Research Guides: Women's Studies: Websites/Videos

TEDTalks - "Reinventing Feminism" [11:22]

Women's Organizations

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women.

Feminist Majority Foundation
A cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence.
Institute for Women's Policy Research
This organization works nationally to build pathways to economic security for America's women and their families.
Women's Environment & Development Organization
WEDO emphasizes gender equality and women’s critical role in social, economic and political spheres
Wikipedia List of Women's Organizations

Recommended Websites

CodePink, Women for Peace
A women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
GLAAD amplifies the voice of the LGBT community by empowering real people to share their stories, holding the media accountable for the words and images they present, and helping grassroots organizations communicate effectively.
Gender Equality Data and Statistics
This site is designed to provide country- and regional-level data using key indicators such as poverty head count, fertility rate, maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births, number of weeks of maternity leave, or proportion of seats held by women in national governments
National Center for Transgender Equality
Dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration, and empowerment.
National Women's Law Center
Advancing the issues that cut to the core of women's lives in education, employment, family and economic security, and health and reproductive rights.
Women in Congress
Biographical profiles of former women Members of Congress, links to information about current women Members, essays on the institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of Congresswomen, and more.
Women's Rights - ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) works to systematically end sex discrimination and ensure that all women and girls are able to lead lives of dignity.
Women's Rights - Amnesty International USA
Amnesty Int'l is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights. Women's issues focus on violence; health, sexual, and reproductive health; and gender-based discrimination.
Women's Rights - Change.org
An online activism platform for social change that raises awareness about important causes and connects people to opportunities for powerful action.
Women's Rights - Human Rights Watch
The Women's Rights Division of HRW fights against the dehumanization and marginalization of women. They promote women's equal rights and human dignity.
Work Life Law
UC Hastings College of the Law. WorkLife Law works with a variety of stakeholders, reflecting our belief that many different parties have a role to play in social and organizational change around work-life issues.

Films on Demand - Streaming Videos

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There are hundreds of videos related to WOMEN'S RIGHTS, FEMINISM, and GENDER.

Check out some of the video titles listed below...

Gender Roles [3:49]

DVDs in the Library...check them out!

To check out DVDs, go to the Circulation Counter with the DVD media #.

Almost Myself: Reflections on Mending and Transcending Gender
Call Number: DVD # 0098
ISBN: B000N6UFAG
Exploring just a small part of the vastly diverse transgender community.
Getting Off
Call Number: DVD # 0072
ISBN: B001AJ9BN2
The story of a rape survivor, this film is both provocative and sensitive, as it exposes the truth about women's relationships to sex, to men, and to each other.
If These Walls Could Talk
Call Number: DVD # 0113
ISBN: 9780783116891
In this trilogy, different women face different social and political climates in choosing what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. [DVD # 0113]
Nobody Knows My Name
Call Number: DVD # 0075
Through candid interviews, the director explores a fascinating and diverse feminist community that yearns to find a place in the male-dominated hip-hop subculture, which is in itself marginalized.
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Call Number: DVD # 0187
ISBN: 9781415702543
Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony.
One woman, One Vote
Call Number: DVD # 0114
ISBN: 9780793691081
Documents the seventy-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
Call Number: DVD # 0177
Chronicles the life of Patsy Mink, the first Asian American woman and the first woman of color elected to the United States Congress.
Tying the Knot: The Union That's Dividing America
Call Number: DVD # 0096
ISBN: 9780767080804
Poignantly explores the ferocious political battle in the U.S. over equal marriage rights. It uncovers the meaning of marriage, focusing appropriately on rights, privilege, and love.