Women Studies
Online Resources for Women/Gender Studies
Archives and Resources for Teaching Women's History
Declaration of Sentiments
(women: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbkbib:@field(SUBJ+@band(Women+--California +))
Audio Resources
National Public Radio Audio Archives:
The Next Wave of Female Activism
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1847085
Grrrl Culture
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1067610
'Ms.' Surviving in an Era of Fashion Mags
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1440160
Women and Politics
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=829782
The Evolution of Voting Rights in America
(looks at what November 2000's election reveals
about the state of suffrage today)
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1124080
Low Wage Nannies: A Conundrum for Feminists
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1754975
Women on War
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1212320
Islamic Feminism
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1474694
Beneath Historic Fashion
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/aug/underwear/index.html
Kim Gandy (president of NOW, gives
speech to national press club)
http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2001/011211.kgandy.html
The Wonder of Girls (do we raise our boys
and girls differently?)
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1137177
Actress Elizabeth Perry reads the Declaration
of Sentiments as delivers by E. Cady Stanton
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1001223
Voices from the Dust Bowl (includes audio)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/women/women.html
"California as I Saw it": First Person
Narratives of California's Early Years
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
Justice Learning: Civic Education in the Real Word
http://www.justicelearning.org/viewissue.asp?issueID=13
See section on women's rights--excellently contextualized audio resources, with additional NYT articles and additional teaching materials.
Topics:
Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=433
Bias on the Battlefield
http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=189
Gender Wars at Center Court
http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=63
Justice Talking
http://www.justicetalking.org/home.asp
This American Life (NPR)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Three Women and the Sex Industry
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ search
for "Three Women and the Sex Industry"
I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort of (David
Sedaris)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ search
for "I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort of "
Testosterone (an entire show examines
the role of testosterone in people's lives)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ search
for "Testosterone"
Notes on Camp (Prologue and Episode
6 deal with gender differences at camp)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ search
for "Notes on Camp "
Superpowers (Act Two tells the story
of Zora, a self-made superhero)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ search
for "Superpowers"
Guns (Author Sarah Vowell interviews
her father about his collection of guns)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ search
for "Guns"
Women in American History (Encyclopedia
Brittanica)
http://search.eb.com/women/
See http://search.eb.com/women/ind_mediagallery.html for the media gallery--includes clips from Carrie Chapman Catt, Dorothy Parker, Video of Hillary Rodham Clinton--audio is better than the video) audio requires Quicktime
Poetry, Literature and the Arts:
poets.org
(an extensive resource featuring a listening booth with many audio readings by the poets; includes many women poets)
Listening Booth features (among others):
Womanhood (by Catherine Anderson)
The Art of Translation (Adrienne Rich)
Poetry Exhibits: Daughters
poetry.org
The Courage to Write (an award winning series
of audio programs and guides on women novelists
and poets) (you have to purchase tapes via
this site, but might be useful?)
http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/courage.htm
Audio Poetry Archives and Anthologies
http://poetry.about.com/cs/audiopoetry/
An Audible Anthology: Poems from The
Atlantic Monthly read aloud
(extensive)
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/aaindx.htm
epoets.network: Book of Voices
http://voices.e-poets.net/
Harper Audio (not the best quality)
http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/
Favorite Poem Project: Americans Saying
Poems they Love (streamed video of people
reciting their favorite poems)
http://www.favoritepoem.org/thevideos/nersessian.html
SlamMania
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/24/ED25252.DTL
Includes audio files of slam poets, including women
Visual Culture: Imaging Gender
American Advertising, a Brief History
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/Ads/amadv.html (list of resource at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/Ads/online.html )
The Skin You Love to Touch (model
interpretation for a soap advertisement--commonly
referred to as the first ad to use "sex appeal" to
sell a product)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/Ads/model.html
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of
Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
Votes for Women: Selections from the National Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921; Intro Page: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/
List of Online Objects/Resources: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawbibTitles01.html
(see especially, An Address on Woman's Rights & Are Women People--lots of interesting and diverse content to explore!)
History Project U.C. Davis: Image Collections (includes political cartoons, photographs, and advertisements)
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Collection2=US&Major=WO
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Major=WO&Minor=B&SlideNum=11.00
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Major=WO&Minor=I&SlideNum=12.00
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Major=WO&Minor=I&SlideNum=1.00
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