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NWSA - National Women's Studies Association
http://www.nwsa.org |
NWSA supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Boston Area Women's Resources
http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/bostons.html |
One of the MIT Womens Studies site pages, this is a list of help resources covering battered women's shelters, assault, pregnancy, health and suicide advisors, and gay and lesbian organizations. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Boston's Queer Agenda - The List
http://www.queeragenda.org |
The List, with over 1700 subscribers, is a free weekly email calendar of events and bi-weekly classifieds for the Boston region that encourages networking and centralizes information about upcoming events, volunteer and job opportunities, apartment postings and community announcements. The List, formerly known as Hannah's List, integrates the arts, Internet technology and social change to create cultural activism with a particular eye towards lesbian, bisexual, transgender, alternative, women's, and progressive communities, including our gay male and straight allies. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Gender Resources on the Web
http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/links.html |
One of the MIT Womens Studies site pages, this is a list of links to web sites of general interest to women and womens studies scholars. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Graduate Consortium for Women’s Studies
http://www.radcliffe.edu/gcws |
Founded in 1993, the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies is a pioneering effort by faculty at six degree-granting institutions in the Boston area to advance women's studies scholarship. The Consortium pursues its mission through an ongoing series of team-taught graduate seminars, interdisciplinary faculty workshops, and other opportunities for scholarly and administrative collaboration. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Wellesley Centers for Women
http://www.wcwonline.org/ |
For more than a quarter century, the Wellesley Centers for Women has been a driving force, both behind the scenes and in the spotlight, promoting positive change for women and girls. The nation's largest women's research center, WCW is the powerful alliance of the Stone Center and the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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WSSLINKS - Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html |
The purpose of WSS Links is to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies. Please send comments or suggestions to maintainers of individual subject pages. Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section
of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
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| Institution Information and URL |
Program Description |
NWSA
http://www.nwsa.org/wsmap/map.htm |
This NWSA page is a US map-style search: click on the region's link to see a list of the NWSA member programs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Bates College
111 Bardwell Street
Lewiston, ME
http://www.bates.edu/pubs/Dept.Letters/womens.studies.html |
The Program in Women's Studies was created by the Bates faculty in 1989, in response to strong demands by the student-run Equality in the Curriculum Committee. We in the Women's Studies Program provide courses and a central location for discussions that use gender analysis.
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Bowdoin College
7100 College Station
Brunswick, ME
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/womenstudies/index.shtml |
Women's Studies at Bowdoin College is an interdisciplinary program that incorporates into the curriculum recent research done on women and gender. Gender construction is explored as an institutionalized means of structuring inequality and dominance. The program offers a wide range of courses taught by faculty members from many departments and programs.
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Brandeis University
Women's Studies Program
Waltham, Ma.
http://www.brandeis.edu/wmns/ |
Undergraduate and graduate courses integrating the study of women's experiences and gender roles with the university's curriculum in science, social science, humanities and arts. Brandeis offered its first Women's Studies course in 1975. Under the direction of Shulamit Reinharz, and with the active involvement of the newly created National Board for Women's Studies at Brandeis, a graduate program was launched in 1992. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Brandeis University
Women's Studies Resource Center
Waltham, MA.
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/ |
Evolving and dynamic, the Brandeis University Women's Studies Resource Center and Scholars Program is committed to fostering outstanding individual achievement of the highest caliber while building a community among the Scholars and a partnership with the University. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Central Connecticut State University
Women's Studies Program
New Britain, CT
http://www.ccsu.edu/CCW/Default.htm |
This is not the women's studies webpage at CCSU, but is the site through which to access information on the women's studies program. Also look at the Women's Center page. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Colby College
4720 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME
http://www.colby.edu/womens.studies/ |
Colby Women's Studies Program is a progressive interdisciplinary program designed to acquaint students with scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality differences among women and examine the way gender is culturally constructed by comparing multiple, overlapping and discrete oppressions. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Connecticut College
Fanning 411/270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT
http://camel2.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/gws/ |
Gender and Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary transnational course of study designed to help students understand the ways in which sexual politics shapes social experience. Employing a transnational, comparative approach, students explore how gender intersects with issues of nation, culture, religion, sexuality, class, and race. Gender and Women's Studies prepares students to utilize feminist methodologies and approaches to interrogate other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and arts. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wstudies/ |
Women's and Gender Studies offers a range of interdisciplinary courses as well as an extensive list of associated courses, offered by other departments and programs, that have a central focus on gender or women. The major is administered by the Women's and Gender Studies Steering Committee. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Eastern Connecticut State University
Women's Studies Program
Willimantic, CT
http://nutmeg.ctstateu.edu/depts/courses/descript/wst_cour.htm |
[this url could be correct but was offline when I checked it out 8/4/2002] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Hartford College for Women
1265 Asylum Ave
Hartford, CT
http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/hcw/ |
(to get to Women's Studies, click on program, and select Women's Studies) As recently as twenty-five years ago, only a handful of colleges recognized women's studies as a formal academic discipline. Today, Hartford College for Women is among the progressive institutions offering a four-year Women Studies program focused on women's contributions to culture and society, as well as the historical and social impact of gender, race and class. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/womenstudy/ |
This honors concentration offers a theoretical foundation in Women's Studies and advanced study in specific disciplines, leading to the design and completion of individual undergraduate academic programs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/ |
The program co-sponsors films, lectures, and public discussions with many other departments and programs at the Institute. There are two annual lecture series on Gender and Politics and Women in Cyberspace. The Program in Women's Studies sponsors major conferences. Check here for information on the Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies and UROPs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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NWSA - National Women's Studies Association
http://www.nwsa.org |
NWSA supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Quinnipiac College
Women's Studies Program
Hamden, CT
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/academics/undergrad_Minor.asp#Minor4 |
The women's studies program has three purposes. First, it introduces students to the experiences and achievements of women, and their treatment by society. Second, it examines gender as a social construct by raising questions about its impact on traditional disciplines. Third, it promotes interdisciplinary understanding of women's experience by requiring students to study in several academic areas in the humanities and the social sciences and in an integrative seminar. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent St.
