Women's Studies Research Guide

Directories & Meta-Sites

• Intute: Social Sciences - "...free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the women's studies curriculum and the needs of researchers. Our target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education."
• Eldis Gateway to Development Information : "Each of our subject-focused guides offers quick access to key documents, organisations, research themes, discussions and other key resources."
• Siyanda - Mainstreaming Gender Equality "Siyanda is an on-line database of gender and development materials from around the world." Frequently updated, well indexed.
• WSS links: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites: Annotated subject-arranged list of web links maintained by Women's Studies Librarians. Subject divisions for: Art, Business, Culture (mostly literature), Education, Film, Health, History, International, Lesbian Sites, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Science and Technology, Theology.
• Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites: Annotated, subject-arranged has an academic focus; includes topics such as Health, International, Sexuality, and Women of Color. Also links to women's studies programs and research centers.

  Country Studies

• U.S. Department of State Background Notes
• CIA World Factbook
• CEDAW Country Reports
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• World Health Organization (WHO) Countries

  Activist Movements (historical and current)

• Chicago Women's Liberation Union
• Historical Archive Classic feminist writings (many from the 60s and 70a) on critical topics
• Academic Links

  Gender Studies

• GenderStats : " GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators..."
• Global Gender Gap : a report from the World Economic Forum
• International Labour Organization : "Information about gender issues in the world of work..."
• Latin American Network Information Center: Women and Gender Studies: Country specific, regiomal, and international resources and links.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender Studies: A directory of Web resources on gender issues containing the following categories:
• General Resources
• Women's Studies & Feminist Theory
• Gay, Lesbian, & Queer Studies
• Men's Movements & Men's Studies
• Cybergender & Techgender

  Health

• National Women's Health Information Center
• Office of Research on Women's Health

• History

• Primary Sources on Women's History: Work, suffrage, activists, and more
• American Women's History: A Research Guide: American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
• Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. It is an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean containing course materials, a searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images.

  Human Rights

• Amnesty International Women's News and Reports
• Human Rights (from the United Nations)
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Human Rights Watch: Women's Rights
• International Women's Human Rights
• International Women's Resources
• PeaceWomen Project
• UNIFEM - Portal on Women, Peace & Security
• HURIDOCS Search Engine - Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems
• Women's Human Rights Resources - University of Toronto Law Library
• International Organization for Migration : "IOM activities that cut across these areas include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants' rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration."
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Online Reports on Women in the OHCHR Library catalog.
• See also Resources for Human Rights (UConn Libraries Guide)

  Images & Media Literacy

• Gender Ads: Begun by Scott A. Lucas, PhD, site contains over 2,500 advertising images, covers many topics including male and female subjects, objectification, gaze, and LGBT issues in advertisements. "Warning: Many of the images on this site are disturbing. Unfortunately they are a reflection of the misogyny, violence and dehumanization present in our consumer culture, our media and advertising specifically."
• MediaWatch: "Challenging sexism, racism, and violence in the media through education and action. Our goal is to challenge abusive stereotypes and other biased images commonly found in the media. Media Watch, which began in 1984, distributes educational videos, media literacy information and newsletters to help create more informed consumers of the mass media. We do not believe in any form of censorship, especially the silencing of marginalized groups. Corporate owned media will use any image or story to manipulate buying power and opinions, regardless of the harm engendered by their images. We believe people's safety should come before profit."

  LGBT Studies

• See GLBT Studies Resources Guide

  Literature

• See English and American Literature Resources

  Research Centers

• Guttmacher Institute: "The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education."
• Institute for Women's Policy Research: "...dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families ... focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety, and women's civic and political participation."
• Kaiser Family Foundation: "... a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. ... a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. ... always provided free of charge – from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers..."
• Population Reference Bureau: "The Population Reference Bureau provides timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications."
• Urban Institute: United States issues. Mission: To promote sound social policy and public debate on national priorities, the Urban Institute gathers and analyzes data, conducts policy research, evaluates programs and services, and educates Americans on critical issues and trends.
• VAWnet: Researching Violence Against Women Online: "... online resources relevant to research on domestic and sexual violence including Applied Research Documents, data sets, research and evaluation tools, fact sheets, research reports, and other publications that provide an analysis, critique and/ or review of current related issues."

  Reproductive Rights

• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Kaiser Family Foundation: Women's Health Policy: Up-to-date information on a variety of health issues, including reproductive health, contraception, and access to and quality of health services received by women. Includes full text statistical surveys of the U.S.

  Statistics

• U.S. Department of Labor: Women's Bureau
• PovcalNet "PovcalNet also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of you're choosing. PovcalNet is self-contained; it has reliable built-in software that quickly does the relevant calculations for you from the built-in database." Poverty Calculator from the World Bank. Allows download to Excel spreadsheets.
• The World's Women: Progress in Statistics

  Women's Studies Programs and Higher Education Resources

• University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office: Includes:
• International Women's Resources
• Subject-arranged list of links
• Core lists of WS books
• WS programs
• WS course materials

• American Association of University Women
• Center for Research on Women (Wellesley College)
• Ms. Foundation for Women
• National Organization for Women
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• National Women's History Project
• National Women's Studies Association
• Women's Organizations: A meta-list maintained by the University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office