On Thu, 15 Dec 1994, Pat Huckle wrote: > "I'm the one you're not including when you > talk about MANkind..." song from the 70s Which song? Who performed it? Thanks. Lori T. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 17 15:56:22 MST 1994 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 15:03:45 -0800 (PST) From: Faith Freewoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: women's policy 1/2 (fwd) My HUGE apologies for the size of these two posts, but I'm sure most women in this group (and men, ahem) will find the following VERY useful. Faith ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 09:47:58 -0600 From: Anne M. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: women's policy 1/2 GUIDE TO RESOURCES FOR WOMEN'S LEGAL AND PUBLIC POLICY INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET Version 1.1 Created September/October, 1994 Posted November 11, 1994 Update frequency: bi-monthly URL: gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/inetdirsstacks/ womenlegpol%3aturnpott [UNDER DEVELOPMENT] ************************************************************* by Tom Turner and Lydia Potthoff School of Information and Library Studies University of Michigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************* Copyright 1994. By Thomas P. Turner and Lydia Potthoff. ************************************************************* TABLE OF CONTENTS ************************************************************* 1.0 Introduction 1.1 What You Will Find in This Guide 1.2 How To Use the Guide 1.2.1 Purposes and Possibilities 1.2.2 Organization/Format of the Guide 1.2.3 Searching the Guide 2.0 Resources by Issue/Community 2.1 Abortion/Reproduction/Health Care 2.2 Lesbians/Bisexual/Queer Women 2.3 Mothers and Children 2.4 Violence Against Women/Sexual Harassment 2.5 Women and Development 2.6 Women in the Military 2.7 Women of Color 2.8 Women with Disabilities 2.9 Work Issues 3.0 General Sources of Women's and Feminist Information 3.1 Other Useful Guides 3.2 Finding Organizations 3.3 Organizations/Institutions 3.4 Publications/Newsletters/Bulletins 3.5 Electronic Discussion Groups 3.6 Sources for Women's and Feminist Information 4.0 General Resources of Legal and Public Policy Information 4.1 Other Useful Guides 4.2 Organizations/Institutions 4.3 Publications/Newsletters/Bulletins 4.4 Legal Information 4.5 United States Federal Government Information 4.6 United Nations/International Information 5.0 Conclusion 5.1 Acknowledgements 5.2 About the Authors 5.3 Copyright Statement ************************************************************* 1.0 INTRODUCTION ==================================== 1.1 WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS GUIDE ==================================== This guide is intended to assist individuals seeking information related to women's and feminist legal, public policy, and political issues. We hope this guide will be useful to a wide variety of people concerned about women's and feminist issues. All of the resources listed are available over the Internet. This guide contains brief, narrative descriptions of the materials relevant to women's and feminist legal and public policy issues contained at a variety of sites as well as the basic steps necessary to find these resources. Those entried without descriptions are for resources that we have not yet investigated but suspect will be helpful. We have included resources posted by the United States Federal Government, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and for-profit organizations. When appropriate, we have also included more general resources so that individuals not served by our listings can find other materials on their own. Our intent is to suggest places for individuals to find information themselves rather than on attempting to detail all the places that information can be found. We welcome any additions you think would be appropriate. Please contact us with questions, comments, or additions to this guide by e-mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to time and space limitations, we are not able to provide general information about using the Internet and its background. We recommend Laura Hunt's Sources for Women's Studies/Feminist Information on the Internet described in section 3.1 below for general guidance on using the Internet. We also suggest looking at *The Internet Complete Reference* by Harley Hahn and Rick Stout (1994: Osbourne) or *The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog* by Ed Krol (1994: O'Reilly & Associates). Many of the resources that we have referred to here are geographically focused on the United States. Due to the enormous number of resources that can be cited, we have limited the amount of material that refers to information outside of the United States. Please recognize this not as an attempt to disregard the global complexities of women's rights but as a reflection of limitations due to time and space. ========================= 1.2 HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE ========================= -------------------------------- 1.2.1 PURPOSES AND POSSIBILITIES -------------------------------- We have organized the guide, as much as possible, so that you can ignore or pay attention to whichever parts seem most relevant to you. We have provided multiple references in this guide to the same source. Many of the resources that we have identified have such a wealth of information about a variety of issues and areas that we felt the need to refer to different parts of them in different parts of this guide. If you identify parts of these resources that we have not cited and are relevant to these issues, please notify us at the e- mail address listed at the top of this guide. -------------------------------------- 1.2.2 ORGANIZATION/FORMAT OF THE GUIDE -------------------------------------- The prinicple organization of this guide is by issue and then by tool used to access the resources. The format for the entries will be: TI: Title URL: Universal Resource Locator LO: Address/location PA: Gopher menu path AU: Author DE: Narrative description of the resource. NT: Notes and other important information. We have tried to provide detailed descriptions of the materials that can be found