Women’s Rights

Note: Please look through resources very carefully. This is a controversial issue so some sources may have bias. Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor.

Online Sites and Articles

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  1. Feminism on In Our Time at the BBC. (listen now)
  2. Early Video on the Emancipation of Women, documentary filmed ca. 1930, which includes footage from the 1890s
  3. Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, Special Collections Library, Duke University
  4. Andrea Dworkin Web Site - The official site for the noted radical feminist. Includes an extensive online library of her writings.
  5. Atypical Feminists - Mailing list for those who identify as feminist but have slightly skewed ethics that relate back to their style of feminism. This list exists to honestly explore "unusual" or "politically incorrect" feminism.
  6. Being Jane: Redefining Feminism - A community to help redefine the idea of feminism to symbolize women coming together so that they may lead fulfilling lives with self-assurance and passion.
  7. Ecofeminism.org - Movement that views the oppression of women and nature as interconnected. Introduction, news, online journal, bibliography, and links.
  8. Feminism Online - Promoting the continued development and protection of women's rights.
  9. Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association - Articles from an academic, interdisciplinary journal which explores prolife feminism and related life and death issues.
  10. Feminism/Feminist Theory - Bibliographies, links, and information for feminist theory in the US and around the world. Profiles of prominent feminists.
  11. Feminist Blogs - A community of weblogs by self-identified feminists, women’s liberationists, womanists, and pro-feminist men. To raise awareness, bring together feminist voices, and promote cross-linking and discussion between feminist bloggers.
  12. Feminist Economics - A printed journal meant as an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives.
  13. Feminist Jurisprudence - An overview, text of key documents, and links to related references from the Legal Information Institute.
  14. Feminist Majority Foundation: Global Feminism - Includes newswire and online actions.
  15. Feminist Net - Goals, contact information, and links.
  16. Feminist Studies Home Page - Encourage analytic responses to feminist issues and meant to open new areas of research, criticism, and speculation.
  17. Feministing - Young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. This provides a platform for them to comment, analyze and influence.
  18. Jo Freeman: Feminist Scholar and Author - Archive of articles, personal profile, protest photos, links, contact information, and images of and history behind political buttons.
  19. Media Girl - An online community weblog by and for women (and men, too) to discuss, rant, weblog, analyze, and/or laugh about media, politics and culture, all within the general context of progressive politics and feminism.
  20. Off Our Backs - Provides news and information about women's lives, feminist activism, ideas, and theory, the status of women around the world, and women and lesbian culture. Features archived articles.
  21. Offshoots of Liberalism - Feminism - A Marxist analysis of feminism as an offshoot of Liberalism.
  22. Quiet Mountain: New Feminist Essays - Monthly essays and links. Writer's guidelines onsite.
  23. Said It - Magazine with media analysis, international news, essays, activist alerts, forum, how to subscribe, back issues, letters, calendar, and links.
  24. Shameless Magazine - Canadian progressive publication for teenage girls. How to subscribe, mailing list, advertising rates, submission guidelines, press, message board, editor's weblog, photos, and links.
  25. The 3rd WWWave - Feminism for the new millennium. Reflects women's issues and feminism in the generation of women who came of age in the 80's.
  26. The Amazon Connection - Discusses the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact, as it is expressed in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in sexual values and practices.
  27. Trivia - Voices of Feminism - Online journal that publishes feminist writing in the form of literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews.
  28. UK Radical Feminist Mailing List - An email mailing and discussion list for radical feminists in the UK
  29. Vandergrift's Feminist Page - Analysis of feminism, and feminist literary criticism.
  30. Women's Web - Participatory social history site based on the stories of four Australian activists now and over the last fifty years. Sorted by author, subject, and campaign.
  31. World March of Women - Web site of the World March of Women: founding documents, demands, newsletters, archives.
  32. ifeminists.com - A central gathering place and information center for individualist feminists, focusing on ifeminism, a new approach to feminism that emphasizes freedom and the individual.
  33. soc.feminism Terminologies - Definitions and descriptions of various feminist movements archived from Usenet.
  34. Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement
  35. National Women's Liberation
  36. "Title X: Three Decades of Accomplishment". Guttmacher.org. 2001-02-01. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  37. "The Supreme Court Historical Society - Learning Center - Women's Rights". Supremecourthistory.org. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  38. "Eisenstadt v. Baird | The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law". Oyez.org. 1972-03-22. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  39. "Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972". Justice.gov. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  40. "History | National Women's Political Caucus". Nwpc.org. 2012-09-02. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

