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- Africabib.org Two bibliographic databases covering African women’s literature and Africana periodical literature, and an English language bibliography on women travelers, explorers and missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999. By Davis Bullwinkle, University of Arkansas in Little Rock.
- African Gender Institute: Electronic Gender Links Annotated listings of African and Southern web sites with a focus on women and gender issues. From the website of the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town.
- African Women on the Internet Links to online resources from Stanford University Libraries
- Documents on Women’s Issues in Uganda The Bibliography of Research on Uganda Women 1986-2001 contains citations of books, chapters and journal articles on the following subjects: Agriculture/Rural Development, Civil Society/Activism, Conflict/Post-Conflict, Economics, Education Gender/Feminism/Women, General Health, AIDS, Reproductive Health/Sexuality, History, Law and Land/Property Rights, Marriage/Family/Violence, Media, Politics and The State. The bibliography is part of the Women of Uganda Network website (WOUGNET), which also contains lists of women organizations in Uganda, women in Parliament, and links and resources for – particularly Ugandan – women.
- GALA Gay and Lesbian Archives for South Africa At the University of the Witwatersrand. General information and a guide to the GALA archival collections.
- Gender Project Documentation Centre The Centre, at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, houses a specialist collection of published and unpublished materials in the field of gender equality and women’s rights. General information.
- GALA Gay and Lesbian Archives for South Africa At the University of the Witwatersrand. General information and a guide to the GALA archival collections.
- Widowhood among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria By Chima Jacob Korieh. Online version of thesis, University of Bergen, Norway, 1996
- Ahfad Journal: Women and Change Journal of Ahfad University for Women, Sudan
- Feminist Africa Online journal published by the African Gender Institute and its Gender & Women’s Studies Project (GWS Africa).
- Jenda. A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
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- Southern Albanian Society Personal website of sociologist Beryl Nicholson. Some of her publications including a bibliography on Albanian society between the wars, and articles on women, the Albanian family, and migration are online.
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- Centro de Estudios de Población (CENEP) Centre for population studies in Argentina. Its subject areas include the social and demographic aspects of human reproduction, the family, and gender and population.
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- Kartini Network: Women’s and Gender Studies Institutes in Asia Information on the activities of this network, which aims to promote women’s studies in Asia, bringing together academics and activists working in this field.
- Southeast Asia Women Studies Bibliography Bibliographies and directories, general Works, articles, web sites and online databases, and email lists; from the University of California Berkeley Library.
- The Politics of Divine Wisdom Theosophy and labour, national, and women’s movements in Indonesia and South Asia, 1875-1947. Online summary of publication by Herman de Tollenaere.
- Central Asian Network of Gender Studies The website of this network of researchers includes a library of texts on gender issues published (mainly) in Russian during last 5-7 years, a bibliography, educational resources, book reviews, announcements, conferences and seminars, and a list of related websites.
- Guide to Writings by or about Women in Pre-independent India The Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota. Searchable database.
- The Economic Position of Women in Asia By Xin Meng (1998, CLARA Working Paper, PDF). Downloadable from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series.
- Journal of South Asia Women Studies
- Manushi: A journal about women and society (India)
- Nan nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China An interdisciplinary journal of Chinese gender studies.
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- Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Established in 1978, the primary goal of the Archives is to recover and preserve any materials that record the lives and experience of Lesbians and Gay men in Australia. The ALGA collection is the biggest repository of historical materials about homosexuals and homosexuality in Australia.
- Australian Women’s Archives Project a central database to record information about women’s archives. The AWAP register now lists over 700 entries relating to women and women’s organizations.
- Australian Women’s Art Register An archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras from the Victorian period. The Register is located at the Richmond (formerly Carringbush) Library in Melbourne.
- Beyond the Picket Fence Australian women’s art in the National Library of Australia. Web version of an exhibition which was held from 8th March to 4th June 1995. Many reproductions – in two formats, with explanatory texts – of drawings, paintings, prints and photographs from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- Australian Electoral History: Milestones for Women Fact sheets and links to other resources for the history of women and parliamentary representation in Australia. From the Australian Electoral Commission.
- Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Established in 1978, the primary goal of the Archives is to recover and preserve any materials that record the lives and experience of Lesbians and Gay men in Australia. The ALGA collection is the biggest repository of historical materials about homosexuals and homosexuality in Australia.
- Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project ANMHP is a project hosted by the School of Nursing, at the University of Melbourne to promote the conservation of nursing’s and midwifery’s historical heritage and to foster historical scholarship on nursing and midwifery. General information and links to resources for Australian nursing history.
- Australian Women’s Art Register An archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras from the Victorian period. The Register is located at the Richmond (formerly Carringbush) Library in Melbourne.
- Australian Women’s History Forum (AWHF) An over arching body incorporating Women’s History Month. The site offers news about events and books, a listing of key events in Australian women’s history, a timeline of milestones and anniversaries, links to relevant sites such as the Australian Women’s Archive project, Women’s History Month resources and a forum for comments on the site, suggestions of names, places and key events.
- Beyond the Picket Fence Australian women’s art in the National Library of Australia. Web version of an exhibition which was held from 8th March to 4th June 1995. Many reproductions – in two formats, with explanatory texts – of drawings, paintings, prints and photographs from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- Brave Women of Oceania Web pages documenting the history of women in the South Pacific area during World War II and the Vietnam War.
- Women & Politics in South Australia Website “… celebrating the role of women in the social and political development of South Australia. South Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the vote in 1894, and was the first in the world to enable women to enter Parliament.”
- Women Lecturers in Melbourne, Australia 1880-1905 Women’s names from the classified advertisement columns headed ‘Meetings & Lectures’ of The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, for the period 1880-1905. There were many women involved in public life at the time, and yet little has been written about many of them. The list of names and the subjects on which the women spoke was compiled by Helen D. Harris.
- Australian Feminist Studies
- Australian Women’s Book Review AWBR is the review magazine of the feminist journal Hecate.
- Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Published in association with the Centre for Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change Research, in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland.
- Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context A refereed electronic journal from Murdoch University’s School of Asian Studies.
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- ArchFem: Archiv für Feministische Dokumentation, Innsbruck A documentation centre at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Under construction, but offers an email and a visitors address.
- Ariadne A special service at the Austrian National Library. Online database, an international bibliography of bibliographies, online catalogue of Austrian historical women’s periodicals and other resources for women’s history.
- Frida Verein zur Förderung und Vernetzung Frauenspezifischer Informations- und Dokumentationseinrichtungen in Österreich. Network of Austrian Women’s Studies Libraries and Archives.
- ida – Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen LOST (Germany, Austria) A directory of German-language lesbian/women’s libraries, archives and documentation centres from an umbrella organization which brings together German, Austrian and Swiss organisations.
- Sammlung Frauennachlässe am Institut für Geschichte General information about this collection of letters, diaries, photographs and other personal documents at the University of Vienna.
- Stichwort: Archiv der Frauen- und Lesbenbewegung Bibliothek, Dokumentation, Multimedia This centre in Vienna, Austria, collects documentation pertaining to the women’s and lesbians’ movements and provides access to literature relevant to feminist research. General information, newsletter, online catalog.
- Frauen- und Genderforschungszentren im deutschsprachigen Raum A list of web links to German and Austrian Women’s and Gender Studies Centres.
- Projektzentrum Genderforschung der Universität Wien Austrian gender studies information website at the university of Vienna. General project information in German, a database of research and researchers, announcements, calls for papers.
- Rosa Luxemburg Institut / Verein für interdisziplinäre Forschung und Praxis (ViF) (Vienna). An interdisciplinary research institute and Association for Interdisciplinary Research & Praxis aiming to “produce theoretical and empirical contributions serving Women’s interests”.
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Virtual Library Museen Virtual Library Museums contains museum related information in Germany and in German-language countries.
- Frida Verein zur Förderung und Vernetzung Frauenspezifischer Informations- und Dokumentationseinrichtungen in Österreich. Network of Austrian Women’s Studies Libraries and Archives.
- Kommission für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde) General information on the Committee for Women’s and Gender Studies of the German Society for Folklore. The contact addresses are Austrian.
- Frauen in Bewegung. Diskurse und Dokumente der österreichischen historischen Frauenbewegung 1848-1918 Website devoted to the history of the Austrian Women’s Movement. Chronology, articles, biographies, documents, bibliography, links.
- Frauen machen Geschichte: Frauenakademie des Renner-Institut Online course materials on the history of women’s rights and social democracy in Austria; compiled by Angelika Zach.
- Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna Free online publication based on a doctoral dissertation by Maria Rentetzi.
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- Balkan Women and Friends an electronic email group that exists to enable discussions and exchanges of information between social scientists and others who conduct research women in the Balkans.
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- Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University Belarus (Minsk). The Centre was founded in September 1997. Information in Russian and English about the Centre’s activities, publications and collections.
- Women, Memory, War Photos and documents covering the participation of women in the Second World War published by the Center of Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus; Russian text.
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- Amazone Belgian conference and meeting centre in Brussels which is home to documentation centre Amazone and the Archives on Women’s History, the memory bank of the Belgian women’s movement. General information and a list of other women’s documentation centres.
- Cherchez la femme dans les archives de l’AMSAB Online guide to gender related collections in AMSAB, Ghent, the most important repository for the socialist movement in Flanders compiled by Paule Verbruggen and others (MS Word file, 11 pp., 65 Kb).
