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| ONLINE RESOURCES - SUBJECT
GUIDE
WOMEN'S &
GENDER STUDIES - Selected
Links |
General:
Abortion:
- Abortion:
All Sides of the Issue - Issues and various
religious and ethical perspectives.
- Abortion
in Law, History, and Religion - Outlines the
history of abortion, restrictions on it, different religious views of
abortion, and its current and evolving legal status around the world.
- Abortion
Issues - About.com - Information, features,
and web links on the issue and on pro-life and pro-choice views.
- Abortion
Policies: A Global Review - United Nations
Population Division report on abortion laws and policies around the
world, including a country-by-country survey.
- The
Morality of Abortion: A Critique -A personal
philosophical essay, concludes that both pro-choice and pro-life positions
contain anti-intuitive premises.
- Ultimate
Abortion Law Homepage - Case of Roe v. Wade,
and other legal elements of abortion issue including state and canon
law.
Aging:
- Aging
& Women Getting Older - Answering the questions
that aging women face and a social network for aging women.
- AgeLine
Database: Books and Articles About Life at 50+ -
A database containing citations of publications about older adults and
aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports,
and videos, from the AARP.
- Infoaging.org
- A searchable site focusing on aging-related diseases, biological causes
of human aging, and a healthier lifestyle.
- The
National Center on Women & Aging (NCWA)
- Solutions and strategies for dealing with concerns of women as they
age, featuring newsletters, reports, current research projects and related
links, from Brandeis University.
- National
Council on the Aging (NCOA) - Information on
adult day services, health care, housing, independent living, and other
topics central to "vital aging."
Associations
and Foundations:
- American
Medical Women's Association - Details of educational
projects/programs, recommended books, publications and other resources.
- Breakthrough
- An international human rights organization that uses media, education
and pop culture to promote values of dignity, equality and justice.
Themes include: women’s rights, sexual and reproductive rights,
immigrant rights, racial, ethnic and caste equality and religion and
peace.
- Global
Fund for Women - A non-profit organization
that has been making grants to encourage, support, and strengthen women's
rights around the world since 1987.
- National
Council for Research on Women - National and
international networks of organizations and individuals, current information
on research, policy and action initiatives, funding opportunities, and
other resources
- National
Organization for Women - An organization devoted
to furthering women's rights through education and litigation.
- National
Women's Studies Association - Supports and
services for feminist teaching, information about the interdisciplinary
field of women's studies.
- GWIB
-- Graduate Women in Business - Not-profit
organization dedicated to enhancing and promoting the role of women
in business.
- WomenWatch
- Links to UN agencies working on women's issues
worldwide, reports on the work of UN conferences on women's issues,
national action plans, statistics on women in national governments,
and more.
- Women's
Professional Organizations - Directory of women's
professional organizations.
- Women's
Organizations - Contact information for women's
organizations in many areas.
Careers:
- African
Women's Media Center - A project of the International
Women's Media Foundation, resources and tools for African women journalists.
- Digital
Women - Provides articles, links, and information
about business opportunities for women.
- Institute
for Women's Leadership - Provides leadership
training and maintain a global network of women who are committed to
making a difference with their lives.
- National
Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO) -
Provides statistics, nonprofit research, leadership development, and
entrepreneurial training for women business owners.
- Online
Women's Business Center - Calendars, newsletters,
success stories and latest facts and statistics.
- Women
Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century - a premier
one-stop federal resource for targeted information, registration for
online programs, and networking opportunities to help women entrepreneurs.
- Women
at Work - Special programs, career Workshops
& counseling, resource Room, computer lab & classes for all
job seekers and employers.
Feminism:
- Feminist.com
- Feminist links, articles, book titles, and partnerships
in women's health, rights, education, culture issues, and many more
hot topics.
- The
Feminist Institute for Studies on Law and Society -
Links to websites on women related topics, such as immigrant women,
imprisoned women, race and gender, reproductive rights, and more.
- Feminist
Majority Foundation - Organization information,
feminist news and events, links to feminist resources by topics, including
research assistance.
- Women
of Color Web - Link to Harvard University,
including key feminist and activist documents as well as an index of
resources.
Health:
History:
- American
Women's History: A Research Guide - A guide
to materials in American women history by subject.
