Gender & Cultural Studies
Australian Government Websites
New South Wales Department for Women
New South Wales Government site. The site lists working with the government
as its primary aim, to significantly improve opportunities for women in
NSW. The focus is on women with limited access to social and economic resources.
Links include the rural women's network, other state government sites
and overseas sites such as the United Kingdom, Canada etc.
url: http://www.women.nsw.gov.au/
Queensland.Office of Women's Policy:
This website provides access to plicy, advice, and submissions which
are made to the Minister responsible for Women's Policy. There are
links to the Office of Women's Affairs, which includes a searchable database of Queensland Government initiatives.
url: http://www.women.qld.gov.au/
South Australia. Office for the Status of Women
Key source of women's policy advice . The Office reports directly to the Minister for the
Status of Women.
url: http://www.officeforwomen.sa.gov.au /
Women Tasmania
Policy and advisory body for the Tasmanian Government.
url: http://www.women.tas.gov.au/
Victoria. Office of Women's Policy
The Office of Women's Policy, located in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, provides strategic policy advice to
the Victorian Government on issues of concern to women.
url: http://www.women.vic.gov.au/
Women's Policy Office ( Western Australia)
This Office advises the Minister for Women's Interests
on matters relating to the status of women. The office assists
government agencies to improve services to women, links government
and women's organisations in the community & co-ordinates government strategies
within the Domestic Violence Prevention Unit.
url: http://www.community.wa.gov.au/Communities/Women
Advocacy
Women's Electoral Lobby
The Women's Electoral Lobby, or WEL is affiliated with the
International
Alliance of Women. The Lobby is an Australian women's political
organisation that is non-party political and "...seeks to empower
women through providing an atmosphere of warm support, sharing, open discussion,
and opportunity for action." The Women's Electoral Lobby lobbies politicians,
unions, employers etc on behalf of women. The site consists of media releases,
Women's Electoral Lobby activities and submission. There are links to external
sites with a strong Australian focus.
url: http://www.wel.org.au/index.htm
Australian Women's Intra Network
Resources for Australian Women's Groups, Major Australian Women's Events, OSW Directory, Media & Australian Women
Reclaim The Night,International Women's Day & Stop Domestic Violence Day
url: http://www.isis.aust.com/win/
International Women's Media Foundation
Organisation launched in 1990 "...to strengthen the role of women in the news media around
the world."
url: http://www.iwmf.org/
NSW Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby
One of the peak gay and lesbian lobby groups in Australia.
url: http://www.glrl.org.au/
Academic Websites
University of Sydney. Department of Gender Studies Homepage
Course information, staff profiles and information on conferences and recent publications.
url: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/gender/
Artemis Guide to Women's Studies in the US.
Comprehensive directory of links to courses and study in the USA (only Depts. and faculties with websites listed.) women's studies in United States Universities. Compiled by Kate Robinson.
url: http://www.artemisguide.com/
The Media Theory site
Established in 1997, theory.co.uk explores the complex connections between media and identifiers.
url: http://theory.org.uk/
Voice of the Shuttle
A comprehensive directory of links to websites for humanities research compiled by Alan Lie of University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department.
url: http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers
Directory of websites compiled by Joan Korenman for programs of studies throughout the World. This is part of a comprehensive web resource covering many aspects of research in gender studies including Women- and Gender-Related E-mail Lists & Resources for WMST Students: Financial Aid and Job Opportunities
url: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html
WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
Comprehensive Website developed and maintained by the WSS Collection Development Committee
of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Resources are categorised by subject including;
General sites, Archives, Art and Film, Culture (mostly literature), Education, Health, History, Lesbian Studies,
Music, Philosophy, Politics, Science and Technology and Theology.
url: http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html
Women's Studies Database
Searchable clearinghouse of resources compiled and maintained by the University of Maryland. Resources include
bibliographies, conferences, employment, government & history, syllabi, film reviews, other websites and gender issues.
