- About-Face
- "promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of
all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds trhough a spirited approach to media
education, outreach and activism."
- American
Civil Liberties Union - Women's Rights
- Issues: Criminal Justice, Discrimination, Violence Against
Women, Education, Employment, Poverty/Welfare, Pregnancy/Parenting, General.
- Broadsheet -
Salon.com
- A feminist blog written by a variety of contributers. If
you don't have a paid subscription to Salon.com you will have to wait and
click through an advertising screen before viewing the blog. A good place to
get news from all over the world with feminist commentary to put it in
context.
- Canadian
Women's Health Network - Posters
- downloadable posters on health activism
- Emily's List
- "EMILY's List, the nation's largest grassroots
political network, is dedicated to taking back our country from the radical
right wing by electing pro-choice Democratic women to federal, state, and
local office."
- Feminist.com
- Weekly activist news updates, articles and speeches, a page
of links to resources on women's health issues, and other pages of links.
- Feminist International
Radio Endeavour (FIRE)
- FIRE broadcasts a two-hour daily program (one hour each in
Spanish and English) on the shortwave radio station Radio for Peace
International (RFPI) in Costa Rica and is heard in over 100 countries around
the world.
- Feminist Majority
Foundation
- Lots of resources and texts available here covering (but
not limited to) feminist news, health, global feminism, sports, politics,
work, violence against women and many, many, links to other resources and
sites.
- Guerrila Girls
- "re-inventing the "f" word -- feminism.
Agitating artists who use satire and performance to fight stereotypes,
discrimination and hypocrisy..
- Hastings
Women's Law Journal
- "We offer and maintain an inclusive space for
feminism, race theory, multi-culturalism, animal rights, disability rights,
language rights, international human rights, criminal defendants' rights and
prisoners' rights, among others. "
- Holla Back
NYC
- "Next time a stranger comments on your breasts in
public, just shoot him˜with a camera, such as the one built into your cell
phone. This is the unorthodox advice of Holla Back NYC, a blog-cum-grass-roots
movement that uses digital technology to combat street harassment." --Ms.com
- Incite! Women of
Color Against Violence
- Newsletter, Activist Institutes, Conferences, Organizing
materials & posters for their national campaign against the war.
"By supporting grassroots organizing, we intend to advance a national
movement to nurture the health and well-being of communities of color.
"
- Making Face, Making Soul
… a Chicana Feminist Homepage
- "a site by, for, and about Chicanas, meaning women of
Mexican descent in the United States. This site contains a variety of
resources ranging from short biographies of Chicanas, to Chicana poetry and
literature, cultural resources, academic resources, otras chicanas on the
'net, and more... "
- MilitaryWomen.org
- "A meeting place for military women to exchange
information unique to their military experience and to offer firsthand
information to women thinking about a military career." A large section
devoted to Issues includes Harassment, Discrimination and Domestic Violence,
women in combat, pregnancy in the military, wearing the abaya when stationed
Saudi Arabia, and more.
- NARAL Pro-Choice America
- NARAL has a strong record of over thirty years of activism
on behalf of women's reproductive freedom in the courts, on the streets and
advocacy in national and state legislatures. This site offers news, facts
and issue briefs and helps connect people to local and national
opportunities to get involved in the struggle.
- Native American
Women's Health Education Resource Center
- Located in South Dakota on the Yankton Sioux Reservation,
this organization is engaged in community organizing and leadership
development, domestic violence, AIDS education, Child development and adult
learning projects and many health and nutrition issues. The center's
Clearinghouse of Educational Materials prepares and develops health
education materials for distribution to Native American audiences --
ordering information online.
- National Organization for
Women
- Key Issues: * Abortion Rights / Reproductive Issues,
Affirmative Action, Constitutional Equality, Disability Rights, Economic
Equity, Family, Fighting the Right, Global Feminism, Health, Judicial
Nominations. Legislation, Lesbian Rights, Media Activism, Working for Peace,
Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Title IX, Violence Against Women, Welfare,
Women-Friendly Workplace, Women in the Military, Young Feminism
- Our Bodies
Ourselves
- "…also known as the Boston Women’s Health Book
Collective, empowers women with information about health, sexuality, and
reproduction. We work in and for the public interest, promote equality
between women and men, and build bridges among social justice
movements."
- Our Bodies Our Blog
- From the Our Bodies Ourslves people "your daily dose
of women's health news and analysis."
- Planned Parenthood
- "Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right
of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility,
regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity,
sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence." There are many
ways to get involved and a weath of information can be found in the Research
and Media section.
- Point/Counterpoint:
Gender-Based Criteria for Asylum
- Two attorneys consider whether gender-based violence should
be used as a grounds for granting asylum. Presented by the Center For Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law Washington College of Law, American University
in their online Journal: Human
Rights Brief
- Rosa
Luxemburg Institute (RLI)
- We seek the development of natural/ technological sciences
and medicine conducive to the needs of children, women and nature (i. e.
human) with a technology that is socially and ecologically viable.
- SAWA - South Asian Women for
Action
- Boston-based, progressive, non-hierarchical collective of
women of South Asian descent.
- Third Wave
Foundation
- "Third Wave is a feminist, activist foundation that
works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30.
Through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic
advocacy, we support groups and individuals working towards gender, racial,
economic, and social justice."
- V-day
- "V-Day is an organized response against violence
toward women."
- Women Leaders Online and Women
Organizing for Change
- "WLO is the first and largest women's advocacy group
created on the Internet, seeking to build a network of one million women
(and sympathetic men) to empower women in politics, society, the economy,
the media, and cyberspace.…WOC is the political action arm of WLO,
dedicated to changing government and politics and empowering women through
grassroots lobbying, voter education, and the election of pro-woman
candidates."
- Women Living Under
Muslim Laws
- "is an international solidarity network that provides
information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are
shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from
Islam."
- Women's
Human Rights Resources
- "The Women's Human Rights Resources web site is a
project of the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto, Faculty
of Law. The site is produced by the Women's Human Rights Resources group in
consultation and collaboration with law librarians, lawyers, students,
researchers, activists and human rights experts around the world."
- WomenWatch
- "WomenWatch is a central gateway to information and
resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women
throughout the United Nations system…"
- Women'space e-zine
(Canadian)
- "A place where women activists share stories of our
adventures in cyberspace and explore how the Internet is being used as a
powerful tool for women."
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Art and Performance
- Annie
Leibovitz: "Women"
- An exhibit of nudes from her book, Women by Leibovitz . Susan
Sontag's preface is still on the NYTimes sit
- Annotated
Bibliography of Feminist Aesthetics in the Literary, Performing and Visual
Arts 1970-1990
- This plain text file covers film, music and theatre resources. Compiled
by Linda Krumholz and Estella Lauter.
- ArtWomen.org
- News - Reviews & Critiques - featured artists "We hope that
this website will be a place for you to find visual art and feminist
cultural production across and between disciplines and geographical
boundaries."
- Berenice
Abbott: CHANGING NEW YORK 1935-1938
- An online exhibit of Abbot's photos with a brief biographical sketch
from the Miriam & Ira Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
- BraBall
- A project that began as a phone conversation in 2000 and was first
realized and exhibited in 2001. People have been donating bras since then
and eventually grew to 18,085 bras -- a 5-foot tall ball weighing more
than 1,800 pounds.
- Carrington,
Leonora
- The British-born surrealist who lived most of her life in Mexico is
represented here with a short biographical sketch and chronology in
Spanish, and a selection of images of her paintings. See also: An
Interview with Leonora Carrington and a Biographical
Essay by Julie Byrd see collection of images at http://www.turingmachine.org/remedios/
- Dorothea Lange
- A retrospective exhibit covering Lange's photos from 1923 to 1964.
- Exoticize My Fist
(Asian-American Feminist Resources)
- "I should explain why I --an already burdened feminist graduate
student with multiple 'zines, articles, and other media projects in both
development & production-- felt inordinately compelled to pick up the
gauntlet and tackle this Xenian task (yes, I am a rabid Xena fan): I got
annoyed. That is, I got exceedingly irritated trying to find rad
Asian/American women's work on the web and figured everybody else must be
sick of it too." See especially "Art," and "Filmic
Interventions."
- For Best Results Start from the
Bottom and Squeeze Up
- Susan Otto's exhibit at the UCR Calif. Museum of Photography. "This
cross media installation examines the gun as a fluctuating signifier in
modern culture and the unconscious residue of violence and fear of
violence in the average psyche. Hand guns have and continue to change as a
social symbol: from petty crime, to senseless killing in the inner city,
to an object that embodies urban alienation and fear. The work examines
the psychological residue of violence. " See also: Gun
Show: In Our Sights: Artists Look at Guns
- Frida Kahlo
- Short bio and links to images of paintings. See Also: Frieda
Kahalo: Expressions of Pain and The
Frida Kahlo Museum and Frida Kahlo
& Contemporary Thoughts
- Friends of Lulu
- "A national nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote and
encourage female readership and participation in the comib book
industry."
- Guerrilla Girls
- "[W]e declare ourselves feminist counterparts to the mostly male
tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone
Ranger. We wear gorilla masks to focus on the issues rather than our
personalities. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and
show that feminists can be funny." You may also want to check out
this article from the S.F. Chronicle/Examiner online news site The
Gate has this February 26, 1998 "The
Guerrilla Girls Make Art Herstory (Again)" by Meredith Tromble,
See also: reproduction
of GG poster
- Guerrilla
Girls On Tour
- "Changing the world one sexist city at a time. ..."Guerrilla
Girls On Tour is an activist theatre collective founded in 2001 by
Lorraine Hansberry, Aphra Behn and Hallie Flanagan, former members of the
Guerrilla Girls. Guerrilla Girls On Tour is now a separate organization
from the original Guerrilla Girls and our focus is to develop new and
original plays, performances and workshops that dramatize women’s
history and advocate on behalf of women and artists of color in the
performing arts"
- Hothead Paisan
- Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist; comics for the fed-up, rage therapy for the
marginalized. Way cheaper than a shrink.
- Isis Plus
- Features the art and culture of women of the African diaspora. Film
& video, performing arts, and written word as well as West
African-centered spirituality. Produced and maintained by "NetDiva"
who has obviously combed the Internet for every significant work of art
she/they could find. A rich site.
- Judy
Chicago Interview in Gadfly
Magazine, Nov./Dec., 1999
- Women and Art: Interview with Judy Chicago "My resistance began
early on, when I was a child," writes Judy Chicago in Women and Art:
Contested Territory. As a young woman, Chicago came to believe that much
of the work proclaimed as great art denied her "experience and
feelings as a female person." Thus began her crusade, culminating in
1979 with the completion of her large-scale installation, The Dinner
Party, to create feminist art that would not only encompass and express
the entire being of women, but also change the world. by John W. Whitehead
- Kirsten Lavers
- British artist Kirsten Lavers states: "My artwork is more usually
made in response to non-art spaces, places where people who come across it
are not necessarily expecting to have an 'art." This site contains
one Web project in collaboration with poet Cris Cheek and documentation of
three other installations.
- La Marquesa Art
Gallery
- La Marquesa Art Gallery is a non-profit art gallery featuring mostly
unknown San Diego / Tijuana based artists. This site is still in
development but one large exhibit by D. Emily Hicks is up, Ecotina
and the Kids from Perkins.
