Women's Studies Section

Association of College & Research Libraries / American Library Association


WSSLinks

General Sites


Welcome to General Sites, part of WSSLinks, developed and maintained by the
Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.


|

Directories and Search Engines

|

Diversity Resources

|

Libraries, Archives, Library Schools, Pathfinders


Comprehensive Sites

Women's Studies Resources
An extensive Web site for women's studies and one of the first; maintained by University of Maryland, College Park.
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies

Women's Studies Librarian's Office, University of Wisconsin
Particularly noteworthy for its inclusion of publications, bibliographies, and its collection of electronic resources.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies

The Feminist Majority Foundation
Includes information under several categories, such as a Feminist Research Center, a Feminist University Network, and a Feminist Career Center.
http://www.feminist.org

Women's Studies/Women's Issues WWW Sites
Amazing collection of women's studies and women's issues links compiled by Joan Korenman.
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html

Women's Studies Resources
Well-organized listing of sites and news stories of interest in women's studies. Maintained by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/

[return to top]


Directories and Search Engines

Women-Focused Search Engines
FeMiNa
Created "to provide women with a comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female-friendly sites and information on the World Wide Web," this site features the ability to perform keyword searching in addition to browsing by category.
http://www.femina.com

WWWomen Web
Billing itself as "The Premier Search Directory for Women Online," WWWomen features searching by keyword with boolean options as well as by category
http://www.wwwomen.com

Women's Organizations
A Directory of Women's Professional Organizations
Includes business, legal, medical, philanthropical, and sports organizations
http://www.feminist.org/gateway/feministgateway-results.asp?category1=organizations

Global List of Women's Organisations
International directory of women's organizations organized by country. Created and maintained by Denise Osted.
http://www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html

Women's Studies Programs
Artemist Guide to Women's Studies Programs in the U. S.
Kate Robinson's guide to program's in the US.
http://www.artemisguide.com

Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers
Joan Korenman's page includes both US and international sites.
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html

[return to top]


Discussion Lists

Email Lists
Gender-Related Electronic Forums
Joan Korenman's extensive compilation of "publicly-accessible electronic forums (or "lists") related to women or to gender issues."
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html

Chat
Women'space
Chat space provided by Women Online Worldwide (WOW). Hosted chats include "Calling All Lesbians," "Current Events," "Women in the World," and many more.
http://www.womenspace.ca

GRRLTALK
The guide to Lesbiain chat.
http://www.grrltalk.net

[return to top]


Diversity Resources

African-American
Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography
Compiled by Sherri Barnes, librarian at UC Santa Barbara, this site includes citations from the 19th century to the present on Black American Feminism in a wide array of disciplines. Citations are from professional, scholarly, popular, mainstream and alternative magazines, journals, newspapers, and books.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/

Asian
South Asian Women's Net
SAWNET (South Asian Women's Net) hosts this forum which includes news, bibliographies, reviews, directories, and links.
http://www.sawnet.org

Chicana/Latina
Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage
This site provides information on activism, gay/lesbian topics, literary topics, and much more.
http://www.chicanas.com

Jewish
Jewish Feminist Resources
Includes information and links to a wide variety of topics, including ritual & liturgy, Torah thoughts, Jewish music, and more.
http://www.jew-feminist-resources.com/

[return to top]


Media

Comprehensive Sites
Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (Women-Focused)
Listing of journals, magazines, and zines compiled and maintained by the Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/mags.htm

Women's Studies: Journals
Yahoo's Collection of Women's Journals.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/women_s_studies/journals

WWWomen Page Magazine Section
Annotated listing of magazines, journals, and zines from WWWomen.
http://www.wwwomen.com/category/public/magazi1.html

WSS Core Serials Project
List of titles that are core to supporting women's studies in academic libraries.
http://libr.org/wss/projects/serial.html

Select Individual Sites
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
This website for the journal contains tables of contents and sample articles. http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm

Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la Recherche Féministe
This web site for the bilingual (English/French) Canadian scholarly journal contains information about the publication as well as tables of contents and abstracts from back issues.
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/rfr

[return to top]


Libraries, Archives, Library Schools, Pathfinders

Library Resources for Women's Studies
Includes information on useful or unique collections of Women's Studies resources and collections available on the Internet.
http://www.ibiblio.org/cheryb/women/librcws.html

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
One of the premier research libraries in the United States devoted to the history of women.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/

Sophia Smith Collection
Founded in 1942, the Sophia Smith Collection includes 6,000 linear feet of material documenting "the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present." Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, and the arts (especially theatre)
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/home.html

The New York Public Library, Women's Studies: A Research Guide
An introduction to women's studies research at the New York Public Library, with an emphasis on the holdings of the General Research Division.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/women/

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
An integral part of the Special Collections Library at Duke, the Sallie Bingham Center acquires, preserves and makes available published and unpublished materials reflecting the public and private lives of women, past and present.
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/women

Jewish Women's Archives
"The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich history of Jewish women, their impact on Jewish culture, and their active participation in society at large."
http://www.jwa.org/main.htm

[return to top]


Maintained by: Cindy Ingold, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, cingold@uiuc.edu
Originally created by: Ellen Greenblatt and Cindy Ingold
URL: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/wst/general.htm
Last updated: Thursday, 13-Apr-2006 12:55:13 CDT by JK

 

 
Back to the WSS Home Page | Back to the WSSLinks Home Page