Gloria Steinem

  1. Official website
  2. Profile at Feminist.com
  3. Works by or about Gloria Steinem in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  4. Gloria Steinem Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
  5. "Ms magazine website". About Ms.. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  6. Steinem, Gloria. "Who is Gloria?".Gloria Steinem Official Website. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  7. “Gloria Steinem Addresses the Women of America — History.com Audio". History.com. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

Shirley Chisholm

  1. American Rhetoric: Shirley Chisholm - Full text of speech for the Equal Rights Amendment.
  2. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Shirley Anita Chisholm - Short biography along with political party, years of service in Congress and bibliography.
  3. National Leadership Visionary Project: Shirley Chisholm - Includes biography and oral history archives.
  4. PBS - Chisholm '72 - Offers video highlight of her presidential run of 1972.
  5. Shirley Chisholm - A biography of black Congresswoman from New York, who worked for women's and minority rights.
  6. Shirley Chisholm Commemoration Day - Brooklyn College event information.
  7. Shirley Chisholm, 'Unbossed' Pioneer in Congress, Is Dead at 80 - New York Times obituary. (January 03, 2005)
  8. The Ticket That Might Have Been - International Museum of Women article by Gloria Steinem describing run for president. (January 01, 1973)

Bella Abzug

  1. Bella Abzug at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  2. BALI, The Bella Abzug Leadership Institute
  3. Blanche Wiesen Cook, an entry about Bella Abzug from the Jewish Women's Archive
  4. "Bella Abzug". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 10, 2010.

Betty Friedan

  1. National Women's Hall of Fame: Betty Friedan
  2. Betty Friedan at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History
  3. Betty Friedan's Biography from The EncyclopaediaJudaica
  4. The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud (chapter 5 of The Feminine Mystique)
  5. Booknotes interview with Friedan on Fountain of Age, November 28, 1993.
  6. First Measured Century: Interview: Betty Friedan
  7. Betty Friedan: Late Bloomer.
  8. Cheerless Fantasies, A Corrective Catalogue of Errors in Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
  9. Anything you can do, Icon do better — Germaine Greer remembers Betty Friedan
  10. After a Life of Telling It Like It Is: Betty Friedan Dies at Age 85, Lys Anzia, Moondance magazine Spring 2006
  11. Papers of Betty Friedan, 1933-1985: A Finding Aid.Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
  12. Video collection of Betty Friedan, ca.1970-2006: A Finding Aid.Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
  13. Audio collection of Betty Friedan, 1963-2007: A Finding Aid.Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
  14. The Feminine Mystique at 50, Gail Collins essay in the New York Times
  15. Video: MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry discusses The Feminine Mystique on its 50th anniversary
  16. C-SPAN American Writers profile on the book.
  17. This Week in History - Publication of "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan
  18. Women's Equity Resource Center: Betty Friedan - Profile, list of awards and honors, and bibliography.
  19. Salon: When Feminists were Divas - An article by Laura Miller about the strong personalities of the early feminists, the books about them and their responses. (June 09, 2000)
  20. The Region: Interview with Betty Friedan - An interview by Kathleen Erickson about economic equality. (September 01, 1994)
  21. Rambles: Betty Friedan: Issues without Gender - A interview by Tom Knapp about the state of the women's movement. (March 01, 1993)

Women’s Rights Organizations

  1. Guerrilla Girls - A group of women artists, writers, performers, film makers and arts professionals who fight discrimination. Schedule of appearances, art archive, profile and interview.
  2. ARZU Studio Hope - Social entrepreneurship helping Afghan families with steady income and access to education and healthcare by sourcing and selling handmade area rugs Afghan women weave.
  3. Bernice Sandler - A veteran of women's rights struggles offers resources on topics such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination against women faculty and students on college campuses.
  4. Bora Laskin Law Library: Women's Human Rights Resources - Extensive reference library on women's rights.
  5. CLADEM - The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights
  6. Cedaw – Iwraw Asia Pacific - The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
  7. Center for Reproductive Rights - The Center for Reproductive Rights is a nonprofit, legal advocacy organization that promotes and defends the reproductive rights of women worldwide.
  8. Equal Rights Advocates - A public interest, nonprofit women's law center in San Francisco that fights for the economic, social and political equality of women and girls.
  9. Equality Now - An international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women.
  10. Face to Face International - An international campaign for women's rights, improved health care, and legal abortion and birth control. Issue links, celebrity profiles, current projects and news, and photo exhibition.
  11. Feminist Net - A network created by RoulaScoutari of intercommunication and solidarity among women. Aims and views. [Greek and English].
  12. Feminists For Free Expression - A group of diverse feminists working to preserve the individual's right and responsibility to read, listen, view and produce materials of her choice
  13. Guerrilla Girls Broadband - Formed in 1999 to address discrimination in our technologized world. Sponsors interactive activism through online feminist quizzes, streaming video, and other projects which take advantage of digital media.
  14. IIAV: Archives For The Women's Movement - The international information centre and archives for the women's movement.
  15. International Justice for Women: The ICC Marks a New Era - International Criminal Court offers a long-awaited improvement in how international crimes against women are treated. It increases the possibility for redress and provides witness protection and other measures to afford women the greatest level of protection.
  16. MADRE - An international women's human rights group
  17. National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) - Women's rights in the profession of law and worldwide.
  18. Saathi - A Nepali NGO working to eliminate injustice and violence against women and children in Nepal and providing support to victims.
  19. Safe World for Women - International non-governmental organization specializing in women's rights and advocacy.
  20. Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN) - A feminist organization dedicated to gender equality and justice for Shan women in Burma
  21. Tennessee Guerilla Women - Challenging the conservative politics of sexism, homophobia, racism and classism.
  22. Treaty for the Rights of Women - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
  23. TrustLaw - Women's Rights - Global hub providing free legal assistance, news, resources, national legislation and international conventions about women's rights. Run by Thomson Reuters Foundation.
  24. Washington Post - Woman's World - Multimedia reports on the struggle for gender equality around the globe.
  25. Women 2000 - Resources and dialogue to promote advocacy, networking, collaboration, collectives and women's power around the globe.
  26. Women and Rights - The objective of this website is to share facts on women and other social problems which the world is facing.
  27. Women's Environment & Development Organization - WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy.
  28. Women's Global Strike - Stop the world and change it - for a new millennium which values all women's work and all women's lives. Visit the site and add your reasons for going on strike.
  29. Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace - Wlp's goal is to empower women and girls in the Global South through leadership training and capacity building. Wlp is an international non-governmental organization.
  30. Women, Education & Economic Participation by Hilary Lips - Hilary Lips' Distinguished American Scholar Lecture on feminization poverty, glass ceilings, pay equity, work-family balance and women in a learning society.
  31. WomenAction 2000 - A global gateway to alternative reports, campaign material, events listings, multi-media coverage, press releases, and other resources that deal with the UN's Beijing +5 review process on the empowerment of women.
  32. WomenWatch - Learn about the work of the United Nations entities and inter-governmental and treaty bodies that deal with the advancement and empowerment of women and about international instruments on women's rights.

Equal Rights Amendment

  1. Equal Rights Amendment - Help the ERA Summit and National Woman's Party promote ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing equal rights for women and men.
  2. HerStory - Interdisciplinary, activity-oriented curriculum captures the 150-year struggle of American women for the vote; includes awareness activities, cooperative learning, writing, art, music and drama.
  3. The Liz Library - Articles, editorials, and research links on women's rights. Includes sections on women's history, women and religion, women and the law, the father's rights movement, the suffrage movement, and related material.
  4. Women and Rights - Links to website concerning women's rights.
  5. Alice Paul Institute
  6. United4Equality
  7. Eagle Forum
  8. Equal Rights Amendment, White House Petition

