WS 100: Women and Activism
   
Assignment One
Internet: Due Sept 27
Assignment Two
Inclass Report, Wed Nov. 10
Activist Groups Categories
Resources
 Each student in the Introduction to Women's Studies class was asked to select five groups actively working on behalf of women or women's issues. What follows is the consolidated list, including groups added by Professor Carr. After each group is the name of the student(s) submitting it.
First choices for report topics are checked: If students indicated an interest in more than one group, the additional ones are marked:
     

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Arts

About-Face!
Online: http://www.about-face.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Watson)
Creative Folk
Online: http://www.creativefolk.com Library: No. (Submitted by Price)
Guerilla Girls
Online: http://www.guerrillagirls.com/ and http://www.proactivist.com
Library: Books they have written. Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls (a memoir); The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
(Submitted by Green & Peluso)
Lilith Fair
Online: http://www.lilithfair.com/ Library: No. (Submitted by Green)
Sister Spirit
Online: http://www.teleport.com/~sistersp/ Library: No. (Submitted by Mack)
Voices From the Gaps
Online: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ Library: No. (Submitted by Smith)
Women's Caucus for Art
Online: http://www.nationalwca.com Library: Yes, but not good information. (Submitted by Schuster)
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Business, Education & Career

American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Online: http://www.aauw.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Smith)
Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG)
Online: http://www.awg.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Amos)
Association for Women in Mathematics
Online: http://www.awm-math.org/ Library: Yes. (Submitted by Davis)
BCW Black Career Women
Online: http://www.bcw.org. Library: No. (Submitted by Richardson)
BISA Black Women in Sisterhood for Action
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Richardson)
Email: bisa@erols.com
Ms. Foundation's Take Our Daughters To Work Campaign
Online: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/NEWS/Daughters/todtw.html Library: No. Submitted by Paich.
Pennsylvania- Women Working Together (WWT)
Online: http://www.pa-wwt.com/pawwt/index.html Library: no (Submitted by Romanishan)
The Phenomenal Women of the Web
Online: http: //www.phenomenalwomen.com/ Library: No. (Submitted by Watson)
Sista II Sista
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Richardson?)
Women's Ministry Network
Online: http://www.womenministry.net/ Library: No. (Submitted by Paich)
Women Who Walk Through Time
Online: http://www.mines.utah.edu/~wmgg/video/GeoWomens.html Library: No. (Submitted by Amos)
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Health & Sports

American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)
Online: http://www.amwa-doc.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Schuster)
Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM)
Online: http://users.southeast.net/~awsm.org Library: No. (Submitted by Lehrian)
Aware (Arming Women Against Rape & Endangerment)
Online: http://www.aware.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Lehrian)
Canadian Association for Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS)
Online: http://caaws.ca/ Library: No. (Submitted by Schuster)
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)
Online: http://www.nfprha.org/ (Submitted by Peluso)
Northwest PA Rural Aids Alliance
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Kukic)
Located in Erie
WIC Program
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Kukic)
WNBA
Online: http://www.wnba.com/index.html Library: No. (Submitted by Amos)
Washington Women Outdoors
Online: http://patriot.net/~wwo/ Library: No. (Submitted by Paich)
Women Outdoors
Online: http://www.women-outdoors.org/gather.htm Library: No. (Submitted by Amos)
Women's Health Action
Online: http://www.womens-health.org.nz/whawelcome.htm Library: No. (Submitted by Paich)
Women's Sports Foundation
Online: http://www.lifetimetv.com/WoSport/stage/INTERACT/html/about.html. Library: Articles in Women's Sports and Fitness. (Submitted by Lehrian & Schuster)
Women’s Wellness Initiative
Online: http://www.wellnessweb.com/survey/whi.htm Library: No. (Submitted by Romanishan)
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Political Groups

Emily's List
http://www.emilyslist.org/au/index.html Library: Alida Brill, A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics. (Submitted by Fuduric, McCue & Romanishan)
Women Vote
Online: http://www.emilyslist.org/forms/support.htm Library: No. (Submitted by Romanishan)

Social Justice

Equality Now
Online: http://www.equalitynow.org Library: No. (Submitted by Watson)
Feminists for Animal Rights
Online: http://arrs.envirolink.org/far/ Library: No. (Submitted by Mack)
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
Online: http://www.lambdalegal.org Library: No. (Submitted by Fuduric)
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Online: http://www.glaad.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Fuduric)
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League NARAL
Online: http://www.naral.org Library: No. (Submitted by Peluso)
Planned Parenthood
Online: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Smith)
Washington Feminist Faxnet (WFF)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Richardson)
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Women's Groups (International)

Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Online: http://www.igc.org/wedo/frmain.htm Library: No (Submitted by Mack & Romanishan)
Women Halting Online Abuse (W.H.O.A.)
Online: http://whoa.femail.com/ Library: No. (Submitted by Peluso)
Women, Law & Development International
Online: http://www.wld.org/ Library: Yes. (Submitted by Davis)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Online: http://www.wilpf.org, and http://www.tripod.com/explore/jobs_career/goodworks/jobs/1024.html Library: WILPF, Bericht-rapport-Report; Jane Addams, Peace and Bread in Time of War; Carrie A. Foster, The Women and the Warriors: The US Section of the WILPF 1915-1946; Catherine Foster, Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Gertrude Carman Busey, WILPF; Kirk, Gwyn et al., "Women and Children, Militarism, and Human Rights-International Women's Working Conference," in Off Our Backs. WILPF also publishes two journals: International Peace Update and Peace and Freedom (Submitted by Mack)

