W
War
Criminal Watch
http://www.wcw.org/
Quote from Site:
War Criminal Watch was created
by the Coalition for International Justice
to track and publicize the accused criminal acts of indicted suspects for
war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. We have attempted
to compile a dossier on each indicted suspect,
including the indictment
itself, location information, and links to any important or particularly
relevant news stories and articles. Our mission is not to convict suspects
before they have had chance for a fair trial, simply to promote the rule
of law and justice in the international community.
WHOA:
Women Halting Online Abuse
http://whoa.femail.com/
Quote from Site:
The mission of W.H.O.A. is to educate the Internet community
about online harassment, empower victims of harassment, and formulate voluntary
policies that systems can adopt in order to create harassment-free environments.
W.H.O.A. fully supports the right to free speech both online and off, but
asserts that free speech is not protected when it involves threats to the
emotional or physical safety of anyone. W.H.O.A. is primarily an organization
of women, but we welcome men who demonstrate sensitivity toward the issues
of harassment and a willingness to support our cause.
WIN: Women's
International Net
http://www.winmagazine.org/
Quote from site:
WIN Women's International Net a magazine about women,
by women, for women, all over the world.
woman/Cinema~Women/cinema
http://www.feminist.com/femfilm.htm
Quote from Site:
The newsletter is published with
critical essays on films that emphasize the multiplicity of feminisms throughout
the world. Included in the newsletter are Internet addresses for your enjoyment
and education and the writers' addresses for comments on their essays.
Film could be considered a language
of its own, but the language that it uses still symbolizes the same binary
order that has dominated our society with its phallocentric perspective.
Recently, women have, finally, broken through the male-dominated film industry
to further film study and analyze the dominant views of women in films
as the subject. She has even reached past the mirror of awareness of her
exploitation and has settled on the semiotics that foregrounds the language
film speaks.
WomanMade
Gallery
http://www.womanmade.org/
Quote from Site:
womanMADE GALLERY is a tax-exempt,
not for profit organization which was founded in 1992. Its goal is to support
women in the arts by providing opportunities, awareness, and advocacy.
It specifically accomplishes this through monthly thematic exhibitions
and workshops which raise public awareness and recognition of women's cultural
contributions.
Women
Airforce Service Pilots - WWII (WASP)
http://www.WASP-WWII.org/
Quote from Site:
Students & teachers, interested
in the Women Airforce Service Pilots - WWII (WASP), World War II military
history, womens' contribution to World War II, Aviation & World War
II, Womens' Studies, and those interested in role models, you have come
to the right place!
Women
and Mathematics (WAM)
http://www.mystery.com/WAM/
This site is sponsored by the Mathematical
Association of America.
Quote from Site:
WAM is an advising and mentoring
program whose purpose is to stimulate interest in mathematics among all
students, regardless of their career choices. It is a program to motivate
and inspire students, especially young women, towards careers in mathematics,
science, and technology. By sharing experiences from their careers and
lives, WAM consultants create excitement for learning and open new doors
for growth and direction. WAM makes a difference for students.
Women
and Film International (Victoria, Australia)
http://www.cinemedia.net/wift/
Victoria chapter of WIFT
Quote from Site:
Quote from Site:
WIFT (Victoria) was founded in 1988 as a networking association
and now has over 400 members in the areas of film, television video and
multimedia production industries.
WIFT aims to improve the status and representation of
women in screen based industries and to facilitate the exchange of
information between members.
Women
and Minorities in Science and Engineering
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Gender/wom_and_min.html
Site headings include:
-
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
-
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science
and Engineering: 1996, from the NSF
-
The Role Model Project for Girls Women and Minorities in
Science and Engineering
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Women in Science and Engineering
-
Racial Minorities in Science and Engineering
Sexual Minorities in Science and Engineering
Women
& Performance
http://www.echonyc.com/~women/
A journal concerned mainly with
issues of sexuality and gender. Contents of current issues are accessible
as full text.
