WOMEN OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES, ETHNICITIES, RACES, AND OTHER GROUP IDENTITIES

General and Mega-Sites

August 13, 2007.

• Women of Color Sites list maintained by Joan Korenman.

• International Women's Conferences, Concerns, and Resources page within our site leads to women-focused information from the United Nations, human rights watchdog organizations, and elsewhere.

• Women of Color Web from the Harvard School of Public Health focuses on issues of feminism, sexuality, and reproductive health and rights.

• Women of Color Resource Center, in Berkeley, CA. Site includes excerpts from the Center's newsletter, Sister to Sister /s2s

• Review of websites on women from developing and post-Communist countries, by Laura Parisi, from Feminist Collections.

Sites on a Particular Country, Ethnicity, Race, or Other Group Identity

• AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
  • ABANTU promotes gender in an African context.
  • Africa - Women section of Stanford's Africa South of the Sahara Page.
  • African Women's Bibliographic Database on the Africabib.org site, which also includes Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaires to Africa: 1763-1999: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, by Davis Bullwinkle.
  • Black American Feminism Bibliography, by Sherri Barnes
  • Enda Third World, based in Dakar, Senegal, works on environmental development action. One of its programs is Enda Synfev, Synergy, Gender and Development, which promotes development that benefits women, particularly in Africa.
  • FEMNET is the African Women's Development and Communication Network, based in Kenya.
  • Blackgirl International site includes links to other sites recommended by site visitors.
  • Women in Africa Resources (UW-Madison Women's Studies course page)
  • Women's Net is a networking initiative in South Africa. One of its focuses is on preventing violence against women.

• RAWA: Revolutionary Association of the Women of AFGHANISTAN

• AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
  • Women's Information Service of South Australia links to numerous women-focused sites throughout Australia.

• CANADIAN WOMEN
  • Canadian Social Research Links on Women's Issues: emphasis is on Canadian sites, but others are also included.

• CHINESE WOMEN
  • But Women Did Come: Chinese Women in Canada (exhibit)
  • (Inter)disciplining Chinese Women: An Introduction to the English Language Literature on Women's Studies in China, by Patricia Arend
  • Women in Chinese History -- Bibliography by Marilyn Shea, Univ. of Maine at Farmington
  • Women section of China Online, compiled by Jun Shan as part of About.com.

• FILIPINAS
  • Bagong Pinay (New Filipinas)

• FRANCO-AMERICANS
  • Franco-American Women's Institute in Maine include Québécois, Acadian, Métis, and Mixed Blood women.

• HAWAIIANS
  • Hawaii Women's Heritage Project
  • Women Workers in Hawaii's Pineapple Industry

• INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA
  • Bibliography on Literature Written by South Asian Women, by Irene Joshi, U. of Washington.
  • Gendwaar: Doorway to Gender Information in South Asia [site not working, March 2005]
  • SAWNET is the South Asian Women Homepage.
  • Journal of South Asia Women Studies
  • South Asian Women Studies Bibliography, by Rebecca Darby-Williams, Univ. of California at Berkeley Library.
  • Women of India page maintained by Vikas Kamat.

• IRANIAN WOMEN
  • Iranian Women's Studies Foundation has addresses in Berkeley, CA and Cambridge, MA.'s women's section, from The Embassy of The Islamic Republic of Iran in Ottawa, CA.
  • ZAN contains news about and other material on Iranian women

• ISRAELI WOMEN
  • Adva Center researches equality and social justice in Israel, and publishes Israel Equality Monitor and other publications.
  • Israel Women's Network works against discrimination in the workplace and home. For more women's organizations in Israel, see Denise Osted's list.
  • Women in Israel links from the Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE).