- Fonds Suzan Daniel General information about the Belgian gay/lesbian archive and documentation centre.
- RoSa Documentation Centre and Archives Flemish documentation centre, library and archives on equal opportunities, the position of women and gender studies. The collection consists of books, national and international periodicals and leaflets. The website gives general information and access to the RoSa library catalogue.
- Centre for Gender Studies Ghent University
- Vrouwenstudies Universiteit Antwerpen The centre for women’s studies at the University of Antwerp. General information in Flemish.
- Fonds Suzan Daniel General information about the Belgian gay/lesbian archive and documentation centre.
- Recht van de Lage Landen = Low Countries Law Digitized documents, articles and a bibliography on witchcraft trials in the early modern southern Netherlands on this legal history site maintained by Jos Monballyu, Leuven University (Belgium).
- Kenau Discussion list for women’s and gender history in the Netherlands and Belgium. Subscription information in Dutch.
- Sophia Belgian women’s studies network. Sophia aims at stimulating research and education in women’s studies, while establishing contacts between the Dutch-and Frenchspeaking communities in Belgium and between the women’s movement and the academic world.
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- Cadernos Pagu Brazilian Women’s Studies Journal
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- Civilization.ca – Online resources for Canadian heritage – Canadian history: Women’s History A link collection.
- heroines.ca, women in Canadian history An educational site about Canadian women.
- Women’s Exhibition – Celebrating Women’s Achievements A collection of short biographies of women in Canadian history, from the National Library of Canada. The site is divided into the following subjects: science, sport, activism, the book trade, politics, librarianship & bibliography, and society, music & literature; with some bibliographical information.
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative The CWAHI aims to bring scholars together to research art made by women in Canada prior to 1967. The website provides information about CWAHI activities and conferences, their Documentation Centre, links to the Historical Canadian Women Artists Bio-bibliographic Database and other resources.
- The Canadian Women’s Movement Archives A resource for the study of second wave feminism in Canada. Founded in 1977 by feminist activists, the archives moved to its present location as part of the University of Ottawa Library Network in 1992. General information.
- Canadian Nursing History Collection A repository of artifacts and documents held by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian War Museum and the Library and Archives Canada. The website focusses on the artifacts at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. See also: Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses’ Caps
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / l’Association canadienne pour l’histoire du nursing (CAHN/ACHN) General information, newsletter, a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
- Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Website of the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality, an official subcommittee of the Canadian Historical Association. The site includes a newsletter, calls for papers, bibliographies, course materials, and links.
- Canadian Committee on Women’s History CCWH = CCHF Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes The Canadian Committee on Women’s History is affiliated with the Canadian Historical Association. General information, newsletter.
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative The CWAHI aims to bring scholars together to research art made by women in Canada prior to 1967. The website provides information about CWAHI activities and conferences, their Documentation Centre, links to the Historical Canadian Women Artists Bio-bibliographic Database and other resources.
- Canadian Women’s Studies Association /L’association canadienne des études sur les femmes General information.
- Women’s History Network of British Columbia Information about the Network’s activities, links to sites about women’s history & heritage sites in British Columbia, information about upcoming women’s history events & activities in British Columbia, book reviews, and research queries.
- Filles du Roi These young women of marriageable age and capable of bearing children who settled in New France after the founding of Québec, in 1608, and of Montréal, in 1642, are so called because their transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry for some of them, were assumed by the royal treasury; from the Virtual Museum of New France website.
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / l’Association canadienne pour l’histoire du nursing (CAHN/ACHN) General information, newsletter, a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
- Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Website of the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality, an official subcommittee of the Canadian Historical Association. The site includes a newsletter, calls for papers, bibliographies, course materials, and links.
- Canadian Nursing History Collection A repository of artifacts and documents held by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian War Museum and the Library and Archives Canada. The website focusses on the artifacts at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. See also: Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses’ Caps
- Canadian War Brides Website Statistical data from the Canadian Department of National Defense and stories of the romances that led to 48,000 marriages between Canadian servicemen and their British and European brides from 1940 to 1947. You can download The War Brides of New Brunswick by Melynda Jarratt
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative The CWAHI aims to bring scholars together to research art made by women in Canada prior to 1967. The website provides information about CWAHI activities and conferences, their Documentation Centre, links to the Historical Canadian Women Artists Bio-bibliographic Database and other resources.
- Emily Carr (1871-1945) Web site devoted to the life and works of Canadian artist Emily Carr; from the Vancouver Art Gallery. It uses the Macromedia Flash Player, but An alternative non-Flash, non-Javascript version is also available.
- Filles du Roi These young women of marriageable age and capable of bearing children who settled in New France after the founding of Québec, in 1608, and of Montréal, in 1642, are so called because their transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry for some of them, were assumed by the royal treasury; from the Virtual Museum of New France website.
- The Herstory Exhibition: Celebrating 20 Years Pages of Herstory: The Canadian Women’s Calender from 1974-1995. By the Saskatoon Women’s Calender Collective.
- Women’s History: Irish Canadian Connections WHICC Discussion list.
- Women: Irish/Canadian connections – a bibliography Compiled by Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.
- Women’s History: Irish Canadian Connections WHICC Discussion list.
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- (Inter)disciplining Chinese Women An Introduction to the English Language Literature on Women’s Studies in China by Patricia Arend. From the Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women’s Studies series.
- Iron Women and Foxy Ladies Women on Chinese Propaganda Posters, 1960s-1980s. Images of posters with explanatory texts and a small bibliography. These pages are a section of Stefan Landsberger’s Poster Pages.
- Women in Chinese History – Bibliography Chinese women in politics, literature, and work. Social and environmental studies of their role. Part of a larger bibliography of Chinese History, compiled by Marilyn Shea, University of Maine at Farmington.
- Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Network WAGNet News and announcements, a member list, publication lists, links.
- Ming Ching Women’s Writings The McGill-Harvard-Yenching library Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Digitization Project is a joint project supported by McGill University and Harvard-Yenching Library, which is purposed to offer all researchers and students digital information on approximately 90 titles of women’s writings currently held in the Yenching Library, mainly published during the Ming and Qing dynasties of China, from 1368 to 1923.
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- Zenska Infoteka Women’s Information and Documentation Center, Zagreb, Croatia: General information in English and Croatian about collections, publications and activities. ZI coordinates the Rewind Net Regional Network of Info-Docu Centers.
- Centar za zenske studije Zagreb Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, Croatia. General information in Croatian and English, links.
- Kruh i Ruze “Bread and Roses”: magazine of Zenska Infoteka, the Croatian women’s information and documentation centre.
- TREÆA – Women’s Studies Journal Croatia. The journal is published in Croatian with English summaries.
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- Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies An organisation based in Cyprus which promotes and contributes to projects of social, political, and economic themes relating to gender. Its website contains general information and a directory of Mediterranean gender organizations; the pages that promise a ‘Bulletin’ and ‘Reports & Articles’ are under construction.
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- Czech Feminist Trailblazers Biographies and other online resources by Lenka Vytlacilova, at Sunshine for Women.
- Feminismus.cz: o zenach, muzich, feminismu a gender studies Information in Czech on women in the Czech Republic, women’s organisations, equal opportunities, feminism, gender and women studies. Access to an online library catalog.
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- Kvindehistorisk Samling General information in Danish about the women’s history collections in the State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark
- Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Selskab The Danish Society of Nursing History. General information, online articles, English page.
- Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Selskab The Danish Society of Nursing History. General information, online articles, English page.
- Kvinder, Køn & Forskning Danish journal for women’s and gender studies.
- Koordinationen for kønsforskning i Danmark The Co-ordination for Gender Studies in Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology.
- Kvinfo – Danish Center for Information on Women and Gender Access to the Kvinfo research library, the ‘Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon’ (an online biographical dictionary), a database of experts, and other online services.
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- Basler Initiative für Gender studies in der Osteuropaforschung (BIG-O) BIG-O is an organization based in Switzerland, at the Historisches Seminar, Universität Basel, to promote women’s and gender studies of Eastern Europe. The website offers information about the organization and its projects.
- Association for Women in Slavic Studies A networking resource for people concerned with the problems, status, and achievements of women in the profession. It also attempts to cover research and teaching in women’s studies and questions of gender and family life in Central/Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The organization is affiliated with AAASS (The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies).
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- ENUT Eesti Naisuurimus- ja Teabekeskus The Estonian Women?s Studies and Resource Centre, Tallinn University, is the first women?s resource centre in Estonia. It includes a specialized library on women?s and gender issues. Publisher of Ariadne’s Clew.
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- European Social Science History Conference Networks Family and Demography, Sexuality, Women and Gender, among other networks.
- Forschungsnetzwerk Geschlechterdifferenz in europäischen Rechtskreisen Gender differences in European legal cultures. The website of this European network contains general information in German about the network, a mailing list, conferences, some bibliographic information, and related links.
- Less Favored – More Favored Papers from a conference on gender in European legal history, 12th – 19th Centuries. The conference was organized by the European network ‘Gender differences in European legal cultures / Geschlechterdifferenz in europäischen Rechtskreisen’, September 2004. The papers are published by the Royal Library Copenhagen, Denmark.
