Highlighted E-Resources and More
Browse Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents in its new searchable, online-only format! Latest issue: v. 30, no. 2 (Spring 2010)
Read the latest issue (Winter-Spring 2010) of Feminist Collections, on gender and political violence, female sleuths, literacy, women prisoners, and more.
UW-Madison:
Try the new Gender/Women's Studies database library search. You can search across the seven "core" databases selected, or select/de-select as needed.
Use Research Guides:
Researching Topics in Gender and Women's Studies
Research Guide on Second Wave Feminism
LGBTQ Studies Research Guide at UW-Madison
LGBTQ Studies Research Guide for UW System users
Statistics on Women and Gender: Where and How to Find
"An Open Letter, to the New White House Council on Women & Girls re: Federal Government Website for Women," by Beth Harper, is from Feminist Collections v.30, no.2 (Spring 2009)
Guide to Graduate Work in Women's / Gender Studies (2008), from the National Women's Studies Association, is a searchable database plus essays.
Discovering American Women's History Online is a new free database providing access to primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, etc.) that document American women's history.
"A Torrent of Moving Images: Free Online Videos for Women’s Studies," is an article from Feminist Collections.
Read the 2010 Status of Girls in Wisconsin Report from the Alverno College Research Center for Women & Girls in conjunction with the Women's Fund of Milwaukee. Women's Health in Wisconsin 2008 provides Wisconsin-specific data on a range of women's health issues. It comes from the Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation.
Sex Politics: Reports from the Field is a 412-page “comparative study of the politics of sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights” in Brazil, Egypt, India, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam, and within the United Nations and the World Bank.
Progress of the World's Women 2008-2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability, from UNIFEM. Prior Progress reports continue to have useful information. See also the Global Gender Gap 2007 site from the World Economic Forum.
GenderBiology.net is a gateway to news and resources about gender-specific medical and biological research.
Researching Violence Against Women Online is a guide from VAWNET to finding the most appropriate online resources on the topic.
Women in Congress website provides biographical information about all 260 women who have served in the U.S. House or Representatives or Senate.
"A RESEARCH REVOLUTION IN THE MAKING: GOOGLE BOOKS AND MORE AS SOURCES FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY" is an article from Feminist Collections detailing how and why to use Google Books, Amazon Books, and more for academic research.
Newly updated: Our Annotated Bibliography on American Jewish Women's History (Supplement)
More electronic resources are described and linked from the "E-Sources" columns of the recent issues of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources and in archived issues published by the UW System Women's Studies Librarian's Office.