African American Women: On-line Archival Collections

(Scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of the writings of African American women, from the Digital Scriptorium of the Duke U. Special Collections Library. Includes memoirs, poems, vignettes, and slave letters.)

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

(The Schomburg Center has made available this extraordinary digital collection of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. The entire database as well as individual works can be searched by keywords.)

African Women and Economic Development: Related Links

(A page of international links set up in conjunction with a UN-sponsored conference.)

African Women's Bibliographic Database

(Librarian and Africa specialist Davis Bullwinkle has compiled this very extensive, searchable database of English-language materials from 1986 to the present on African women.)

African Women's Media Center

(Site offers resources and tools that African women journalists need to compete equally with their male colleagues, including networking opportunities, information about fellowships and training programs, courage in journalism awards, and annotated links to related resources. A project of the International Women's Media Foundation.)

Africa - Women

(Annotated links from Stanford University librarian Karen Fung's Africa South of the Sahara resource guide)

Afrol.com: Women

(The "women" section of the African portal site Afrol.com offers news coverage of women in Africa, plus some background information about the news, "women and gender profiles" for each African country, and some links to related sites.)

allAfrica: Women

(allAfrica has added a separate section on women that includes extensive, current news about women in Africa. The site is also available en français/in French.)

Arab Women Connect

(This bilingual (English/Arabic) site is part of a project to "explore the potentials and applications of new information and communication technologies for Arab women's empowerment." It provides news about Arab women's concerns, opportunity for discussion, and information about events, publications, job openings, and related online resources.)

Asian American Feminist Resource Site

(Mimi Nguyen's in-your-face site includes sections on "politics and activists," "articles and essays," "pop culture," "bibliographies," "queer," "zines," "art," "academics," and more, all concerned with Asian American women.)

Association of African Women Scholars

(Organization devoted to "promoting excellence in scholarship, networking, & activism." Website offers resources in these areas.)

Blackgirl International

(Site describes itself as "the internet resource for black women." Offers links to other sites in a dozen categories, such as Art, Heritage, Issues, and Organizations.)

The Blacklist

(A list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people of African descent.)

Black Women in Mathematics

(This site, created and maintained by mathematics professor Scott W. Williams, provides a history of Black women in mathematics, biographies of Black female mathematicians, relevant articles, and links to related sites.)

BlackWomensHealth.com

(Information about women's health with a focus on black women.)

Black Women's Website Against Racist Sexual Violence

(Information on Black, ethnic minority, immigrant, migrant, and refugee women in Britain who have suffered rape, racist sexual assault, or other forms of violence and harassment, including women seeking asylum after being raped in their country of origin.)

Books on Women's Studies Published in India

(Vedams Books International has created this useful site to call attention to recent books on Women's Studies published in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal and often focusing on women in this area. The listings include not just publication information but also [by clicking on "details"] tables of contents and excerpts from the book jacket or preface.)

CLNET's Chicana Studies Home Page

(Information on Chicanas and Latinas, including interviews, announcements, discussion topics, resources, related web links, and more.)

DIANA: International Human Rights Database

(A collaborative database of electronic materials essential to human rights research. This part of the database, at the University of Toronto's Law Library, is devoted to Women's Human Rights. It includes a rich, well-organized set of links for legal research; documents from governmental and non-governmental organizations; and a bibliography of women's human rights documents.)

Digital Sisters

(Digital Sisters has been created "to promote and provide technology education and enrichment for young girls and women of color." The web site provides information about relevant events, news, educational resources, reports and statistics, and links to related sites.)

The Dimitra Project: Rural Women and Development

(A Belgium-based project, supported by the United Nations, designed to contribute to improvement of living conditions of rural women around the world through dissemination of information. The bilingual (French/English) site offers information about hundreds of organizations, projects, and publications, as well as copies of a newsletter and links to related sites.)

Female Genital Mutilation

(This web site from the human rights organization Amnesty International offers extensive coverage of female genital mutilation [FGM], also known as clitoridectomy or female circumcision. It describes the procedures and their physical and psychological effects, identifies where FGM is practiced, discusses the rationales offered for FGM, and explains why it has become a human rights issue. The web site also offers strategies for change, contact information, and a selected bibliography.)

Female Genital Mutilation Education and Networking Project

(Marianne Sarkis' site offers extensive resources for research, teaching, and activism regarding female genital mutilation, including a bibliography, information about films, legislation, health concerns, religious issues, e-mail lists, and more. ome attention also to male circumcision.)

Fempress

(Monthly Spanish-language magazine devoted to women's issues and to more fairness between women and men. Primary focus is on Latin America. The website includes full-text articles from the current issue.)

Gender-Related Electronic Forums: Women of Color

(Annotated, frequently-updated listing of women- and gender-related email discussion forums focusing on women of color.)

