(Danuta Bois' searchable site provides varying amounts of information about women--both famous and not so well known--in MANY fields, including art, history, literature, music, philosophy, and stage and screen. There are both alphabetical and topical indexes, as well as an extensive listing of links to related sites.)
(This excellent site provides annotated links to high quality academic resources for the study of early modern women. You can search by keyword, or you can browse by field [Art, Architecture, History, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy and Religion, Science/Technology, Multidisciplinary], time period, language, geographic area, etc. [Former title: Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change])
(Highly acclaimed site that provides an overview, a chronology and CD discography, abundant illustrations, MIDI soundfiles, a starter kit of 25 recommended CD recordings, and more. The site used to focus only on music but now includes extensive material about early art and poetry as well. [NOTE: The actual site has now disappeared, but it has been cached by Education Planet, and it is the Education Planet copy to which we've linked.])
(Information about all the women who have won the Nobel Prize. Arranged by field and chronologically. The site also includes links to books and web sites dealing with women in science and technology. Part of the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.)
(A content-rich "online journal of feminist construction" that contains "art, literature, social commentary, philosophy, wit, humor, and respect." It offers essays, fiction, poetry, web reviews, and more. Definitely a cut above most other feminist 'zines.)
(This quarterly column, written by Mev Miller, offers very brief reviews [3-6 sentences] of recently published books related to Women's Studies, women's issues, Lesbian/Queer Studies, and Gender Studies. The reviews describe each book's contents and indicate the likely audience, from general to highly specialized. Titles reviewed include both fiction and non-fiction. Mev Miller used to write a similar column for Feminist Bookstore News before FBN ceased publication.)
(A blog that proclaims its belief "that all opinions - positive and critical - are valuable and seeks to give voice to communities that remain on the margins. Our mission is to write reviews from feminist perspectives to explore the world through an anti-oppression lens. We recognize that there are many feminisms and provide a space where those differences can be represented and explored." The blog discusses books, journals, zines, music, television, movies, feminist issues, and more.)
(Stanford University Feminist Studies librarian Kathy Kerns has compiled this extensive, annotated listing, which has separate sections devoted to Meta Sites, Programs, LGBT, Violence Against Women, Women of Color, Women in History, Women and Work, and Women Writers. Also includes information to aid library research about women.)
(Kristin Switala's site is "designed to provide research materials for students and scholars interested in Feminist Theory." The site includes attention to the history of Feminist Theory in the U.S., its different national and ethnic forms, individual theorists, and more than 25 fields within Feminist Theory, such as aesthetics, economics, history, law, literary theory, philosophy, political theory, science, sexuality, etc. Parts of the site are available in French and Spanish.)
(Prof. Verena Kuni prepared this "online working sheet" to supplement her lectures and courses. It includes recommended readings and links for such topics as agency, body check, cyberfeminisms, the cyborg, mediated identities, next sex, technologies of gender, and trans/gender utopias.)
(Publishing since 1988, the journal Genders switched to electronic publication with issue 27 in 1998. It focuses on the arts, humanities, and social sciences and publishes essays about "gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic, and economic concerns.")
(Liz Linton's expanding collection contains more than 100 speeches by prominent women of the 19th and 20th centuries. Speeches are arranged both by speaker and by year.)
(Created by Prof. Mary Celeste Kearney, this website provides "information on girl media producers, as well as programs for and research about girls' media-making," including links to blogs/magazines by girls for girls, girl filmmakers, girl musicians, programs for girls' journalism/writing, girls' film or video production, and girls' music, as well as media-making gear for girls, and much more.)
(Site devoted to notable women in Canada, past and present. There are biographies, graphics, related history, news, and information about books, films, related links, et al.)
(Alexandria North's site is "a place of art, culture, and learning for women-oriented women." Lesbian-themed poetry, lesbian images in art, and quotations by or about lesbians. North has removed the Yoohoo! Lesbians! section because she could not keep it up to date.)
(Created by the Jewish Women's Archive, this exhibit seeks to convey Jewish women's roles and contributions to the feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s. Using video clips, radio news reports, documents, artifacts, images, sounds, and fragments of memories, the exhibit delves into the meanings of feminism and its legacies to contemporary and future generations of Jewish women. Among the many women featured are pioneering activist Gloria Steinem, historian Gerda Lerner, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, artist Judy Chicago, novelist Marge Piercy, National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg, and Sally Priesand and Amy Eilberg, the first American women to be ordained rabbis in Reform and Conservative Judaism.)