- Laughter
Ten Years After
- "Laughter Ten Years After is a replay and expansion of The
Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter, an exhibition organized by Jo
Anna Isaak which opened in New York City in January of 1983 and traveled
in the U.S. and Canada for a period of two years. Laugher Ten Years After
is intended to commemorate the earlier exhibition and the exceptionally
prolific decade of woman's art production which followed."
- Lisa
Yuskavage: The Power of Pretty
- Online exhibit and text by painter Lisa Yuskavage. See also: ArtNet
review 'girly
grotesquerie' by Peter Schjeldahl -
Catalog available
- Marisol
Fern·ndez - Archangel: Picturing Dreams
- Digitally produced images that deal in part, with the death of the
artist's father. "After a number of collective exhibitions and a few
one person shows, this is the first time that I present myself with such
intimate and profound feelings."
- The
Moonsisters
- The images and text in The Moonsisters were created by Bea Nettles. The
poetry was written by her mother Grace Nettles. Bea Nettles is the Chair
of Photography at the University of Illinois.
- N.Paradoxa
- An international online feminist art journal. This quarterly journal
seeks to explore the paradoxes of feminism and the art world today
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Features: An online gallery covering art by women from the rennaissance
to living artists. Library and Research Center with artist bibliographies,
information about collections of special collections and research
materials. A product catalog from the Museum Shop. Information about the
Museum and its programs.
- O'Keeffe, Georgia Museum
- Mostly useful for text. Images tend to be stingy postage-stamp size.
Useful if you plan to be in or visiting New Mexico.
- O'Keeffe,
Georgia
- Organized in three chronological sections, "The Young Artist,"
"O'Keefe and Stieglitz," and "The Faraway," this site
presents biographical information, images of O'Keefe and many of her
paintings.
- O'Keeffe,
Georgia - Gallery
- An amateur site with mostly small but decent color images of many
paintings.
- Old
Masters: Overlooked Women Artists
- Joan Altabe in Gadfly Unline
- Postfeminist
Forum
- "Female representatives from the visual, written, and performing
arts ponder the meanings of postfeminism in their professional and
personal lives. Crossley and Joyce interviewed the participants and
integrated their comments into a simulated discussion of postfeminism.
This forum reveals the inherent polarity in the debate--a disillusionment
with feminism's proclaimed idealism and productivity, and a reluctance to
view feminism in a "post" phase." Guerrilla Girls, Critical
Arts Ensemble, Tribe 8, Eurudice, Kiki Smith, Deb Margolin and others
- Rebeca
Bollinger
- "Bollinger sees the Internet as a "tremendous space to
excavate. People are leaving traces," she says. "They are trying
to claim this new space." And like an archaeologist who digs up
fossils, pots and garbage looking for a clue about an extinct
civilization, Bollinger is digging around in the living time capsules of
our culture. And she's trying to figure out what the hell is going
on." --Arline Klatte, the Gate
- Silence
- A web page version of the germinal essay by art historian and critic
Lucy Lippard first published in ArtNews (??) republished in 1976
in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art
- South Asian Women's Cinema
- Articles and Reviews from South Asian Women Network (SAWNet) of films by
and/or about S. Asian women.
- The Varo Registry of Women
Artists
- A registry of artwork created by contemporary women artists. Searchable
by artist name, genre, medium movement, and medium. Additionally, women
artists are free to place their artwork on the Internet through Varo.
- Varo, Remedios
- The Spanish surrealist (1908-1963) who escaped the Facists of Spain and
Vichy France, settled in Mexico in 1941. This site has a biographical
sketch, photos of the artist and a large (47) collection of high quality
images of her paintings. See also: http://www.reidgroup.com/~dmg/remedios/
- Victorian Women
and the Visual Arts
- Part of the long-established collectively produced hypertext, The
Victorian Web. Both rich and spotty -- some artists are well covered
others only listed. Subjects: Women as Subject, Professional Artists,
Professional Sculptors, Amateur Watercolorists, Writers on the Arts, Art
Education for Women. See also Professor Florence Boos' gallery of Victor
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