- WISE-L: European Women’s Studies Discussion list of the Women’s International Studies Europe (WISE), the European association for individuals and institutions involved in women’s studies.
- Aspasia International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History
- European Journal of Women’s Studies Published in Association with WISE, the European Women’s Studies Association.
- Feminist Europa. Review of Books Online review devoted to feminist scholarship, creative and popular work by women in Europe; published by the German Foundation for Gender Studies.
- ATHENA The Advanced Thematic Network in European Women’s Studies brings together 120 institutes from 27 countries in the field of Women’s Studies and gender research. The website contains general information about the Network and its working groups.
- Salon 21 A European women’s and gender studies internet forum for calls for papers, symposia, reports, comments, and discussions. It is part of the research platform ‘Repositioning of Women’s and Gender History in the New European Context’, established at the University of Vienna.
- WeAVE A European women’s and gender studies network for academics. The website provides discussion rooms, as well as a chat facility for registered members, listings of current news and events, and links to women’s studies institutions, associations, and online resources.
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- Institutet för kvinnoforskning vid Åbo Akademi General information in Swedish and English; online catalogue.
- Tema Female Writers Bibliographical and biographical information on Swedish and other Scandinavian women writers. Part of the Project Runeberg: Nordic Literature on the Internet.
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- Les femmes et les associations Women and Organizations. French site with statistical data concerning the participation of women in several French organizations, portraits of women working in these organizations, and a bibliography
- Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand Paris, France. General information on the Library and its collections and its collector Marguerite Durand (1864-1936), from the Association Archives du Féminisme website.
- Centre des Archives du féminisme CAF A cooperation of the university of Angers and the Association Archives du Féminisme, the Centre was founded to safeguard the heritage of the French feminist movement. It is, among others, the repository of Cécile Brunschvicg’s papers and the archives of the Conseil national des femmes françaises. The collections are kept in the university library of Angers. The website contains extensive information on the Centre’s collections, publications and activities.
- Simone/SAGESSE Women’s Studies Research Centre at the university of Toulouse le Mirail. General information in French, online catalogue of its Centre’s documentation centre.
- Musea French virtual women’s history museum under construction, at the Université d’Angers, France.
- Association Archives du Féminisme Website of the French organization that was founded to preserve the papers of feminists and feminists organizations.
- Association Nationale des Etudes Féministes ANEF General information about this French organization for women’s studies.
- EFiGiES Association des Jeunes Chercheuses et Chercheurs en Etudes Féministes, Genre et Sexualités French association for feminist, gender and sexuality studies. Information about the association’s activities, bibliography, mailing list.
- Mnémosyne. Association pour le développement de l’histoire des femmes et du genre French association for women’s and gender history, French section of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History; publisher of electronic journal Genre&Histoire.net
- SIEFAR: Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime. The Association is devoted to French women’s history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Besides information on SIEFAR’s mission and activities, its website offers news on events and new publications, a directory of researchers, a biographical dictionary with home made entries and entries taken from other historical dictionaries, and a list of researchers and their publications.
- SIEFAR: Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime. The Association is devoted to French women’s history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Besides information on SIEFAR’s mission and activities, its website offers news on events and new publications, a directory of researchers, a biographical dictionary with home made entries and entries taken from other historical dictionaries, and a list of researchers and their publications.
- EFiGiES Association des Jeunes Chercheuses et Chercheurs en Etudes Féministes, Genre et Sexualités French association for feminist, gender and sexuality studies. Information about the association’s activities, bibliography, mailing list.
- CAIRN French journals online (abstracts and sample articles).
- Clio. Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés
- Association Nationale des Etudes Féministes ANEF General information about this French organization for women’s studies.
- Histoire saisie par le genre et la différence des sexes Links to online articles, bibliographies, and other mainly French online resources for women’s history and women’s studies; maintained by Daniel Letouzay.
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- Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung Library, archives and study centre in Kassel, Germany. General information in German.
- Frauen in der Geschichte Documents for women’s history in the archival and manuscript collections of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn); see also Documents on gender and womens’s history in the Archives of Social Democracy in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Women in the German labour movement: an inventory of newspapers, journals, minutes, and reports in the Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (PDF)
- Frauenarchiv Osnabrück General information in German. Many moving images, not updated since 1998.
- Frauenbibliothek MONALiesA Leipzig. General information in German.
- Frauenbildungszentrum Denk(t)räume Hamburg. Educational center, library, archive and videotheque. General information in German.
- Frauenforschungs-, -bildungs- und -informationszentrum FFBIZ Berlin Women’s Research, Education, and Information Center. Information in German and English about the Centre’s collections.
- Frauenkulturarchiv der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf ‘Frauenforschungs-Transfer-Stelle’: information centre. The website contains a directory of German language libraries and archives, a list of websites and online biographies of Edith Stein, Bertha von Suttner, Annette Kolb, Ricarda Huch and Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine de Staël and others.
- FrauenMediaTurm Information centre for women’s history, Cologne. Online catalogue, illustrated historical overview of the feminist movement in the nineteen sixties and seventies.
- FrauenStadtArchiv Dresden Archival and research centre. The website gives access to biographical databases (”Sammlungen”) containing information on individual women, women’s trades and occupations, and women’s organizations in Dresden and Saxony.
- ida – Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen LOST (Germany, Austria) A directory of German-language lesbian/women’s libraries, archives and documentation centres from an umbrella organization which brings together German, Austrian and Swiss organisations.
- IFF – Uni Bielefeld: Dokumentation Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschungs-Zentrum (IFF), University of Bielefeld, Germany. The documentation centre has information on women in science and research, periodicals, and grey literature.
- Schwarze Witwe e.V. Autonome Frauenforschungsstelle Münster e.V. Documentation Centre, General information.
- Spinnboden – Lesbenarchiv Berlin Holds documents from the early (before 1945) and contemporary women’s and Lesbian movements, German periodicals from the turn of the century, the 1920’s, the 1970’s-1990’s, and works of fiction. General information in German.
- Frauen- und Genderforschungszentren im deutschsprachigen Raum A list of web links to German and Austrian Women’s and Gender Studies Centres.
- Frauenforschungs-, -bildungs- und -informationszentrum FFBIZ Berlin Women’s Research, Education, and Information Center. Information in German and English about the Centre’s collections.
- FrauenStadtArchiv Dresden Archival and research centre. The website gives access to biographical databases (”Sammlungen”) containing information on individual women, women’s trades and occupations, and women’s organizations in Dresden and Saxony.
- Hedwig Hintze-Institut Bremen and Hedwig Hintze-Gesellschaft für Historische Forschung und Bildung The Hedwig Hintze Institute and Society (Bremen, Germany) were founded in commemmoration of the persecuted Jewish historian Hedwig Hintze (1884-1942). General information in German.
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology The former Archive for Sexology at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin.
- Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung TU Berlin General information, access to the catalog for the holdings on women’s and gender studies within the communication and history library at the Technical University Berlin. Text in German and English.
- Clara Zetkin Museum Birkenwerder, Germany. General information.
- Frauenmuseum Bonn. The website offers general information about this exhibition and documentation center for women & art and women in history.
- Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln Cologne, Germany. General information in German.
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Virtual Library Museen Virtual Library Museums contains museum related information in Germany and in German-language countries.
- AIM Gender: Arbeitskreis für interdisziplinäre Männerforschung Working group for interdisciplinary research on men and masculinities: a group of German speaking academics from all over the world doing research on men and gender studies.
- Arbeitskreis Geschlechtergeschichte der frühen Neuzeit (AKGG-FNZ)
- Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung Founded in 1990, German member of the IFRWH. The AKHFG website contains general information, announcements, a database of researchers, a mailinglist (but not for free) and a few relevant links.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft General information on the German Society of Nursing Science, an independent forum for the development and promotion of nursing science and nursing research in Germany.
- FemArc – Netzwerk archäologisch arbeitender Frauen Women’s Network in Archaeology (Germany)
- Kölner FrauenGeschichtsverein Information about the activities of the women’s history society of Cologne, Germany.
- Kommission für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde) General information on the Committee for Women’s and Gender Studies of the German Society for Folklore. The contact addresses are Austrian.
- Varnhagen Gesellschaft Online The mission of the Varnhagen Society Hagen – Berlin (Germany) is to support and spread knowledge of Rahel and Karl August Varnhagen, Ludmilla Assing and the other writers of the “Varnhagen von Enseschen Sammlung”.
- AIM Gender: Arbeitskreis für interdisziplinäre Männerforschung Working group for interdisciplinary research on men and masculinities: a group of German speaking academics from all over the world doing research on men and gender studies.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft General information on the German Society of Nursing Science, an independent forum for the development and promotion of nursing science and nursing research in Germany.
- Dresdner Auswahlbibliographie zur Hexenforschung (DABHEX) Comprehensive witchcraft bibliography compiled by Gerd Schwerhoff, Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, TU Dresden, Germany.
- Frauen der ersten Stunde Biographies of women in German broadcasting history, 1946-1956.
- Frauen tragen die eine Hälfte des Himmels Online publications and documents on German gender politics and the women’s movement, at the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung website.
- Geschichte der Frauen in Bayern von der Völkerwanderung bis heute Online version of an exhibition held in Ingolstadt, 1998.