(Created and maintained by librarians who are experts in finding and evaluating online resources, the Librarians' Index to the Internet is itself one of the most valuable resources on the Web. Its focus extends to just about every topic, but its coverage of women is especially impressive. Its opening page on Women" lists approximately 70 topics. Each of these contains carefully selected and annotated links to information-rich web sites. Though the topics range widely--the S's alone include Sex Discrimination, Social Conditions, Speeches, Sports & Athletics, Statistics, and Suffrage--the site offers particularly extensive coverage of health issues and what it refers to as "Notable Women." Not to be missed!)
(Susana Gallardo's site offers a wealth of resources about Chicana life: biographies, bibliographies, syllabi, literature, other cultural resources, and more.)
(An ongoing collaborative effort by an international group of scholars of medieval history, religion, art history, archaeology, and other disciplines. The goal is "to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe." Includes biographies, community profiles, bibliography, glossary, archives of articles, an image library, and more.)
(Web site affiliated with the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. Like its physical counterpart, the web site provides information about American women who have made major contributions to "the arts, athletics, business, education, government, the humanities, philanthropy and science." The women are listed alphabetically, and the site is searchable.)
(Gerri Gribi, who is knowledgeable about Women's Studies, is in charge of the Women's Studies section of this Yahoo-like directory. Among the many valuable sub-sections is one for Performers and Speakers.)
(Based on a 2004 exhibit, this interesting site "explores how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative." The site juxtaposes art and artifacts from the past and present in order to ask questions such as "what constitutes female identity?" "how is it culturally constructed in images, artifacts, and texts?" and "what roles have these artifacts played in defining women's places in society, how they have been pictured historically and are pictured today?" Includes resources such as lesson plans, reading lists, a discussion forum, and more.)
(I include very few blogs in these listings, in part because there are better places to find out about blogs and in part because including blogs would make this already large listing excessively large. Every now and then, however, I make an exception. Women-related sci/tech blogs are one such exception, and Pont des Arts is another. Pont des Arts is a Spanish-language blog by Gabriela De Cicco, from Argentina. Updated almost every day, the blog offers interesting observations about the following topics: Activismo, Actualidad, Argentina, Art, Blogosfera, Cultura, Escribir, Feminismo, Lesbianas, Lgbt, Literatura, Mujeres, Musica, y Periodismo. Also included are links to related sites.)
(This 1997 study by Prof. Nancy Signorelli examines the messages relating to body image, behavior, activities, and motivation sent to teen and pre-teen girls by four media: television shows and commercial, movies, music videos, and teen magazines. The study also captures the demographic makeup of the characters in the media consumed most often by young girls.)
(Website "about the relationship between the mass media and people's identities, gender and everyday life." Special sections devoted to gender issues, Judith Butler, queer theory, and identity, among other. Includes essays, reviews, links, and more.)
(Excellent source of information concerning online and print resources about
women, including core bibliographies in Women's Studies, online newsletters
and 'zines, web sites arranged by subject, and much more. Highly recommended.)
(This exhibit from the Princeton University Library documents "women's involvement in printing and the making of books ever since these crafts were first developed." The site offers a brief introduction and four ways to view the exhibit: Thumbnail Gallery, Name, Occupation, and Timeline.)
(Visual Culture & Gender [VCG] is an international online journal published annually. Its purpose is "to encourage and promote an understanding of how visual culture constructs gender in context with representations of race, age, sexuality, social units, (dis)ability, and social class and to promote international dialogue about visual culture and gender. VCG concerns the learning and teaching processes or practices used to expose culturally learned meanings and power relations that surround the creation, consumption, valuing, and dissemination of images, and involves issues of equity and social justice in the learning, teaching, and practice of art." )
(An exceptionally rich and valuable collection of links to resources in women's studies, feminist theory, gay, lesbian, and queer studies, men's studies, and cybergender.)
(Editor Daniela Gioseffi's zine offers exceptionally fine poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art by celebrated writers like Alicia Ostriker, Grace Paley, and Gioseffi herself, as well as by some lesser known writers and artists.)
(Eleanore Hofstetter has provided this multidisciplinary bibliography to supplement and update her book Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography. The update includes books, journals, essays, government reports and doctoral dissertations; they treat "all aspects of the lives and issues concerning women who are living permanently or for long periods outside their country of origin or who have migrated for fixed periods of time on work contracts." The update is organized into a title and author list and several broad subject areas, including Demography, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Personal Narratives, Religion, and more.)
