News Sources
- Feminist Majority Foundation Online has feminist news highlights updated daily.
- International Women's Tribune Centre website includes issues of Women's GlobalNet newsletter. To receive the newsletter by email, send a blank message to iwtc-womensglobalnet-subscribe@igc.topica.com.
- Women's Enews is a project of the Women, Policy and Media Program of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. The goal is to provide a "professional news service to the public and the media, policy makers and opinion shapers, covering the news about issues of importance to women." The article "Women's Media Transformed by Internet," by Sheila Gibbons, discusses the stop and start of several feminist periodicals in recent years.
- RoSa Documentation Centre and Archives on Feminism, Equal Opportunity, and Women's Studies' site has a link for "women's news" that contains links to news items in numerous languages. The Centre is in Belgium.
- WNN: Women News Network is a news features site working in affiliation with WUNRN: Women's UN Report Network. WNN covers international women's advocacy and gender rights. The Network also includes a film/video collection. See also WINGS (Women’s International News Gathering Service).
- Women's Feature Service offers news, features, and opinions by women journalists around the world. Based in New Delhi, it focuses on development from a gender perspective and frequently collaborates with other organizations.
- Women's Health News blog from a medical librarian
- Women's International Network of AMARC (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters)
- Women's Media Center's Daily News Updates
- Research News Reporter Online, from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, is a monthly newsletter describing and linking to research related to women and their families.
- Afrol News' Women/Gender section contains news from Africa.
- BlogHer is an organization of women bloggers.
Megasites on Communication
- Communication Studies: Gender & Race in Media links, compiled by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa.
- Communications Theory/Gender/Identity Resources, compiled by David Gauntlett, Bournemouth Media School.
- Directory of Women's Media is published by the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. Sections list women's print periodicals, Internet periodicals, publishers, media organizations, and other women's media.
Airbrushing Images of Women
- Airbrushed Nation (on YouTube)
- Dove Campaign for Real Beauty: Self-esteem Film Archive. See especially "Evolution" on how images are made over by retouching.
- Rant on Fake Airbrushing of Models and Celebs in the Media (on YouTube)
- Retouch is a site from Sweden that lets visitors see how easy it is to change a model's image. It is part of a Girl Power project.
- What Happened to Natural Beauty? (on YouTube)
- http://www.frankwbaker.com/isbmag.htm has examples of airbrushing techniques.
More
- About-Face is an organization that combats negative and distorted images of women. Site includes a gallery of offenders.
- Archive of Women's Political Communication, from the Iowa State University Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
- Beauty and Hygiene advertisements from the 1920s through 1950s section of the Ad*Access Project database of the John. W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History,Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
- Information on Women's Magazines from the Republican Period in China has been compiled by students at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
- "Come On, Join the Conversation!: Zines as a Medium for Feminist Dialogue and Community Building," by Angela Richardson, Feminist Collections 17, no. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 1996).
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls (primarily of covers and other illustrations; some texts)is a collection at Stanford University Library. It is searchable by features, including images intended for a female audience and many images of women categories.
- EXTRA!, the magazine of FAIR, includes many articles focussing on the media's portrayal of, and impact on, women, including "How Seventeen Undermines Young Women," by Kimberly Phillips, from the January/February 1993 issue, and "Not All Domestic Violence Studies Are Created Equal," by Jennifer L. Pozner, from the November/December 1999 issue. Use the Women's Desk section to see a list of all the articles.
- Feminist Collections has published a series of reviews on women's zines.
- Femme Revolution is a group dedicated to improving the portrayal of women in the media.
- "From Fandom to Feminism: An Historical Analysis of the Zine Press," by Heath Row. Originally published in Media Diet, Spring 1997.
- Gender Ads Project is a website "dedicated to understanding the contexts of sexism and advertising" with over 1,600 images.
- Gender & Media Handbook is from the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, located in Cyprus. It describes how media report issues of gender and conflict and includes guidelines on "best practices."
- Gender, Ethnicity, & Class site compiled by Daniel Chandler, University of Wales, includes articles and also links to his Gender and Advertising, Gender and Television, Film and Gender, and other pages.
- Gifts of Speech site has numeous speeches by women.
- " 'Girls Need Modems!' Cyberculture and Women's Ezines," by Krista Scott (master's research paper, York University, 1998)
- International Women's Media Foundation is an advocacy organization in support of women journalists.
- Mainstream media coverage of Beijing +5 is analyzed by the International Women's Tribune Centre.
- Media Awareness Network site includes Media Portrayals of Girls and Women , Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues, and other topics, each with links to relevant online articles. The site's "Lesson Library"of lesson plans includes "gender portrayal" as a subject category. Site includes a classroom exercise on the portrayal of teenage girls in magazines.
- MediaWatch challenges racism, sexism, and violence in the media. Site includes numerous articles.
- National Women and Media Collection is a joint venture of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Site includes descriptions of the collections of women's papers and organizational records held there.
- Screening Gender promotes good practices in gender portrayal in television. It is a project of the Northern European public broadcasting companies.
- Shoujo Manga Page, by Matt Thorn, describes these popular Japanese "girls' comics" and links to academic papers on the topic by Thorn, bibliographies, and several Shoujo Manga magazines (in Japanese).
- Who Makes the News? is a global media monitoring project that collects data on gender in news media.
- WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an "all-woman independent radio production company."
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters, a Library of Congress exhibit
- Women of Action Network is a site "dedicated to inspiration and education through teling the stories of women who have changed the world through physical forces. The site offers original, fact-checked content and includes free HDTV videos of some of the fastest women in the world."
- Women in Journalism Oral History Project of the Washington Press Club Foundation includes interviews with print and broadcast journalists.
- Women in Publishing is an organizationin the UK that promotes the status of women in publishing and related trades and offers women training and tutoring in aspects of publishing.
- Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press is a network of media and media-concerned women. It publishes a Directory of Women's Media. Also on the site is The Development of Communication Networks Among Women, 1963-1983: a history of women's media, by Martha Leslie Allen.
- Women's Media Center "strives to make women visible and powerful in the media."
- Women's Voices from Women in Media & News (WIMN) is a media monitoring blog.
- Zorra is a Dutch media watchdog group interested in gender roles in advertizing. Site is mostly in Dutch; some English. Site includes a database of ads, plus ad parodies, a bibliography, and a newsletter.