Global Reproductive Health Forum

(Subtitled "health, rights and gender at harvard university," this site offers working papers and other information about such issues as Gender, Reproductive Rights, HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases/RTI, Contraception, Abortion, Population and Family Planning, Maternal Health, and the South Asia Project, concerned with gender and women's health in South Asia. Some parts also available in Spanish.)

International Gender Studies Resources

(This valuable website from Berkeley's Institute for International Studies offers "research and teaching materials meant to facilitate the integration of Women's and Gender Studies into International Area Studies...." Included are general and specific bibliographies and filmographies on issues pertaining to women and gender in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Arab World, and among minority cultures in North America and Europe, as well as links to related sites.)

Internet Women's History Sourcebook

(Paul Halsall's awesome, vast resource for online material on women's history, beginning in prehistoric times and working its way, area by area and issue by issue, to modern times. It covers individual websites, mega-sites, and secondary articles and reviews. Includes substantial coverage of Asia and Africa. An amazing site!)

 

JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies

(A peer-reviewed ejournal devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of African women to the global African community and friends of Africa. JENdA documents and responds to debates on women's history and studies in African social, cultural, political and economic systems. The journal is published by Africa Resources Center, Inc.)

 

Journal of South Asia Women Studies

(Current and back issues containing articles about women's issues in South Asia.)

 

Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights

(Karamah focuses on domestic and global issues of human rights for Muslims, with particular emphasis on Muslim women. The site offers legal news, information about civil rights projects, online and print publications, and more.)

 

Lesbians of Color Site

(Yolanda Retter's site includes listings of lesbians and gays of color, bibliographies, archives, articles, interviews, news, organizations, a chronology 1950-1995, and more.)

 

MACHETE: Women of Color Zines

(Descriptions and links to a dozen women-of-color zines, plus related articles and resources for starting your own zine.)

 

Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage

(Susana Gallardo's site offers a wealth of resources about Chicana life: biographies, bibliographies, syllabi, literature, other cultural resources, and more.)

 

(Articles from the journal, based in India, and links to other sites focusing on Indian women)

Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection: Women & Gender Issues

(Links to news articles, essays, and other online material about women and gender in the Middle East, put together by a specialist bibliographer at the Cornell University Library.)

 

Muslim Women's Homepage

(Huma Ahmad's site offers extensive links to information about "the true stance Islam takes on gender issues and the role of women.")

Muslim Women's League

(Web site of "a nonprofit American Muslim organization working to implement the values of Islam and thereby reclaim the status of women as free, equal and vital contributors to society." The site includes news and analysis, essays, position papers, recommended reading, links to related sites, and more.)

Muslim Women's Studies

(Sponsored by the Zahira Abdin Chair for the Study of Women and Gender, this web site offers a number of essays that combine women's studies with a focus on Islam. More resources are planned. The essays and other materials all seem to be the work of Mona Abul-Fadl.)

MySister MySelf

(Calling itself "the online empowerment zone for women of color," this site offers sections devoted to news, conference announcements, art, music, books, political action, economics, women of color who have made a positive impact on the community, contributions from/for young people, and more. Much opportunity for input from readers.)

National Women's Health Information Center

(Part of the U. S. Public Health Service, this site offers many links to women's health information to lay people and health professionals. One section offers extensive resources focusing on women of color)

Native American and Other Ethnic Women on the WWW

(Part of the excellent University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's site, this page provides annotated links to a number of Native American sites that include substantial information about women. Lesser attention to other racial and ethnic groups.)

RAWA: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

(Pro-human-rights, anti-fundamentalist activist site.)

Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women

(Information about women in Buddhism and related links.)

SAWNET (South Asian Women's Issues)

(News and information about books, films, health, electronic resources, and more for women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.)

Servicio de Noticias de la Mujer/Women's News Service

(A bilingual Spanish/English site that specializes in reporting on women and gender issues in Latin America. The site includes a searchable database (currently only in Spanish) of more than 360 news articles published in Latin America in the past two years. Each database record includes the article's title, author, country, number of words, a summary of the article, and the cost and procedure for obtaining the article. The site also invites submission of other material relevant to the situation of women in Latin America.)

SisterMentors

(SisterMentors is a project that helps women of color doctoral candidates to complete their dissertations and get their Ph.D.s. The women, in turn, mentor and support girls of color in middle and high schools. The women and girls are of different races and ethnicities, including Latina, African American, Asian American, and girls and women who are immigrants.)

Southeast Asia Women's Studies Bibliography

(This excellent resource from the UC Berkeley library lists reference materials, books, journal articles, and websites for scholarly research related to women in Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.)

The State of World Population 2000

(Released in September 2000, this annual report of the United Nations Population Fund documents extensive gender inequality and discrimination against women and girls and discusses the effects of this discrimination on individuals and societies. The report's sections include Gender and Health; Violence Against Women and Girls; Men, Reproductive Rights, and Gender Equality; Counting the Cost of Gender Inequality; Women's Rights are Human Rights; and Working Towards a Better Future. The report includes graphs and charts of key facts and figures, and related links. It is also available in French and Spanish.)