at each site related to particular topics. ------------------------- 1.2.3 SEARCHING THE GUIDE ------------------------- Many gopher hosts provide the option of searching for occurrences of strings within a document. To do so, hit the back slash. This will bring up an index box. Type the word or set of characters you would like searched. For instance, if you want to skip ahead to the section with health care and policy, enter "2.1" in the index box. This will move you to the next occurrence of those numbers. The numbered sections of the guide are intended to facilitate this type of movement. ************************************************************* 2.0 RESOURCES BY ISSUE/COMMUNITY ===================================== 2.1 ABORTION/REPRODUCTION/HEALTH CARE ===================================== ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Choice-Net Report, WELL gopher URL: gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11s/Politics/Abortion LO: gopher.well.sf.ca.us DE: For full entry of materials contained on this gopher see the Choice-Net entry in the gophers section of 3.4 Publications/Newsletters/Bulletins. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Reproductive Rights URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources By Topic Women's Studies Resources Gender Issues AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: Contains the texts of the Freedom of Choice Act, the Gag Rule, Supreme Court decisions, abortion survey from Dayton Women's Services (from July 3, 1992), Clinton's remarks on Penn v. Casey, and Irish Abortion Referendum Information. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Women's Health URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources By Topic Women's Studies Resources Gender Issues AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: This menu options contains factual information about women's health issues as well as a Congressional Research Service Report entitled "Women's Health Service Agenda" by Irene Stith-Coleman from October 28, 1992. ~~~ WWW ~~~ TI: Reproductive Rights Home Page URL: http://www.shore.net/~betsys AU: Betsy Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) DE: Although this is not an official service of Mass Choice, this html home page will, according to the author, contain material from Mass Choice sometime after October 25, 1994. This document will contain pointers to Internet resources related to reproductive rights issues. NT: This web site is currently under construction. ================================ 2.2 LESBIAN/BISEXUAL/QUEER WOMEN ================================ ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Queer Resources Directory URL: gopher://vector.casti.com:70/11/gaystuff/QRD LO: vector.casti.com DE: This is an extensive site containing a variety of information related to lesbian and bisexual women's issues as well as gay rights in general. It contains sections of queer organizations, gays in the military, polls and surveys, families, domestic partners, workplace environments, legal opinions, national organizations, and domestic partner information. To a significant extent, this resource could be included in every part of this guide. Much of the information is gathered from press releases and entries submitted to the directory. On the main menu of the gopher choose the Queer Resource Directory to enter it. ~~~ WWW ~~~ TI: Queer Resources Directory URL: http://vector.casti.com/QRD/.html/QRD-home-page.html DE: This is similiar to the gopher version of the Queer Resources Directory described above. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Scott Safier's Domestic Partner, Same Sex Marriage, and Queer Family Issues home page URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ scotts/domestic-partners/mainpage AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: This web site contains information about state, institutional, and company policies on domestic partner recognition. It also contains some information about the same sex marriage law case in Hawaii and some newsclippings about adoption and the definition of families. NT: This site is currently under construction. ======================== 2.3 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN ======================== ~~~ WWW ~~~ TI: Missing Children Database URL: http://www.scubed.com:8001/public_service/ missing.html DE: This is a database of information about missing children. It contains images of the children listed by location. _____________________________________________________________ TI: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children URL: http://www.gems.com/kids/ncmec.html DE: For description see WWW section of 3.3 Organizations/Institutions. _____________________________________________________________ TI: National Child Rights Alliance URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/NCRA/ncra.html DE: For description see WWW section of 3.3 Organizations/Institutions. ============================================ 2.4 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN/SEXUAL HARASSMENT ============================================ ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Sexual Harassment URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources By Topic Women's Studies Resources Gender Issues AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: Contains information from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about sexual harassment in the workplace. Contains a Congressional Research Service report that is a bibliography of materials about sexual harassment in the workplace, a list of resources, and the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas testimony. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Sexual Harassment Resources URL: gopher://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ LO: english-server.hss.cmu.edu PA: Gender, Sex, Sexuality Gender Issues Sexual Harassment Bibliography or Resources DE: Contains EEOC publications, lists of videos, books, and publishers, as well as a bibliography of journal articles related to sexual harassment. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Violence Against Women URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources By Topic Women's Studies Resources Gender Issues AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: This area of the gopher contains Department of Justice information, the text of *Violence Against Women: A Week in the Life of America*, the Violence Against Women Act, Congressional testimony and statements, and statistics from the Department of Justice. ~~~ WWW ~~~ TI: Sexual Harassment Resources URL: http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu DE: Similiar to the gopher site of the same name above, also produced by Carnegie Mellon University. ========================= 2.5 WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT ========================= ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Women's Environment and Development Organizations (WEDO) URL: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/women/wedo LO: gopher.igc.apc.org PA: Women DE: This resource contains a large number of resources related to women and development issues in an international perspective. In addition to information about Women's Action Agenda 21, it has "Women Making a Difference: An Action Guide", various position papers, statements, and documents about women issues in the United Nations, and Women, Environment and Development Action Campaigns. ========================= 2.6 WOMEN IN THE MILITARY ========================= ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Military URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/ GovernmentPolitics LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources By Topic Women's Studies Resources Government and Politics AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: This site contains information about women in the military. It has statistics about women in the military as well as an overview of the issue from 1980 to 1990. It also has the text of the first part of the Tailhook Review. ==================== 2.7 WOMEN OF COLOR ==================== ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Chicano/LatinoNet URL: gopher://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/1 LO: latino.sscnet.ucla.edu DE: Produced by the Chicano Studies Research Center, this gopher site supports WAIS searching. There is an enormous amount of information contained in this gopher. Searching by specific topic is strongly recommended. There is a Chicana- Latina Directory being developed under the Directory option on the main menu. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Inter-Tribal Network for Native Americans URL: gopher://cns.cscns.edu/11/News%20and%20Information/ itn LO: cns.cscns.edu DE: This gopher contains information from the National Indian Policy Center as well as information about laws and legislation. Some of the information pertains to Native American women's issues although the majority of it does not address gender issues. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Women of Color Resource Center URL: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/women/Directory/wcrc LO: gopher.igc.apc.org PA: Women Directory DE: Contains information about Womentalk -- the WCRC Speakers' Bureau and the WCRC Newsletter. ~~~ WWW ~~~ TI: Black/African Information sites URL: http://www.african.upenn.edu/African_Studies/ Home_Page/mcgee.html AU: Arthur R. McGee and Associates (editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) DE: This site points to resources with information about or "of concern to Black and African people, culture, and issues around the world." It also directs users to resources about ethnic/intercultural relations, international and sustainable development, and social activism. NT: Last update was July 29, 1994 =========================== 2.8 WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES =========================== ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Cornucopia of Disability Information URL: gopher://val-dor.cc.buffalo.edu/1 LO: val-dor.cc.buffalo.edu DE: This resource contains information about the American with Disabilities Act, advocacy organizations and agencies, the Rights of People with Disabilities, the *Directory of National Information Sources on Disabilities*, and numerous government documents. Although not specifically directed toward women with disabilities, this site contains a large amount of information related to public policy and legal issues that may be of use. =============== 2.9 WORK ISSUES =============== ~~~~~~~ GOPHERS ~~~~~~~ TI: Dataline -- Glass Ceiling Newsletter URL: gopher://gopher.cyberwerks.com/11/dataline LO: gopher.cyberwerks.com DE: See entry in the gophers section under 3.4 Publications/Newsletters/Bulletins. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Sex Discrimination URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources by Topic Women's Studies Gender Issues Sex Discrimination AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: This part of the University of Maryland's gopher contains the text of the Equal Rights Amendment, a Congressional Research Service report entitled "Sex Discrimination and the United States Supreme Court: Developments in the Law", the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, and EEOC reports on discrimination due to pregnancy. _____________________________________________________________ TI: Women and Work URL: gopher://path.net:8101/11/work LO: gopher.wwire.net DE: In the work section of the Women's Wire gopher are "facts on Working Women" from the United States Department of Labor (June,1993) and "A Working Woman's Guide to Her Rights" (August,1992). _____________________________________________________________ TI: Women in the Workforce URL: gopher://inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/ AcademicResourcesByTopic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues LO: inform.umd.edu PA: Educational Resources Academic Resources by Topic Women's Studies Gender Issues Sex Discrimination AU: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DE: This area contains facts and statistics about women in the workforce, the United States Labor Department's "Working Woman's Guide to Her Rights", "The Economic Status of Black Women," and "Diversity in the Workforce." *************************************************************
