'This is My Body': Gender, Tattooing and Resistance in the United States, by Melissa M. Forbis
http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/forbis/forbis-title.html
This is the full-text of an MA thesis submitted to Temple University in 1994. The thesis is an experimental work combining anthropology and photography in the form of a written text and photographic essay. The author first discusses the practices of anthropology and photography and their usage as they developed from the 1800s to the present. The body of the thesis examines the rise in interest in the practice of tattooing in the United States and its implications for women. Women's bodies serve as a site of social control through gendered appearance and idealized beauty standards. Tattooing is visual communication, written on the body, which is linked historically to deviance and remains stigmatized in the West. Tattoos on women, especially the "new" tattooing of the past ten years or so, are a form of resistance to gendered appearance standards and social control.
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A Canadian Electronic Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/par-l/index.htm
"PAR-L (Policy, Action, Research List) is a bilingual, electronic network of individuals and organizations interested in women-centred policy issues in Canada. It is a support for the community of feminist researchers and activists in Canada and Québec." PAR-L was founded as an email list in 1995, by the former Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women (CACSW). The network now operates from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The network receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Strategic Research Networks and Women and Change Program. The PAR-L Strategic Research Network is a partnership of feminist research centres, professional associations, and grassroots women's organizations. There are two online publications: Niouzes and Feminist Stratégies féministes. The website provides policy, action research information. The website and publications are available in English and French.
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Agenda
http://www.agenda.org.za
This peer reviewed journal is published in South Africa and is concerned with gender politics and gender equality in Africa and internationally. It aims 'to question and challenge understandings and practices of gender relations and contribute to the development of new knowledge about how gender relations can be transformed'. Featured articles are available online from each issue along with tables of contents.
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Ana Society for Feminist Analyses
http://www.anasaf.ro/en/index.html
Ana Society for Feminist Analyses founded in 1990 Bucharest, Romania. It is "an independent non-governmental organisation committed to understanding and improving the status of women in Romania ; promoting research on the social position of women in contemporary Romanian society ; fostering the introduction of women's studies in university curricula." The website provides details of it library and documentation services. There is database access to their directory of ngos, a bibliographic database and AnA Lex, a legal database concerning the legal literacy of Romanian women. The centre also produces a journal Analize: journal of feminist study. This website is available in Romanian and English.
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Anarchism & Womens Liberation
http://struggle.ws/wsm/women.html
Anarchism & Women's Liberation is part of the Workers Solidarity Movement website. This resource guide includes articles and work looking at "the role of revolutionaries and in particular anarchists in fighting for women's liberation". Topics such as equality, "girl power" and teenage role models, class, abortion rights. Articles about Emma Goldman, Louise Michel and Leah Feldman are featured. There are also position papers on Women's Oppression, Abortion Rights, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Oppression, Women's Rights in The Trade Unions.
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Andrea Dworkin Web Site
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/
The Andrea Dworkin website was created by Nikki Craft in 1995 when she realised that Andrea Dworkin was mentioned on nearly every newsgroup that discussed pornography, sexual abuse, censorship or women's rights, yet none of Dworkin's own writings were available on the Internet. The Andrea Dworkin website includes the Andrea Dworkin online library - excerpts from her books, and full-texts of her speeches, articles and interviews - as well as "The Lie Detector", a series of true/false statements about Andrea Dworkin, which link in with texts from the online library.
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Archives du feminisme 
http://www.archivesdufeminisme.fr/
Archives du feminisme is located in France and the web site is in French. The Web site provides details of the archive, its publications and activities. There is full text access to its bulletin. There is a facility to search their database for feminist activists, a title, a seminar, and exhibition or an archive.
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Association of Libertarian Feminists
http://www.alf.org/
The Association of Libertarian Feminists aims to: encourage women to become economically self-sufficient and psychologically independent; publicize and promote realistic attitudes toward female competence, achievement, and potential; oppose the abridgement of individual rights by any government on account of sex; work toward changing sexist attitudes and behavior exhibited by individuals; provide a libertarian alternative to those aspects of the women's movement that tend to discourage independence and individuality. This website contains membership details, recent issues of ALF News, and a links page.
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Australian Feminist Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08164649.asp
An international, peer reviewed journal, established by the Research Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Adelaide in 1985. The journal coverage is interdisciplinary, aiming to transcend "the conventional boundaries between academic disciplines or fields such as cultural studies". One of the journal's stated aims is the "recognition of differences and diversity among feminism and hence within feminist scholarship". Key areas covered are feminist theory and practice, discussion on educational curricula, reading lsts and teaching strategies, correspondence and conferences.
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Bitch: feminist response to pop culture
http://bitchmagazine.org
Bitch is a print magazine that aims to provide "a fresh, revitalizing voice for feminism, one that welcomes complex arguments, showcases witty and whip-smart critiques of popular culture". The site features blogs, searchable contents listings of all past issues from 1996 onwards and some full-text articles.
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Black Feminism
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/
Black Feminism is a multidisciplinary bibliography of black feminist writings compiled for Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. The coverage includes art and humanities, social sciences, education, health, medicine and science, autobiography, biography, memoirs, personal narratives, interviews, and speeches. Periodical special issues, multidisciplinary anthologies and websites have been identified. The bibliography writings "is an effort to combat the erasure of black feminist subjectivity and thought through the promotion and use of the literature for the general public, students, scholars and life-long learners seeking information on African American feminism and African American feminist interpretations of a broad range of issues." Some of the Web links have not been updated for some years (site checked in 2009).