Women's Groups (Local)

Bottomless Closet (Chicago, IL)
Online: http://www.northstarnet.org/evkhome/bcloset/index.html Library: No. (Submitted by Price)
Dress for Success (New York, NY)
Online: No. Library: NY Times article. (Submitted by Price)
Erie Family Life Skills (Erie, PA)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Kukic)
Hospitality House (Location?)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submited by Kukic)
Justice, Ecnomic, Dignity, and Independence for Women, J.E.D.I. For Women (Utah)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Richardson)
Ophelia Project (Erie, PA)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Angelino)
Panhellenic Association (Allegheny College)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Angelino)
Women's Services (Meadville, PA)
Online: No. Library: Pamphlets (Submitted by Kukic)
Your Sister's Closet
Online: ? Library: No. (Submitted by Price?)
YWCA
Online: http://www.ywcatucson.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Price)
YWCA
Online: http://www.ywca.org/, and http://www.ywcaworks.org/, http://ywcamid.org/ywfam.htm , and http://www.worldywca.org/~w-ywca-1, and http://www.home.columbus.rr.com/cindyscharities/newpage1.htm
Library: Mary S. Sims, The YWCA, an Unfolding Purpose; Anna V. Rice, A History of the YWCA; Yolanda Barnett Wilkerson, Interracial Programs of Student YWCA's, An Inquiry Under the auspices of the National Student YWCA, and article Lee Ann Kreigh, "Programs Benefit Girls and Women of Color," in Melpomene Journal. (Submitted by Mack)
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Women's Groups (National)

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
Online: http://alphadeltapi.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Davis)
Feminist Majority Foundation
Online: http://www.feminist.org. Library: No. (Submitted by Richardson).
Girls Incorporated
Online: http://www.girlsinc.org/index.html Library: No (Submitted by Watson)
Girl Scouts
Online: http://www.geocities.com/wellesley/8689/ Library: Yes. (Submitted by Paich)
Meninist
Online: http://www.feminist.com/ (Link to Pro-Feminist Men's Groups) Library: No. (Submitted by McCue)
Ms. Foundation for Women
Online: http://www.ms.foundation.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Smith)
Ms Magazine
Online: http://msmagazine.com/ Library: Amy Erdman Farrell, Yours in Sisterhood: Ms Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. (Submitted by McCue)
National Council for Research on Women
Online: http://ncrw.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Schuster)
National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
Online: http://www.now.org/index.html Library: No. (Submitted by Fuduric & Smith)
National Organization for Women (NOW Foundation) Online: http://www.nowfoundation.org/ (Submitted by Peluso)
national panhellenic conference Online: www.greeklife.org. Library: No. (Submitted by Angelino)
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Online: http://www.chesapeake.net/DAR. Library: No. (Submitted by fuduric)
Third Wave
Online: http://www.feminist.com/ Library: No. (Submitted by McCue) Also on this site: Ask Amy.
Women's Action for New Directions
Online: http://www.wand.org/ Library: yes (Submitted by Amos, Davis & Watson)
Women and Environments Education and Development Foundation (WEED)
Online: http://www.web.apc.org/~weed/ Library: no, but this organization has a magazine (Submitted by Romanishan)
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Service Organizations

Habitat for Humanity
Online: http://www.habitat.org/ including section on volunteer opportunities and a news archiv.
Library: None. (Submitted by Green)
Make A Wish Foundation
Online: http://www.wish.org/ Library: Yes. (Submitted by Davis)
Salvation Army
Online: http://www.redshield.org/ Library: No. (Submitted by Price)

Unions

AFL-CIO
Online: http://www.aflcio.org/home.htm. Library: None (Submitted by Green)
BCT (Baker's, Confectionary, and Tobacco Union)
Online: No. Library: No. (Submitted by Green)
Downtown Cleveland Local 19in
Teamster's Union (International Brotherhood of Teamsters)
Online: http://www.teamster.org/ Library: ? 9 documents found under "Working Women" (submitted by Green)
   

Resources
Activism 101
Online: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~kerig/protest/activism.html The website that answers the questions why and how you should get as involved as you can. Put together by Alex (kerig@sas.upenn.edu). (Submitted by Carr)
Feminist Activist Resources on the Net
Online: http://www.igc.apc.org/women/feminist.html Useful links, even if the page hasn't been updated in a while. (Submitted by Carr)
Good Works
Online: http://www.tripod.com/explore/jobs_career/goodworks/
Labels itself as the largest and most authoritative national directory of social change organizations. Job listings in careers that make a difference.
Proactivist.com
Online: http://proactivist.com/ Dedicated to helping activists, including feminists, be as effective as possible. (Submitted by Carr)
Women's Organizations and Links
Online: http://www.ibd.nrc.ca/~mansfield/feminism (Submitted by Lehrian)
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Posted October 6, 1999