- History of the witch hunt (Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung) An online encyclopedia on the history of the witch hunt, a collection of sources with digitized illustrations, treatises and archival documents, mailinglists, annotated links and special bibliographies. Maintained at the Server Frühe Neuzeit (University of München) in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis für Interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung (research group for interdisciplinary witchcraft research).
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology The former Archive for Sexology at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin.
- Lesbengeschichte This website presents the life and work of women-loving women in the German-speaking countries and a list of German-speaking films featuring Lesbian women from the beginnings to the present
- Staatsarchiv Wertheim: Quellen zur Hexenverfolgung Guide to sources for witchcraft trials in Wertheim, Germany.
- H-Soz-u-Kult Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften This German information network for historians, which is part of H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, is maintained at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.
- Ariadne Forum für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte. A periodical publication by the Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung, Kassel, Germany.
- Femina Politica: Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft The first feminist political science journal in German originated from the newsletter of a Berlin feminist political science working group.
- Invertito. Jahrbuch für die Geschichte der Homosexualitäten. Yearbook for the history of homosexuality, based in Cologne, Germany.
- Clio Online Fachportal für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
- Deutsche Stiftung Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung German Foundation for Gender Studies. General information, announcements, directories, bibliographies.
- H-Soz-u-Kult Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften This German information network for historians, which is part of H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, is maintained at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.
- Historicum.net: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften im Internet German historical information network: topical web guides, bibliography, electronic journals, reviews, educational materials, announcements, lists of documentary and research institutions and much more.
- Historische Lexikon Bayerns Online historical dictionary of Bavaria, an extension of the biographical and topographical database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (BLO).
- Historisches Zentrum Hagen: Fachinformationen Historical information services from the Hagen Historical Centre, Germany. The Centre is home to the Virtual Library Frühe Neuzeit, the Virtual Library Zeitgeschichte, the Virtual Library Museen, H-Museum, and a number of German regional historical information resources.
Virtual Library Geschichte Links to German-language websites on historical topics. This historical section of the Virtual Library Deutschland is maintained at the University of Erlangen.
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- Genike Grammateia Isotetas – Bibliotheke Founded in 1984, the Women’s Issues Library of the General Secretariat of Equality is the only library in Greece for gender equality issues and women’s history. General information in Greek.
- Kentro Ereunon gia Themata Isotetas KETHI The Greek Research Centre for Gender Equality has branches in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Iraklion and Volos. The website contains general information in Greek and English, and statistical data on employment and education.
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- Kvennasögusafn Íslands The Library of Women’s History, Reykjavík, Iceland, is the repository of archives of organizations, women’s personal papers, letters and diaries, literary works, photographs, newspaper clippings and other documents. The language of the website is Icelandic, with general information in Danish and English.
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- Books on Women’s Studies Published in India Bookseller’s catalogue containing lots of bibliographic information about women in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
- Indian Women and Violence – Bibliography This list of bibliographic references was compiled from responses to a query about violence against women in India as they were sent to the H-Asia listserv.
- Kamat’s Potpourri: KalaRanga Topics on Women of India Online articles and pictures.
- Hidden Histories: Gender, Family and Community in the Ombilin Coal Mines (1892-1965) By Erman Erwiza (2002, CLARA Working Paper, PDF) Downloadable from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series.
- Indonesia Women’s Studies Bibliography Bibliographies and directories, general works, articles, web sites, and online databases; from the University of California Berkeley Library.
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- Women’s Research A journal in English published by The Center for Women’s Studies of the University of Tehran
- Zan-e Farzaneh ‘Knowledgeable Woman’: Journal on Gender Studies published by the Institute for Women’s Studies and Research, Tehran, Iran.
- Center for Women’s Studies (Tehran) An interdisciplinary gender research center at the University of Tehran. General information, TOC of its journal Women’s Research.
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- Women’s History Project (Ireland) A project to survey and list sources relevant to the history of women in Ireland. Two major databases are available here for online searching. The Directory of Sources for the History of Women in Ireland contains information on collections relating to the history of women in Ireland from the earliest times to the present. Women in 20th-Century Ireland: Sources from the Department of the Taoiseach, 1922-1966 is the result of a survey that involved examining the files of the Department of the Taoiseach between the years 1922 and 1966.
- Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies Trinity College, University of Dublin.
- Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) General information, newsletter.
- Women on Ireland Research Network A network of women academics working on all aspects of Irish life and culture, from disciplines as varied as sociology, geography, art history, cultural studies, literature and history.
- Women’s History Association of Ireland Founded in 1989, the aim of the WHAI (formerly the Irish Association for Research in Women’s History) is to promote research into the history of women in Ireland.
- History of Women Religious A website created by members of the Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) containing a calendar of events, bibliography, book reviews, a gallery of digitized images. At Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Women’s History: Irish Canadian Connections WHICC Discussion list.
- Women’s History: Irish Canadian Connections WHICC Discussion list.
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- Storia delle donne Website for women’s history in Italy. Links to mainly Italian institutional websites: archives, libraries, university courses, scholarships etc.
- Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Lost (Milano). The United Women’s Archives is an association aiming at safeguarding primary sources for women’s history and promoting research and education in this field. It houses the records of the Unione Femminile Nazionale and the collections of the Fondazione Elvira Badaracco, including those of the Fondo del Centro studi storici sul Movimento di liberazione della donna in Italia. Homepage in Italian.
- Associazione Archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne The aim of the Association is to list women’s archives and writings by women in Tuscany from the 16th century to the present, to acquire such collections, and to make them available for research. The Association closely cooperates with the State Archive of Florence. The site has information in Italian on the history and activities of the Association, biographies of several individuals and collection information, and links to other Italian documentary institutions and resources.
- Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne (Bologna). Information on the collections in Italian and English, online catalog.
- Fondazione Istituto Gramsci The collections include the archive of the women’s section of the PCI, the papers of Rita Majerotti, Franca Pieroni Bortolotti, Gisella Floreanini, and writer Sibilla Aleramo.
- Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso: Biblioteca: Fondi speciali: Storia delle donne The collection includes rare publications such as M. Wollstonecraft, A vindication of the rights of woman (London 1792), pamphlets from the French Revolution (Un mot sur le divorce, Paris 1791) and periodicals such as La voix des femmes (Paris 1848) or La difesa delle lavoratrici (Milano, 1912-22).
- Rete Informativa Lilith Italian information network of women’s documentation centres, archives and libraries. Online access to several databases. Information about the databases in Italian and English.
- Associazione nazionale degli Archivi dell’Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) (Rome)
- Societá Italiana delle Storiche (SIS) The website of the Italian Association of Women Historians contains information about its aim, activities, and publications, including the journal Genesis; a bibliography of women’s history articles in Italian journals and links to online articles.
- DWF – donnawomanfemme La rivista di politica e cultura delle donne in Italia e nel mondo.
- Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche Journal of the Italian Association of Women Historians
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- The Center for the Advancement of Working Women: Library The CAWW library (Tokyo, Japan) specializes in “Women and Work” and has a large variety of books, government documents, periodicals, videos, CD-ROMs and other materials to meet the information needs for working women. Japanese website with some general information in English.
- Tanaka Sigeto’s Homepage at Osaka University. Electronic papers on changes in the sexual division of labour in Japan.
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- Género en historia, El Electronic book by Anne Pérotin-Dumon. It presents an overview of the development of gender approaches over the last quarter century and introduces recent teaching and research on the subject in Chile, where the publication was initially produced, based on some five years of teaching in a Chilean university. This is an updated version, available from the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
- Centro de Documentación de la Mujer y Archivo Histórico “Nancy Cárdenas” General information about this Mexican documentation centre.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies A group of colleagues concerned with feminist studies and with the role of women in British Luso-Hispanism.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Centro de Estudios de la Mujer Santiago de Chile, Chile. An independent, non-profit organization founded in 1984 by women social scientists and economists. It conducts research, training, communication and consulting programs, concentrating on the fields of labor and employment, citizenship and political participation, and public policy planning. Information, also in English, on the Centre’s activities, a list of publications, and related links.
- Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero – PAGU General information on this centre for women’s studies in São Paulo, a bibliography, online catalogue.
- Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies A group of colleagues concerned with feminist studies and with the role of women in British Luso-Hispanism.
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- ida – Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen LOST(Switzerland, Luxembourg) A directory of German-language lesbian/women’s libraries, archives and documentation centres from an umbrella organization which brings together German, Austrian and Swiss organisations.
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- Women’s Work: Gender and Labour Relations in Malaysia by Amarjit Kaur. Downloadable PDF file from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series.
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- Red de Estudiosas de la historia de mujeres y genero en Mexico REDMUGEN General information.
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- Women’s Library, Turkiye The first and only women’s library and information center in Turkey. General information in English.
- Women Association of History Researchers – WAHR – Iran Information in Farsi.
- Power & Sexuality in the Middle East Online articles and a bibliography at The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) website
- Women, War, Diaspora and Learning This website contains materials on Kurdish Women in Canada, Britain and Sweden. It features bibliographies on gender and feminist organizing in the Middle East, gender and transnationality, women and war and other topics; from the University of Toronto
- H-Gender-MidEast An international electronic network for social scientists and humanists interested in scholarly exchange on issues of gender in the Arabic speaking Middle East & North Africa, Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Western Asia, the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.
- Al-Raida A quarterly journal in English published by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) to spread knowledge about social, economic and legal conditions of women in the Arab World.
