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  • American Civil Liberties Union, Women's Rights

    The ACLU works daily in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

  • Black American Feminisms: a Multidisciplinary Bibliography

    An extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines.

  • By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

    The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of thePrints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual wayin which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.

  • Classic Feminist Writings

    Full text versions of classic feminist writings which "helped define Second Wave feminism." From the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU).

  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

    " The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination." This site includes the text, history, and related information concerning this bill.

  • Documents From the Women's Liberation Movement

    "The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group." From the Special Collections Library, Duke University.

  • Feminism and Sexuality

    The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture's bibliography of feminist scholarly works on sexuality.

  • Feminist Law and Jurisprudence

    Information on Abortion, Crime, Jurisprudence, Law and Literature, Legal Theories, Pornography, Rights, and Other Topics.

  • Feminist Majority Foundation Online

    The Feminist Majority Foundation Online utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically.

  • Feminist Theory

    Directory of links.

  • Feminist Theory Website

    This academically-oriented site is presented in English as well as French and Spanish, and includes links to many feminist topics.

  • Gender and Society

    Links to materials relating to issues and debates in gender studies.

  • Marxist/Materialist Feminism

    The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture provides a brief essay and bibliography on the connection between Marxism/materialism and feminism.

  • Second Wave and Beyond

    This site "brings together feminist thinkers, both scholars and activists, to create a stimulating and supportive environment in which to pose and analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories, define new directions for historical research on this period, and provide a new venue for publishing traditional articles but also for writing and recording this history in ways made possible by the medium of online publication."

  • Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

    Library of Congress site containts photos and prints of the women's suffrage movement and a collection of text documents. Searchable and browsable.

  • Suffragists Oral History Project

    "In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's suffrage movement. Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories preserved the memories of these remarkable women, documenting formative experiences, activities to win the right to vote for women, and careers as leaders of the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, 25 years later, the nineteenth century meets the twenty-first as the words of these activist women, born from the 1860s to the 1890s, are made accessible for future scholarly research."

  • Women's Rights

    Transcripts and videos of interviews with political leaders, activists, sociologists and others. Includes a timeline related to the issue of women's rights, a glossary, and student activities.

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