(This impressive site, created and maintained by Mev Miller, describes itself as "the most comprehensive and current listing of women-owned and women-centered bookstores and publishers." In addition to the listings of bookstores and publishers, the site also provides a bibliography: "herstory of independent feminist, women's, lesbian bookselling and publishing.")
(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.)
(Formerly called Women to Worship, this useful page provides links to "sites lauding the lives and accomplishments of notable women in the fields of music, literature, television, activism, painting, and the performance arts.")
(Kristine Burns' web site is "devoted to young women in high school and college who are interested in music and art . . . and who also like math, science, and computers." The site provides abundant information about electronic art, artists, hardware and software, career advice, where to seek training, women-focused music and art resources, links to relevant organizations, magazines, and email lists, and a lot more.)
(Online edition of book by Ronald L. Ecker that offers both Biblical and scholarly citations to sexuality in the Bible. Includes alphabetical listings, index, bibliography, and links.)
(A site for feminists interested in art, visual culture, art history, criticism, and artmaking. Among its offerings are a very extensive News and Events section, a changing Gallery exhibit featuring women artists, an archive of past featured artists, a website of the week, web-based discussion forums, transcripts of an NWSA 2000 session on bridging the gap between women's studies and art, and more.)
(According to the web site, GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand [GGBB] was "formed in 1999 to tackle the primordial discrimination of our technological world. Our mission is to combat sexism, racism and social injustice in the art world and beyond through electronic and other means." The GGBB web site offers good links to cyberfeminist and other relevant sites; bios of some notable women; posters; activist streaming video; letters to send anonymously to a politically clueless boss; a "participatory exploration of fashion and feminism," and more. The web site claims that GGBB is one of Guerrilla Girls' three wings. One of the other wings--GuerrillaGirls On Tour--makes a supporting statement, but the third--GuerrillaGirls--disavows any affiliation with the others. All three sites offer useful resources.)
(This special issue of the electronic journal Switch has articles on gender ambiguity, grrl power, gender roles in computer games, women artists using technology, and several articles dealing with cyberfeminism.)
(An international online feminist art journal that seeks to explore the
paradoxes of feminism and the art world today. Published quarterly, it
contains full-text articles, book reviews, information on women's arts
organizations, and links to relevant sites.)
(A bilingual [French/English] Canadian site focusing on media arts and on demystifying women's experience of digital technologies. Includes art exhibits, activist projects, workshops, and an annotated list of related resources.)
(An electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists. Each artist has her own web page of images, background information, and artist's statement. "Designed for educational use by the fine art and commercial art worlds, and the general public," the site also includes a bibliography of women artists and some essays about women and art.)
(Self-portraits and representations of womanhood by women artists from the medieval period to the early 20th century. A companion site deals with women artists of the 20th century.)
(Professor Emerita Susan Ressler has created this interdisciplinary resource featuring the contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American west. The searchable site offers a number of illustrated essays organized around four themes: community, identity, spirituality, and locality. A useful and extensive site map is also available, as is information about Prof. Ressler's book on this topic.)
(An annotated exhibit of photographs by well known and lesser known women photographers. Photographs are from the U. of California, Riverside/California Museum of Photography collection.)
(This bi-lingual [English/French] Canadian site "provides a snapshot of the issues around the media's portrayal of women and girls -- from effects on body image and self-identity to ramifications in sports and politics. It looks at the economic interests behind the objectification and eroticization of females by the media as well as efforts to counter negative stereotyping." Also included on the site are sections dealing with men and masculinity and resources for parents and for teachers. From Canada's non-profit Media Awareness Network.)
(Films for the Feminist Classroom [FFC] is an open-access online journal. It publishes film reviews that provide critical assessments of the value of the films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom, as well as interviews with directors and producers of feminist film. The journal, formerly hosted by the Rutgers University Women's and Gender Studies Department and the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women, Culture, and Society, is now hosted by the Department of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University.)
(More than 1000 films with lesbian content are listed with brief reviews. Site includes photos, essays, film trailers, screensavers, and even its own talk radio station.)
(Web site based on 1994 UCLA symposium on scary women in cinema. Includes papers, audio clips from symposium, opportunity to discuss the issues raised by the symposium, and links to related sites.)
(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.")
(Extensive, annotated listing of videotapes contained in the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center. Includes some ABC/CLIO reviews. Tapes are not available for borrowing, but the information is useful.)
(Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media arts organization established in 1972 to address the under-representation and misrepresentation of women in the media. The searchable web site includes an extensive film and video catalogue arranged by subject, title, and filmmaker; information about upcoming events; extensive links to sites and resources about women and film/other media, and more.)
