WOMEN STUDIES

This section contains links to the School of Women's Studies at York, a listing of women's studies programs in Canada and the United States, and women's studies organizations in Canada and internationally.

The School of Women's Studies - Études des femmes (http://www.arts.yorku.ca/wmst/) at York University has been a leader in Women's Studies in Canada for over a decade. Currently, York has over 200 faculty members whose main area of research is on women. As a result, a wide variety of fields are open to Women's Studies students at York, including the humanities, social sciences, law, business, fine arts, and environmental studies. The SWS offers free-standing undergraduate degrees in Women's Studies, or in conjuction with other disciplines, as well as graduate degrees at the MA and Phd level.

The Canadian Women’s Studies Association (http://www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/) (CWSA) is a bilingual, pan-Canadian feminist organization for women’s studies academics, policy researchers, students and activists. It builds a Women's Studies network across Canada , and promotes women's studies as an interdisciplinary field. The site includes links to women’s studies programs in Canada and abroad, calls for papers, job announcements, listservs and more.

Women's Studies Programmes, Departments and Research Centers (www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html) provides links to more than 650 women's studies (including "gender studies") programs, departments, and research centers primarily in the United States . Programs and departments offering graduate degrees or concentrations have this fact noted in an annotation below the link. This site is easy to search and very helpful for someone considering going on to graduate school.

The Worldwide Organization for Women's Studies (www.fss.uu.nl/wows) (WOWS) is a federation of women's studies associations. It promotes feminist knowledge, practices and research which will improve the quality of women's lives. It supports the activities of groups seeking to establish, extend, and defend women's studies teaching and research. The association has a commitment to oppose all forms of discrimination and oppression in society and in our organization. This site demonstrates the extensive networks among feminist researchers and women's studies associations.

University LGBT/Queer Programs (www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/lgbtqprogs.html ) is a guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual queer studies in the USA and Canada . This site offers an extensive list of undergraduate lgbtq related courses and programmes plus sibling societies and study-abroad programs, with web links.

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
(http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) contains news of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies. Recent book reviews have treated such subjects as African American women writers, lesbians in popular culture, and globalization. There are guides to new bibliographies and reference works, film and video critiques, computer updates, and news of out-of-the-way materials -- pamphlets, reports, rare book dealers' catalogs, microforms, and more. Thoughtful articles by experts explore women's publishing, Internet resources, library organization, archives, and other tools for feminist scholarship. New periodicals and special issues of journals in other disciplines are announced in each issue. This site is a bit tricky to navigate, but persist to find some of the best bibliographical collections around.

Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog (http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/) is a lively feminist blog that provides many links to the feminist blogosphere, and discusses many issues relevant to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.  It is welcoming to both newbie and most seasoned feminists, and feminist critics, and the comments sections of posts are often just as interesting as the original post!

The Miss G Project (http://www.themissgproject.org/) is a grassroots young feminist organization working to combat all forms of oppression in and through education, including sexism, homophobia, racism and classism.  Specifically, they are working towards a high school women’s studies course as a way of implementing these goals.