- Farzaneh Journal of Women’s Studies and Research in Iran and Muslim Countries.
- Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World
- Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) is the official publication of the Association for Middle East Womens Studies.
- Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies At the American University in Cairo. The IGWS is a multipurpose and interdisciplinary research center that serves scholars interested in gender and women’s studies in the Arabic speaking Middle East/North Africa, Turkey , the Caucasus, Iran, Central and South Asia and Africa.
- Institute for Women’s Studies and Research IWSR (Tehran) General information in Farsi about this NGO and its activities, news, reports, and a database; some information in English.
- Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University Birzeit, Palestine. General information, links.
- Iran: Women Many links, from Pars Times.
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- Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (DVN) The website of the Online Dictionary of Dutch Women at present contains 330 completed biographies, a list of a thousand women who will be included in the DVN, and information about the project. In the near future English translations of the biographies will be provided.
- IDEA Vrouwenbibliotheek (Utrecht) Women’s Library Utrecht, Netherlands. General information in Dutch.
- IIAV – International Information Centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement Amsterdam, Netherlands. General information in Dutch and English, online catalogue, a database with information on women’s archives in the Netherlands (DAVA), a database containing c. 5,000 bibliographic records describing (mainly Dutch) titels from the IIAV collections dealing with the position of black women, migrant women and refugees, and a database of women’s information services and profiles of women’s information services world-wide (Mapping the World).
- International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA) An organization with two branches: Homodok-Lesbisch Archief (Amsterdam) and Anna Blaman Huis (Leeuwarden). General information in Dutch and English, online catalogues of the main collections and the reconstructed Schorer library.
- Katholiek Documentatie Centrum at the University of Nijmegen. Its holdings include Roman Catholic trade unions’ and women’s organizations’ records. For a list go to: www.kdc.kun.nl/archieven/ova7.html.
- Lesbisch Archief Nijmegen Lesbian Archive Nijmegen, Netherlands. General Information in Dutch.
- Savante Vrouwenbibliotheek, archief & documentatiecentrum Women’s library and documentation centre for the town and province of Groningen, the Netherlands. General information in Dutch.
- Sources for Women’s History at the International Institute of Social History An overview of the primary sources for women’s and gender history in the archival and manuscript collections of the IISH.
- VENA Library and Information Services At the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, the Netherlands. A collection of books, periodicals and grey literature on women and development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Online catalogue, links to online resources in the same field.
- Vrouw en recht Online catalogue of publications on women and the law from the collections of the discontinued Clara Wichmann Instituut. The entire collection is housed by the International Information Centre and Archives of the Women’s movement, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Vrouwendocumentatiecentrum De Feeks Dutch women’s studies information centre specialized in grey literature. General information, online catalogue.
- Centre for Gender and Diversity The Centre was established at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, to provide an institutional basis for the scattered tuition and research activities in the field of Women Studies at the various faculties. Its website contains general information in Dutch and English.
- Homepage Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Vrouwenstudies (NOV) Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands. Information in English.
- Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands. General information in Dutch and English on the Institute’s courses, research program and documentation centre.
- Mr. A. de Graaf Stichting The Mr A. de Graaf Foundation is the Dutch national centre for research, documentation, public information, policy development and advice on the issue of prostitution and related phenomena. Information on the foundation’s activities, online catalogue.
- Foundation for Early Modern Women’s History (Netherlands)
- Nederlands Genootschap Vrouwenstudies Website of the Dutch Society for Women’s Studies (Utrecht). General information in Dutch
- Vereniging voor Vrouwengeschiedenis VVG The Dutch Association for Women’s History.
- VGN Commissie Vrouwen- en Gendergeschiedenis Webpage of the Association of History Teachers in the Netherlands – Comittee for Women and Gender History.
- Foundation for Early Modern Women’s History (Netherlands)
- Aletta Jacobs online Aletta Jacobs was de first female medical doctor in the Netherlands. She was also pacifist and a campaigner for women’s suffrage. She worked for the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) and travelled with Carrie Chapman Catt to support women to get the vote in Europe, Africa and Asia. This new website offers biographical, documentary, and bibliographical information, photographs, a timeline and some related information. A short biography and a history of Jacobs papers are available in English.
- Haar geschiedenis Interactive “herstory” website for Dutch women with a Moroccan, Surinam or Indonesian background.
- International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA) An organization with two branches: Homodok-Lesbisch Archief (Amsterdam) and Anna Blaman Huis (Leeuwarden). General information in Dutch and English, online catalogues of the main collections and the reconstructed Schorer library.
- Lesbisch Archief Nijmegen Lesbian Archive Nijmegen, Netherlands. General Information in Dutch.
- Nurses from Surinam Photos from the private albums of Surinamese women who came to Holland in the 1950s to become nurses; from the Historical Image Archive on Migrants (Dutch text).
- Venus minsieke gasthuis. Over seksuele attitudes in de achttiende eeuwse Republiek Online article on sexual attitudes in the eigthteenth-century Dutch Republic by Herman Roodenburg. With a summary in English.
- Vrouwentijdschriften Website showing and documenting Dutch women’s magazines in the collections of the Netherlands Press Museum, the International Institute of Social History, the International Information Centre and Archive for the Women’s Movement, and the Netherlands Economic History Archive; Dutch text only.
- Kenau Discussion list for women’s and gender history in the Netherlands and Belgium. Subscription information in Dutch.
- Historica Published by the Dutch Association for Women’s History VVG, in Dutch.
- Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis
- Tipje van de sluier
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- NZHistory.net.nz Gallery This website devoted to the history of New Zealand features online exhibitions on the National Council of the Women of New Zealand (1896-1920), New Zealand suffragists, Maori community leaders Maria and Jane Topia, and Hilda Hewlett, aviator and aircraft manufacturer.
- The 1893 Womens’ Suffrage Petition From the National Archives of New Zealand holdings.
- Women’s Studies Journal New Zealand
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- Kvinnforsk – Senter for Kvinneforskning og kvinner i forskning University of Tromsø, Norway. Information in English, links to other centres for women’s studies in Norway.
- NIKK – the Nordic Institute for Women’ Studies and Gender Research An interdisciplinary Nordic research institution based in Oslo, Norway. Its aim is to advance, initiate, co-ordinate and inform about Women’s Studies and Gender Research in and outside of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).
- Witches Sabbath at Yuletide: Christmas Witchcraft in 17th-century Finnmark (Northern-Norway) Online article with links to other European witchcraft resources, by Rune Hagen, University of Tromsø (2004).
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- From Erosion Control to Food Crisis Management – Changing gender divisions of labor in a Philippine upland village By Babette P. Resurreccion (2000, CLARA Working Paper, PDF) Downloadable from the CLARA Working Papers on Asian Labour series, 2000.
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- Oczami kobiet Polish women biographical site. Alphabetical and chronological listings, bibliography, online articles, links, all in Polish. Annoying pop-up windows.
- Queer Studies in Poland This small website contains information in Enlish and Polish on queer studies activities, conference announcements, a reading list (Polish titles) and a few links to other sites.
- InterAlia An international queer studies journal edited by scholars based in Poland, Germany, and the U.S.
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- Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher Portuguese women’s studies journal. Part of a larger project at the Centro de Estudos sobre a Mulher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
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- Gender Romania gendeRomania – Teaching and Researching Gender in Romania is a project consisting of a series of workshops to be organized on an annual basis, for four consecutive years, in major academic centers. The website offers general information in Romanian and English, and a bibliographic database under construction.
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- Centre for Women, Family and Gender Studies (Moscow). A non-governmental non-profit volunteer organization working in cooperation with the Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NOISE).
- Moscow Center for Gender Studies (MCGS) An independent nonprofit research institution. The Russian pages provide access to the Centre’s library, online catalogue and collection information.
- The Anna Akhmatova Museum At Fountain House, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Bibliography of Russian Women’s History Compiled by Professor Matthew Payne, Temple University, and published by H-Russia Discussion Network (1998).
- Academic @ Russian Feminism Resources Russian and English web pages. Bibliographic information and links to online articles, and courses and syllabi. Created and maintained by Elena Leonoff in Tver, Russia.
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- Tema Female Writers Bibliographical and biographical information on Swedish and other Scandinavian women writers. Part of the Project Runeberg: Nordic Literature on the Internet.
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- Biblioteca de mujeres (Madrid) A lending library containing 17,000 volumes: works on feminism, history, health, psychology, sexuality, law, art, employment, science, sport, biographies; literary works, and documents issued by the Spanish Feminist Movement, and periodicals.
- Institut Català de la Dona General information, in Catalan, about the activities of this Catalonian institution, documentation centre, online catalog.
- Organizaciones de mujeres An overview of the collection of women’s political and trade union organizations in the Archivo histórico PCE, the historical archives of the Spanish communist party, at the website of the Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM).
- Red de Centros de Documentación y Bibliotecas de Mujeres Directory of women’s libraries and documentation centres in Spain.
- Duoda Centre de Recerca de Dones, Universitat de Barcelona General information about the women’s studies centre of the University of Barcelona in Catalonian and Spanish.
- Instituto de estudios de la mujer Universidad de Granada, Spain. Information about research and other activities. The Institute’s publication series Feminae includes a considerable number of historical works.