New Haven, CT
Undergraduate Program
http://www.southernct.edu/undergrad/schas/WMS/ |
Compatible with any number of majors, this minor program helps students use general analysis and feminist perspectives as tools to evaluate and transform knowledge acquired through other more traditional academic disciplines. This minor also helps students prepare themselves for careers in academe, law, government, journalism, social work, the arts, education, or any area that deals directly or indirectly with women's concerns or needs.
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Graduate Program
http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/ |
The Master of Arts Degree in Women's Studies, a two year program based on a cohort model, gives students access to advanced concepts in Women's Studies, specialized research methods of the field, and professional skills to be applied in the work place. Degree candidates may seek professional credentialing, such as a terminal degree in law, or may pursue a doctoral program leading to teaching and advanced research. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Trinity College
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT
http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/academics/departments/womens_studies.html |
The Women's Studiesprogram draws on the liberal arts and sciences to examine a wide range of topics relating to gender, including the varied experiences of women in different historical periods and cultures, the impact of sex-role socialization, the contributions of women to culture in all its forms, and the relation between public and private life. Recognizing that gender cuts across most fields of knowledge and that race and class are crucial aspects of women’s experiences, the program has both an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural focus. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Tufts University
Medford, MA
http://ase.tufts.edu/womenstudies/ |
In many courses across the curriculum, in Tufts' Womens Studies Research Colloquium Series, in special events and lectures, and in the annual Beyond the Classroom student forum where undergraduate and graduate students present their work on women and gender, the Women's Studies program fosters a community of engaged thinkers and intelligent activists on gender justice and social transformation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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University of Connecticut
U-1118, 417 Whitney Rd.
Storrs, CT
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~womstu4/home.html |
The Women's Studies Program at the University of Connecticut, established in 1974, was the first formal program of its kind in the state. the women's studies program is committed to a vision of women and gender that is truly international and cross-cultural. Without this perspective, our view of the world is profoundly impoverished and stereotypes will continue to distort our understanding. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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University of Maine, Augusta
University College of Bangor
Bangor, ME
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University of Maine, Farmington
11 South St.
Farmington, ME
http://www.umf.maine.edu/~women/ |
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University of Maine, Orono
5728 Fernald Hall
Orono, ME
http://www.umaine.edu/wic/ |
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University of Southern Maine
94 Bedford St.
Portland, ME
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~wst/ |
The Women's Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine offers students the opportunity to study the lives, words, ideas, and cultural contributions of women as well as feminist theoretical approaches to interdisciplinary studies. Women's Studies courses focus both on recovering women's lost or neglected pasts and on analyzing and rethinking contemporary societies. Although women are central to the subject matter of Women's Studies courses, feminist analysis goes beyond specific issues of gender to challenge our traditional assumptions and histories. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
http://www.wellesley.edu/WomenSt/index.html |
As students at a liberal arts college only for women, Wellsley students are expected to know something about women. Thus Women's Studies is at the heart and soul of Wellesley College's mission. Majors pursue knowledge of gendered experiences in diverse cultures and across time, examining the ways in which race, social class, sexuality and ethnicity are constitutive of that experience. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Wesleyan University
287 High St.
Middletown, CT
http://www.wesleyan.edu/wmst/ |
The core of the major is an individually designed concentration consisting of four courses. The concentration should be a well-focused topic which requires an interdisciplinary approach. Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary major that encourages students to explore and critique past and present cultural structures of power, focusing in particular on the social construction of gender as a category of analysis within the broader matrix of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Women's Studies Programs, Departments, Research Centers, Archives and Libraries
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/progs.htm |
A comprehensive multi-layered list of women's studies programs, etc. Includes links to other lists with different features and information. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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