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Selected Webliography on Women's History

  Women in the United States
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/women_in_the_us.html

Census on Women in the U.S.: We the People: Women & Men in the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/censr-20.pdf

Census Facts for Features: Women’s History Month 2006
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/

Theme of Women’s History Month 2006
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/women_in_the_us/national_womens_history_month.html

USINFO PUBLICATION: AMERICAN WOMEN OF INFLUENCE:
http://www.america.gov/products/pubs/womeninfln/

U.S. Government Agencies devoted to Women
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/women_in_the_us/women_us_gov.html

Major Organizations devoted to Women’s causes:
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/women_in_the_us/women_us_orgs.html

Recent Online Articles about Women
http://www.america.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/women_in_the_us/women_us_online.html

Democracy Dialogues Introduces New Feature on "Women's Rights"
http://www.democracy.gov/dd/eng_democracy_dialogues/womens_rights.html

Webchats:
http://www.america.gov/usinfo/USINFO/Products/Webchats/dobriansky_16_mar_2006.html

II. INTERNET RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN WOMEN:
History, Politics, Social Life

National Women’s History Museum with Virtual Exhibits:
http://www.nmwh.org/

National Women’s History Project: exhibits, events, publications:
http://www.nwhp.org/

Digitized Manuscripts On Women’s History:

Schlesinger Library on Women’s History:
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/

Women’s History Month….Resources:
http://www.ed.gov/free/w-history.html

Library of Congress Resources on American Women:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

Topical Essays about American Women:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awhessays.html

Women’s History Internet Resources, Evergreen State College:
http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/womenshistory/index.html

Women of the Century: Teaching Tools and Classroom Discussion Topics
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/

Brief History of Women’s History Month:
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm

Women’s History Resources from the Internet Public Library:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/soc50.90.90/

Poynter’s Links to Women of the World (news):
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=1142

Femina: A Guide to Sites about Women:
http://www.femina.com/

University of Maryland’s Internet Resources:
http://research.umbc.edu/%7Ekorenman/wmst/links.html

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

Electronic Journals on Women:
http://www.advancingwomen.com/awl/awl_journal_archive.html

Journal of African Women’s Studies:
http://www.jendajournal.com/

Journal of International Women’s Studies:
http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/jiws/

E-JOURNALS from www.america.GOV:
http://www.america.gov/pub/ejournalusa/society_and_values.html

Challenges of Globalization
http://www.america.gov/pub/ejournalsusa/global_issues.html

TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN INFORMATION:
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/

FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESSWOMEN:
MY BIZ FOR WOMENhttp://www.sba.gov/women/

How to Construct a Business Plan: http://www.bplans.com

ACCESSING NGO STUDIES ON WOMEN: http://www.eldis.org

SEARCH ENGINES TO LOCATE MORE INFORMATION

Librarians Index to the Internet:
http://www.lii.org

Search Results fromwww.lii.org
Search Results in INFOMINE: infomine.ucr.edu

Distance Education: The MIT Initiative
http://ocw.mit.edu

MIT Open Courses:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

MIT: Women’s Studies
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Women-s-Studies/index.htm

Sample of available course: Women’s Voices, Spring 2004
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-022JSpring2004/CourseHome/index.htm

Sample Assignment with Full Text Resources:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-022JSpring2004/Assignments/index.htm


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