- Center
for Women's History and Culture - A special
collection of research materials and original documents with guides
to special topics, by Duke University.
- Diotima:
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- A searchable bibliography, and links to full-text
articles, databases, and images on women and gender issues among Greek,
Roman, Egyptian, and other ancient cultures.
- Images
of Women in Ancient Art: Issues of Interpretation and Identity -
Sections include: Women in Prehistory; Egypt; the Aegean; Palestine;
Greece and Barbarian Women.
- InfoPlease:
Women's History Month - History and timelines,
notable women, famous firsts, trivia, and more.
- National
Women's History Project - Promotional materials,
education, and informational services to recognize and celebrate women's
diversity and contributions.
- Votes
for Women - From National American Women's
suffrage Associaltion Collection, 1848-1921.
- Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 -2000 -
A collection of primary source documents.
- Women
In American History - A special multimedia
exhibit on women in American history, presented by Britannica Online.
- Women's
History - About.com - Biographies, quotes related
to historical women, today in women's history, and more.
- Women's
History Month - Biographies of more than 60
women, a section with information on 12 significant trials, and more.
- Women
of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
- 448 photographs selected from the Records of
the National Woman's Party, housed in the Manuscript Division of the
Library of Congress.
- Women
Working: 1870-1930 - A digital collection of
primary source materials for teaching, learning, and research, provided
by Harvard University libraries.
New Jersey Women:
- The
League of Women Voters of New Jersey - A nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization whose purpose is to promote political responsibility
through informed and active participation of citizens in government.
- National
Organization for Women of New Jersey - MARCH
Pictures, News clipping archive, and more.
- New
Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA) -
Programs, services, laws, publications, etc. for elimination of sexual
violence.
- New
Jersey Coalition for Battered Women (NJCBW) -
Information that helps people to stop violence against women.
- New
Jersey Women and AIDS Network - An independent
voice to express the needs of women in the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
- New
Jersey Women and Politics - From Center for
American Women Politics, Rutgers University.
- New
Jersey Women's History - A resource of the
history of New Jersey women.
- Stop
Violence Against Women Act Grant Program (VAWA) -
A program administered by the Division of Criminal Justice, State Office
of Victim-Witness Advocacy (SOVWA), New Jersey Department of Law and
Public Safely.
- The
Status of Women in New Jersey: Highlights (PDF) -
A fact sheet from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Statistics:
- 2002
Women of the World -A data sheet of Population
Reference Bureau, catalogs the status of women in 168 countries with
a focus on demography, reproductive health, education, economic status,
and political leadership.
- Census
Bureau Facts for Features: Women's History Month: March 1 - 31 -
Facts and statistics regarding women, in topics such as earnings, education,
jobs, motherhood, and more. From the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Statistics
- Broad Universe - Statistical data on women
authors as compared to men in market share, composition of the field
editors, awards reviews, year's best anthologies, and magazines.
- Statistics
- Women in Development Network - Drawn from
the UN publication The World's Women 1995.
- Women
in parliament - World and regional averages
of Women representation in parliament, provided by National Parliaments.
- World's
Women 2000 - Based on an official United Nations
print publication, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics.
Includes selected text and excerpted statistical tables of national
and regional data on women as compared to men in family, household,
health, education, work, and politics.
Violence Against
Women:
Women of Color
- Anniina's
Amy Tan Page - Links to interviews, reviews,
and essays about the Chinese-American author of The Joy Luck Club and
The Kitchen God's Wife.
- Gender
issues in Africa - Gender-related news from
across the continent provided by the IRIN service.
- OnlineWomen
- Asia, Pacific Online Network of women in politics,
governance and transformative leadership.
- South
Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) - Articles and
news, a bibliography of books by and for South Asian women, a section
on children's books, and links to other women's resources.
- Women
Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography -
A comprehensive multidisciplinary bibliography: women in global migration,
1945-2000, available from Greenwood Press.
- Women
in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation: Resources -
Articles on the role of women in the U.S. Military beginning with the
American Revolution, including essays on Black, Asian-American, Hispanic,
and Native American women in the armed forces.
- Women
of color, women of words - African American female playwrights homepage.
- Women
of Color Resource Center - A non-profit education, community action,
and resource center working on social justice issues that affect women
of color.
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