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Gender Studies Internet Sources
General Internet Collections Politics
Grant Information World Issues
Health Issues Women, the Law, and Criminal Justice
History  


General Internet Collections
Feminism and Women's Studies  (The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University)
http://eserver.org/feminism/index.html
"This page publishes women's studies and feminist works, particularly focusing on issues of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices."

Women's Studies Online Resources   (Joan Korenman, University of Maryland Baltimore)
http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/
This is an excellent site to locate WS's resources on the Net. 

Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/
This page is put together by "a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families."  Topics include poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health care and domestic violence, and more.

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Health Issues

MEDLINEplus: Women's Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealth.html

The National Office on Women's Health
http://www.4women.gov/
High quality health information that can be accessed by Topic or Keyword.

International Women's Health Coalition
http://www.iwhc.org/

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History

American Women's History: A Research Guide (Middle Tennessee State University Library)
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-intro.html
This is an indepth guide that includes lists of print and digital resource links in a wide variety of areas related to women.  Categories of primary source collections include African Americans, Birth Control, Clothing, Dance, Education, Mass Media, Peace Movement, Quilts, Religion, Sports, Witchcraft, and many more.

American Women:  A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of History and Culture in the U.S.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html
This gateway includes a print research guide of the same name, along with "illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site."  In addition to the Research Guide, information on how to search for women's history resources in the Library's catalogs; guidance on finding materials relating to women within the Library's American Memory collections; and helpful orientations to women's history sources in the Library's online exhibitions and audiovisual Web broadcasts of lectures, readings, and symposia are also included.

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
There is a lot of information on this site, but of particular interest is the Resource Center

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Politics

Women and Politics Institute American University
http://wandp.american.edu/

Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/

National Women's Political Caucus
http://www.nwpc.org/


Women, the Law, and Criminal Justice

National Center for Women and Policing
http://www.womenandpolicing.org/publications.asp

American Association of University Women:  Legal Advocacy Fund
http://www.aauw.org/advocacy/laf/

Women's Law Initiative
http://www.womenslaw.org/

Ontario Women's Justice Network  (Canada)
http://www.owjn.org/


World Issues

UNIFEM:  United Nations Development Fund for Women
http://www.unwomen.org

WomenWarPeace.org
http://www.womenwarpeace.org/frontpage

Feminist Majority Foundation's Global Feminism
http://www.feminist.org/global/

Working Women's Forum (India)
http://www.workingwomensforum.org/
This site addresses the "struggles of poor women workers against caste, class and gender oppression."  It attempts to unify those needing support.

Women Watch: The UN Working for Women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

Global Fund for Women
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/

Social Development in Asia-Pacific (United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
http://www.unescap.org/sdd


Grant Information

The Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/
Look here for information on foundations that are providing grants of all types.

Grants.gov
http://www.grants.gov/
"Grants.gov was established as a governmental resource named the E-Grants Initiative, part of the President's 2002 Fiscal Year Management Agenda to improve government services to the public....Today, Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and provides access to approximately $400 billion in annual awards."


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