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ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
Abortion Law Homepage
"This page is being constructed to help people, regardless of their political bent, understand the background and state of abortion law in America, and access related legal material--especially that which is less available and less well known."
Includes state laws, federal law, feticide cases, canon law, legal terms, able to download cases and other material.
American Women
A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
"The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001)."
Sections include: General Collections ; Serial & Government Publications ; Law Library ; Rare Books & Special Collections ; Manuscripts ; Prints & Photographs ; Geography and Maps ; Music ; Recorded Sound ; Moving Images ; American Folklife Center ; Area Studies ; Collections ; Topical Essays.
- American Memory, Library of Congress
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (English, Spanish or French)
"Priority Issues" include: Human Rights ; World Laws ; Abortion ; Contraception ; Adolescents ; FC/FGM.
CNN.com Special Report - Change at the Supreme Court
Sections include: Miers Nomination ; The Roberts Court ; Rehnquist & O'Connor.
Columbia Law School - Diamond Law Library
Common-Place: Special Issue on the Constitution
Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2002
Roundtable Discussion: The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution
"In eight paired essays, historians, political scientists, journalists, and lawyers examine the uses and abuses of the Constitution in contemporary American political affairs, from Bush v. Gore to the The Clinton Impeachment."
Sections include: Electoral College ; The Clinton Impeachment ; The Second Amendment ; Women and the Constitution.
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
Originally published in 1854 by Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
From the Victorian Women Writers Project Library
FindLaw's Legal Commentary
From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond
A five-segment audio history of abortion rights in the United States.
History Dept., University at Albany, SUNY
Global Women's Rights
"...combines more than 1000 pages of my own materials about women's rights with links to the best resources available elsewhere on the Web. This new site also offers the best resources available on the web to stay inform about global conflicts, human rights, poverty and refugees issues...Global Women's Rights features a huge library of women's issues web resources (violence against women, statistics, issues, women's culture, information by country, and more) and updated bi-weekly. Plus there's 24-hour chat room and forum."
'Honour' Crimes Project
"Globally, the Project seeks to facilitate co-operation among activists, lawyers, academics and others and to develop and deepen understanding, explore theoretical frameworks and build upon diverse and multiple strategies, nationally, regionally and internationally, to combat impunity for those responsible for ëhonourí crimes and to challenge the climate of support for the practice amongst state institutions."
- Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Laws, University of London and International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights.
MADRE
An International Women's Rights Organization
"As a human rights organization, MADRE does much more than document and condemn abuses. We work with women who are affected by violations to help them win justice and, ultimately, change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses. And we challenge US policies that undermine human rights."
Marriage, Women, and the Law, 1815-1914
Studies in Scarlet
"This unique digital collection is the result of a coordinated, transnational project, "Studies in Scarlet," sponsored by the Research Libraries Group (RLG). With a focus on family law and domestic relations in the 19th century, the collection provides scholars throughout the world with electronic access to materials supporting research on a broad range of topics, including marriage, divorce, adultery, miscegenation, polygamy, and birth control. The content of the collection, gleaned from case reports, statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters, is designed to support scholarship in disciplines including law, history, sociology, political science, women's studies, and criminology."
- RLG Digital Collections Project
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Sections include: News ; Projects ; Events ; The Docket ; Publications ; What's New ; Other Resources.
National Center for Victims of Crime
- Stalking Resource Center
"...to provide resources, training and technical assistance to victim service providers and criminal justice professionals in an effort to promote a shared, national understanding of stalking and to support locally coordinated, multidisciplinary anti-stalking approaches and responses."
Nobel Peace Prize 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
"...for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children...Ebadi is a conscious Moslem. She sees no conflict between Islam and fundamental human rights. It is important to her that the dialogue between the different cultures and religions of the world should take as its point of departure their shared values."
Now Legal Defense and Education Fund
PBS - NOVA Online
- The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Companion web site to the October 2004 TV broadcast.
"Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s."
Sections include: History of Quarantine ; Disease Detective ; Links & Books ; Teacher's Guide.
PBS - The American Experience - The Pill (February 2003)
"The film The Pill and this companion Web site offer insights into topics in American history including advances in science and medicine, contraception, eugenics, social engineering, population trends, government involvement in legislating social behavior, conflicts between religious values and societal trends, feminist activism of the 1960s, twentieth century women's movements, women's changing roles in society, women and work, the evolving relationship of the medical profession to the lay public and the growth of the pharmaceutical industry."
Sections include: Film Description ; Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.
Preliminary Bibliography: Crimes of Honour - (dead link)
"This bibliography has been prepared under the auspices of the Project on Strategies of Response to Crimes of 'Honour' a joint project between CIMEL (Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law - (dead link)) and INTERIGHTS (International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights). It includes annotations of published material from books and journals followed by case summaries."
Reproductive Health & Rights Center
The CARAL Pro-Choice Education Fund
Roe v. Wade in a Nutshell - An Edited Text
"Six Justices wrote opinions for Roe v. Wade. Altogether they verge on eighty pages in length. Here are the six opinions edited for brevity..."
From the Abortion Law page.
Sexual Harassment Resources
Sections include: U.S. Government ; U.S. Military ; N.C. Government ; Important Supreme Court Decisions ; Educational Institutions ; Professional Organizations ; Other Sites
By Bob Gaines, Government Documents, Jackson Library, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Stalking Resource Center
National Center for Victims of Crime
Toolkit To End Violence Against Women
"To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking ... Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims."
US Department of Justice
U.S. Supreme Court of the United States
Widows'Law File (WLF) - (dead link)
"...a legal tool to assist all victimised Third World widows, their organisations and lawyers to secure their fundamental human rights in accordance with the law...aims to extend, clarify and build on the growing body of women's human rights jurisprudence by disseminating information on law and policy reform, case-law, and empowerment strategies."
Women Immigrants 1945 To The Present: A Bibliography
"This bibliography is an effort to collect the current international literature on women immigrants. It is a supplement and update of the publication, Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography that is available from Greenwood Press."
Includes a section on Law & Government Policy.
Compiled by Eleanore O. Hofstetter
Women, Law and Development International
"A nonprofit, non-governmental organization with category II consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council. Women, Law and Development International promotes women's full and equal participation in nations around the world by advancing universal respect for human rights, expanding rights education and legal literacy among women..."
Includes information on the organization, projects, and publications
Women's Human Rights Resources
"Click on the links on the right to locate diverse, quality information on women's international human rights law. Each subject is divided into: Articles: annotated bibliographic references to scholarly articles with links to full text where available...Documents: annotated references to conventions and UN Reports, NGO reports, case law and legislation with links to full text where available...Links to other websites with annotations."
Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto
Women's Law Initiative (English or Spanish)
"...to provide easy-to-understand legal information to women living with or escaping domestic violence."
Sections include: Info on Domestic Violence ; Info for Teens ; Info for Immigrants ; Safety Planning ; Internet Safety ; State Info ; National Links & Resources ; National News.
Women's Legal History Biography Project
"Our primary purpose in building the website is to extend the historiography of women as lawyers in the United States. To date, there are few texts on the aspirations and accomplishments of pioneer women lawyers, and even less on how the profession has changed as a result of their entry...The website grows out of Professor Barbara Babcock's course at Stanford Law School on Women's legal history. The librarians of the Robert Crown Library conceived and maintain the site: Andrew Gurthet, Paul Lomio and Erika Wayne, with special credit to Rita Lomio (Summer 1998) and H. Katharine Lo (Summer 2001)."
Sections include: The Women ; Biographical Chapters ; Articles, Research Leads and Bibliographies ; Obituaries ; Photographs ; Clara Shortridge Foltz ; Links.
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