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Women's rights

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Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: Document archive depicting the literature of the Women's Liberation Movement in America, with a focus on its early origins in the 1960s and 70s. Resources range from articles, dealing with the issues of colour, roles and sexuality, to a digitised reproduction of a song book. Information is searchable by subject category or keyword, with links to additional sites of relevance being included.
Author: Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University
Subjects: american literature from 1900, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.42
Resource type: document collection
Emma Goldman Papers: Project aiming to collect, organise, and edit documents from around the world about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), the early radical feminist. Includes information about Goldman's life, and an overview of publications written about her. Also includes excerpts from the Emma Goldman travelling papers exhibition.
Author: University of California Berkeley
Subjects: women in history, women writers, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents
Feminista!: Online Journal of Feminist Construction containing art, literature, social commentary, philosophy, wit, humour, and respect.
Author: Page, Juliette Cutler
Subjects: feminism, women's rights, women's studies
DeweyClass: 305.42
Resource type: journal
From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond: An audio adaptation of a video trilogy which documents the history of abortion rights in the US. It begins when abortion was illegal, tells the story of the fight for safe abortions, and describes the laws surrounding abortion in the US today.
Author: University of Albany
Subjects: pregnancy, united states law, women's rights
DeweyClass: 342.084
Resource type: sounds
Intute: social sciences - women's studies: Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to feminism and women's studies.
Author: Intute
Subjects: women's rights, women's studies
DeweyClass: 305.42
Resource type: index
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: A coalition of over 180 organisations committed to the protection of civil and human rights in the United States. These organisations include groups representing people of colour, women, labour unions, persons with disabilities, older Americans, major religious groups, gays and lesbians, and civil liberties and human rights groups.
Author: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Subjects: civil liberties, disability, human rights, minorities, women's rights
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
National NOW Times Index: Newsletter for the US campaigning organisation, the National Organization for Women. Includes news updates on issues and campaigns.
Author: National Organization for Women
Subjects: women's issues, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: magazine
National Women's History Project: Presents the history of the women's rights movement and an extensive chronology of important events in women's history.
Author: National Women's History Project and Infoplex Communications
Subjects: women in history, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In conjunction with a film of the same name, this resource traces the lives of two key figures of the women's movement, considering their achievements and the position of women in society today. Presents interviews with women who remember suffrage, a series of articles addressing topics such as Quakers and 19th century reform, the cult of true womanhood, and the legal strategies of Susan B. Anthony, and historical documents detailing events such as the Seneca Falls Convention.
Author: Public Broadcasting Service
Subjects: women in history, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents
Not Part of My Sentence: Report from Amnesty International describing violations of the human rights of women incarcerated in the United States. Includes details of sexual misconduct and abuse by prison officials, mistreatment of pregnant prisoners, discrimination, and inadequate medical care. Recommendations are given, along with factsheets and personal stories.
Author: Amnesty International USA (AIUSA)
Subjects: human rights, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents
PAVNET: Partnerships Against Violence: US government interagency resource created to provide information about effective violence prevention initiatives. Includes funding sources, program descriptions, resource guides, pointers to other criminal justice sites, and violence resources.
Author: US Government
Subjects: crime, domestic violence, women's rights
DeweyClass: 364
Resource type: documents, news
Progress of Nations 1997: UNICEF document, which ranks the nations of the world in terms of their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning and progress for women.
Author: UNICEF
Subjects: development studies, economic geography, global health, nutrition, women's rights
DeweyClass: 338.9
Resource type: document
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920: Includes biographies of 35 women who played a prominent part in the struggle for equality, a database of written primary sources produced by, or about, these thirty-five women and a collection of visual images that reflect the different views on the emancipation of women. Includes cartoons from The Vote Magazine, Punch and Anti-Suffrage Postcards.
Author: Spartacus Educational
Subjects: women in history, women writers, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305
Resource type: biography, documents, images
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: USA Women's Suffrage: Offers biographies of prominent historical campaigners for women's suffrage in the USA. Also provides details of political campaigns and organisations which played a role in the enfranchisement of women.
Author: Spartacus Educational
Subjects: women in history, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: biographies, documents
University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office: Includes several publications from the Women's Studies Librarian's Office, feminist collections, bibliographies and book lists.
Author: University of Wisconsin
Subjects: women's rights, women's studies
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents, index
Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database: Bibliographic database of references to books, reports, and journal articles concerned with women in politics. A search mechanism allows users to specify the type of document, geographic region, publishing organisation, subject matter, author, title of periodical, and year of publication.
Author: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Subjects: political science, women's rights, women's studies
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: bibliography
Women's History Month: Information about important events and women in the history of the Women's Rights Movement. Includes over 60 brief biographies of women, timeline, quiz, activities and court cases fought on women's rights issues.
Author: Gale Research
Subjects: women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: biography, documents
Women's National Commission: The Women's National Commission is the official, independent, advisory body giving the views of women to the government. It has over 50 full member organisations, and aims to ensure that women's views are taken into account by the government and are heard in public debate.
Author: Women's National Commission
Subjects: social policy, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: institution
ZNet - A community of people committed to social change: Extensive resource offering news, articles, documents, speeches, commentaries, audio and video clips and interviews pertaining to radical politics and the activities of international political acitivists. Delivers leftist interpretations by prominent academics and activists on such issues as 9/11, feminism, war, biotechnology, animal rights, international law, race and immigration, and cultural imperialism. Though fully searchable, ZNet is divided into numerous subject categories to facilitate browsing and also provides access to an online version of the ZNet affiliated publication, ZMagazine. ZNet is available in English, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish/Kurdish, Japanese and Czech/Slovak.
Author: ZNet
Subjects: human rights, international law, media studies, political science, warfare, women's rights
DeweyClass: 303
Resource type: articles, documents, index