Quote from Site:
With each issue, the journal seeks
to reaffirm its commitment to feminist writing, and to extend and reformulate
notions of performance and performativity, so as to advance, challenge
or reinvent issues critical to ongoing discussions surrounding gender and
sexuality. We are also committed to serving women's groups and feminist
theorists at a nationaland international level.
Women
and Prison
http://www.igc.apc.org/prisons/women/
Web page produced by the Prison
Issues Desk, a project of the Prison
Activist Resource Center.
Quote from Site:
The issues of women in prison cut
across each of the other critical issues of the expanding imprisonment
industry. Although the proportion of prisoners who are women is relatively
small, women make up the fastest growing subset of the entire prison population.
A separate consideration of women in prison is needed for this reason,
and because male supremacy and sexist justice are so intimately connected
with the overall dehumanization so apparent in other areas of the crisis.
Women
and the Holocaust A Cyberspace of Their Own
http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/
Quote from site:
DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WOMEN Who were murdered while
pregnant. Holding little hands of children or carrying infants in their
arms on the way to be gassed. In hiding. To the mothers who gave their
children to be hidden, many never to find them again. Or as fighters in
the resistance: in ghettos, forests, partisan units. And to the lives of
those few who survived and bravely carried on.
Women
and Weapons On Screen
http://www.omix.com/womensinsite/douglas/weapons.html
Quote from Site:
A number of actors have found some
of their juiciest and most pleasurable roles in playing the bad guy, someone
willing to use a weapon to get their way, or seek revenge. In more and
more films those actors are prominent women stars: Anjelica Huston (THE
GRIFTERS); Drew Barrymore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Madeleine Stowe and Andie
MacDowell (BAD GIRLS); Emma Thompson (DEAD AGAIN); Kim Basinger (THE GETAWAY);
Meryl Streep (THE RIVER WILD); Annabella Sciorra (WHISPERS IN THE DARK);
Sharon Stone ( THE QUICK AND THE DEAD); Winona Ryder (HEATHERS); Linda
Fiorentino (THE LAST SEDUCTION).
Women
Artists Archive
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/special/waa/
Quote from site:
The Women Artists Archive is a special collection in
the Ruben Salazar Library at Sonoma State University [USA] and is open
for public use. It contains information on over 1,300 women artists from
the Middle Ages through the present day.
Resources include: approximately 7,500
color and black-and-white slides books on women's art history and individual
artists periodicals, focused on both women in art and contemporary art
in general standing files.
The printed material ranges from published
articles, personal correspondence, museum photographs of artwork, exhibition
notices, brochures, and unpublished student papers. In addition, the Archive
has historical information on feminist art organizations, periodicals,
exhibition announcements, articles, and criticism chronicling women's art
movements in the1970s.
Women
Artists in History
http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html
Quote from Site:
We're using this space to showcase
the work of women artists down through the centuries. Over time we will
do our best to make this list comprehensive. If you have a famous artist
to recommend, please send us mail.
We would like to create a network
of women who are interested in the work of women artists. Our dream is
that eventually all the women on our list will have their own web page.
Women
for Women
http://www.womenforwomen.org/
Quote from Site:
Women for Women is a not-for-profit
humanitarian organization dedicated to the educational, economic, and interpersonal
support of women worldwide who are survivors of war and genocide. Women
for Women supports women regardless of their religion or ethnicity.
Women
in America, 1820-1842
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/FEM/home.htm
Quote from Site:
During the first half of the nineteenth
century, Tocqueville and Beaumont were joined by scores of other European
travelers curious about the new republic, and anxious to fill the European
demand for accounts of American life. Hundreds of these travelogues were
published by persons whose reasons for their journeys were just as varied
as their responses to what they saw.
The eighteen travelers included
here--Irish, German, Scotch, English, and French--pieced together form
a more complete and varied picture of the life of American women than can
be gleaned from the text of Democracy in America alone.
