Guides and References

Women's Studies Internet Resources

Gateways and Guides

• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Women and Gender Studies Web Links (from ACRL's Women's Studies Section)
• Women's Studies Database (useful sources for a whole host of information on women's issues including conferences, bibliographies, calls for papers, employment, film reviews, gender issues, and the Reading Room which is a collection of text by and about women. Maintained by the U. of Maryland)
• Women's Studies Online Resources
• Women Watch: The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History

Directories [of women's organizations and Women's Studies Departments]

• Women's Organizations (from the U. of Wisconsin)
• Women's Studies Programs, Departments, Research Centers, Archives and Libraries (from the U. of Wisconsin)

Indexes and Bibliographies

• Early Modern Women Database
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
• GenderWatch (full text database of periodical articles and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas). Available only to currently affiliated Montclair State users.
• ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
• Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies (from the U. of Wisconsin)
• Women's Studies Database: Bibliographies (bibliographies on a whole host of topics. Maintained by the U. of Maryland)
  

See the Women's Studies Resources in Sprague Library guide for a list of less specialized electronic resources (databases) to use.

Women's History: Primary and Secondary Sources

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection (from Duke University)
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook (from Paul Halsall of Fordham)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775 - 2000
• Women Working, 1870 - 1930 (explores women's roles in the U.S. economy via digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources from Harvard's library and museum collections)
• Women's Archives and Special Collections on the WWW
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History
  

Full Texts Works by and About Women

• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (goal is to "promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing")
• Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (a selection of published works at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library)
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection (documents on "various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus[ing] specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s." From Duke University)
• Electronic Text Center: Women Writers ( part of the Electronic Text Center collection at U. of Va.)
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research Papers
• Nineteenth Century American Women's Writers Web E Text Library
• Women's Human Rights Resources ("documents dealing with women's human rights")
• The Victorian Women Writers Project
• Women of Color Web (writings by about women of color in America; concentrates on feminisms, sexualities, and reproductive rights; sponsored by the Global Reproductive Health Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health)
• Women's Archives and Special Collections on the WWW

Miscellaneous Resources

• Center for American Women and Politics (Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University)
• Core Lists in Women's Studies
• Feminist Theory Website
• 4Women.Gov (National Women's Health Information Center)
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
• Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (Women-Focused) (from the U. of Wisconsin)
• US Department of Labor Women's Bureau
• Women Related Web Sites in Science/Technology
• Women's Human Rights Resources
• Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews

For Women's Studies print resources available in Sprague Library, go to: Women's Studies Resources (in pdf)