- Asociación de Estudios Históricos sobre la Mujer (AEHM/UMA) Information about the women’s history association of the University of Málaga, Spain. The site also offers a long list of women’s history titles in the University of Málaga Library.
- Asociación Española de Estudios de Historia de las Mujeres Website of the Spanish association for women’s history. Information about the Association, its aims and activities, its publications – including Arenal. Revista de historia de las mujeres, the first Spanish journal for women’s history -, and al large number of links to Spanish and international web resources.
- Asociación Universitaria de Estudios de las Mujeres General information about this Spanish organization; a directory of women’s and women’s studies centres in Spain, a calendar of events.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies A group of colleagues concerned with feminist studies and with the role of women in British Luso-Hispanism.
- Catálogo de la Asociación de Estudios Históricos sobre la Mujer A list of women’s history titles in the University of Málaga Library.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) GEMELA GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800; continues the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) AEEA. General information, mailing list, newsletter, links.
- Organizaciones de mujeres An overview of the collection of women’s political and trade union organizations in the Archivo histórico PCE, the historical archives of the Spanish communist party, at the website of the Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM).
- Arenal. Revista de historia de las mujeres The first Spanish journal for women’s history.
- Clepsydra: Revista de estudios de género y teoría feminista Spanish journal for gender studies and feminist theory.
- Duoda Revista d’Estudis Feministes – Revista de Estudios Feministas Journal of the Centre de Recerca de Dones, the women’s studies centre of the University of Barcelona.
- FEMINISMO/S Journal of the Women’s Studies Centre of the University of Alicante, Spain.
- Asociación Universitaria de Estudios de las Mujeres General information about this Spanish organization; a directory of women’s and women’s studies centres in Spain, a calendar of events.
- Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies A group of colleagues concerned with feminist studies and with the role of women in British Luso-Hispanism.
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- Women’s History Collections The Swedish National Resource Library for Women’s, Men’s, and Gender Studies, Göteborg University Library, Sweden. General information and access to the KVINNSAM database
- Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research’s website Information in English on gender research in Sweden.
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- AARDT Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino Library and documentation centre in Melano, Switzerland: online guides to the collections, online catalogue, and information about women’s history collections in other repositories.
- Archiv für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte Ostschweiz (St. Gallen). Archives and documentation centre of the women’s movement in east Switzerland.
- Dokumentationsstelle für Frauenfragen Library of the Swiss bureau for gender equality (Bern). Overview of the collections, online catalogue.
- Frauenkulturarchiv Graubünden (Chur). Archives, library, and research centre for the history of women in Graubünden.
- Gosteli-Stiftung (Worblaufen). Archiv zur Geschichte der schweizerischen Frauenbewegung. Records of Swiss women’s organisations of the last 100 years, Information about the collections in German, English and French.
- ida – Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen LOST(Switzerland, Luxembourg) A directory of German-language lesbian/women’s libraries, archives and documentation centres from an umbrella organization which brings together German, Austrian and Swiss organisations.
- Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv / Archive: Frauenbewegung A list and brief descriptions of the archival collections for the women’s movement in the Swiss Social Archive, Zurich, the largest labour history collection in Switzerland.
- Basler Initiative für Gender studies in der Osteuropaforschung (BIG-O) BIG-O is an organization based in Switzerland, at the Historisches Seminar, Universität Basel, to promote women’s and gender studies of Eastern Europe. The website offers information about the organization and its projects.
- Schweizer Theologinnen The website of the Swiss women theologians includes a bibliography of women in the history of religion and a list of archival collections and repositories in Switzerland.
- Updated Vie quotidienne et Mémoire collective en Pays horloger An oral history study of the Swiss watchmaking industry by Laurence Court (1995). Of the thirteen persons interviewed, seven are women.
- Gender Campus Information on gender studies and equality in Swiss universities and colleges of higher education.
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Reference
- Women’s History at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Chinese text.
- Thailand Women’s Studies Bibliography Bibliographies and directories, general works, articles, web sites, and online databases; from the University of California Berkeley Library.
- Kharkov Center for Gender Studies The Kharkov Center for Gender Studies is the first university gender studies program in Ukraine, and the organizer of the University Network Program on gender studies for the countries of the former USSR. The website offers general information in Ukrainian and English, a bibliography, and some online texts.
- Chez la Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 A brief introduction to the subject with pictures of books printed or sold by women. Online exhibition from the University of Illinois Library.
- Archif Menwyod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales Information about this organization which aims to promote the study, and to rescue and preserve the sources, of women’s history in Wales. The collections, which are held in existing record offices in Wales, and the National Library of Wales, range from single items to large collections of documents, photographs, newsletters and other material.
- Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens: The Girls’ Friendly Society 1875-2005 An online exhibition based on the archive of the Girls’ Friendly Society (GFS), held at The Women’s Library.
- Feminist Archive (Bristol) The Feminist Archive (South) in Bristol, England, houses national and international material of the second wave of feminism (roughly 1960-2000). General information, an online newsletter and links to websites of other centers for women’s studies in the U.K.
- Feminist Archive North (FAN) The Feminist Archive North, in the Special Collections of the Leeds University Library, holds a wide variety of material relating to the Women’s Liberation Movement from 1969 to the present. Topics covered by FAN include the women’s peace movement, women’s studies, women and development, and violence against women. General information, lists of journal titles and dissertations held by FAN.
- Genesis The Genesis project is a mapping initiative to identify and develop access to women’s history sources in the British Isles. The database holds descriptions of women’s history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles. A list of web resources relating to the study of women’s history, is also available.
- Glasgow Women’s Library host of the Lesbian Archive & Information Centre General information.
- Hall-Carpenter Archives The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) founded in 1982 are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain which followed the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1958. At the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Josephine Butler Collections at the University of Liverpool Information about the collections, a biographical sketch, a bibliography of Butler’s works, links to related collections.
- Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
- Microform sources for Women’s History A list of a collection of microform sources in the University of York Library
- Scottish Women’s Bibliography A bibliography of women in Scottish history compiled by Prof. E. Ewan. Divided into broad time periods and including sections for Irish and Welsh women. At the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
- Sources for Women’s Studies in the Methodist Archives Selected material deposited in the Methodist Archives and Research Centre (MARC) at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
- Special collections in the University of Huddersfield Archives The G. H. Wood collection: manuscript wages material, monographs, pamphlets, government reports and periodicals. The subjects covered include economic and social history, education, health, housing and women’s history. There is also a valuable collection of pamphlets published by feminist organisations in the early twentieth century as well as a substantial set of Fabian Society material.
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library’s trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing (Edinburgh). Overview of the collections.
- Women and Gender in early Modern Wales: A Guide to Sources and Further Reading A list of general reference works, guides to manuscript collections in and outside the National Library of Wales, and secondary literature on various aspects of early modern life, such as marriage, sexuality, the family, legal status, work, crime, witchcraft, religion, education, writing, masculinity. Compiled by Simone Clarke and Michael Roberts, at the Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- Women’s Library (London, UK). The former Fawcett Library. The Women’s Library is a new cultural centre, housing the most extensive collection of women’s history in the UK.
- Women’s Services, First World War A Research Guide from the UK National Archives.
- Working Class Movement Library Salford, England. The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- Bedford Centre for the History of Women The Centre (Royal Holloway, University of London) organises lectures, seminars and conferences, and conducts and supports original research. It disseminates information about research being carried out world-wide in the field of women’s history and the history of gender
- Gender Institute of the London School for Economics General information, news, online working papers.
- St. Hilda’s College Oxford’s only college solely for women.
- Archif Menwyod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales Information about this organization which aims to promote the study, and to rescue and preserve the sources, of women’s history in Wales. The collections, which are held in existing record offices in Wales, and the National Library of Wales, range from single items to large collections of documents, photographs, newsletters and other material.
- Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) General information, newsletter.
- Gender and Medieval Studies Group (GMS) A UK-based organization devoted to putting together an annual interdisciplinary conference on the study of medieval gender.
- History of Feminism Network A website “created by a collective of postgraduate students researching and/or passionate about the history of feminism”: news, announcements, online debates.
- Margaret Cavendish Society An international organization. The site contains current and past newsletters, contacts, information on joining the Society, images, conference details and links to bibliographies, books, e-text and related sites.
- Scottish Women’s History Network At Glasgow Caledonian University.
- Society for the Social History of Medicine Journals tables of contents, conferences, seminars.
- West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network Continuation of the Southwest Women’s History Network (UK)
- Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society The aim of the Committee is to encourage women to participate in all areas of economic and social history.
- Women’s History Network (UK) The WHN is an organisation of academics, teachers, women in libraries, independent and amateur historians, working to encourage research and writing in women’s history. The WHN holds an annual conference, awards a prestigious essay prize each year, and reaches out to student and independent historians of women.
- Women’s History Scotland Formally known as the Scottish Women’s History Network. General information.
- Gender and Medieval Studies Group (GMS) A UK-based organization devoted to putting together an annual interdisciplinary conference on the study of medieval gender.
- Margaret Cavendish Society An international organization. The site contains current and past newsletters, contacts, information on joining the Society, images, conference details and links to bibliographies, books, e-text and related sites.
- Ann Griffiths A website dedicated to the study of the life and work of the Welsh poet and hymn-writer, 1776-1805. It contains an introduction to her life and work, the text of her hymns and letters with English translations, and online access to digitised versions of a wide cross-section of printed and manuscript material; at Cardiff University.
- Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens: The Girls’ Friendly Society 1875-2005 An online exhibition based on the archive of the Girls’ Friendly Society (GFS), held at The Women’s Library.
- Glasgow Women’s Library host of the Lesbian Archive & Information Centre General information.
- Hall-Carpenter Archives The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) founded in 1982 are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain which followed the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1958. At the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- History of Women Religious A website created by members of the Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) containing a calendar of events, bibliography, book reviews, a gallery of digitized images. At Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
- Margaret Cavendish Society An international organization. The site contains current and past newsletters, contacts, information on joining the Society, images, conference details and links to bibliographies, books, e-text and related sites.
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library’s trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing (Edinburgh). Overview of the collections.
- Winning Equal Pay: the value of women’s work A partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress to record the long campaign to achieve equal pay for women. This interactive website will show filmed interviews with women who fought for equal pay, digitised images and documents, plus contributions from historians and other experts.
- Women’s Services, First World War A Research Guide from the UK National Archives.
- Working Class Movement Library Salford, England. The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- Society for Women in Philosophy UK mailing list A mailing list for women in the UK who are involved in philosophy, whether based in philosophy departments or not.
- Early Modern Resources created by Sharon Howard.
- Genesis The Genesis project is a mapping initiative to identify and develop access to women’s history sources in the British Isles. The database holds descriptions of women’s history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles. A list of web resources relating to the study of women’s history, is also available.
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- Alice Marshall Women’s History Collection Part of the Penn State Harrisburg Library’s Special Collections and Archives, this collection consists of literary, graphic, and manuscript materials dealing with the issues and individuals that comprised women’s history from the 15th century to the early 1980s. See also the information on Women’s Studies collections at www.libraries.psu.edu/socialsciences/women/
- Archival Sites for Women’s Studies WSSLINKS. Comprehensive list of mainly American collections. By the Association of College and Research Libraries Women’s Studies Section Collection Development Committee.
- Archives and Special Collections on Women and Medicine The Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine offers photographs and written records of the graduates of the Medical College of Pennsylvania (previously the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania), as well as, other important collections on women physicians, nurses, and health care workers. The Archives and Special Collections holds written documents pertaining to Dr. Sarah Stockton’s medical career, including her doctoral thesis and biographical information. General information and a small exhibit of documents by Dr. Stockton.
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering At Iowa State University. The collection includes personal and professional papers of women and women’s organizations in all areas of the sciences and engineering, except that of the medical sciences. General information, a guide to the collection, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of related web links.
- Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (Guilderland, New York). General information and Guide to Records on Nursing in New York State at the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History. From the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
- Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University Durham, North Carolina. Holdings include printed materials and manuscript collections documenting women in the American South from the late 18th century to the present. There is also considerable amount of 19th century material on British women and scattered collections from other European, African, and South American countries.
- Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI. The Catholic Worker was founded in New York City in 1933 by Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical journalist who had converted to Catholicism, and Peter Maurin (1877-1949), an itinerant French worker/scholar. The collection includes the personal papers of Dorothy Day.
- Five College Archives Digital Access Project This Web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women’s history, particularly women’s education at the Five Colleges.
- Gerritsen Collection Online Books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women’s rights collected by Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen from the late 1800s. General information about this online resource, which is not available for free.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School’s Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech documents the history of women’s involvement in architecture by archiving the professional papers of women architects. A guide to the collections, online inventories, a biographical directory and other resources.
- Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa General information, alphabetical and subjects lists of the IWA collections, and selected finding aids.
- Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity (Boston) This institution houses all of Mrs. Eddy’s published and unpublished works. The website offers biographical and bibliographical information about Mary Baker Eddy and information about the Library’s collection and activities.
- NARA-ALIC Pathfinder for Women’s History Research in the National Archives and Records Administration Library A list of bibliographic resources available at Archives Library and Information Center.
- National Transgender Library & Archive Information about The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library.
- Northwest Digital Archives An online searchable database of guides to primary sources at 13 research institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The database now contains more than 2,200 guides on numerous topics in Northwest History, including: business, industry and labor, city and town life, ethnic groups, home and family, native Americans, pioneers, sexuality and more.
- NYPL, Women’s Studies Research Guide A Guide to the Collections of The New York Public Library. The collections consist of retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, as well as a broad range of current Women’s Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship.
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture The Center in Duke University’s Special Collections Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.
- Schlesinger Library The Schlesinger Library holds letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women, families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also home to an extensive culinary collection. The Schlesinger Library also houses the Radcliffe Archives.
- Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Women’s History Manuscripts Northampton, MA. The collection consists of 6,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present.
- Soroptimist Archives Housed at Soroptimist International of the Americas headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Sources in U.S. Women’s Labor History a finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYC.
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library’s trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
- Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library. The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics such as women’s history, ethnic studies and labour history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
- Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach The CSULB oral history collections: recordings in women’s, laboor, ethnic and community history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the women’s history and Lesbian and gay collections.
- Women Artists Archives National Directory WAAND A web directory to archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women’s visual arts organizations since 1945, developed by the Rutgers University Libraries.
- Women in History at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Links to descriptions of manuscript collections at the Clements Library that are relevant for the study of women’s history and gender studies.
- Women’s History and Resource Center (WHRC) Washington, DC. Founded by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1984, the Center documents the historic social contributions of women volunteers, both as individuals and in unity. General information.
- Women’s History at the Wisconsin Historical Society Online reproductions of original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts and other primary sources in the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
- Women’s History Guide This guide describes the manuscript collections containing materials for women’s history research in the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Collections are described in full, even if only parts of them relate to the women’s history.
- Women’s History Resources At the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, State University of New York. See also the Human Sexuality and Gender Identity subject guide.
- Women’s History Sources: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Collections An indexed, online guide describing over 270 manuscript collections and approximately 30 bodies of Rutgers University records and related collections which pertain to New Jersey and American women and their status, concerns and activities from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth century.
- Women, Enterprise and Society A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. This Web-based publication identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library that document women’s participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.
- Womens Studies Resources in the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH.
- Word on Women A Directory of Historical Records Collections Documenting the History of Women in Upstate New York. click on “Word on Women” listed under popular Links
- Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
- International Museum of Women This institution was founded as the Women’s Heritage Museum in 1985. It operates as a museum without walls, producing exhibits, hosting public programs, and providing teacher resources for Women’s History Month. The website contains information on the Museum and some online exhibits.
- International Women’s Air & Space Museum
- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
- National Museum of Women’s History This virtual museum is dedicated to the history of the woman suffrage movement and women’s contributions that have shaped American culture and society. The physical Museum will be established in Washington, D.C.
- American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
- Aphra Behn Society
- Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious (ACWR)
- Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Information about this international organization which aims to advance the study of women in the Middle East. It is an affiliated organization of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
- Association for Women in Slavic Studies A networking resource for people concerned with the problems, status, and achievements of women in the profession. It also attempts to cover research and teaching in women’s studies and questions of gender and family life in Central/Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The organization is affiliated with AAASS (The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies).
- Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) Founded in 1979, the organization’s goals are to support black women in the historical profession, disseminate information by, for and about black women and promote scholarship by and about black women. General information, newsletter.
- CAWHC The Chicago Area Women’s History Council is a non-profit, membership organization that promotes the study, interpretation and preservation of women’s history.
- Coordinating Council for Women in History CCWH An American organization for women in the historical profession. The website contains general information about the Council, a newsletter, and job and conference announcements.
- Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
- Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego
- National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (Mount Laurel, NJ). NCWHS supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women’s participation in American life.
- NWSA Early Modern Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women’s Studies Association.
- NWSA Medieval Women Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women’s Studies Association.
- Social Science History Association Women/Gender Network
- Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Based at Minot State University, North Dakota. General information on the Society and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers
- Society for the Study of Early Modern Women A USA based network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and website, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another’s work in the field.
- Society for Women and the Civil War (USA). Information on the Society, newsletter.
- Southern Association for Women Historians
- SSA: Women’s Collections Roundtable 1997 Directory General information, announcements and a small list of internet resources from this section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Texas Women’s History Network General information
- Western Association of Women Historians
- Women’s and Gender Historians of the Midwest The Women’s Historians of the Midwest have reformed after a hiatus as the new WGHOM. The organization hopes to provide a forum for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in the Midwestern United States who are interested in women’s and gender history.
- American Women’s Dime Novels, 1870-1920 A history of the women’s sensational dime novel romance by Felicia L. Carr, at the Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University.
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls This site is devoted to the Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection at Stanford University Library. It offers thousands of catalogued graphic images of illustrated covers to issues of the dime novels and story papers that were popular in America in the second half of the 19th century and may be interesting for students of graphic representations of gender, class, race, work, and manners of the time.
- NWSA Early Modern Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women’s Studies Association.
- NWSA Medieval Women Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women’s Studies Association.
- Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Based at Minot State University, North Dakota. General information on the Society and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
- Society for the Study of Early Modern Women A USA based network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and website, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another’s work in the field.
- 17th Century Colonial New England with special emphasis on the Essex County witch-hunt of 1692 A link collection with an annotated bibliography compiled by Margo Burns.
- Academic Info: American Women’s History Annotated links.
- Academica – Resources in Chicana and Chicano Studies Links to statistical resources, texts, introductory works, bibliographies, collections and other resources in Chicana studies.