The texts can be accessed two ways:
first, by a chronological listing of authors, each accompanied by brief
introductory remarks framing the visit and providing comparison to the
ideas of the other travelers; and second, by a topical listing, so that
the ideas of several authors on one subject may be more directly compared.
Women
in Cinema: A ReferenceGuide
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html
Quote from site:
Film, cinema, movies, motion pictures -- covers a wide
range of topics. Though "Women in Cinema" narrows the topic in one sense
to a particular type of film, at the same time it broadens it to include
many aspects of topics such as feminism, the women's movement, and women's
issues.
Women
in Cinema Film Festival
http://www.seattlefilm.com/cal/wic/default.html
Festival organized by Cinema Seattle.
Quote from Site:
Cinema Seattle was established
in 1990 to promote film as an art form which fosters cross-cultural interchange,
education and international understanding. Few contemporary art forms enjoy
such a large international audience, or can encompass these aims and provide
for them in such an accessible manner. Cinema Seattle seeks to provide
an extensive forum for multicultural exchange and enlightenment, providing
ongoing access to the cinematic arts for people of the Pacific Northwest.
Women
In Film (WIF)
http://www.wif.org/
Quote from Site:
Women In Film is a professional
organization founded in Los Angeles in 1973 with the commitment to recognize,
develop, and actively promote the unique visions of women in the global
communications industry.
Women
in Film and Television (WIFT) -- New York
http://www.nywift.org/
Home page of the New York chapter
of WIFT International.
Quote from Site:
OBJECTIVES
-
Women in Film and Television International
will:
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Enhance the international visibility
of women in film and television.
-
Facilitate and encourage communication
and cooperation among Women in Film and Television chapters.
-
Develop bold international projects
and initiatives benefiting women in film and television and related industries
throughout the world.
-
Stimulate professional development
and opportunities in the pursuit of professional equity for women in screen-based
media worldwide.
-
Promote and support chapter development.
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Celebrate the achievements of women
in film, television and related industries.
-
Encourage diverse and positive representation
of women in screen-based media worldwide.
See also WIFT-Toronto
http://www.wift.com/
Women
in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT)
http://www.Wigsat.org/index.html
Quote from Site:
Women in Global Science and Technology
facilitates global networking among women scientists and technologists
on critical issues in science and technology for development. One of the
main goals of WIGSAT is to promote international collaboration and coalition
building among women scientists and technologists (both formal and nonformal)
around the world, for policy advocacy and action which recognises and supports
women's contributions to S&T for development.
Women
in Islam
http://www.jannah.org/
Site headings include:
-
Sisters;
-
Resources;
-
Quran;
-
Articles;
-
Teachers n' Kids;
New Muslims
Women
in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF)
http://www.hri.ca/partners/wildaf/
Quote from Site:
Women in Law and Development in
Africa (WILDAF) is a Pan-African non-governmental, non profit making organisation
bringing together organisations and individuals using a variety of tools,
including law, to promote a culture for the exercise and respect for women's
rights in Africa. The network was established at a regional conference
held in February 1990 in Harare, Zimbabwe whose theme was "Women, Law and
Development: Networking for Empowerment in Africa". WILDAF was the product
of a year long process of organisation and inquiry involving NGOs and governmental
projects dedicated to promoting and strengthening action-strategies that
link a variety of tools including law and development to empower women
and improve their status in Africa. WiLDAF's overall goal is to promote
the effective use of a variety of strategies, including law, by women in
Africa for self, community, national, sub-regional and regional development.
The WILDAF Secretariat is based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Women
in Politics
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~cliswp/
Quote from site:
This site is your guide to finding out current and historical
information about women involved in every aspect of politics in the United
States.
Women
in Sports
http://www.makeithappen.com/wis/
Quote from site:
Women in Sports is dedicated to providing role models
of women athletes that validate women's accomplishments and perpetuate
a new vision of women's abilities, autonomy and self determination. Women
will find the courage and daring to follow their own goals.