(WIF promotes the study of francophone women writers and of women more generally in francophone countries. This bilingual website also provides information about conferences and other events, publications, the WIF e-mail list, related links, and more.)
(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.)
(This about.com site focuses on the history of African American women "from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance, and civil rights." Among its many resources are slave narratives, biographies of well-known and lesser-known women, coverage of African American nurses, women's clubs, participation in historical events, movements, and political activities, and more. Included, too, is a section on white women who worked for racial justice and the rights of African Americans.)
(Subtitled "A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources
for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United
States," this site "contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site." Materials include books, manuscripts, maps, music, recorded sound, moving images, folklife, topical essays, and more.)
(Librarian Ken Middleton offers on this site a chronology of women's history in the United States. Each section includes a timeline that links specific events with highly relevant online sources, followed by a guide to research sources (e.g., census, newspapers, secondary sources) that are appropriate for the specified time period. An extensive, well-organized resource.)
(Duke U. site devoted to two women's participation in/response to the
U.S. Civil War; includes scanned images, transcripts of correspondence, newspaper clippings,
and related links.)
(Site devoted to the history of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. From 1969 to 1977, the CWLU developed grassroots programs for women [e.g., Jane, an underground abortion service] while working toward a long-term revolution in American society. The web site offers primary documents, articles, first-person accounts, art, photos, music, and more.)
(This database from Middle Tennessee State University librarian and history specialist Ken Middleton provides access to digital collections of photos, artifacts, letters, diaries, and other materials documenting the history of women in the United States. The "diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century." Users can browse the database by subject, place, time period, or primary source type.)
(Information from the WITI Hall of Fame about the six women who were selected in 1945 to be the first programmers of the pioneering ENIAC computer. Includes photos and links to more information, including an interview and a video.)
(A chronology of the feminist movement [primarily in the U.S.] from 1953 to 1993. Covers Events, Issues, and Backlash. Also includes early documents from the National Organization for Women and a bibliography. Online version of a print publication.)
(Site created by the White House Historical Association to provide illustrated information about the wives of U. S. presidents. Also includes a link to the National First Ladies Library.)
(The Genesis Project, based at The Women's Library in London, is devoted to developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles. The web site includes a searchable, comprehensive list of both British and international web resources relating to the study of women's history and a database of library, museum, and archive collection descriptions.)
(Useful collection of links to women's history sites, bibliographies, full-text historical and contemporary essays, and other resources relevant to women's history. Part of Don Mabry's larger collection of historical text archives.)
(Created by the library at Evergreen State College, this site provides extensive though unannotated links to online resources dealing with a variety of women's issues, among them Women & Defense, Women & Education, Women & Energy, Women & Health, Women & Science, Women's Suffrage, Women & Violence, and more.)
(An extraordinarily rich repository of online materials relating to Joan of Arc--texts, images, maps of her journeys, pedagogic resources, information about an e-mail list, and links to related sites.)
(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. An amazing site!)
(Though this site is designed to promote Ben D. Kennedy's book Maid of Heaven: The Story of Saint Joan of Arc, the site also offers abundant free information of use to anyone interested in Joan of Arc. Included are a timeline, "quick facts," background history pertinent to Joan of Arc, links to reference works Kennedy used in his book, pictorial representations, quotations about Joan of Arc, a FAQ, reviews of books, movies, and music about Joan of Arc, and an extensive, lightly annotated list of links to other relevant sites.)
(Professor Esther Newton's impressive site, which arose from her graduate and undergraduate Lesbian History seminars, provides extensive information and resources about many aspects of lesbian history.)
(This resource from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine provides a monthly listing of selected doctoral dissertations from around the world that deal with a variety of medical humanities issues, including a large section dealing with Women's Health and History. The listing begins with dissertations completed in 2001 and continues to the present. Each entry includes an abstract; it is also possible to read the first few pages of the dissertation, and, if one wishes, to purchase a copy of the entire work.)
(An imaginative, multimedia web site that seeks to represent what life was like for women in medieval Europe. Includes extensive use of music, graphics, text, and lists of sources. Created by a team of professors, students, and technical staff at McMaster University in Canada.)
(This slow-loading site that ignores the needs of text browsers is nonetheless useful, at least to those with a graphical browser and patience. It provides a portrait or photograph, a brief biography, and an admirable, well-organized, partially annotated bibliography for each first lady of the United States, as well as information about the actual National First Ladies' Library in Canton, Ohio.)
