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Feminist Studies Collections: Women of Color & Women Worldwide

Kathy Kerns, Feminist Studies Bibliographer; kkerns@stanford.edu; (650) 725-1186

General

Databases

• Alt-PressWatch provides fulltext of "a collection of newspapers, magazines and journals
of the alternative and independent press."
• Alternative Press Index, 1991+
• Contemporary Women's Issues (1992+) fulltext database
• Ethnic News Watch (1960+) fulltext database
• GenderWatch
• Women's Studies International (1972+) - part of BiblioLine

Web Links

• International Women's Conferences, Concerns, and Resources links from the Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian.
• Women of Color Web Sites and International Women's Web Sites maintained by Joan Korenman
• International Center for Research on Women
• Women in Development Network
• Women Watch - "central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system"
• United Nations and the Status of Women
  • UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women
  • United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
  • UN Economic and Social Development:Women and Gender
  • Linkages page on The Fourth World Conference on Women and Beijing +5
• Gender and Development from the World Bank
• Madre: Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families Around the World
• Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
• WIGSAT - Women, Knowledge, Technology
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

African & African American

• Africa-Wide: NiPAD (Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies) (19th Century - June 2008)
• African Women Bibliographic Database
• African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections (Duke University)
• African Women on the Internet links from Karen Fung, Hoover Library, Stanford University
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Digital Library Collections: Digital Schomburg)
• Womanist Theory and Research (1994-1999)
• African Gender Institute (University of Capetown, South Africa)
• Association of African Women Scholars
• ULOAH: United Lesbians of African Heritage

Asian & Asian American

• Sawnet (South Asian Women's NETwork) - "a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues."
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies (1995-2005)
• Sakyadhita: The International Association of Buddhist Women

European

• Amazone Belgian center for women, including archives of women's history.
• Equality Authority (Ireland)
• NIKK Nordic Gender Institute
• Network of East-West Women, "an international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange and activism among those concerned about women's swiftly changing situation in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Latina

• Women & Gender Studies - LANIC (University of Texas at Austin)
• Making Face, Making Soul: a Chicana feminist homepage
• Research Quick Start Guides on Chicano/Latino Studies (Stanford University)

Middle Eastern (including Jewish & Islamic sites)

• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
• Bat Shalom - "women with a vision for a just peace."
• Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America.
• Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends with links to other Web resources.

Native American

• Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
• Native American Women Playwrights Archive - information on authors and works in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library (Miami University), plus links to related sources.
• NativeWeb: Women
• Indigeous Women's Network
• Native American Studies Collections (Stanford University)

Last modified: August 28, 2008