WS 2050  
Spring 2003
Week 3    What is Women's Studies?

Reading: Women's Voices, Chapter 1

Response Topic #3:  Choose one of the following: a) Explain Women's Studies to one of your peers or to a male relative. b) What are the negative stereotypes of feminism? Where do they come from? How do these stereotypes serve to perpetuate the dominant social order? Due: January 30

Internet Resources

The University of Wisconsin Library has core lists of readings in women's studies: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/coremain.htm

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html

The National Women's Studies Association: http://www.nwsa.org/

The Artemis Guide to Women's Studies in the U.S.: http://www.artemisguide.com/

Women's Studies Euro Map: http://www.uia.ac.be/women/

Feminism and Women's Studies: http://eserver.org/feminism/

The New York Public Library has a guide to resources in women's studies: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/women/

Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, American Library Association: http://www.ala.org/acrl/wss/wsshp.html

The Women's Studies program at Northern Arizona University has put together a rich set of resources on feminism: http://www.nau.edu/~wst/access/hotlist/thehot.html