• JEWISH WOMEN
  • Meta-pages
    • Jewish Feminist Resources, compiled by Renee Primack (not updated since 2004.)
    • Jewish Women Resources, links page by Frank Unlandherm, Jewish Studies Librarian, Columbia University (updated periodically)
  • Selected Jewish Women's Organizations, Institutes, and Archives
    • Hadassah Brandeis Institute (formerly Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women) includes numerous documents in full-text for downloading in pdf.
    • International Council of Jewish Women is an umbrella organization of 52 Jewish women's organizations in 47 countries. It sponsors an International Jewish Women's Human Rights Watch project that addresses the problem of the agunah [woman whose husband refuses to give her a divorce] and other issues.
    • Jewish Women International organization.
    • Jewish Women's Archive
    • Jewish Women's Network (U.K.)
    • National Council of Jewish Women (U.S.)
    • The Jewish Women's Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association offers an annual scholarship to a graduate student who is enrolled full-time in an accredited academic institution and who has a special interest in the lives, work and culture of Jewish women as demonstrated by research, thesis or dissertation topic.
  • Women and the Holocaust
    • Women and the Holocaust site by Judy Cohen includes "Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women's Holocaust Narratives," by Myrna Goldenberg, "Women of Valor: Partisans and Resistance Fighters," by Yaffa Eliach, poetry from survivors, personal reflections, a bibliography, and more.
    • tell him that I...Women Writing the Holocaust, dissertation by Catherine A. Bernard.
  • Other Sites
    • Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard.
    • Biographies of Jewish Women, from the Jewish Virtual Library, The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.
    • Jewish Women in Southern Arizona site created by students in the women's studies course "Women and Western Culture," taught by Kari McBride, University of Arizona, Spring, 1999.
    • Medieval Jewish Women in History, Literature, Law, and Art: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by Cheryl Tallan (Working Paper #7, 2000, updated 2006, from the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women, in pdf)
    • Syllabi for courses in American Jewish Women's History, taught by Pamela Nadel, American University and Regina Stein, Temple University.
    • Jewish Women's History links from the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
    • Women of the Book: an exhibition of 90 Jewish women artists who have created artists books.

• LATIN AMERICANS AND CHICANAS
  • Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI) Women's Program
  • Agenda de las Mujeres (from Argentina) is a portal to information on legislation, rights, economics, and other topics as they concern women.
  • Chicana Feminist Homepage, by Susan L. Gallardo.
  • Chicana Studies Home Page, by Romelia Salinas.
  • Latin American Resources on women and gender, compiled by the U. of Texas Latin America Infrastructure Center, includes both general and country-specific links.
  • MANA is a national Latina organization.
  • Mujeres Hoy is a portal for Latin American women on the women's movement, gender equality, and other women's issues.

• MIDDLE EAST AND MUSLIM WOMEN (see also by country name)
  • Women in Islamic Societies: A Selected Review of Social Scientific Literature, by Priscilla Offenhauer. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 2005.
  • Arab Women Connect from UNIFEM in English and Arabic includes weekly news items and nformation on events and publications.
  • ISLAM and Women's Rights articles.
  • Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
  • Muslim Sisters Homepage has links to numerous articles.
  • Muslim Women's League
  • Women in the Middle East links maintained by Frank Unlandherm, Columbia Univ.

• NATIVE AMERICANS
  • Native American resources
  • Educational Resources on Wisconsin Indian Nations [no longer online?]

• Q Web Sweden promotes women's health and empowerment in SWEDEN and elsewhere.

• PACIFIC
  • Pacific Women's Bureau

• RUSSIAN WOMEN AND FORMER SOVIET UNION
  • Russian feminism resources
  • Open Women Line, based in Russia, promotes women's activism and networking.Site includes links to organizations, and an Information Portal: English-language version or Russian-language version

• SOUTHEAST ASIA
  • Southeast Asia Women Studies Bibliography, by Rebecca Darby-Williams, Univ. of California at Berkeley Library.

• TAIWAN
  • Taipei Association for The Promotion of Women's Rights (TAPWR) site includes health, shelter, and justice information.

• TIBETAN Women's Association, headquartered in Dharmasala, India.

• YUGOSLAVIA
  • Donna Hughes has several papers on the war in Yugoslavia and women, including
    • "Feminist Organizing in Belgrade, Serbia: 1990-94," from Canadian Women’s Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme, v. 16, no. 1, pp. 95-97, 1995
    • "Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia," from Frontline Feminisms (Garland Press, 1999)
    • "Women in Black Against the War in Yugoslavia," from Feminista! v.3, no. 1 (May 1999)
    • For additional articles, see her homepage.

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