This is just a small sampling of the wealth of online resources on gender studies. If you would like to see something added here, please contact liaison librarian Lisa Iannucci.
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)
NWSA is a professional organization dedicated to leading the field of women's studies and gender studies, as well as its teaching, learning, research, and service wherever they be found.
DoHistory: Who was Martha Ballard
This site reveals the process of "doing history" through an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale.
GLBT Historical Society
Collects, preserves, and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them.
National Women's History Project (NWHP)
The NWHP provides information on women’s history for educators, students, and general users. Resouce Center provides links to bios, speeches, women's rights movement, and more.
New Jersey Women's History
Maintained by the Alice Paul Institute, this site contains photographs, weblinks, and bibliography.
Smith College Women's History Archive
Founded in 1942, the Sophia Smith Collection (SSC) at Smith College is one of the most significant collections of women’s history in the United States that focuses on women working on behalf of other women and gender minorities. The SSC has substantive strengths in women’s reproductive rights and justice, women’s liberation movements, suffrage and civil rights, community activism, iconoclast creators, women’s economic justice, lesbian and queer communities, and women’s environmental justice. It is a collection that reflects the diversity and complexity of women’s lives and identities through the lens of social, political, and cultural change, and gender justice.
Women in World History
Women in World History is an online curriculum resource center that helps high-school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from primary sources dealing with women and gender in world history.
The Feminist Institute
Documenting feminist contributions to culture by preserving and digitizing archival materials.
HRC: Human Rights Campaign
HRC is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBTQ equality.
Ms. Magazine
Feminist magazine co-founded in 1971 by journalist and social–political activist Gloria Steinem. It was the first national American feminist magazine.
Men Yell at Me
Regular newsletter from a journalist based in a conservative state.
UN Organizations: Gender
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
The CSW is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
ILO Gender Equality Tool
The International Labour Organization (ILO) considers gender equality a key element of its global objective of Decent Work for All.
UNiTE to End Violence against Women
The UNiTE campaign is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls around the world.
UN Women
UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.