Equal Pay Studies and legislation

  1. Pay Equity Survey
  2. CNN report
  3. Read Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Pay Equity
  4. "Whatever Happened to Equal Pay?" Marxist Essay
  5. Pay Equity Group
  6. "Is The Wage Gap Women's Choice", Rachel Bondi
  7. Corey Dade (August 31, 2008). "Obama’s First Shot at Palin Focuses on Equal Pay". The Wall Street Journal.
  8. Grossman, Joanna (February 13, 2009). "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: President Obama's First Signed Bill Restores Essential Protection Against Pay Discrimination". Writ. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
  9. Pear, Robert (January 5, 2009). "Justices' Ruling in Discrimination Case May Draw Quick Action by Obama". New York Times. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
  10. Barnes, Robert (September 5, 2007). "Over Ginsburg's Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits". Washington Post. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
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  12. Hulse, Carl (April 24, 2008). "Republican Senators Block Pay Discrimination Measure". New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  13. Montgomery, Lori (April 24, 2008). "Senate Republicans Block Pay Disparity Measure". Washington Post. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  14. Pear, Robert (January 10, 2009). "House Passes 2 Measures on Job Bias". New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  15. Senate roll call vote 4, 111th Congress, 1st Session
  16. U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session
  17. "Now Comes Lilly Ledbetter". Whitehouse.gov blog. January 25, 2009.

Academic Search Premiere Articles

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  1. INTEMANN, KRISTEN. "25 Years Of Feminist Empiricism And Standpoint Theory: Where Are We Now?." Hypatia 25.4 (2010): 778-796. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  2. Eisenstein, Hester. "Feminism Seduced." Australian Feminist Studies 25.66 (2010): 413-431. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  3. Gay, Roxane. "Bad Feminist." Virginia Quarterly Review 88.4 (2012): 88-95. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  4. GENZ, STÉPHANIE. "Singled Out: Postfeminism's “New Woman” And The Dilemma Of Having It All." Journal Of Popular Culture 43.1 (2010): 97-119. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  5. Brewer, Rose M. "On Twenty-First Century Social Transformation: Class, Nation, Gender And Race In A Period Of Revolution And Capitalist Crisis." Perspectives On Global Development & Technology 11.1 (2012): 11-26. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  6. Lattas, Judy. "21St Century Feminism, Armed And Ready?." Social Alternatives 24.2 (2005): 55-60. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  7. Broadbridge, Adelina, and Deborah Kerfoot. "Editorial: Women and Men in Management: Issues for the 21st Century." Gender, Work & Organization Sept. 2010: 475+. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  8. Snyder, R. Claire. "What Is Third-Wave Feminism? A New Directions Essay." Signs: Journal Of Women In Culture & Society 34.1 (2008): 175-196. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  9. Bernard, April. "The 21St Century Caribbean Woman's Question: What Is The Meaning Of Freedom?." Journal Of Eastern Caribbean Studies 33.3 (2008): 1-23. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  10. Heilmann, Ann. "Gender And Essentialism: Feminist Debates In The Twenty-First Century." Critical Quarterly 53.4 (2011): 78-89. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  11. Boyd, Elizabeth Reid. "Lady: Still A Feminist Four-Letter Word?." Women & Language 35.2 (2012): 35-52. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  12. Wrye, Harriet Kimble. "The Fourth Wave Of Feminism: Psychoanalytic Perspectives Introductory Remarks." Studies In Gender & Sexuality 10.4 (2009): 185-189. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  13. Coontz, Stephanie. "Feminism, Plus 50." American Scholar 80.3 (2011): 16-17. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  14. Norander, Stephanie. "Complicating Empowerment And Privilege." Women & Language 34.2 (2011): 121-124. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  15. Phillips, Lynne, and Sally Cole. "Feminist Flows, Feminist Fault Lines: Women's Machineries And Women's Movements In Latin America." Signs: Journal Of Women In Culture & Society 35.1 (2009): 185-211. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.
  16. Roberts, Celia. "Relating Simply? Feminist Encounters WithTechnoscience In The Early Twenty-First Century." Australian Feminist Studies 23.55 (2008): 75-86. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.

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