Stree Academic Publishers

A small independent publisher based in Calcutta, India, Stree publishes scholarly books in English and in Bengali on social and women's issues, especially issues facing women in India today. The site provides descriptions of each of the books Stree has published or is about to publish, including many that are hard to find elsewhere.)

3BlackChicks...Review Flicks

(The site started in 1999 with a simple question: why are there "no" nationally known Black movie reviewers? The site offers movie reviews, often reviews of the same film by more than one reviewer, illustrating their very reasonable contention that "We Are Not a Monolith.")

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

("An instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color." Includes images and audio files "wherever possible.")

WIDNET (Women in Development Network)

(Bilingual [English/French] site offering statistics and other information about women's health, education, labor, political participation, etc. around the world)

WomenAction

(A "global information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to actively engage in the Beijing+5 review process with the long term goal of women's empowerment, with a special focus on women and media." The web site, available in English, French, and Spanish, offers information, involvement, and resources focusing on Africa, Asia & Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean, and Europe & North America.)

Women and International Development Program (MSU)

(A valuable collection of resources from the WID program at Michigan State University. The site includes annotated Internet links arranged by region, abstracts of several hundred inexpensive articles for sale, a film guide, information about relevant academic programs at MSU, a promised listing of MSU gender-related courses, and more.)

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

(Extensive collection of links put together by Ellen Spertus. Less useful than it used to be because it needs updating.)

Women in India: How Free? How Equal?

(An independent, analytical report commissioned by the United Nations in 2001. Written by Kalyani Menon-Sen and A.K. Shiva Kumar, it examines gender inequalities in various aspects of social and economic life in India--health, education, work, assets, decision-making, etc.--and makes suggestions for achieving greater gender equality.)

Women, Ink: Women and Development Resources

(A project of the International Women's Tribune Centre to market and distribute resources on women and development worldwide. It includes well-organized, annotated listings from publishers all over the world. Though a commercial site, it offers much valuable information.)

Women of Color Health Data Book

(Provided by the National Women's Health Information Center, this site offers extensive information intended to help policy makers and women's health advocates understand the health status of women of color and assist them in addressing their needs. Organized in three parts: Factors Affecting the Health of Women of Color, Health Assessment of Women of Color, and Issues Related to Improving the Health of Women of Color.)

Women of Color Resources: UMBC and Beyond

(Though it may seem egocentric or circular or both, I've included this link because it brings together several women of color resources: annotated listings of websites, email lists, and new or changed academic links. People come to this page via various paths and might otherwise miss some of these resources.)

Women of Color Web

(Valuable web site sponsored by the Harvard Global Reproductive Health Forum "to explore the intersection of gender and 'race' on topics such as feminism, sexuality, and reproductive health and rights." Includes scholarly articles, book chapters, critical essays, teaching tools, and links to related resources.)

Women of Color Web Site

(An excellent resource created by Yolanda Retter, this site contains "links to and original material on the history and culture of women of color in the U.S. and other countries." It includes bibliographies, articles, interviews, notable women, and Internet sites focusing on African American, Native American, Asian Pacific Islander, Latina/Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Multiracial/Multiethnic women.)

Women of Color, Women of Words

(This site, created by performing arts librarian Angela E. Weaver, provides extensive resources about African American women playwrights. The site includes biographical information, listings and descriptions of the plays, annotated links to relevant sites, information about productions and about theaters that perform African-American and multicultural theater, a bibliography of dissertations and critical resources, and instructions for joining a related email list.)

Women of the World: Laws & Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives

(Covers Brazil, China, Germany, India, Nigeria, United States)

Women's Biography Sites

(This useful site created by Sharon Hushka provides links to more than 250 women's biography web sites. They are arranged both alphabetically and in nine categories: Arts & Entertainment; Diversity; General; HerStory; International; Of Interest; Politics; Science, Math, & Technology; and Sports.)

Women's Issues in 3rd World Countries

(Cecil Marie Cancel's site provides information and resources addressing the economic, political, religious, and socio-cultural aspects of women's lives in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. A new issue is added each week, and the site is searchable.)

Women's Legal Issues in Africa

(Resources of use to participants in the Legal Advocacy for Women in Africa program at Georgetown Law School and others interested in these issues. The site includes links to domestic and international resources concerning women, law, policy, etc.)

Women'sNet

(South-African-based web site "designed to enable South African women to use the internet to find the people, issues, resources, and tools needed for women's social action." The site includes sections for News, HIV/AIDS information, Women and Human Rights, Preventing Violence Against Women, Gender in Parliament, Health, New Communication Technologies, Women and Enterprise, a Directory of South African Women's Organizations, and more.)

WomenWatch

("The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women." It provides information and data about women around the world and about the global agenda for improving the status of women.)

WON: Women on the Net

(Extensive, well-organized collection of online resources that address the interests and concerns of women, especially women of color. Note: the site's "main index" is several layers down.)

WOUGNET: Women of Uganda Network