» Virtual Reference: Women's Studies
American Women's History
American Women's History: A Research Guide Includes over 2100 citations to print and Internet sources and hundreds of links to digitized primary sources.
American Women Through TimeThis site explores women's history through an interactive timeline that includes research sources like newspaper articles, exerpts from manuscripts, photographs, advertisements, historical statistics, and secondary sources.
Picturing Women "Picturing Women explores how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative".
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 For secondary & higher education students: Primary documents on women in social movements.
Women Working, 1800-1930"Women Working,1800 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy up to the Great Depression.".
Digital Archives
Women Studies in Digital Archives"A starting point for links to primary resource materials."
Lists of Women Studies Programs
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies in the USA and CanadaCompiled by John Younger, University of Kansas.
Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research CentersCompiled by Joan Korenman. Includes beyond the U.S.
Some Noteworthy Women
First Ladies
National Women's Hall of Fame
Women, Family and Work
Families & Work Institute
Labor Project for Working FamiliesNews, fact sheets, and links to web resources. (LPWF advocates for family-friendly policies in the workplace.)
National Partnership for Women and Families "Promoting fairness in the workplace, access to quality affordable healthcare, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family."
U.S. Dept. of Labor: Women's BureauLibrary of resources, statistics, reports, directory of programs/services, links to web resources.
Working Mother MagazineArticles, links, reports, chat sessions.
Women's Organizations
The Center for Research on WomenWellesley Centers for Women.
Directory of Women's OrganizationsThe Feminist Majority Foundation. Organized by subcategories.
Gender-Related Electronic Forums Compiled by Joan Korenman.
Women Studies Books
Core Lists of Books in Women's Studies
Project of ACRL's Women's Studies Section. Core lists of books in women's studies are intended to assist librarians and others in building women's studies collections. Because the lists include books currently in print, they also serve as a guide to teaching faculty in selecting available course readings. The focus of the lists is on women in the United States .
Women Studies Journals
Feminist and Women's Journals Feminist Research Center: feminist journals, women's law journals & online publications.
Women Writers and Speakers
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 Shields Library, University of California, Davis.
The Brown University Women Writers Project A mission "to recover and disseminate the range of writings in English by Women" before 1850.
A Celebration of Women Writers Links to other sites featuring women writers throughout history.
Digital Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th CenturyNew York Public Library.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project Written in English by women from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
Feminista 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women
Gifts of Speech
Women's speeches from around the world.
Victorian Women Writers Project Library Electronic Text Resource Center, Indiana University. Contains novels, poetry, short stories, political essays, pamphlets, religious tracts, and children's books by 19th century British women.
Campus Links
- Women's Studies Program
- The website of Northern Kentucky University's Women's Studies Program
updated on 06/6/07