- African-American Women On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University.
- Agents of Social Change. New Resources on 20th Century Women’s Activism This online exhibit from the Sophia Smith Collection marks the opening for research of eight collections of 20th century women activists: the papers of Constance Baker Motley, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary Kaufman, Frances Fox Piven, Jessie Lloyd O’Connor, and Gloria Steinem and the records of the Women’s Action Alliance and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
- Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
- America’s Quilting History Website devoted to the history of quilts & quilting as the art of the everyday woman. Includes quilts from Colonial America to the Great Depression as well as multicultural women’s contributions. Articles, images, book references and links. Maintained by Anne Johnson.
- American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
- American Women and the World War II Experience This guide serves as an introduction to online and print sources covering the experiences of American women during World War II. By Jennifer Broberg, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- American Women’s Dime Novels, 1870-1920 A history of the women’s sensational dime novel romance by Felicia L. Carr, at the Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University.
- American Women’s History: a Research Guide Citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources. The site includes about 450 links to digital collections of primary sources, and a timeline, “American Women Through Time”. Maintained by Ken Middleton, reference/microforms librarian at MTSU Library.
- American Women. A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States Part of the American Memory Web site, which also includes the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress, Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996, Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, and Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party.
- Archives and Special Collections on Women and Medicine The Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine offers photographs and written records of the graduates of the Medical College of Pennsylvania (previously the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania), as well as, other important collections on women physicians, nurses, and health care workers. The Archives and Special Collections holds written documents pertaining to Dr. Sarah Stockton’s medical career, including her doctoral thesis and biographical information. General information and a small exhibit of documents by Dr. Stockton.
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering At Iowa State University. The collection includes personal and professional papers of women and women’s organizations in all areas of the sciences and engineering, except that of the medical sciences. General information, a guide to the collection, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of related web links.
- Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (Guilderland, New York). General information and Guide to Records on Nursing in New York State at the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History. From the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
- Bibliography on the Garment Industry Entrepreneurship in the garment industry – particularly in its golden age, from 1860 to 1975 – was a crucial element not only in the history of New York City’s economy (and the U.S. economy), but also in its social history and the rise of the Jewish middle class. Yet while the labor side of this rich industrial history has been well told, surprisingly little has been written about the business side. A bibliography, primarily intended for use by business historians interested in pursuing scholarship in this fertile field, is now available, compiled by Shirley Idelson. It includes primary and secondary sources on traditional business concerns such as manufacturing, retail, entrepreneurship and management as well as related topics like immigration, fashion, labor, and gender.
- Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography Citations from numerous subject areas within the humanities, social sciences, and health, medicine and science dating back to the nineteenth century to the present, with the majority of references representing the contemporary Black feminist thought that emerged in the the 1970s. Compiled by Sherri Barnes, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial Website on Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Memorial Institute. Information about the life of Dr. Brown and her school for African Americans, including a bibliography.
- Chicago Women’s Liberation Union Herstory Website Materials and reminiscences put together by various veterans of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, which was founded in Chicago in 1969.
- Civil War Women On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University.
- From Domesticity to Modernity: What was Home Economics? Online exhibition devoted to the history of Home Economics at Cornell University. Texts, biographies, photographs, timeline, bibliography and a locations guide for the items shown at the local exhibition. By Cornell’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and students of a course in Cornell’s Human Development department.
- Girls fight for a living Online exhibition. Photographs with descriptions of women in several occupations: industrial work, journalism, the arts, the military, social reform work, and jobs they took over from the men who were fighting in World War II, including Baseball. From the University of Louisville Special Collections: Rare Books.
- Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence A collection of 15 documents and a brief resource guide to books and online resources; at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition website.
- Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War Online exhibition, University of Virginia.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School’s Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- Identity by design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses Online exhibit from the National Museum of the American Indian
- International Women’s Air & Space Museum
- Kentucky Commission on Women Index A site that celebrates the lives of Kentucky Women. Lists and biographies, timelines, educational tools, bibliographies and a list of weblinks.
- Kheel Center Labor Photos The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives’ collections contain about 350,000 images that document labor history in the 20th century. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU photographs (1885-1985), are now searchable at the Kheel Center website.
- Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
- Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego
- Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel The documents gathered for this “mini-edition” chronicle Margaret Sanger’s publication of the radical, feminist journal, The Woman Rebel, and her emergence as the foremost leader of the birth control movement. Published by the Model Editions Partnership.
- Margaret Sanger Papers Project: Home Page A project of the Department of History, New York University.
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. These scrapbooks document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in 1897, as well as efforts at the state, national, and international levels to win the vote for women.
- National First Ladies’ Library Home Page Online biographical and bibliographical information about the First Ladies of the United States. The website contains descriptions of over 40,000 books, articles, letters, manuscripts by and about U.S. presidents’ wives, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
- National Transgender Library & Archive Information about The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library.
- National Women’s History Project
- New Jersey Women’s History Facts, images, documents, bibliography and links.
- Parsons – Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) Activist who played a crucial role in the worker’s movements in Chicago. She helped found the International Working People’s Association (IWPA), an anarchist-influenced labor organization that promoted revolutionary direct action towards a stateless and cooperative society and insisted on the equality of people of color and women. A small biography by by Joe Lowndes.
- Parsons – Lucy Parsons Archive Biographical and bibliographical information from the Anarchy Archives.
- Roads from Seneca Falls Material on U.S. women’s history and leadership for K-12 students and teachers. Linking lesson plans, activities, primary sources, brief biographies, bibliographies, and more than 800 women’s history historic sites, museums, and libraries, Roads from Seneca Falls catalogs websites across the country by subject, author, grade level, and type of material. The site is produced by the State University of New York and Syracuse University.
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers
- Sources in U.S. Women’s Labor History a finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYC.
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library’s trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers / The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project is the first phase of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a documentary history of Eleanor Roosevelt?s political writings and radio and television appearances. Besides the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in several languages, this website has a lot of biographical and bibliographical information on Eleanor Roosevelt.
- The National Women’s Hall of Fame Seneca Falls, NY. The website of the Hall offers general information and online biographies of the women of the Hall.
- The National Women’s History Project A guide for National Women’s History Month activities in the USA. Resources include a list of women’s history organizations and institutions and a collection of weblinks.
- Travels for Reform: The Early Work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1852-1861 The papers in this “mini-edition” focus on the first decade of their collaboration and are published by the Model Editions Partnership. For information on a larger project to find and copy all of the Stanton and Anthony papers that still survive, go to the Rutgers project homesite.
- U.S. Women’s History Workshop Materials related to the 1850 and 1851 Conventions, male voices on woman’s rights, and other documents. A collaborative effort of Massachusetts teachers (middle school through college) which seeks to make available American primary sources for teachers.
- United States History Index: Colonial Era The Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692. This United States History index of the WWW Virtual Library has a special section devoted to the Salem witchcraft trials. Links to maps, (web)bibliographies, biographies, documents and articles.
- Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Pictures and life stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Online exhibition by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
- Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach The CSULB oral history collections: recordings in women’s, laboor, ethnic and community history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the women’s history and Lesbian and gay collections.
- Witchcraft in Salem Village Transcipts of the legal documents of the Salem Witchcraft outbreak of 1692 and related documents; a brief introduction to the Salem trials, a map of Salem village, and general information on the Danvers Archival Center.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 Information about a collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the US, 1600-2000. Many of the resources previously located here have been moved to an expanded database version of this website, published by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY Binghamton and Alexander Street Press, and are no longer accessible for free.
- Women Artists Archives National Directory WAAND A web directory to archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women’s visual arts organizations since 1945, developed by the Rutgers University Libraries.
- Women in Alaska’s History Educational resources.
- Women in Aviation Resource Center Educational, historical, and networking resources such as book reviews and links to museum sites. The aim of the websites is to empower women involved in all aspects of aviation.
- Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries The book is freely accessible through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries website.
- Women in Transportation The history of the roles women played in improving travel in America from the 19th century to the present day. The website was created by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
- Women with a Deadline: Female Printers, Publishers, and Journalists from the Colonial Period to World War I This National Women’s History Museum exhibit follows the history of American women in print journalism from the early settlers to the turn of the 20th century, highlighting key figures and pioneers in the industry.
- Women Working in the United States, 1800-1930 This site provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard’s library and museum collections. Featuring ca. 500,000 pages and images documenting women’s roles in the U.S. economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.
- Women’s Legal History Website An index of pioneer women lawyers in the United States with links to biographical and other materials. Compiled by Barbara Babcock at the Robert Crown Library, Stanford Law School.
- Word on Women A Directory of Historical Records Collections Documenting the History of Women in Upstate New York. click on “Word on Women” listed under popular Links
- Second Wave and Beyond An online “scholarly community” on the history of the U.S. women’s movement since 1960. This form of electronic communications and research combines features of a discussion group, blog, and wikipedia incorporated into a traditional website.
- Black Women, Gender & Families Women’s Studies and Black Studies Journal
- The National Women’s History Project A guide for National Women’s History Month activities in the USA. Resources include a list of women’s history organizations and institutions and a collection of weblinks.
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Reference
- Vietnam Women’s Studies Bibliography Bibliographies and directories, general works, journal articles, web sites, and online databases; from the University of California Berkeley Library.
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