 2002) and "Life After Welfare Reform: Low-Income Single Parent Families, Pre- and Post-TANF," by Janice Peterson, Xue Song, and Avis Jones-DeWeever (May 2002)
  • Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program and Full Report (58 p. in pdf), from the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
  • The Urban Institute has many articles and reports on welfare reform.
  • Institute for Public Policy Research, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech, research reports on welfare reform in Virginia.
  • Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has various documents on welfare and economic support.
  • "An Evaluation: Wisconsin Works (W2) Program" (April 2001) was conducted by the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau.
  • Wisconsin Policy Research Institute publishes reports, including "Economic Lessons for Welfare Mothers" (February, 2001).

• WOMEN AND THE INTERNET
  Several places offer comfortable and informative women's space on the Net:
  • Herspace network is for especially women in the arts.
  • iVillage.com
  • Virtual Sisterhood (open only to members of IGC)
  • Women2Women
  • Womenspace

• WOMEN AND WORK
  • Women's Resources from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
  • Gender Differences in Pay, a Russell Sage Foundation Working Paper by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn (pdf file; 38 p.)
  • Working Women section of the AFL-CIO website
  • The Glass Ceiling: A Selected Bibliography
  • Glass Ceiling Commission
  • Progress of the World's Women is a bienniel report from UNIFEM. The report for 2005 is on Women, Work, and Poverty, which "makes the case for an increased focus on women’s informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women’s economic security."
  • Sloan Work and Family Research Network
  • Women and the Economy, from UN Platform for Action Committee Manitoba (UNPAC)
  • Women's Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Labor
  • Working Together

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