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Brighton Ourstory
http://www.brightonourstory.co.uk
"Brighton Ourstory was set up to collect and preserve our lesbian and gay history. Our long term aim is to establish an archive in its own premises." The website provides access to their newsletter from 1997 to latest.
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British Council : gender equality
http://www.britishcouncil.org/egypt-society-gender-equality.htm
This Web page is part of The British Council's website. "The British Council works with women and men globally to promote the status of women and their participation in the political, social, economic, cultural and legal structures in their countries." The British Council focuses on the barriers that women face which impede their development as individuals and trap them in poverty. This Web page has details of projects they are involved in.
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Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies
http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/
Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies undertakes gender research and acts as a platform for teaching future generations. The Centre facilitates the international network of gender researchers and organises seminars and training programmes.
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Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
http://www.tcd.ie/Womens_Studies/
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies was established in Trinity College in July, 1988 as the Centre for Women's Studies and changed to its present name in 1999. The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies undertakes three interrelated activities of teaching, research and community/extramural activities. Since its inception, the Centre has developed and sustained an M.Phil programme and a doctoral programme Ibsen Colloquium 2006 which undertakes significant research activities and engages in both innovative and traditional community outreach. Members of the Centre are recognised both nationally and throughout the EU for their expertise on gender issues. The Centre houses a research unit which was initially funded for three years by Atlantic Philanthropies in 2004. Its overall focus is on issues of equality/inequality with specific emphasis on gender and education, the changing nature of families, ageing, issues of work life balance and masculinities. The Research Unit has received grants from both the government and voluntary sector from organisations such as the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Human Rights Commission and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency.
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Centre for Gender Studies Research
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/gender/1-4.html
The Research Centre in Gender Studies "provides a coherent environment for cross-disciplinary research on gender and sexuality in areas of international importance, both practical and theoretical." Current areas of research and publishing activities include "theoretical and comparative approaches and historical and current studies of: gender and citizenship; gender, nation and identity; gender, media and new technology; gender and visual representations, feminist political theory; feminist movements; globalisation and post-colonial studies; gender and life history; gender and psychoanalysis; gender and consumption; gender and reproductive rights; gender and leisure; gender and masculinity; women in medicine and higher education; gender and inequality in the labour market."
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studies/
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) founded in 1997 at the University of Leeds "brings together over 170 academic staff from around the University from disciplines in the arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences and medicine among others." CIGS networks with Gender and Womens Studies departments at universities around the world and is part of the WUN Gender Network.
CIGS specialisms lie in "gender relations both in the UK and around the world to incorporate studies in race, masculinities, sexualities, queer and trans theories."
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Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality (SeGS)
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/segs/
"The Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality brings together scholars and postgraduate students from across Roehampton University. It is defined by its interdisciplinarity and incorporates researchers in the Schools of Arts, Education, and Business and Social Sciences."
Members are involved in many academic and activist networks, as well as international collaborative research projects and have published widely in the areas of sex, gender and sexuality and are regular presenters at national and international conferences.
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Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS)
http://www.cwds.org/
The Centre for Womens Development Studies (CWDS) was established in 1980 by a group of men and women involved in the preparation of the first ever comprehensive government report on the status of women in India (Towards Equality: Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India, (CSWI), Government of India). CWDS works to promote research into women's development studies, training programmes and collaboration between academics and grassroots activists. The website provides details of CWDS's activities, publication and their library.
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Classic Feminist Writings
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/classic.html
This bibliography has been compiled on the CWLU Herstory website. This is the online archive of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. It contains classic feminist writings that helped define Second Wave feminism. They date from 1965 to 1977. Each article is available in HTML format. Papers are by writers such as Jo Freeman, Kate Millet, Roxanne Dunbar, the Radicalesbians and Shulamith Firestone.
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Communications Theory/Gender/Identity Resources
http://www.theory.org.uk
This is a set of Web Pages created by Dr David Gauntlett from the University of Westminster about theorists relevant to study of mass media in society, with special reference to gender and identity. The site contains primary information written by Dr Gauntlett and then points to bibliographies and Internet links for further reading. There are pages on Adorno; Gramsci; Foucault; Judith Butler; and further materials and links on media, gender and identity.
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CraVe
http://www.cravewomen.co.uk/
Initiated in 2008 CraVe is a glossy lifestyle magazine for gay women. This Website provides details of stockists and the latest issues.
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Ecofeminism Bibliography
http://www.ecofem.org/biblio/
This bibliography has been compiled by Richard Twine, a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. It includes a list of books, articles and reviews on the subject of ecofeminism. The site also points to other ecofeminist resources on the Web. It is divided into sections for books, chapters, and journal articles. The information is being continually updated. The site also has links to other relevant ecofeminist resources.
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Ecofeminism Philosophy
http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ecofeminism/site_index.htm
Ecofeminism Philosopy is a part of the Philosophy Research Base website. It is a commercial site created using Amazon technology and published by Erratic Impact. Philosophy Research Base is an online network of philosophers who have collated a list of resources. There are lists of relevant philosophers and thinkers and details of their publications.
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Ecofeminism: An Introductory Bibliography
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/ecofem.html
A selective and annotated bibliography on sources concerning political activism within womens groups on the environment and surrounding issues. Part of a series of bibliographies published by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office. This was produced in 1995.
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