Women's Studies Online Resources

Women's Studies Online Resources will help you find information-rich, high-quality web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or gender-related e-mail lists; women's studies files from the WMST-L File Collection; links to women's studies programs around the world and to the Center for Women and Information Technology; financial aid for women; updates to Internet Resources on Women; and more. For information about Women's Studies at UMBC (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), see the UMBC Gender and Women's Studies home page.

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites

A frequently-updated, annotated, selective set of more than 700 links to sites offering resources and information about women's studies and/or women's issues. Includes 16 topical subsections, such as Activism, Arts and Humanities, Health, Cyberculture and Internet Information, Science and Technology, Sexuality and Sexual Orientation, Women of Color, and more.

Women- and Gender-Related E-mail Lists

A frequently-updated listing and description of more than 600 e-mail lists that focus on women- or gender-related issues. Includes 16 topical subsections, such as Activism, Arts and Humanities, Business, Health, Motherhood, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Sports and Recreation, Sexuality and Sexual Orientation, Women of Color, and more.

Women's Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers

Approximately 700 listings in the US and around the world. Annotations identify programs offering graduate degrees or certificates.

Center for Women and Information Technology

ABCNews.com calls this site "the best resource on women and technology on the Web." The site offers information, news, resources, and initiatives that address women's use of information technology [IT] and their under-representation in the IT workforce. Includes a very large collection of web-based women- and gender-related syllabi.

WMST-L File Collection

WMST-L is a large, international e-mail forum for discussion of Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. The File Collection contains more than 250 files relating to these topics. They are arranged alphabetically and also in eighteen subject sections: Academia, Books and Films, Feminism(s), Feminist Theory/Theories, Girls and Young Women, Grad School/Job Market, Health/Biology, History, Intro to Women's Studies, Language, Men, Miscellaneous, Pedagogical Issues and Strategies, Race/Ethnicity, Sexuality/Sexual Orientation, Societal Issues in the Classroom, and WMST-L.

WMST-L: Academic Women's Studies List

Information primarily about WMST-L, an academic e-mail list for discussion of Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. This section includes:

• information about WMST-L (including how to subscribe)
• a copy of the WMST-L User's Guide
• instructions for searching the WMST-L logfiles
• WMST-L's web interface and How to Use WMST-L's Web Interface
• WMST-L Syllabus Collection has been supplanted by a huge collection of web-based syllabi at the Center for Women and Information Technology
• Debunking Computer Virus Myths
• links to guides for citing online information.
• Linda McAlister's WMST-L film reviews (and some others)
• WMST-L File Collection

Resources for WMST Students: Financial Aid and Job Opportunities

Information about financial aid, jobs, and internships

Awards this site has received.

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