Women
in the Book Arts: A Selection
http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/wombks/homepage/page1.html
Quote from Site:
This exhibition is designed to
show the diversity of recent works by women book artists. The art of the
book in the late twentieth century has come a long way from the artist's
book of the early 1900's with traditional text and illustrations. In terms
of both text and format, many innovative women are exploring the limits
of what a book is, and the results of their efforts can be appreciated
in this sampling.
Women
in World History Curriculum
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/
Quote from Site:
This project began in 1985 as the
result of a U.S. Department of Education grant to create a secondary level
classroom resource bibliography about women in World History and Global
Studies. The result was Women in the World, a book filled with 432 annotated
descriptions of easy to obtain materials and suggested ways to use them.
As we researched and wrote for
Women in the World, it became obvious that there while materials describing
women in America's past were appearing in ever increasing numbers, there
was a dearth of similar resources about women in World History. It was
not that new information and perspectives on women worldwide was being
ignored, but that "classroom friendly" lessons based on this scholarship
had not been produced.
To do its part to fill the need, Women in World History Curriculum began
to develop classroom materials which could bring the exciting new scholarship
being developed about women into the classroom. We also gave teacher workshops,
showcasing the resources and demonstrating ways to introduce women's history
into World History courses.
Women,
Ink
http://www.womenink.org/
Quote from Site:
Women, Ink. is a project of the
International Women's Tribune Centre to market and distribute books on
women and development worldwide. It includes 200 titles from publishers
all over the world, and is the exclusive distributor of publications from
the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
Women
Leaders Online/Women Organizing for Change (WOC)
http://wlo.org/
Quote from Site:
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The first and largest women's advocacy
group created on the Internet;
-
Empowering women in politics, society,
the economy, the media and cyberspace;
-
Building a network of one million women
(and sympathetic men);
-
Publishing regular action alerts on
crucial issues;
-
Organizing non-partisan grassroots
lobbying and voter education;
-
Encouraging pro-woman candidates.
Women
Nobel Prize Laureates
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html
Quote from site:
In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was
established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie, for the
first time. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since. In fact, one
woman, Bertha von Suttner was influential in convincing Alfred Nobel to
set aside a Prize for peace. Women have won Prizes in all categories with
the exception of Economics (which was established in 1968 and first awarded
in 1969).
Women
of Color Resources
http://www.igc.apc.org/women/activist/color.html
Quote from site:
Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center serves
as a vehicle for dialogue and interchange among women of color about their
current status and strategies for change. Believing that access to information
is a form of empowerment, the WCRCworks to provide up-to-date information
and analysis to organizers, advocates and scholars concerned with the condition
of women of color.
Women
of Marvel Comics
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2855/
Quote from Site:
Because there's more to comics
than just guys in tights. The Women of Marvel Comics was updated for the
final time on January 13, 1998. It has been left on line as a reference
source.
Women
of the Romantic Period
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~worp/
Quote from Site:
This interactive hypertext uses
Richard Polwhele's poem "The Unsex'd Females" to introduce students and
scholars alike to some of the British Romantic Period's foremost female
contributors. In his poem, Polwhele invokes the rigid standard of feminine
behavior held by many members of eighteenth-century society as he asserts
that a certain breed of women -- the unsex'd females -- transgressed the
limits of that which was acceptable. Since Polwhele addresses these women
by name in "The Unsex'd Females," the poem provides a means of examining
closely some of the many female figures often excluded from the traditional
British Romantic Period canon.
Women Online Worldwide
http://www.wowwomen.com/
Site headings include:
-
Women's Chats;
-
Message Boards;
-
Media source;
-
Rural Women's Zone;
-
Women's Intercultural Network,
-
Motherlode [reading materials, etc.];
Web links.
Women-Related
Religion/Spirituality Email Lists
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_rel.html
Quote from Site:
Here are some women-related email
lists that focus on religion or spirituality.
Women
Watch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/index.html
Quote from Site:
The United Nations Internet Gateway
on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women.
