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 (www.yorku.ca/wsyork)
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 (www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/cwsaacef/cwsa.htm
) (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.
Canadian Women's Studies On-Line (www.utoronto.ca/womens/cdnwomen.htm)
provides information about Women's Studies programs
in Canada .
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 (www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm)
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.
The Research Centre Women and Politics (www.crfp-rcwp.uottawa.ca)
at the University of Ottawa, Canada, pursues three
areas of interest: women and political thought , women who
are elected , and women and public policy . It also organizes
and announces many activities: conferences , publications,
and training sessions, and maintains a documentation and resource
centre . This site will be useful to those wishing to pursue
courses, degrees or research on women and politics.
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