Gender Studies: Internet Resources

List of M.A. and Ph.D. gender studies programs across the world.

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) searchable directory of women's studies programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Excellent print culture collection focusing on zines written by women and people of color. Visitors are welcome but asked to contact the zine librarian in advance.

CUNY Graduate Center's organization focusing on LGBTQ-related research and scholarship. Frequently offers free events open to the public.

Located at the CUNY Graduate Center, this organization offers resources and free events for anyone interested in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.

Located in Park Slope, this organization boasts the biggest collection of resources by and about lesbians in the world.

Located at NYU, this archival collection features materials from the 1990s political/musical movement Riot Grrrl.

A wing of the Brooklyn Museum dedicated specifically to feminist art.

Excellent guide to LGBTQ programs and collections at New York Public Library.

List of women's studies/history archives across the world divided by geographical location.

Created by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University, the Archive offers a large number of speeches made by women in politics over the years. Visitors to the site can browse speeches by keyword or topic (e.g. leadership, economy, or activism).

Ad*Access is composed of 7000+ advertisements pertaining to five types of products – Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda. The ads all span from 1911-1955, and can be searched by keyword or browsed via subject, product, date, publication, etc. This database is definitely very interdisciplinary in nature, and will be of interest to people researching a wide variety of fields, including marketing, communications, gender studies, and sociology.

Created by NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this digital collection features 52 works by black women in the 19th century. Includes poetry, fiction, essays, and biography/autobiography.

A gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States.

Stanford University library bibliography on gender studies in Latin America. Some materials are in Spanish and others are in English.

"An extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines." Covers a wide range of subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and physical sciences. References go as far back as the 19th century, and include interviews, speeches, and personal narratives along with books and periodical articles."

A website whose stated objective is “to provide a space for study and research of myriad topics relating to African women in cinema.” This is a very thorough and well-organized website, with ample film clips, bibliographies, and a frequently updated blog.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts maintains this database, which offers authoritative information on 18,000+ women artists of all time periods and nationalities.

"This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s."

The Brooklyn Museum's feminist art center created this extensive digital archive of feminist art. Artists from the 1960s through the present are profiled, and each entry features images, artist statements, biographical information, etc.

This database offers the full-text of speeches by an impressive group of women from 1848 onward. Site visitors can browse speeches by year or alphabetically by last name.

"The world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture." The site is maintained by two Humanities professors.

"HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance...The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site."

"JWA.org offers an online Encyclopedia of Jewish women, lesson plans and other educational materials that can be downloaded for free, online exhibits on topics as diverse as "Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution" and "Katrina's Jewish Voices," several book and film guides, a growing collection of reminiscences of recently deceased Jewish women, a lively blog, and numerous other resources for anyone interested in the experiences of American Jewish women, both celebrated and unheralded."

"This is the first formal and comprehensive guide to primary source material relating to the history and culture of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered (LBGT) people held by repositories in North America."

Guide created by a librarian providing information on locating various statistical data about women and gender.

"Celebrating and documenting the creativity of Asian, Black, Latina, and Native women, VG is one of the internet's most comprehensive and well-respected academic databases for women artists of color. We provide innovative teaching and research tools for accessing a global community of women writers of color living and dead, obscure and renowned."

"Women, Business and the Law presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees, in part drawing on laws contained in the Gender Law Library. Both resources can inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women's economic opportunities and outcomes."

"Women Working, 1800–1930 is a digital exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented in this online research collection from Harvard University."

"The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library are one of the most important resource centers for Women's Studies in the United States. The collections consist of vast retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, as well as a broad range of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship."