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Research resources

Women's Library
(formerly Fawcett Library)
A beloved and cherished resource
and now hosts Genesis: developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles
Current exhibitions: Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970's Britain and Striking Women: Voices of South Asian workers from Grunswick and Gate Gourmet

The Feminist Archive (Bristol)

Institute of Education (University of London)
Useful source for archives of women in education

Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project
at the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries
A resource guide, mostly but not entirely repositories in the USA

International Information Center and Archives of the Women's Movement, Amsterdam

Virtual Library of Women's History at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, including VIVA: a bibliography of women's history

Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians, edited by Sybil Oldfield. Further information

From History to Her Story: Yorkshire Women's Lives Online, 1100 to the present

The Mundus Gateway: missionary-related research resources (UK)

The Old Dyke
A useful personal website on lesbians in history

Women of Brighton:
What it says. Surprising how many notable women have had some connection with the town.

gender Inn, the Women's and Gender Studies Database on the Internet
A searchable database providing access to over 7,500 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature

Australian Women's Archives Project

Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales

Classic Feminist Writings from 'the Second Wave':
useful resource for now-hard-to-come-by texts from the 60s and 70s

International Museum of Women

Susan B Anthony: Celebrating "A Heroic Life"

Women Writers’ Networks

Judy Greenway's research on feminism, anarchafeminism, and sex and gender

See also Some favourite archives and resources

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Organisations and Institutions

Women's History Network
UK Network for all women interested in women's history.

And there's also the Women's History Scotland which is very lively.

WISE: Women's International Studies Europe

International Federation for Research in Women's History

The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee

Feminist Review Trust:
funding research and other scholarly activity on all aspects of gender. Committed to the advancement of public understanding of gender in all social relations.

Strathclyde Centre in Gender Studies

Institute for Feminist Theory and Research

Feminist Crime Research Network

The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies

Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS), University of Leeds

Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin

Association for Women's Rights in Development

AHRB Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
A partnership between the Universities of Kent, Keele and Westminster.

Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society
University of Wales Swansea

Institute for Gender Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Società Italiana delle Storiche
Italian Association of Woman Historians (site is in Italian)

Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter

Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality
Roehampton University

History of Feminism Network
Celebrating, exploring and debating the history of feminism

History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland

Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies

MATILDA: the first Joint European Master Degree in Women’s and Gender History
Being set up by consortium of five European universities

Gender Institute, London School of Economics

Women's Studies Group, 1558-1837

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Journals

Women's History Review

Journal of Women's History

Feminist Review

Gender and History

gender forum: an internet platform for gender and women's studies. Online Journal

Journal of International Women's Studies
'an on-line, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives'

Feminist Studies

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
published at the University of Melbourne: 'a forum for the publication of new scholarly work by both established historians and post-graduate students. It is now published annually. While Lilith is based within the History Department at the University of Melbourne, it publishes diverse articles grounded in research undertaken in different countries. These articles deal with historical subject matter that is of interest internationally and crosses the spectrums of time periods and what is understood as 'feminist history'

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
'a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture'

Aspasia
'Aspasia is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women’s and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe'.

L'HOMME. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft/European Journal of Feminist History
'an interface between various cultures of linguistic and academic cultures and takes various topics and regional contexts into account.'

The Latchkey: A Journal of New Woman Studies

Clio. Histoire, Femmes et Sociétiés

HerStoria magazine and Discover Women's History Web

Journal of Research on Women and Gender: peer-reviewed online journal

>Assuming Gender: An international, interdisciplinary journal

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Conferences, Seminars, etc

Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference: Continuities and Change
12-13 March 2010, Ruskin College, Oxford

Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day
Thursday, 18 March and Friday, 19 March 2010, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London

Women and Humanities
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, 26-27 Mar 2010

Gender, Sexuality and Law Subject Stream of Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference
30 March- 1 April 2010, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

5th Annual History of Women's Health Conference
April 7, 2010, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia

18th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference
"Journeys"
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 8-11, 2010

Contemporary Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality
A Symposium hosted by the Women’s Studies Department at The Ohio State University, April 9-10, 2010

Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe
Third Annual Postgraduate Conference
Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and Representations
9 Apr 2010, The University of Exeter

"The (Muslim) Woman Question" Competing Representations, Contested Futures
9th Annual Critical Islamic Reflections Conference, Yale University, April 10, 2010

European Social Science History Conference 2010
Ghent, Belgium, Bijloke Site, 13-16 April 2010

Women Readers/Educational Texts 1500-1800
A three-day international conference at the University of Liverpool, Wednesday, 14 to Friday, 16 April 2010

Tenth York Cultural History Conference
Femininities
Department of History, University of York, 22-24th April 2010

Gender, Bodies and Technology
April 22-24, 2010, Roanoke, Virginia

Evil, Women and the Feminine
Monday 3rd May 2010- Wednesday 5th May 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

Gender and Difference
20-23 May 2010, Gregynog Hall, Wales

Inventing the Gendered Consumer from the early modern to post modern period
21 and 22 May 2010 in the University of Limerick, Ireland

Women and freemasonry since the Enlightenment
Bordeaux University and Musée d’Aquitaine, June 17-18-19, 2010

Workshop Gender Studies of Science:
Using and Producing Science Beyond the Academy (PDF)
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, June 18-19, 2010

Simone de Beauvoir: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
18th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society
Cagliari (Italy), 23-26 June 2010

Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the transformation of Belonging
An international and interdisciplinary conference
30th June - 2nd July 2010, Birkbeck, University of London

Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective
International Federation for Research in Women’s History
Amsterdam, August 2010, (in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, 22-28 August 2010)

Women's Memory-Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation
24-26 August 2010, University of Limerick, Ireland

Women’s Political Thought in Europe 1700-1800
25-29 August 2010, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato (Italy)

History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI)
Annual Conference in cooperation with KADOC- K.U.Leuven
Female Religious of the British Isles. Interactions with the Continent (7th-20th century)
Leuven, Belgium, 1 to 4 September 2010

Representations of prostitution, sex work and sex trafficking between the 19th and 21st centuries
The Women’s Library, London, 9th-10th September, 2010

19th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network

Performing the Self: Women's Lives in Historical Perspective
10-12 September 2010, University of Warwick

Marriage patterns, household formation and economic development
Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 7-10 Oct 2010

Les discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des femmes et des hommes de 1400 à 1600 : revisiter la « querelle des femmes »
18, 19 et 20 novembre 2010 à l’Université de Columbia, centre Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris

Gendered Ways of Knowing? Gender, Natural Sciences and Humanities Interdisciplinary Congress
Trento (Italy), December 1 - 4, 2010

2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women:
Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space
June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Additional conferences which may be of interest can be found at Useful Links: History of Sexuality: Conferences

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Menstruation sites

The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

The Museum of the Menovulatory Lifetime

The Keeper: reusable menstrual cup

Women's Environmental Network Sanpro Campaign

Society for Menstrual Cycle Research

E-mail lists

H-WOMEN e-mail discussion list
Perhaps more strongly orientated toward North American women's history than UK or Europe,
but definitely of interest.

The Women's History Network has its own mailing list.

Scholars of Single Women Network: includes news, resources as well as list.

WHOM: Listserv for Women Historians of Medicine

History of Feminism Network

Gender-related electronic forums
INTERNET RESOURCES ON WOMEN: Using Electronic Media in Curriculum Transformation
Three extremely useful compendious, annotated and frequently updated pages by Joan Korenman

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