• Activism
• Age
• Class
• Disability
• Legal Issues
• Men's Issues
• Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality
• Reproductive Issues
• Women's Issues

Activism

• American Civil Liberties Union--the ACLU page is an excellent source for press reports on various cases around the country.
• Hatewatch--this site provides information about hate groups on the Internet, as well as information about organizations which seek to eliminate bigotry,violence, and prejudice motivated by hate.
• Institute for Global Communications--news and links to PeaceNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, ConflictNet, and WomansNet,compiled by an Internet service provider. Some 400 member organizationsare linked to this page.

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• Senior Net--Organization to empower seniors for the use of computer technology. Includes a list of links.
• Yahoo's Senior Health--Despite the commercialism, a good source of links to a variety of sites.

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• The Century Foundation
• A self-described "progressive" think tank aiming to "persuade those who care about issues such as economic inequality, population aging,and the public's discontent with government and politics that significant improvements are possible even when the mainstream says they are not."
• Institute for Research on Poverty --A Wisconsin institute, with a useful list of lists.
• National Coalition for the Homeless --Articles, events, bibliographies, and links.
• Social Class and Stratification--A page from the sociology department of a private secondary school in England. Interesting discussion about class as well as some scales.
• Yahoo's Poverty Links --Despite the commercialism, a good source for a variety of links.

• Cornucopia of Disability Information--A gopher site of materials on disabilities.
• Family Village--Maintained by the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin, this site includes information for research, support, and activism on hundreds of disabilities.
• SERI--Special Education Resources on the Internet, maintained by Hood College. More than just resources for educational disabilities.
• Worldwide Disability Issues Resources--A list of links maintained by the Social Sciences Gateway (SOSIG), out of the University of Bristol.
• Yahoo's Disability Links-- Despite the commercialism, a good source for a variety of links.

• FindLaw-- Stanford University graduate students operate this site for the Northern Californian Association of Law Librarians. A comprehensive source of legal materials.
• The WWW Virtual Library--Law-- Good source of links provided by the Indiana University School of Law.
• WashLAW--Sites and other information assembled by librarians at the Washburn University School of Law Library.

• MenWeb--An electronic magazine with many useful links, and some interesting articles as well.
• National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)--U.S. organization for pro-feminist, gay and bi-affirmative, activist men.

• Black/African Related Resources (Art McGee)--Thorough site by a reliable source.
• Colby's Guide to African American Studies
• Fourth World Documentation Project--Documents relating to political and social struggles of indigenous peoples worldwide, maintained by the Center for World Indigenous Studies.
• Latinonet--Based in UCLA, an excellent starting point for Latina/o sources.
• The Arab American Action Network--Largely political in focus, this page does have a list of links of interest to Arab Americans.
• Native Web--A site whose purpose is "to provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples."
• Universal Black Pages--Georgia Tech grad students maintain this site devoted to the African Diaspora.

• NARAL Online--Family planning, legislation, clinic violence, sex education, legal cases, and the Right are covered with factsheets, bibliographies, and links to other sites. Maintained by the National Abortion Rights Action League.

• Colby's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Home Page--Information about Women's Studies at Colby and a list of great links not included on this page.
• Feminist Activist Resources--Links to other Web sites.
• Feminist Majority Online--Maintained by The Feminist Majority Foundation, this page includes the Feminist Internet Gateway to links on the Web, news, research, voteri nformation, and current issues pages.
• Franco American Women's Institute--A Maine organization promoting ethnic women's voices
• Gender-Related Electronic Forums--A list of electronic discussion lists on women and/or gender.
• NOW--Information about the National Organization for Women.
• Women of Color Web--A collection of essays and other writings by and about Women of Color in the U.S. Contributing writers include Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua, and Lynn Lu. Good links to research sites, bibliographies, discussion groups, and organizations.
• Women's Studies Resources--Pages of links and of electronic discussion lists assembled by librarians at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
• Women's Studies Resources (Iowa)--Lists of links as well as specialized search engines which produce fewer sites with greater relevance. Particular focus on literature, sports, activism, arts, feminist theory, and history.
• Women's Studies (University of Wisconsin)--Bibliographies maintained by the Women's Studies Librarian, as well as Web links to other sites, e-zines, and syllabi.
• Worldwide Feminism Resources--Excellent list of links maintained by the Social Science Information Gateway of Australian National University.
• WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--another meta-site, with many links arranged in 14 sections and maintained by various members of the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• WWWomen--an Internet subject directory maintained by a San Francisco company to provide quick access to sites for and about women

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Last Updated Date: 08/25/2006    
Created by:  Pukkila, Marilyn R. 
Email: mrpukkil@colby.edu