WomEnhouse
http://cmpl.ucr.edu/womenhouse/
Quote from Site:
WomEnhouse is a collaborative,
multi-authored site that explores the politics of domesticity and gender
relations through virtual "rooms"
and conceptual domestic "spaces" by 24 artists, architects, poets, arthistorians,
and cultural theorists.
Women's
Art Library
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/womensart.lib/
Quote from Site:
From girl power to globalism, uncover
an alternative view of events in Britain and overseas. Leap into uncharted
territory and discover a dazzling line-up of artists and writers with a
supporting cast of new and emerging stars.
Women's
Bureau (U.S. Government Department of Labor)
http://gatekeeper.dol.gov/dol/wb/welcome.html
Quote from Site:
As authorized by public Law 66-259
in June 1920, the Women's Bureau is the single unit at the Federal government
level exclusively concerned with serving and promoting the interests of
working women. Specifically, the mandate states "It shall be the duty of
said bureau to formulate standards and policies which shall promote the
welfare of wage- earning women, improve their working conditions, increase
their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment."
Central to its mission is the responsibility to advocate and inform women
directly and the public as well, of women's work rights and employment
issues.
The
Women's Caucus for Art
http://www.mit.edu/people/ahannan/WCA6.html
Quote from Site:
The Women's Caucus for Art is the
major [U.S.] national organization devoted to increasing opportunities
andrecognition for women in the visual arts professions. This has been
true since our birth in 1972.
Our objectives are fourfold:
-
to win parity in the valuation of works
by women;
-
to create more opportunities for women
to produce, exhibit, and document works;
-
to assemble for the exchange of ideas,
experience, and constructive criticism;
-
to promote women's greater participation
in art world institutions such as universities, museums, galleries, and
media.
Women's
Centers and Offices at American Colleges and Universities
http://www.uic.edu/depts/owa/womens_centers.html
A meta page of links to Centers
and Offices with a web presence.
Women's
InSite (Web Magazine)
http://www.omix.com/womensinsite/
Quote from Site:
Welcome to Women's InSite
Settle into a comfortable, overstuffed
chair, take off your shoes, help yourself to some tea, and let down your
hair... because this place is intended for you, women of the Internet.
Make yourself at home.
Our intention here is to create
a space on the Internet for women's insite, a safe and comfortable place
for women to speak their thoughts, perceptions, feelings and experiences
in their own authentic voices. We want to honor women's sensibilities,
interests and concerns, creating an atmosphere in which women can share
and connect.
We feature artistic and literary
expressions by women. We publish ideas and information relating to the
home and family, working life, leisure, health, healing, spirituality and
other areas of interest to women. We share women's experiences of life
and meaning, and women's responses to the surrounding world.
We invite your art, music, writing,
information, and anything else you wish to contribute. We also welcome
your feedback and suggestions for shaping this space.
Women's
Health Initiative (of the U.S. National Institutes of Health)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/index.html
Quote from Site:
The National Institutes of Health
(NIH) established the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991 to address
the most common causes of death, disability and impaired quality of life
in postmenopausal women. The WHI will address cardiovascular disease, cancer,
and osteoporosis. The WHI a 15 year multi-million dollar endeavor, and
one of the largest U.S. prevention studies of its kind. The three major
components of the WHI are:
a randomized controlled clinical
trial of promising but unproven approaches to prevention;an observational
study to identify predictors of disease;a study of community approaches
to developing healthful behaviors.
Women's
Health Issues (From the Merck Manual of Medical Information)
http://www.merck.com/!!u8Q1Q3txtu8Q1a3_W1/pubs/mmanual_home/sec22.htm
A web version of the Merck
Manual--Home Edition.
Women's
Human RightsResources
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
An online library of materials maintained
as part of the Diana
project by the Bora Baskin Law Library of University of Toronto.
