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AGRICULTURE

Gender Studies In Agriculture is a searchable bibliographic database from the Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.

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

National Museum of American Art, 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

Women Photographers exhibit at California Museum of Photography.

Women's Early Art, by Sarah Whitworth, links to images and articles on women's early art, music, and poetry. Includes a section on quilts highlighting geometric patterns.

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BIOGRAPHY, GENERAL

Lives, the Biography Resources: Women is a megasite of links to important biographical sites on the Web, maintained by Kenneth P. Lanxner.

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.

National Foundation for Women Business Owners

Voices of Women Directory of Woman-Friendly Businesses

Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO) , U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) page describes programs and services of the Office. 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.

DISABILITIES

Women and Disability Resources, page maintained by Barbara Robertson.

Girls and Women With Disabilities: Defining the Issues, report from the Center for Women Policy Studies

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).

Review of domestic violence websites,, by Amy Shepherd, from Feminist Collections.

Healthgrrl Violence Resources for Women (useful information, but links not updated since 1995).

"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.

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)

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 BOLET�N 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 Reference Guide
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.

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 Law and Policy site offers searches by region and countries of the world of the status of reproductive rights

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 lib. lit.

Feminist Task Force, Social Responsibilities Round Table, American Library Association

Women's Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association

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 the History of Librarianship page by Lisa Bartle includes biographies of practicing librarians who have contributed to the field.

Women in Canadian Librarianship and Bibliography: 10 Pioneers is an exhibit from the National Library of Canada.

Feminism and Library and Information Studies course syllabus, by Hope A. Olson, University of Alberta, CA

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, such as Early Women Composers Chronology and CD Discography, compiled by Sarah L. Whitworth.

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 Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources

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

Women and Girls in 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.

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, including "The Initial Impacts of Welfare Reform on the Economic Well-Being of Single Mother Families," (August 1999).

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:

Cybergrrl

Herspace network is for especially women in the arts.

WOMEN AND WORK

Women's Resources from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Women, Work, and Gender Issues site by Mary Nofsinger, Holland Library, Washington State U.

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

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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