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Transnational Feminisms: Websites

Professor: Dr. Marla Jaksch

Websites

African Online Digital LibraryA digital repository of multilingual, multimedia research materials on Africa (open access

 International Women's Websites

Africana Collections : Northwestern University Libraries A number of materials from the Africana collections have been digitized, including Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa, Archival Materials, Posters

Africana Digitization Project : University of Wisconsin at Madison Libraries From the collection site: "Although African studies is a relatively new discipline, the field has generated a large body of publications in the past 45 to 50 years. Most of these of course were published in garden-variety ways, in sufficient copies to remain reasonably available in today's much improved document-delivery environment. Nonetheless, there have been exceptions--materials that were published in limited, sometimes very limited, quantities."

Aluka Online digital library of resources from and about Africa including oral histories, government records, and full-text articles. Also includes extensive primary sources as part of its "Struggles for Freedom in South Africa" collection.



Organizations

The University of Wisconsin's Women's Studies Library has many excellent guides for research related to transnational feminist movements. 

Other Centers, Institutes

Global Feminisms Project (UMich)"Collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. "

NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security "Serves as a bridge between women’s human rights defenders working in conflict-affected situations and policy-makers at U.N. Headquarters"

International Center for Research On Women Mission: "ICRW seeks to promote a world free of poverty in which women and men, girls and boys have equal opportunities to achieve their potential and realize their rights."