(Site devoted to explaining, promoting, and helping to identify resources for National Women's History Month. Includes ideas to use for local programs, a listing of exemplary programs, a directory of women's history performers, a women's history quiz, and extensive women's history links, as well as information about a catalog of items for sale.)
(Biographies of well-known and not-so-well-known women in history, arranged in categories both traditional [e.g., Artists, Authors, Educators, Politicians] and unusual [Humorous, Notorious, Survivors, Witches], as well as along ethnic/racial lines [African American, Native American, Pioneers & Emigrants], and more. Also, good sets of links
to other women's history sites and genealogy sites.)
(Paul Halsall has created a vast and impressive resource that attempts to cover LGBT history "in all periods, and in all regions of the world," and the web resources that deal with it. Arranged in chapters, the site offers historical overviews and links to hundreds of discussions, fiction and non-fiction texts, reviews, and other links, as well as a large, partly annotated bibliography.)
(The site describes itself as a scholarly community that "brings together feminist thinkers, scholars, and activists, to analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories, define new directions for historical research on this period, and provide a new venue for publishing traditional articles but also for writing and recording this history in ways made possible by the medium of online publication." Resources include a discussion forum, chronologies, oral histories, images, reviews, bibliographies, links to related sites, and teaching and research resources.)
(A paper by Catherine Bernard, written in 1995 when she was affiliated with Stanford University's Program in Modern Thought and Literature. Bernard's paper discusses the issue of focusing on women and the Holocaust and examines Holocaust memoirs by three women: survivor Lucille Eichengreen, Anne Frank, and Charlotte Salomon, who died at Auschwitz. The paper includes extensive notes and a bibliography.)
(Rich resource about women and gender in the Victorian period. Multidisciplinary coverage includes literature, economics, religion and philosophy, politics, the visual arts, etc. Part of Brown University's even more extensive Victorian Web.)
(A current bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than sixty European and American periodicals. ViVa is compiled at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.)
(Library of Congress collection of 167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting
the American women's suffrage campaign. See also the collection of Women's Suffrage Prints and Photographs.)
(This web site offers a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at SUNY, Binghamton. Each project deals with a specific issue and contains introductory material, a collection of primary documents, and a bibliography; some also contain illustrations and links to related sites. A valuable resource for university and high school teachers and students of U. S. Women's History.)
(A Library of Congress site that includes selected articles and photographs produced by women journalists and photographers during WWII, along with contextual essays and biographical information. The site focuses on eight women but also provides a much longer list of accredited women correspondents during this period.)
(An exceptionally rich resource from Encyclopedia Britannica, this site offers overviews of American women's history, a large number of biographies of both famous and not-so-well-known American women, articles about women-related aspects of American history, a media gallery with audio and video clips, works by American women, annotated links to other women's history sites, a recommended reading list, and a study guide for teachers.)
(Information about past and present women in the United States. Included are data about women and men from the 2000 Census, news items about women and women's issues, brief illustrated biographical sketches of "Women of Influence," annotated links to related sites and to documents about women available online. The site was created by the U. S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs.)
(A calendar of biographies of accomplished women and important dates in women's herstory, compiled by Irene Stuber. Each day of the year has one or more entries, and new entries continue to be added.)
(Part of the Museum of the American West, this site focuses on women's suffrage in the Western states. It includes historical and biographical information and a bibliography.)
(Jone Johnson hosts this About.com site devoted to women's accomplishments in all areas of history--the arts, the sciences, politics, sports, aviation, medicine, suffrage, slavery, and more. Like other About.com sites, this one adds new features every week.)
The valuable IPL2, which merged the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index, has put together this page of annotated links to ten worthwhile sites dealing with Women's History Month.
(Thomson/Gale publishers have made available this useful resource about Women's History Month. Included is a brief history, illustrated biographies of significant women, a timeline of significant events in women's history, a quiz, and activities.)
(This site offers an impressive assortment of information about women, including the origins of women's history month, information about notable women, timelines, statistics about women, and almanac and reference links to information about women and education, work, motherhood, health, crime, and more. Irrelevant ads somewhat detract from the site.)
(A refereed journal "whose aim is to provide a forum for the publication of new scholarly articles in the rapidly expanding field of women's history." Articles are retrievable in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.)
(More than a hundred entries about pioneering women lawyers practicing from the late 1800s through the end of the twentieth century. Many of the entries were written by students of women's legal history at Stanford University. Also included are supplementary articles, obituaries, photographs, a timeline, links to related sites, and more.)
