Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library: Women's Studies

Resources for the Study of Women and their Historic Roles

General Resources
Advancing Women
Democracy Now- Women's Issues
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Women in Decision Making
Women of the World
Women's International Net
Women Leaders Online & Women Organizing for Change
Welcome to Women's International Center
Women's Web
women.weaving.webs
Voices of Women Online / VOWworld
Pleiades (An Internet Resource for Women)
Women's Issues in the Third World
Archive of Women's Studies Syllabi
International Alliance of Women in Music
Western Washington University
University of Iowa Resources on Feminist Theory
National Women's Studies Association Home Page
History of Women in Sports
INFO
Women's Resource Project
Resources for Women in English
Women's History Resources on the Web
Women's Web
Women's International Center
Women Artists
Teach Women's History
Library of Congress Guide to Manuscripts on Women's History
The American Medical Women's Association
AIWRAP- Australian Women's Institute
Northern Ireland Women's Coalition

Women's Isssues by Geographical Region

EUROPE

European Women's Lobby
Women of Northern Ireland Unite

The Middle East

Reflections on Sinai Bedouin Women
Middle East Review of International Affairs
Muslim Women
Women in the Middle East

ASIA

"Women Hold Up Half the Sky:" Women's Issues in Modern China
an account of Dr. Deborah Vess's visit to China in the summer of 1998, with virtual tours of a cloisonne factory, peasant's village, and discussions of women's traditional roles and modern activism for women in China.

Women's Rights, Beijing Conference
U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women
Women in Afghanistan
Journal of South Asian Women
Situation of Chinese Women
WOMEN AND THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

Islam and Religion
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Women Active in Buddhism
Women in Judaism
Women and Judaism
Building Bridges: Musical Connections in Women's Early Eastern Spirituality
Early Women Masters in Buddhism, Taosim, and Zen
Women and Theology
Thealogy: Feminist Theology
Center for Women and Religion
IHM Home Page
Poor Clare's Home Page
A list of Women's Communities on the Web
Sister-site
Dr. Vess's Virtual Tour of Mt. St. Scholastica
A Discussion of Women's Ordination
ISIS: Black Women's Spirituality
WWW resources on Feminist Theology
SisterSpirit: Women Sharing Spirituality
Women and Economic Development

United Nations Development Fund for Women
Feminism and Globalization: The Impact of the Global Economy on Women

Women and Health

Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Women's Health Hot Line Home Page

WOMEN IN HISTORY

General Resources

Women's History Review
The National Women's History Project
Living the Legacy 1848-1998
4000 Years of Women in Science
The National Women's Hall of Fame

Paul Halsall's Internet Women's History Source Book

After you go here, you may not need to go anywhere else!

Prehistoric era

Mothers of Time
Egypt

Women in Ancient Egypt
Women in Egypt (Ancient)
Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: an Online Exhibit

Antiquity

Women in Greek Mythology
Women in Society, Politics, and Religion in Late Antiquity

Byzantium

Bibliography of women in Byzantium

Medieval Women

Bibliography of women medieval writers
Marie de France Society
List of famous medieval women
Medieval Woman Home Page
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Early Music by Women Composers
Lives of the Saints

Early Modern Women

Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria or Women Wronged
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women
Celebrating Women Writers
Creating a Celebration of Women Writers
Kassandra Project

Civil War and American History

Documentary resources for women in the Civil War era
Bibliography for women in the Civil War era
Women's History in America
National Women's History Project
American Women Composers

Gender Issues

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Gender in the Ancient world
Women and Gender Studies