Information Resources Available from the World Wide Web (WWW)
About the Speaker	Bibliography and Databases	History	Interesting Sites	Literature	Search Engines	Title IX

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS
http://www.statehumanities.com/NHC/Plenary%20Speakers/stimpson.htm

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW - AFFILIATED FACULTY
http://www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/bios/stimpsonc_bio.html

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DATABASES

An extremely well done multidisciplinary subject bibliography of Black American feminist writings.
Sherri Barnes, Associate Librarian
Davidson Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Telephone: (805) 893-8022 / Fax: (805) 893-4676
Email: barnes@library.ucsb.edu

EARLY MODERN WOMEN DATABASE
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3

This database provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. Resources have been selected for their scholarly value by librarians on the Arts and Humanities Team of the University of Maryland Libraries. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access.
Patricia Kosco Cossard, Arts & Humanities Team Leader
Arts and Humanities Team
University Libraries
University of Maryland College Park
Telephone: (301) 405-9274
E-mail: cc319@umail.umd.edu

FEMINAE MEDIEVAL WOMEN AND GENDER INDEX
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Margaret Schaus
E-mail: mschaus@haverford.edu

GENDER INN
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm

gender Inn, the Women's and Gender Studies database, is a searchable database providing access to over 7,500 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.
Universität zu Köln
Englisches Seminar
- Abteilung Neumeier -
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D-50923 Köln
Telephone: ++49 - (0)221-470-3030 / Fax: ++49 - (0
E-mail: database-genderinn@uni-koeln.de

VIVA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN'S HISTORY IN HISTORICAL AND WOMEN'S STUDIES JOURNALS
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html

The compilation consists of articles on women and gender from historical journals and history from women's studies journals. All substantial articles and review essays about women and gender in history are listed in the bibliography. Related topics such as prostitution, witchcraft, housework, sexuality, birth control, infanticide, the family, gynecology, and masculinity are also included.
Jenneke Quast
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
E-mail: jqu@iisg.nl

WAVE: WOMEN'S AUDIOVISUALS
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE

WAVE is a database created and maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office staff that indexes and describes documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women. The database currently includes information on films and videos produced from the mid-to-late 1990s.
Digital Content Group
University of Wisconsin Libraries
E-mail: wiswsl@library.wisc.edu

HISTORY

American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections
Ken Middleton
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Telephone: (615) 904-8524
E-mail: kmiddlet@frank.mtsu.edu

WOMEN WHO RULED: QUEENS, GODDESSES, AMAZONS 1500-1650
http://www.umich.edu/~umma/women/

The University of Michigan's Women's Studies Program and University of Michigan Museum of Art co-organized the Literature, Science & the Arts theme semester for Winter 2001, "Gender, Power, and Representation." This is the Museum's online component to the exhibit they organized.
University of Michigan Museum of Art

INTERESTING SITES

The websites identified here are a sampling of those that celebrate the empowerment of young females in a variety of activities and disciplines.
Professor Kay E. Vandergrift
Rutgers University

HISTORY OF WOMEN IN SPORTS TIMELINE
http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/timeline.htm

The IAWM Web Site is a topical resource on women composers and women in music.
St. Lawrence County Branch
New York State
AAUW http://www.northnet.org/nysaauw
Email: onthego@northnet.org

INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH
http://www.iwpr.org/

IWPR is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families.
Institute for Women's Policy Research
1707 L Street, NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: (202) 785-5100 / Fax: (202) 833-4362
Email: iwpr@iwpr.org

MEDIASCOPE
http://www.mediascope.org/index.htm
Body Image & Advertising
http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/bia.htm

Mediascope is a national, nonprofit research and policy organization working to promote issues of social relevance within the entertainment industry.
12711 Ventura Boulevard
Suite 440
Studio City, California 91604
Telephone: (818) 508-2080 / Fax: (818) 508-2088
Email: facts@mediascope.org

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN WRITERS
http://www.naww.org/

Their mission is to support, inspire, motivate, entertain, and teach women writers.
P.O. BOX 183812
Arlington, Texas, 76096
Telephone: 1-866-821-5829 / Fax: 1-866-821-5829
E-mail: naww@onebox.com

NOTABLE WOMEN ANCESTORS
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/

This web page has been designed with the intent of honoring all of our notable women ancestors, offering both historical and genealogical information about them, as well as an occasional amusing anecdote, and making that information available to other genealogists, students of history and the general public.
Susanne "Sam" Behling
E-mail samcasey@aol.com

techmommy
http://www.techmommy.com/

With the same warm caring, endless patience, listening ear, cheery outlook, and boundless wisdom you expect from a mommy, techmommy will see you through your toughest PC problems! Personal tech support costs but there is a lot of information and Frequently Asked Questions that might be able to answer your questions right online.
© Copyright 2000-2002, techmommy LLC.

