WEB RESOURCES FOR WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

Technology: Training, Support, and Software

• Free Computer Training (see esp. ITS short courses)
  Free Handouts which can teach you most beginning courses
  IT Training (self-paced): http://www.utexas.edu/its/training/self-paced/
• Local Austin Hotspots: http://www.austinwirelesscity.org/
• Computing at UT (Webspace, Webmail, Labs)
• Software and Hardware
  • Campus Computer Store for deals
    
  • Bevoware free software
    
• Thesis Support
• Special Characters in HTML

Professional Communication

• UT Graduate School's Professional Development and Community Engagement Program
• Style Manuals
• Proofreaders' Marks
• EndNote
• Classic books on writing and editing
• Division of Rhetoric and Composition: Student Resources (style, documentation, research, etc.)

Archives: UT and Austin Resources for Research

• UT Research Web
• EUREKA, a search function for research specialties
• PCL, the Perry-Castaña Library (includes special collections; see especially Databases and Indexes to Articles and the Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online under "G" in that list)
• HRC: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
• Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
• Center for American History (see especially "Research and Special Collections," like the Natchez Trace Collections)
• L.B.J. Presidential Library and Museum --current director: Betty Sue Flowers, a long-time WGS associate
• Blanton Museum
• Texas Memorial Museum (especially education resources)
• Austin History Center (not UT, but close!)
• Center for Teaching Effectiveness
• Faculty affiliates of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Ethics and Research Policy

• UT Vice President for Research: Office, containing research policy documents for UT campus
• Office of Research Support and Compliance -see particularly the information on IRB and Human Subject training and compliance
• UT System: Crash Course in Copyright
• teaching ethics (see Center for Teaching Effectiveness for various approaches and teaching strategies)
• Links to some professional organizations' ethics statements,, on intellectual property and ownership

University of Texas Policy Documents

• http://www.utexas.edu/administration/: site that includes the Regents' Rules, which is the general legal framework for the UT System, and the Handbook of Operating Procedures, which has the rules governing the UT campus, including documents on sick leave, adjusted workloads, tenure and promotion, and the like.
• The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost: http://www.utexas.edu/provost/, which administers these programs; their home page flags the most important policy issues on the campus.
• Report on the Status of Women, 2000, with salary and status data collected with the assistance of the Office of the EVPP (on an inititiative of the FWO): http://www.utexas.edu/provost/planning/reports/status/

Related Sites
• Teaching Faculty by Rank and gender:
  http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oir/statistical_handbook/03-04/faculty_staff/fs07/
• Teaching Faculty by College and Ethnicity:
  http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oir/statistical_handbook/03-04/faculty_staff/fs08/
• Faculty/Staff Headcount By Job Category, Ethnicity and Gender, Fall 2003:
  http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oir/statistical_handbook/03-04/faculty_staff/fs13/
• Application for Leave: http://www.utexas.edu/hr/PDF/#loa (along with other human resources documents)
• Information on the Stop the Clock Policy: allowing an extension of the time until formal consideration for tenure.

Search Engines and Master Lists

The Americas
• Union Institute Research Engine for Women's Studies Resources: http://www.tui.edu/research/ViewInCat.asp?ID=731
• University of Maryland Women's Studies Data Base: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/
• Artemis Guide to Women's Studies in the US (lists by state): http://www.artemisguide.com/
• Canadian Women's Studies Online: http://www.utoronto.ca/womens/cdnwomen.htm
• Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Site: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html
• List of Periodicals and Journals in Women's Studies, including some film and video (Northern Arizona University): http://www.nau.edu/~wst/access/periodichome.html>
• Femina (web search engine for women): http://femina.cybergrrl.com/

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  Europe and Beyond
• international listing of Women's Studies programs, departments, and research centers: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/programs.html
• Women's International Studies Europe: http://www.uia.ac.be/women/wise/
• NIKK, Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research: http://www.nikk.uio.no/index_e.html
• European Resources: http://www.aviva.org/eurores.htm
• NIS Women's Organizations by Country (Soviet Successor States, some in Central Asia): http://www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/niswomen.htm
• General and some popular WGS resources: http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/general.html
• University of Maryland WGS database: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/index.html
• UCSC Print and Web WGS Resources: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/wst/print&web.html

Major University-Affiliated Research Centers

• Barnard Center for Research on Women: http://www.barnard.edu/crow/
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (successor to Radcliffe College and Bunting Institute, now lost to Harvard): http://www.radcliffe.edu/
  See particularly Murray Resaerch Center and their links.
• Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cgs/
  For links, see: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cgs/resources.html
• Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College: http://www.wcwonline.org/
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/group/IRWG/
• Center for Research on Women and Gender, The University of Illinois at Chicago:
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan: http://www.umich.edu/~irwg/
• Newcombe College for Research on Women, Tulane University: http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/"
• Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Pembroke_Center/
• The Southwest Institute for Research on Women: http://w3.arizona.edu/~ws/newweb/sirow.html
• The Union Institute (Chicago IL), Women's Network: http://www.tui.edu/offices/cfw/default.asp?strLink=J.14

