GS 308 A -- Gender Studies Special Topics  --  Patti Delaney

                 

Women are key to the success of the election in Kandahar...since the militia's ouster in 2001, millions of women and girls have returned to work and education, especially in the cities. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, Oct 4, 2004).

  • Country information, background, and statistics:

Electronic databases for country info and data, available from the alphabetical database list:

Europa World
Global Road Warrior
World Development Indicators

Websites providing country info and data, available from the web:

Millenium Development Global Tracker: http://www.undp.org/mdg/tracking_home.shtml
United Nations Development Program Country Rankings: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

Asia Source: http://asiasource.org/
Background Notes from the U.S. Dept. of State: http://www.state.gov/countries/
Country Studies from the Library of Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

  • Academic Journal Articles and Monographs

Periodical databases accessing academic and scholarly journals and peer-reviewed publications available from the alphabetical database list:

Academic Search Premier
AnthroSource
Contemporary Women's Issues
EconLit
Gender Watch
JSTOR
Project Muse
SocIndex

  • Library catalogs for locating books and videos

SMC online catalog for materials in the library collection

Search the SMC Library Catalog:

WorldCat: searches library collections worldwide; use Interlibrary Loan to request books not owned by SMC.

  • International Development Websites

Women in Crises (Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace): http://www.peace.ca/2007_index.htm

Gender and Disaster Network: http://www.gdnonline.org/

Gender Action: http://www.genderaction.org/

Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/

International Center for Research on Women: http://www.icrw.org/

International Committee of the Red Cross: http://www.icrc.org/

OXFAM: http://www.oxfam.org/ 

PROWID: http://www.interaction.org/library/article20.html 

Refugees International: http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/issue/

United Nations: http://www.un.org/

UNIFEM: http://www.unifem.org/

USAID/Office of Women in Development: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children: http://www.womenscommission.org/

Women Thrive WorldWide (Women's Edge): http://www.womenthrive.org/

Women Waging Peace (Hunt Alternatives Fund): http://www.huntalternatives.org/pages/82_women_waging_peace_network.cfm

World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/