The reading room library is located in Cavanaugh Hall room CA540A. This reading room is open to all IUPUI students and faculty. The multitude of resources available address academic, political, health, personal, familial, psychological, ecologic al, spiritual and sexual issues in regards to women. The resources are available through books, pamphlets, tapes etc. Women's studies students are encouraged to use these resources not only for academic pursuits, but also for personal information.

History

4000 Years of Women in Science - includes inventors, scholars and writers as well as mathematicians and astronomers.
African-American Women Writers of the 19^th Century
American Women in Uniform - amazing women from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War.
American Memory - "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850 - 1920.
Civil War Women - an On-line Archival Collection of the Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics - an archive of 20th century women who made original and important contributions to physics before 1976.
The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory - the early years for women.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present - biographies of women who have contributed to our culture in many different ways.
DiversityWeb - DiversityWeb's purpose is to help higher education redress the legacies of separation and exclusion on campus and educate students who are both prepared and inspired to contribute to the advance of democratic inclusion, social justice and meaningful equality.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - an on-line archival collection of the Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Equity Online - the national Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity Resource Center works to improve educational, social, and economic outcomes for women and girls.
Living the Legacy - The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 - 1998. 1998 is the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, launched at the world's first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project - historical editing project to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer.
Multimedia Sites in Women's History
National Women's History Project - source for updates about events, conferences, publications, films and other resources related to U.S. women's history.
Remember the Ladies
Women at IU - women who made a contribution to the history of Indiana University.
Women Come to the Front - journalists, photographers, and broadcasters During World War II.
Women in America, 1820-1842 - the life of the American woman as seen from a traveler's perspective.
Women in American History - by Encyclopedia Britannica.
Women Nobel Prize Laureates - a complete list including biographical information.
Women on the WWW - a huge collection of resources either related to or created by women.
Women's Internet Information Network - news and views, focus and opinion, and the writings of noted author, activist and mentor of new generations of womenpower - Irene Stuber.
Women's Rights National Historical Park - the park commemorates the First Women's Rights Convention and the early leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States.

Journals & News Papers

Advancing Women in Leadership - a professional, referred journal created in 1997 for women in leadership.
The Ethnic Woman - a journal created in 1969 to represent women of all ethnicities.
Feminist Collections - a quarterly of Women's Studies resources.
The Feminist Majority Report - a quarterly newsletter created in 1995 featuring feminist news and events.
Gender Policy Review - a monthly magazine for policy professionals and others interested in gender, international development, and domestic politics.
Gender and Society ( IUPUI Users Only ) - focuses on the social and structural study of gender as a basic principal of the social order and as a primary social categor. (JSTOR)
Journal of South Asian Women's Studies - a journal created in 1995 to address the concerns of Asian women.
National NOW Times - a newsletter created in 1995 by the National Organization for Women.
Political Woman Hotline - a newsletter created in 1995 by Women Leaders Online for the promotion of pro-woman candidates in American politics.
Womanist Theory and Research - a biannual, international journal on women of color.
Women and Performance - a journal of feminist theory.
Women in Higher Education - a monthly practitioner's news journal for college and faculty administrators.
Women in Management Review ( IUPUI Users Only ) - covers a diverse range of topics about women in management. (Emerald FullText)
Women's History - a journal published each March pertaining to the history of women with biographical profiles.
Women's History Review - a major international journal whose aim is to provide a forum for the publication of new scholarly articles in the rapidly expanding field of women's history.
Women's Studies International Forum ( IUPUI Users Only ) - bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. (Elsevier Science Direct)
Women's Writing - an international journal focusing on women's writing before about 1900.

Women's Studies Programs

Indiana University Women's Studies & Gender Studies
Gender Studies at Indiana University
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Purdue University Women's Studies, West Lafayette
University of Notre Dame Gender Studies, South Bend
Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers - this site also offers a large list of WOST programs, and sites with women's issues

Libraries

Listservs

Gender -Related Electronic Forums

Online Resources

The Ada Project - promotes and encourages women to investigate potential careers in computer science.
The Artemis Guide to Women's Studies in America - this site links to other women's studies pages all over the country
Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography - extensive bibliography of Black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines.
A Celebration of Women Writers - a comprehensive listing of links to biographies and bibliographical information about women writers.
Diotima - an interdisciplinary resource for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.
Feminist Majority Foundation - a gateway site that provides access to feminist and liberal resources.
Feminist.Com - a subject specific resource highlighting local and regional information.
Gifts of Speech - contemporary women's speeches from around the world.
Independent Women's Forum - provides a voice for American women who believe in individual freedom and personal responsibility.
InforM - Women's Studies film reviews.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered
The Librarians' Index to the Internet - features over 100 links highlighting directories and specific resources for and about women.
Medieval Feminist Index - scholarship on women, sexuality, and gender.
Online Resources for African American Women and Womanist Studies
University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database
Search engine for WOST sites
ViVa - a bibliography of women's history in historical and Women's Studies journals.
Women.Com - a new media network providing a centralized like to sites W geared toward professional women.
Women in Cinema - a reference guide to films.
Women in Philosophy - a bibliography.
Women In Politics - a guide to finding out current and historical information about women involved in every aspect of politics in the United States.
Women's Connection Online - the first stop for women on the internet providing women's internet resources and organizations.
Women On Line
WWWomen - a search directory for women online.

Organizations

Family Health International
The Feminist Women's Health Center
The MINERVA Center, Inc. - is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of encouraging and sharing research on women in war and women and the military.
National Organization for Women (NOW) - is an organization devoted to furthering women's rights through education and litigation.
Women's Liberation Research Network - is a group of students, teachers, activists, librarians, and archivists who have an interest in some aspect of the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement.
Women's Studies Section (WSS) - of the Association of College and Research Libraries was formed to discuss, promote, and support women's studies collections and services in academic and research libraries.

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