gender studies—women's studies

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• Center for Women and Politics A gateway to related sites and also includes full-text research reports and fact sheets.
• Contemporary Women's Issues Citations and full-text access to global information about women in over 150 countries from journals, newsletters and research reports. Subjects include development, education, family life, gender equity, human rights, and others.
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910, online When complete (in 2007) will have over 60,000 images of primary documents and rare printed literature for men and women in five areas: (I) Conduct and Politeness; (II) Domesticity and the Family; (III) Consumption and Leisure; (IV) Education and Sensibility; and (V) The Body. Fields of study include economics, education, history, the history of medicine, literatures in English, performance arts, philosophy, psychology, and religion. May trace changes over-time in, for example, advice literature, consumer consumption, the position of men within the family, and perceptions of the body, beauty, education, and the mind.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present Compilation of links to brief biographical sketches of women.
• Documentary & Other Films at NU Long lists of documentary films categorized by subjects such as art, gender, the Middle East, and sexual orientation are available for check-out through the Library's Mitchell Multimedia Center. Television news specials (e.g., political conventions, Presidential debates and speeches, etc.) are collected on a comprehensive basis. Click on the link to see specific topic lists. See, too, information on the other collections—performing arts films, feature films, and spoken word recordings.
• Gender Studies Database The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
• GenderWatch Full-text articles from scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters, etc., including ethnic and minority presses. Coverage of regional, national, and international issues from 1980 to the present.
• Gerritsen Collection—Women's History Online, 1543-1945 A well-known and very important core resource which includes "books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights." Spans four centuries and fifteen languages.
• Global Women's Activism: Selected Sites An extensive list of activist entitles such as "UN affiliated NGOs, government agencies, academic institutions, research centers, as well as focus-specific organizations working on issues such as advocacy, empowerment, human rights, social justice, HIV/AIDS... violence against women, etc."  Arranged by continents and countries. 
• Historical and Current Resources in the University of Chicago collections on Women's Studies: Comprehensive list of current journals, reference titles, and others, including links to historical materials in print, microform, and other formats. (These lists are not exact duplicates of the set "Women, Gender Studies, and Sexuality."). Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
• Historical and Other Resources in the University of Chicago collections on Women, Gender Studies, and Sexuality. Comprehensive list of current journals, reference titles, and others. (These lists are not exact duplicates of the set "collections on Women's Studies.") Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
• Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies in the NU Library An electronic guide to important historical resources—e.g., Women, travel, and empire, 1660-1914; the gay rights movement, 1970-1983; the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992; women's journals, c1700-1832; and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2000. See, too, the links to the area studies collections including Latin America, East and South Asia, Europe, and America for international resources on gender issues.
• International Gender Studies Resources, UC Berkeley: "...featuring research and teaching materials ... offers 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 other interesting resources available on the Web."
• Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections: "This guide identifies and classifies over 900 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library that deal primarily with lesbian themes. It is largely a subset of the Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago Library, compiled in 1998; but it has been updated by the addition of approximately 180 lesbian-themed titles acquired in late 1997, in 1998, and in early 1999." See, too, Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the U of C libraries. See Library privileges.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet: Women These sites have been critiqued and approved by librarians. Provides wide variety of topic areas. Use the "Search LII" box to find other relevant lists such as the list of sites on LGBT.
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
• NWSA: National Women's Studies Association
• NWSA Student Resources
• The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
• Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
  Harvard University Library online archive of 420 trial narratives. The collection includes American, British, and Irish cases involving the relationships between men and women, from 1814 to 1914, including domestic violence, seduction, breach of promise to marry, bigamy, and murder. "These trials are especially rich sources for the study of the history of women in early modern society."
• Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts Online 1995 to present.
• Voice of the Shuttle – Gender and Sexuality Page, UC Santa Barbara A very large directory of web sites, some of which are annotated. Sections include women's studies and feminist theory, journals and zines, and men's and queer studies.
• WISTAT: Women's Indicators and Statistics Database version 4: Statistics on gender, population and social development on a wide range of topics for 206 countries or areas. (The Java client is required to run this database. Off-campus access requires VPN)
• Women Advising Women, 1450-1837 See the online guide to contents on the publisher's website at AMP Digital Guides. Microform collection in 7 parts with early primary sources related to women’s rights and status, health, marriage, the law, daughters, education, religion, morality, women writers, women as translators, household management, domestic economy, and much more. For other large microfilm sets of related primary materials, see Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies in the NU Library.
• Women and Gender Studies: WSSLINKS These e-resources are carefully selected and maintained by librarians in the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Women & Film Websites: WSSLINKS These e-resources are carefully selected and maintained by librarians in the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Women & Politics: WSSLINKS These e-resources are carefully selected and maintained by librarians in the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Primary sources and "mini-monographs" on topics in women's history and American social movements. Currently includes 55 document projects, 33 lesson plans or document-based questions, and 20,000 pages of additional full-text documents. Updating continues.
• Women & Youths Digital Collections of the University of Wisconsin: Good collection of searchable, digitized, text-based materials such as books, journals, and manuscripts, photographs, and others.
• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Works included on women and reading, power and print, and women as editors and publishers.
• Women Working, 1800-1930 "... contains approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images of selected rare and historical books, institutional papers, personal papers, diaries, and photographs from Harvard's network of libraries, archives, and museums." Includes approximately 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and 1,200 photographs.
• Women Writers in English 1350-1850 This is a series of printed books. Below are links to the NUcat records.
• Women Writers Online An ongoing, long-term project of the Brown University Women Writers Project "... devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible..." Currently, over 200 e-texts available for browsing, searching, and SGML-supported analysis.
• Women's Center, Records of the, 1986-1991: The Women's Center, an expansion of Northwestern's Program on Women, was opened in 1986. (1 linear foot)
• Women's Collection – Special Collection on the Women's Movement The NU McCormick Library of Special Collections has collected materials—books, pamphlets, posters, periodicals, flyers, etc.--in regard to the contemporary women's liberation movement (domestic and international) since 1970. Over 3,700 books and pamphlets make up the continually-growing collection. See the link or visit Special Collections (Deering Library) for more details.
• Women's International Web Sites: WSSLINKS These e-resources are carefully selected and maintained by librarians in the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Women's Speeches from Around the World – Gifts of Speech A good base of speeches by contemporary leaders in politics, literature, and other fields.
• Women's Studies Databases, University of Maryland "...begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues." For example, includes conference information, calls for papers, and employment lists as well as bibliographies, and other web sites.
• Women’s Studies Encyclopedia. Also in print format in the Main Library, Reference Department (305.403 W872 1999).
• Women's Studies International Access via: Gender Studies Database. Comprehensive database of citations to literature in women's studies.
• Women's Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers Over 700 links to undergrauate concentrations and graduate programs in the U.S. and other countries. Also provides links to other useful lists.
• Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership Lists of "female Heads of State listed by country, a chronological list of Women in Power from B.C. 3000, female Prime Ministers... by country... a chronological list of female Presidential Candidates, Ambassadors to the United Nations..." and more.