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.
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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