WEEA EQUITY RESOURCE CENTER
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/about.htm

The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity Resource Center was established to bring support and resources to the efforts that are improving the education of girls and women in the United States. The WEEA Center is a national project that promotes bias-free education for girls and women, men and boys.
WEEA Equity Resource Center
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458-1060
Telephone: 800-225-3088 / Fax: 617-332-4318 / TTY: 800-354-6798
E-mail: WEEActr@edc.org

WOMEN'S STUDIES / WOMEN'S ISSUES RESOURCE SITES
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html

The first place to go when looking for women-focused topics. Ms. Korenman is the Director of the Center for Women and Information Technology, Professor of English, and Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and maintains a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.
Joan Korenman
Director of the Center for Women and Information Technology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
E-mail: korenman@umbc.edu

LITERATURE

The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. An attempt is made to provide easy access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.
Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Editor
E-mail: celebration@pobox.upenn.edu

EMORY WOMEN WRITERS RESOURCE PROJECT
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html

The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The Project is a pedagogical tool, designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students in various disciplines the opportunity to edit their own texts.
Lewis H. Beck Center
Emory University
E-mail: ahickco@emory.edu

FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND UTOPIA
http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/index.html

Started because the author fell in love with this "sub-genre" several years ago. The site is basically a one woman site with listings for anthologies, lists, writers, criticism, listservs all pertaining to books written about feminist utopias, science fiction and fantasy.
Laura Quilter
E-mail: http://www.feministsf.org/

LITERATURE AND CULTURE WEB SITES
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html

Links to online texts (literary, critical or biographical).
Literature & Culture Pages
Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
E-mail: mmanoff@mit.edu

RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, GENDER, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/newreadingb.htm

Cynthia Leitich Smith is a children and young adult book author. Lots of bibliographies and genre listings of book titles.
Cynthia Leitich Smith, Children's Literature Resources
P.O. Box 3255
Austin TX 78764
E-mail: c-smith@texas.net

VICTORIAN WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
Perry Willett, General Editor
Indiana University
E-mail: PWILLETT@indiana.edu

WOMEN STUDIES RESOURCES - LITERATURE
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/literature.html

Several different subject areas of links that would be of interest to women.
Karla Tonella
University of Iowa
E-mail: Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu

WOMEN WHO WONDER WHODUNIT
http://www.geocities.com/danybyrne/index2.htm

An idiosyncratic review of mystery and detective stories by and about women.
Dany Byrne
E-mail: danybyrne@aol.com

WOMEN WRITERS
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Women-Writers.html

The Electronic Text Center from the UVA combines an on-line archive of tens of thousands of text and images in an SGML and XML-encoded format. Many of these are available for public access and are browseable or searchable. This section pulls together texts available by Women Writers.
Electronic Text Center
University of Virginia
Telephone: (804) 924-3230
E-mail: etextcenter@virginia.edu

SEARCH ENGINES

FeMiNa was created and debuted online in September 1995 to provide women with a comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female friendly sites and information on the WWW.

WWWOMEN
http://wwwomen.com/

Search directory for Women Online. WWWomen.com screens every link submission for relevancy to women's interests. Also provides a Women's Discussion Community, a CyberAdvice Column, free web pages, Interactive Stories, Sponsor of the World Wide Women's WebRing!, and a Women's Cookbook
WWWomen, Inc.®

TITLE IX

The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) was created to develop bold, new strategies and programs to advance women's equality, non-violence, economic development, and, most importantly, empowerment of women and girls in all sectors of society. http://www.feminist.org/sports/sports.asp
Articles and opinion pieces on Title IX
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801
Arlington, VA 22209
Telephone (703) 522-2214 / Fax (703) 522-2219
E-mail: femmaj@feminist.org

NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
http://www.nwlc.org/

To protect and advance the progress of women and girls at work, in school, and in virtually every aspect of their lives.

This is their position on Title IX.
National Women's Law Center
11 Dupont Circle, NW, #800
Washington, D.C. 20036

TITLE IX
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/docs/tix_dis.html

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits Discrimination Based on Sex in Education Programs or Activities which Receive Federal Financial Assistance.
U.S. Department of Education
Office for Civil Rights
Washington, D.C.20202-1328

GENDER EQUITY IN SPORTS
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/

Designed to serve as a resource for any individual investigating the state of affairs in interscholastic or intercollegiate sport. This has good historical information but is very much out of date for current information.
Dr. Mary C. Curtis and Dr. Christine H.B. Grant
University of Iowa
Women's Intercollegiate Athletics
340 Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Iowa City, IA 52242
Telephone: (319) 335-9247

30 YEARS OF TITLE IX FALL 2002, VOL. 32, ISSUE #1
ON CAMPUS WITH WOMEN (OCWW)
http://www.aacu.org/ocww/index.cfm

On Campus with Women (OCWW), sponsored by AAC&U's Program on the Status and Education of Women, provides readers with the most up-to-date information on women in higher education. It focuses on women's leadership, the campus climate, curriculum and pedagogy, and new research and data on women. The Fall 2002 issue is inaugural Online issue and focused on Title IX.
Amanda J. Lepof
Editor, On Campus with Women
Telephone: (202) 387-3760 ext. 403
E-mail: lepof@aacu.org