The Reading Room contains the full-text of academic papers and texts in various research areas.
url: http://www.inform.umd.edu/womensstudies/
Gender & Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality
Published and maintained by EServer, founded in 1990, based at the University of Washington
url: http://eserver.org/gender/
Meniscus
"...a series of web based interactives that explore ideas relating to subjectivity, scientific belief systems and the body."
url: http://www.johnt.org/meniscus/index.html
Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
url: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/socgend.html
Voice of the Shuttle:Gender Studies Guide.
Comprehensive collection of resources for gender and sexuality, compiled and maintained by Alan Liu, English Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
Wesite covers the follwing research areas Women's Studies & Feminist Theory; Men's Movements, Lesbian & Queer Studies and Cybergender & techgender.
url: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711
Voice of the Shuttle: Cybergender & Techgender.
url: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=690%20
Archives, Libraries & Special Collections
Jessie Street National Women's Library:
The Jessie Street Library is a national library with a focus on Australian
women's literary and cultural heritage. Holdings include the Canberra Women's
Archive. There are links to Australian and overseas sites such as the NSW
Department for Women, Women's Electoral Lobby, Feminism and the Net and
so on. Items in the Jessie Street Library are also located on-line on the
url: http://203.147.135.214/about.html
Fawcett Library: The National Library of Women (UK)
"The Fawcett Library exists to document the changing role of women in
society, in the past, now and in the future. It seeks to collect materials
relating to the changing role of women in society and to make these available
to personal and to remote users, however they make contact. It maintains
links with other women centred libraries in an informal world wide network." (Library is based at Guildhall University, London)
url: http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/
Women's Archives and Special Collections on the WWW
Annotated Guide developed and maintained by Ginny Daley, Special Collections Library, Duke University.
url: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/article.html
Women Writing: Views and Prospects 1975-1995
Online seminar on Australian Women's Writing from the National Library of Australia.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/events/ww.html
Women's travel Writing, 1830-1930
Digitization Project at the Wilson Library, University of Minnesota. Browse the collection by author, geographic area or theme.
This website also includes an annotated collection of links to other digitized collections of Women's Writing
url: http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/womtrav.htm
Early Modern French Women Writers
Digitization Project at the Wilson Library, University of Minnesota.
url: http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/frenwom.htm
International and Regional Websites
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
This site contains reports and speeches by women and organisations
connected with the United Nations. Topics include women in government,
sexual violence, and the effects of armed conflict. Also included are United
Nations publications and a calenda of events.
url: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/index.html
Canadian Women's Studies On-line
Comprehensive North American Source for Women's Studies Information. Includes Women's Studies Programs,
links to over forty Canadian University Women's Studies Programs at the Undergraduate and Graduate level; Library Resources &
links to Women's Studies Databases in Canada and the United States and University Bulletin Board
Conferences, Calls for Papers, and Job Postings in the United States and Canada.
url: http://feminism.eserver.org/programs/ut.html
Russian Feminism Resources Home Page
Articles on Russian women covering many issues.
url: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2533/russfem.html
Women, Gender & Sexuality in Latin America - LANIC
Guide compiled by the University of Texas Latin American Information
Center to provide access to databases and information from Latin America. Contents include articles
on gay and lesbian issues, gender and education, and research and information in areas such
as work and writing. Resources are also listed by by country. Many sites are
in Spanish.
url: http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/women/
South Asian Women's Network: SAWNET
Excellent collection of Resources for South Asian Women. This website includes a mailing list, articles, a Directory
of Organizations and film and book reviews.
url: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
Subject Specific Resources
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.
Searchable collection of resources which includes: Course Materials; Bibliography; Visual Images; Anthology; Essays;
Biblical Studies; Perseus; De Feminis Romanis. This website is hosted by the University of Kentucky
url: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
NOEMA:The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy
"NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy is a project in collaborative scholarship with a database now containing
over 16,000 records representing the work of over 5,000 women" Search by author, title or keywords in annotation or browse within subject categories.
url: http://billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/womeninphilosophy/womeninphilo.html
Medieval Feminist Index
Searchable index of journal articles, book reviews, and essays in
books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. The index include over 3000 records in the database currently, and more than one hundred
records are added every other month. MFI includes links to other Internet resources. MFI is compiled and maintained at The Haverford College Library (USA).
url: http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
Bibliography of Women and Religion
Searchable Bibliography compiled by Susan C Lau, North Huntingdon, PA.
url: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/lau_bib.html
Literature and Culture Websites from WSSLINKS.
