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American Association of University Women
This association works for women's equality, particularly in education. The website will prove most useful for those scholars and students of women's studies looking for grant, fellowship, and scholarship information.
Curricular Crossings
Called a "web anthology for the classroom," Curricular Crossings lists classes and instructors in women's and area studies at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Universities, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
International Alliance for Women in Music: Women's Early Music, Art, and Poetry
The alliance has created an impressive website that includes links to essays, primary sources, selected bibliographies and discographies.
National Organization for Women
The official website of the National Organization for Women emphasizes the connection between feminism and current events with a wide variety of links to reports and news stories. The site also contains membership and activist information.
Sweet Briar College: Gifts of Speech
Sweet Briar College offers transcriptions of famous or important speeches, including Nobel lectures, by women from around the world. Users can search the database by name or date.
The Feminist Chronicles
This collection of materials from the Feminist Majority Foundation includes overviews, essay-format chronologies, and primary documents.
The New York Times: Women's Studies
This page, offered through The New York Times' College Resources for Students and Faculty program, contains links to recent articles related to women's studies and women's issues.
United Nations Bibliography on Women
The United Nations Library allows users to search online for U.N. reports under women's rights, economic conditions, women at work, social conditions, or women's health.
United Nations Women's Issues
This research site from Yale University Library lists and links to important United Nations documents regarding women's issues, including World Conference on Women information and the Blue Book series.
University of Maryland: Women's Studies Listserv
This list is an international e-mail discussion forum about women's studies. The website describes the list, its mission, and how to join and participate.
Women's Studies Database
Part of the University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database, the Reading Room contains links to electronic texts of academic papers, books reviews, fiction, history, nonfiction, bibliographies, and poetry.
Women's Studies Email Lists
This record of a dozen women's studies e-mail lists and online discussion forums, includes several in foreign languages. The website contains complete instructions on how to subscribe to each group from its creator, Joan Korenman at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Women's Studies Resources
This rich online resource for students and scholars of women's studies, by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa, offers essays, bibliographies, news articles, and links to related websites.
World Lecture Hall: Women's Studies
World Lecture Hall lists online course material from a variety of universities. The handful of classes in the women's studies section cover American, religious, and theory history.
 
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