Women's Studies in Texas

• Austin College (Sherman), Gender Studies: http://www.austincollege.edu/Category.asp?1963/a>
• Rice University -- Women and Gender: http://cohesion.rice.edu/humanities/swg/
• Southwestern University (Georgetown): http://www.southwestern.edu/academic/depts/dept-woma.html
• Texas A&M University (College Station): http://www.tamu.edu/wmst/
• Texas State University (San Marcos, formerly Southwest Texas State University), Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies: http://www.txstate.edu/mcgs/
• Texas Tech University (Lubbock): http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/
• Texas Woman's University (Denton): http://www.twu.edu/as/ws/
• University of Houston: http://www.hfac.uh.edu/ws/
• University of North Texas (Denton): http://www.wmst.unt.edu/
• University of Texas, Arlington: \ http://www.uta.edu/womens_studies/
• University of Texas, Austin: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/wstudies/
  Includes materials for teaching and research
• University of Texas, El Paso: http://www.utep.edu/womens/

Representative Professional Organizations

• The National Women's Studies Association: http://www.nwsa.org
• Women in Higher Education: http://www.wihe.com/ (includes interesting links).
• Society for the Psychology of Women: http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/hyde.html
• Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA): http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/asli1.htm
• Third Space Journal -- The journal for emerging feminist scholars (professionalizing 3W scholarship, download for free): http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal.htm
• Free Application for Federal Student Aid, FAFSA: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

Grant Agencies

• The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Fund, for Women's Studies (dissertation grants): http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/
• The Foundation Center: http://fdncenter.org/
• MSU's Resources: http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3womenst.htm
• Brandeis Links: http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/grants.php3
• Hogg Foundation Regional Foundation Library: http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/RFL/default.html/
• The Playboy Foundation (film-making grants): http://www.playboyenterprises.com/foundation/media_guidelines.html

Archives/Research

• GLBT Historical Society: http://www.glbthistory.org/
• The Lesbian Herstoy Archives: http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/
• ONE: National Gay & Lesbian Archives: http://www.oneinstitute.org/
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/ (note their image bank)
• Library of Congress Women's History archive
• Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies at Rochester (has grants too!): http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst/
• Southern Oral History Project: http://www.sohp.org/
• University of New Mexico Feminist Research Center: http://www.unm.edu/~femresin/
• Matrices: A Lesbian and Lesbian Feminist Research and Network Newsletter: http://www.lesbian.org/matrices/
• University of Colorado at Denver, Feminist Educational Research Links: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/fem_res.html
• The Freda Centre For Research on Violence Against Women and Children (Canada): http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/freda/
• Free Speech Dot Org, Video archive: http://www.freespeech.org/
• Feminist Archive Links Page (UK): http://www.femarch.freeserve.co.uk/links.htm
• Jewish Women's Archives: http://www.jwa.org/
• Nevada Women's Archives: http://www.library.unlv.edu/women/
• Women and Social Movement Archives and Webographies in Women's History: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/links/resource.htm
• Seneca Falls National Historical Park: http://www.nps.gov/wori/
• The Women's History Museum: http://www.whrp.net/link_list.htm
• The Women's Museum (Dallas): http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/
• National Women's Hall of Fame: http://www.greatwomen.org/

Policy and Lobby Organizations

• American Association of University Women: http://www.aauw.org/
• Women's Research and Education Institute (Washington, DC): http://www.wrei.org/
• The Feminist Majority: http://www.feminist.org
• The Feminist Majority Foundation Campus Leadership Program: http://www.feministcampus.org
• The League of Women Voters: http://www.lwv.org/
• National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families: http://www.cpr4womenandfamilies.org/
• National Abortion Rights League (NARAL): http://www.naral.org/
• National Council for Research on Women: http://www.ncrw.org/
• National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC): http://www.nmwa.org/
• National Organization for Women: http://www.now.org/
  Local Contact: lesley_ramsey@yahoo.com
• Office of Research on Women's Health (NIH): http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/
• YWCA of the USA: http://www.ywca.org/

Activism, Third Wave, and Law

• Tolerence.org/Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
• ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/
• ACLU of Texas: http://www.aclutx.org/ (located in Austin)
• The Third Wave Foundation: http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org/default.htm
• The Rudd Institute (size discrimination): http://www.yale.edu/rudd/
• Girl Start-- Empowering GIrls in Math, Science, and Technology: http://www.girlstart.org/
• Women's Advocacy Project: http://www.women-law.org/
• Arizonsa State's LGBTG Coalition (formerly: Lambda League): http://www.asu.edu/clubs/lgbtq/
• American bar Association, Commision on Domestic Violence: http://www.abanet.org/domviol/
• Feminist Legal Network, from UK Center for Legal Information: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/law/femlegalnet/links.htm
• Socio-Legal Association (SALSA): http://www.kent.ac.uk/slsa/
• Women Leaders Onlineand Women Organizing for Change (business): http://wlo.org/
• Sexing the Political: Journal of Third Wave Feminists on Sexuality (see also links): http://www.sexingthepolitical.com/2002/one/links.htm
• 3W international: http://www.webgrrls.com/
• third wave: http://www.cybergrrl.com/

