PSYC 367/WmSt 366:  Gender Issues in Psychology

Spring 2004            Virginia Norris, Ph.D.

All dates are subject to change.  Announcements in class supersede internet material.

CHAPTER 12
Internet Resources

Sexual assault

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/

Violence Against Women Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This web site includes a domestic violence manual for employers, speeches and articles, the text of the Violence Against Women Act, and research reports.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

The Bureau of Justice Statistics page.  Follow the links to get reports and articles on rape statistics.
 

Culture and Gender http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Gender/
This page is an excellent starting point for searches related to gender and culture. In it are links to books, conferences, gender neutral language, humor, intersexuality and transgendered sites to name just a few.

http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html
"Gender-Related Electronic Forums" is an annotated, frequently updated, alphabetical listing of publicly accessible electronic forums (or "lists") related to women or gender issues.

http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/
WomensNet supports women's organizations worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work. WomensNet provides constant updates on major women's issues around the world as well as fifteen separate areas covering a wealth of international issues.

http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
The Global Fund for Women is an international organization which offers grants for projects which focus on female human rights. It supports issues as diverse as literacy, domestic violence, economic autonomy, and the international trafficking of women. The site provides information on these subjects as well as up-to-date news on women's global issues. The Links area provides links to cultural resources, non-profit organizations and other home pages of relevant sites.

http://www.nocirc.org/
This site provides extensive information on the practice of circumcision that is sometimes considered a form of male genital mutilation. The site provides detailed information on the medical debate surrounding the necessity of the practice, general articles on circumcision and the legal issues surrounding informed consent.

http://chicanas.com/
Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Homepage. Includes a wealth of resources and bibliographies of academic and popular work.

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/index.html
South Asian Women's Network web site, including bibliographies, articles, and information on topics ranging from health to careers to domestic violence.

Sports and gender http://feminist.org/research/sports2.html
Empowering Women in Sports is a publication on this web site by the Feminist Majority Foundation. The site has a list of current articles about women in sports and a listing of additional informational resources.
 
Crime statistics  
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) (U.S. Department of Justice), is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. Most other crime statistic web pages ultimately refer to this web site. The site primarily has
     statistics relating to crime and victims, criminal offenders and the justice system. The site presents special articles on crime topics outside the Bureau's regular topics. The BJS has a search engine designed to pinpoint the specific information needs of visitors to the site.

 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/
The Violence Against Women Office of the Department of Justice presents this site which exclusively studies women as victims of violence. There are messages from women's violence activists as well as fact sheets, information and resources.


Last update 12/26/2003

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