Focus on Women: Women's Studies

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Links

• Feminist Geek - www.feministgeek.com/
     This is primarily a women's studies site, but with very strong online resources for educators. A feminist geek is a supporter of feminism who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media.


• Feminist.com - www.feminist.com/
     Feminist.com is a thriving online community fostering awareness, education and activism for women all across the world.


• Gay Friendly College or University? - www.pridelinks.com/Education/Student_Resources/United_States/North_Carolina/
     Trying to Find a Gay Friendly College or University or Start a LGBTQ Group on Campus? Check out these websites. For a links to North Carolina university and college LGBTQ groups go to:


• Get In Touch With Your Feminist Side - www.feminist.org/research/
     The website www.feminist.org has a research center that will help you get connected to Women's Studies Programs, University Women's Centers, Feminist Majority Foundation Publications, a Daily Feminist Newswire, Feminist Journals, Feminist Magazines, Women's History, Women's Research Centers, Feminist Books, and Government Resources and References. Click on the link to start getting in touch with your feminist side.


• Higher Education Renewal of 2008 - thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR04137:@@@L&summ2=m&
     Want to know what Congress actually passed in the Higer Education Renewal Act?


• LGBTQ Student Training and Events - www.campuspride.org
     And organizations like Campus Pride (campuspride.org) and Lambada 10 (lambada10.org) have resouces, events and training opportunities for LGBTQ students and their campus allies that promote safety and equality for all students.


• National Museum of Women in the Arts - www.nmwa.org
     The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.


• National Women's History Museum - www.nwhm.org
     The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM), founded in 1996, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of women, and integrating this rich heritage fully into our nation's history.


• National Women's Studies Association - www.nwsa.org/
     NWSA has a vision of a world in which all persons can develop to their fullest potential and be free from all the ideologies and structures that consciously and unconsciously oppress and exploit some for the advantage of others.


• Those who do not study the past.... - www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28410/pub_detail.asp
     In this article by Christina Hoff Sommers, the author argues that the success of feminism cannot be understood without awareness of the dual impacts of radical and conservative feminism in the 18th and 19th centuries.


• University of Waterloo Scholarly Societies Project Gender Studies section - www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/women_soc.html
     Links to websites of scholarly societies in Gender Studies are given.


• WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Links, American Library Association - libr.org/wss/wsslinks/
     Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.