Chicana/Hispanic/Latina Issues

• Chicana Research Centers and Organizations: http://clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu/women/orgs.html
• Latino Intersections: http://journals.dartmouth.edu/latinox/resource_center/academics2.shtml
• Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE): http://www.latinas.org/
• Latina Lesbian & Bisexual Bibliography: http://www.indiana.edu/~arenal/lesbo.html
• Making Face, Making Soul: http://chicanas.com/
• MANA: A National Latina Organization: http://www.hermana.org/
• Mujeres Hispanas en Acción: http://www.mujeresenaccion.com
• National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI): http://www.nhli.org/
• Empowerment: Sites dedicated to political empowerment of Latinas: http://www.lasculturas.com/lib/libFeminism.htm

Women of Color

• National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People: http://www.naacp.org/
• Women of Color Websites: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_wc.html
• Texas NAACP: http://www.texasnaacp.org/
• African American Biographical Database: http://aabd.chadwyck.com/
• The Black Collegian Online: http://www.black-collegian.com/

Transnational

• Womenwatch: Directory of UN Resources: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/asp/user/list.asp?ParentID=10305
• Russian and East European Network Information Center, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UT: http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic/index.html
• LANIC: Women and Gender in Latin America Reasources: http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/women/
• Phillipines, Isis International Manila: Sharing Knowledge, Liking Women, Engendering Change: http://www.isiswomen.org/
• CAFRA -- Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action:
• Austrailian Women's Archives Project: http://www.womenaustralia.info/
• International Assistance for Victims of War: http://www.womenforwomen.org/
• Resources on Women/Feminism in the Middle East: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/women.html
• Women in Islam: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/Islamwomen.html

Women and Health

• Hogg Foundation for Mental Health: http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/
• Planned Parenthood: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
• National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: http://www.nabco.org/
• National Advocates for Pregnant Women: http://advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/
• US WIC program: http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: http://www.ndvh.org/
• Domestic Violence Agencies on the Internet: http://www.silcom.com/%7Epaladin/madv/dvagencies.html
• Positive Health Project: http://www.positivehealthproject.org/
• PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), with downloadable resources: http://www.pflag.org/
• Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality: http://www.ejhs.org/

Sex Positive

• Goofyfoot Press (includes resources for disabled): http://www.goofyfootpress.com/
• Straight-forward, explicit sex information for teens: http://www.bust.com
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality: http://www.positive.org/
• Society for Girl Sexualtiy: http://www.sexuality.org/
• Annie Sprinkle:
  "I'm known as the prostitute/porn star turned Ph.D. sexologist, educator, multimedia artist and Utopian entrepreneur."
  http://www.anniesprinkle.org/
• The Institute for the Addvanced Study of Human Sexuality
  "The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is the only graduate school in the United States, and one of the few in the world, approved to train sexologists.": http://www.iashs.edu/

Media

• The video activist network: http://www.videoactivism.org/guildrpt.html
• PBS' NOW W/Bill Moyers (access progressive curriculi): http://www.pbs.org/now/
• Mr. Lady Records (soon to be out of business, alas): http://www.mrlady.com/
• Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Media, Feminist Studies: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES, LINKS TO RESOURCES http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/femmedia.html
• Dyke TV, with video archive: http://www.democracynow.org/
• Minnesota Women's Press: http://www.womenspress.com/newspaper/2003/1903comm.html

Local

Progressive Austin has a good media contact list: http://www.progressiveaustin.org/media.htm
• Austin PBS: http://www.klru.org/
• Austin NPR: KUT-FM: 90.5
• Women and Their Work: http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/
• Texas Tenant Rights: http://www.tenant.net/Other_Areas/Texas/tenants.html
• Texas Civil Rights Project: http://www.texascivilrightsproject.org/
• Rhizome Collective: "We strive to become both a Demonstration of Urban Sustainability and a Center for Community Organizing.": http://www.rhizomecollective.org/
• Monkey Wrench Books: http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/
• Book Woman (online): http://ebookwoman.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Index
• Queer Community Austin: http://www.queerut.org/community/austin.php3
• Her Domain of Austin
  "To encourage and support women who embrace the culture and technology of the Internet as a vehicle for creative and professional pursuits." (includes local feminist links): http://www.herdomain.org/index.html
• Mini-Austin Activist Guide and Links: http://michaelbluejay.com/activist/

Information on Careers and Career-Planning

• Resources for Academic Couples (Swarthmore): http://hven.swarthmore.edu/~jensen/couples.html
• Academic Careers and Babies (UC Davis): http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/baby_book/index.html
• Dual Career Couples in Science: http://www.physics.wm.edu/dualcareer.html
• A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT: http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html