(Each week, Kathleen McFadden's site highlights six significant women who were born or achieved some milestone during a date in that week. The brief, interesting biographies include links to relevant web sites, along with recommendations for further reading, listening, and/or viewing. The site includes women from differing countries, races, time periods, and areas of accomplishment.)
(Prototype of Harvard University's Open Collections Program Women Working project. "This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages), and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930." Intended primarily for teachers and students in colleges, universities, and high schools. "Conversion of historical sources to electronic form allows teachers to incorporate them into their course syllabi and lesson plans and thus expose students to the nature of primary sources, historical analysis and research, and the knowledge and insights that can be gained by exploring the past.")
(Barbara Hill Hudson, Professor Emerita of English and author of African American Female Speech Communities: Varieties of Talk, has created this web site to "explore the many aspects of African American female communication patterns, both verbal and nonverbal." The site includes resources and information, including an extensive bibliography, on African American females from different social and cultural groups.)
(Professor Marjorie Chan compiled this bibliography for a course she teaches on Chinese language and gender, and has since updated it. In addition to works about Chinese language and gender, the bibliography contains small sections containing a general linguistics bibliography on language and gender and a bibliography of works on gender issues by scholars of Chinese in disciplines other than linguistics.)
(Four hypertexts dealing with the effect of electronic discourse upon gender and/or the effect of gender theory upon electronic discourse, along with three indirect "responses." From Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments)
(Linguistics professor Mary Bucholtz has created this page of resources relating to language and gender. Sections include People, Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and Resources.)
(A vast collection of links dealing not just with language and linguistics but also with "women and the web," "women and Internet language," computer-mediated communications scholarship, and more.)
(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.)
(An annotated listing of books for girls written in the last 200 years. The books reflect the changing roles that were/are considered proper for girls. Roughly chronological, the listing is organized into subject headings such as A Christian Upbringing, Etiquette, Nurses, A Christian Upbringing, Girl Detectives, Tomboys and Working Girls, Heroines, and more. Almost all the books come from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Library.)
(A searchable electronic collection of texts from the Shields Library, Univ. of California, Davis. In addition to the texts, there are links to related web resources and a guide to e-text best practices in libraries.)
(Website devoted to the writings of 19th and early 20th-century U.S. women authors who wrote about domestic matters. Special sections devoted to
Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather,Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, and Edith Wharton, each with extensive resources.)
(A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the 17th century through the 19th century. "The Project is a pedagogical tool, designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students in various disciplines the opportunity to edit their own texts." In addition to the texts, the site includes the pedagogic introduction, suggestions for assignments, and bibliographic resources.)
(Women and Gender Studies Database from the University of Cologne. This searchable database contains over 8000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism, and gender studies focusing on English and American literature. In German and English.)
(This valuable site by Jyotsna Sreenivasan focuses on historical novels by women about women, offering descriptions, book reviews, occasional author interviews, and links to related resources.)
19th-Century American Women Writers - see Society for the Study of American Women Writers, below.
("A collaborative enterprise combining interdisciplinary research and humanities computing to produce the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British isles.")
(Dorothy Disse has provided an exceptionally valuable source of information about and links to texts by more than 120 women who wrote a substantial amount before 1700 and whose work has been translated into English [many entries include links to texts in the original languages as well]. The site includes writers from West, South, and East Asia as well as from Europe.)
(Prof. Joanne E. Gates has created this valuable web site that provides resources about Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), a relatively little-known American novelist, feminist activist, Ibsen actress, and suffrage lobbyist. The resources include full texts of her works, suggestions for teaching assignments, and links to related sites.)
(Jaclyn Reding's extensive site provides links to romance authors' homepages, publishers, writers' services, research resources, info about the British Isles and costuming, newsgroups and email lists, and more.)
(This site offers listings of science fiction books [not fantasy, horror, or vampire] with lesbian characters or by lesbian authors, loosely defined. List categories include "lesbian authors," "lesbian/bi female characters," "female/gay dominated worlds," and "other books of interest.")
(Information about books, journals, and conferences dealing with American women writers and their work, as well as an archive containing full etexts of selected works of 19th-century American women writers and links to related sites.)
(Transcripts of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century. Considerable attention is given to accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.)
("An instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color." Includes images and audio files "wherever possible.")
(A wealth of information about women's experiences in the Nazi holocaust. Personal testimony and recollections; biographies of female partisans and resistance fighters; a multi-part essay on women's holocaust narratives; poetry; historical background; a bibliography; and more.)
