LibGuides: Women's & Gender Studies: Web Resources

Web Resources

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
An Archive of Memorable Quotes by Women
FeMiNa -One of the older comprehensive women-related sites on the Internet, founded in September 1995.
Feminist Activist Resources on the Net
Feminist Theory Website - The materials are currently divided into 31 fields, including traditional disciples such as education, history, and law, and topics such as Post-Colonialism, Separatism, and Body Studies.
Feminist.Com
FEMLINK: The International Video Collage
From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont - IN 1912, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women founded a school in Gatlinburg, Tennessee to mark its fiftieth annivesary. This website chronicles the work of the Settlement School ( and its contemporary successor Arrowmont ) tracing the work done by these women in economic development and education in the Great Smoky Mountains from 1910 to 2004.
Gendernet - Sponsored by the World Bank, this site summarizes how its projects work to reduce gender disparities and promote womens involvement in economic development.
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
National First Ladies' Library -a useful resources
National Woman's Party Digital Collection
Research Resources for the Social Sciences - The site is well organized into 18 different categories, including general resources, reference materials, data archives, and news resources. Each category provides links to web sites including e-journals, listservs, and full-text resources. Another useful category, "Aggressive Pattern Searches," provides links to information about searching the web, effective search strategies, and guides to using Internet search engines.
SAWNET: South Asian Women's Network - SAWNET is a voluntary non registered organization, begun by Jyothy Reddy and Susan Chacko. The countries covered are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Linked sites include statistical data, reports, children's books, etc. SAWNET will be useful to a wide range of audiences interested in South Asian women's issues.
SPARROW- Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women
ViVa: a Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
Voice of the Shuttle - Gender and Sexuality Studies
Woman Stats Project
Women in Politics
Women's Law Initiative
Women's Resources on the Internet
Women's Rights and Democracy in the Arab World
Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews
Women's Studies in Digital Archives
WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies
WWWomen The premier search directory for women online.

American Medical Women's Association
Association for Women in Computing
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Center for Women's Business Research
Daughters of the American Revolution
Global Fund for Women
League of Women Voters
National Organization for Women
National Women's Political Caucus
National Women's Studies Association
Network of East-West Women
Society of Women Engineers
Sociologists for Women in Society
The Feminist Majority Foundation Online - Founded in 1987. . .one of America's leading women's rights organizations.
U.S. DHHS: women'shealth.gov
Women in Technology International

CDC’s Office of Women’s Health

GenderStats (World Bank)

Illinois Attorney General: Advocating for Women

Illinois Council on Women and Girls

Illinois Department of Human Rights

Illinois Department of Human Services: Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

National Women's Health Information Center

Office of Global Women’s Issues

Office of Women's Business Ownership

President's Interagency Council on Women

Violence Against Women Office

Women's Bureau (US Department of Labor)

Barnard Center for Research on Women
Center for American Women and Politics
Center for Women & Information Technology
George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers
Institute for Women's Policy Research
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives: Insuring the Future By Preserving the Past - Originally known as the West Coast Lesbian Collection, these are the only archives in the western United States dedicated exclusively to preserving lesbian history. Holdings reach back to 1895 and include the papers of veteran lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
Lesbian Herstory Archives
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies
The Alan Guttmacher Institute - The Alan Guttmacher Institute was founded in 1968 as a semiautonomous division of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Today, it is a totally independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to "protect and expand the reproductive choices of all women and men; to enable individuals to have access to information and services concerning sexual activity, reproduction, and family planning; and to give priority to the needs and concerns of those who may be disadvantaged." Information provided, which is quite current, comes primarily from research and publications of the Institute itself.
Women Artists Archive National Directory

A Ballot for the Lady: Washington Women's Strugge for the Vote ( 1850-1910 )
"Abundant Life to All": The Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A.- This site profiles an exhibit mounted at Smith College in 2007 marking the 65th anniversary of the Sophia Smith Collection on women's history. The items included are drawn from the 1, 132 file boxes of YWCA records held by the collection.
"No Job for a Woman": The Effects of War on Women's Lives During the 20th and 21st Century
300 Women Who Changed the World - Profiles of women who have left their mark on the world.
A *Daring Experiment*: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937 - 1970
African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935 - 1938
Biographies of Women Mathematicians - Covers mostly nineteenth century to the present with a few eighteenth century and before.
Caroline Bartlett Crane: Everyman's House
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Early Modern Women - Database This site is browseable by subject, type, time period, language, and geographic area.
Early Women Masters East and West - This website has changed its name from Early Women's Art (earlywomensart.net).
Emma Goldman Papers
Federal Citizen Information Center - A one-stop source for answers to questions about consumer problems and government services.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World - Can be searched alphabetically or chronologically, 1848-.
Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Home Economics Archive - Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH)
Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
Julia Morgan- An Online Exhibition
Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President's Doorstep
Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camp
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Writer and Conservationist
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
National First Ladies' Library
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's History Project
Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700- This site begins with hymns written ca.2300 BC by Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess, and covers 125 writers from both hemispheres whose works have been translated into modern English.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History
The Floating World of Ukiyo-E - Ukiyo-e (translated as pictures of the floating or sorrowful world) is a showcase of the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. These works are complemented by related works from the Library of Congress' collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists in the 20th century.
The Gertrude Bell Project
The International Archive of Women in Architecture
The Jean Thomas Collection-Based at the University of Louisville, this collection records the lifework of Thomas, a major photographer and documentarian of the mountain music of eastern Kentucky in the first decades of the twentieth century.
This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889- 1963
Women Immigrants, 1945 to the present
Women in America: 1820-1842 - A collection of eighteen travelers accounts by both sexes of the United States in the first decades of the nineteenth century, intended to provide a fuller picture of women's lives than that given in Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy In America. Writers included range from James Fenimore Cooper and Charles Dickens to John James Audubon. Searching is provided by author and topic.
Women in the U.S. Postal System
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Women's Party
Women Physicians, 1850s- 1970s
Women Working, 1800-1930
Women's History Month

NIU Libraries LGBT Studies Research Sources LibGuide
Resources in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
National Center for Transgender Equality
A social justice advocacy organization founded in 2003.
University of Victoria Transgender Archives
Gathered here are documents, rare publication and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with activism. for trans, gender non-binary, and two-spirit people going back over 100 years and come from 18 countries across five continents.
GLBT Historical Society
Founded in 1985, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of LGBTQ public history. Our operations are centered around two sites: our GLBT Historical Society Museum, located since 2011 in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood; and our Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives and Research Center, open to researchers in the Mid-Market district.
Lesbian Herstory Archives: Herstories (LHA)
The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives. The process of gathering this material will uncover and collect our herstory denied to us previously by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture which they serve. We will be able to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience; we also hope the existence of the Archives will encourage Lesbians to record their experiences in order to formulate our living herstory.
SAA: Diverse Sexuality and Gender Division: Lavender Legacies
This is the first formal and comprehensive guide to primary source material relating to the history and culture of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered (LBGT) people held by repositories in North America.
ACT-UP Oral History Project
The ACT UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. The project is coordinated by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, with principal camera work by James Wentzy and additional camerawork on the West Coast by S. Leo Chiang and Tracy Wares.
The Queer Zine Archive Project: QZAP: Zine Archive
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.