Women's
Internet Information Network
http://www.undelete.org/
Quote from site:
WELCOME - we haven't moved in quite yet but when we do
you will be amazed at what you will find here at the new women's information
network. There will be history - the history of accomplished women that
has been buried for generations. There will be information - the information
that the young women of the world need to know about everything from abbess
to zygote. There will be news and views, focus and opinion, and best of
all the writings of noted author, activist and mentor of new generations
of women power - Irene Stuber.
WomensNet
http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/
Quote from Site:
WomensNet supports women's organizations
locally, nationally and worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications
technology to enhance their work.
Women's
Resource Project!
http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/
Site headings include:
-
Women's Studies
-
Women's Resources Available on the Internet
Triangle Area, North Carolina, Women's Resources
Women's
Rights
http://www.aclu.org/issues/women/hmwo.html
Home page of the Women's Rights
Project of the
American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU)
Quote from Site:
the Women's Rights Project has
continued to occupy a unique role within the women's movement. While other
groups, including other ACLU units, have played major roles in political
organizing, legislative advocacy, and the struggle to preserve the right
to choice, the ACLU Women's Rights Project has been the principal group
responsible for systematic legal reform through the courts in the areas
of women's equality and economic rights. It has been the role of the Women's
Rights Project to articulate the principles that persuade courts to utilize
both the Constitution and federal statutes to strike down legal barriers
to full equality for women.
Women's
Sports
http://www.feminist.org/gateway/sp_exec2.html
A mediated list of internet resources by the Feminist
Majority Foundation.
Women'
Studies Database
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/
Quote from site:
The University of Maryland women's studies database,
begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's
studies profession and in general women's issues.
World
Foundation for Medical Studies in Female Health
http://www.wffh.org/
Quote from Site:
The World Foundation for Medical
Studies in Female Health (WFFH) was established in 1992. The purpose of
the WFFH is to serve as a multidisciplinary professional organization committed
to women's health issues. Physicians, government, and industry have come
to realize and accept recent sweeping changes in health care delivery.
The WFFH fosters physician education synchronized with those changes. As
a result, physicians will be better equipped to adapt to the newer trends,
ultimately improving patient care.
World
Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/
Quote from Site:
The objective of WHO is the attainment
by all people of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined
in the WHO constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease ir infirmity.
World
Jurist Association (WJA)
http://www.wja-wptlc.org/
Quote from Site:
A World Ruled by Law, not Force.
This has been the primary goal of the World Jurist Association (WJA) since
its founding in 1963. The WJA was formed in response to an international
outcry for a free and open forum where judges, lawyers, law professors
and others from around the world could work cooperatively to raise public
support for the institutions that govern and enforce the administration
of international law.
The
World's Women On-Line!
http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/
Quote from Site:
The World's Women On-Line! is an
electronic art networking project originally established to be presented
at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China
in 1995. Utilizing the Internet as a global exhibition format, this site
focuses attention on the challenge of bringing the vast resource of women's
experience and culture into the rapidly developing field of information
technology. The World's Women On-Line! demonstrates the professionalism
and achievement of women artists internationally; bridges language barriers
through art imagery; and promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration between
technologists and artists.
WWWomen
http://www.wwwomen.com/
A directory of web links. Main categories include:
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Arts & Entertainment (Drama, Literature, Music, Visual);
-
Women in Business (Careers, General);
-
Community & Government (Advocacy, Government, Law, Service,
Social);
-
Women & Computers (Computers, Technology);
-
Diversity Among Women (Culture, General, Religion, Seniors,
Size);
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The Education of Women (General, Schools, Women Studies);
-
Feminism (Advocacy, Publications, Resources, Social);
-
Health & Safety Issues (Disease, General, Nursing, Obgyn,
Safety);
-
Women's Resources (Hotlists, Reference);
-
Science & Technology (Science, Technology);
-
Women Throughout History (Biographies, Literature).
WWW
Women's Sports Page
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/~lewisa/womsprt.html
An index of links to women's and girls' sports pages around
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