Excellent collection of Literary Links at MIT Library Women's Studies Web Directory. Resources include:
Texts Online, Literary Criticism, Bibliographies, Classical and Medieval Studies, Bookstores and Book Reviews,
Multi-disciplinary and Women of Color.
url: http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html
Theory, Gender & Identity Resources.
Part of the www.theory.org.uk website developed by the
Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds. This section of the
website is a comprehensive research resource for gender and identity. Included are references to critical works, book reviews, resouces for key theorists
and links to related material.
url: http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-quee.htm
Gender, Ethnicity and Class.
Resource directory for Gender studies includes bibliographies, essays, course information and many links. Part of
the UK Media and Communications Studies site developed and maintained by David Chandler.
url: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/gender.html
Women Writers Online
"The Brown University Women Writers Project has its intellectual roots in two communities whose synergy
began to be evident at the end of the 1980s. The first of these was the growing field of early modern
women's studies, whose project was to reclaim the cultural importance of early women's writing and
bring it back into our modern field of vision."University of Sydney Staff and Students only
url: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html
Men's Issues
Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity
This site is part of the American Psychological Association and its
focus is on the critical study of how gender shapes and constricts men's
lives. Contents include a discussion list, newsletter, research projects
and contacts, and links to men's resources including health and social
issues.
url: http://www.apa.org/divisions/div51/
Full-text Documents
Deconstructing the Gender Gap.
Greenberg, Anna (1998). John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
url: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/prg/greenb/gengap.htm
Genders: essays about gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic and economic concern.
url: http://www.genders.org/
Women's Health
The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
Project conducted by the Research Institute og Gender and Health at the University of Newcastle. The project was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services in 1995. It aims to follow health and health related issues of "...young, mid-age and older women for up to 20 years and will address serious gaps in knowledge about women's health. " The project website includes publication information, study themes, methods and progress.
url: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/wha/
Australian Women's Health Network
"The Australian Women's Health Network (AWHN) is a community based, non-profit, consultative
organisation that provides a national voice on women's health issues.
It was established in 1986 and operates as a women's health advocacy, information and lobbying
organisation, working with Government policy makers and other agencies to improve the health
and well-being of Australian women. The site was developed by Carolyn Frohmader for the Australian Women's Health Network." This website includes excellent collections of links to many
women's health issues and organisations.
url: http://www.awhn.org.au/
Society for Women's Health Research
US based organisation which seeks to improve the health of women through
research. website includes policy and advocacy, gender based biology, publications and an annual research update.
Excellent collection of women's health links.
url: http://www.womenshealthresearch.org/site/PageServer
Reference
Gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database
"gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 7,500 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature. "
url: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm
Core Lists in Women's Studies
Subject based bibliography of core books in Women's Studies compiled by the Association of Vollege and research Libraries, Women's Studies section. General Editors of
the series: Megan Adams and Bernice Redfern.
url: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/coremain.htm
Directory of Women Philosophers
"The Directory of Women Philosophers was initiated in the early 1990's by the American Philosophical Association's Committee on
the Status of Women. It was initially set up as a Paradox database which compiled information about women with Ph.D.'s or ABD's in philosophy.
The directory was seen as way of using new information technologies for the benefit of philosophers, especially women job applicants, hiring officers
and prospective students. In addition, such a resource was thought useful to philosophy departments looking for conference participants, guest speakers
or visiting faculty, to external evaluators of tenure and promotion candidates, and to the evaluators of academic departments and programs."
Address: < http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~krist/APA >
url: http://dacnet.rice.edu/Services/DWP/
Global list of Women's Organisations
Compiled and maintained by Denise Osted. Organised by country
url: http://www.euronet.nl/~fullmoon/womlist/womlist.html