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• Association for Women's Rights in Development - www.awid.org/
     AWID is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.


• Alternet - www.alternet.org
     AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues.


• American Association of University Women - www.aauw.org/
     Descriptions of AAUW projects, issues, fellowships and grants.


• American Political Science Association. Women and Politics Research Section - www.apsanet.org/~wpol/index.htm
     The Women and Politics Research Section serves the profession by organizing traditional research panels and thematic roundtables at APSA's annual meeting, by publishing a newsletter, by representing section members' interests to the APSA, and by honoring distinguished scholarship with annual awards for the best paper and best dissertation.


• American Psychological Association: Psychology of Women - www.apa.org/about/division/div35.html
     Society for the Psychology of Women provides an organizational base for all feminists, women and men of all national origins, who are interested in teaching, research, or practice in the psychology of women.


• American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class - www.asanet.org/page.ww?name=Section+on+Race%2C+Gender+and+Class§ion=Section+Pages
     The purpose of the Section on Race, Gender, and Class is to support research, teaching and practice that examines the interactive effects of race, gender, and class phenomena, and a curriculum which underscores the centrality of race, gender, and class in society and in sociological analysis.


• American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender - www.asanet.org/page.ww?name=Section+on+Sex+and+Gender§ion=Section+Pages
     The purpose of the Section on Sex and Gender is to encourage research and curriculum development on the organized patterns of gendered social relations and sexuality. The Section examines face-to-face interaction, political processes, culture and mass media, the medical, judicial, and educational systems.


• Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology - www.anitaborg.org/
     We are women technologists. We use technology to connect our communities. We create technology because it is who we are — intelligent, creative and driven.


• Asheville Community Resource Center - www.agrnews.org/issues/magpie/contact.html
     The Asheville Community Resource Center is an all-volunteer coalition of local community members and organizations working toward social change in our community, our society, and our world.


• Assocation for Women in Communications - www.womcom.org/
     The Association for Women in Communications is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era.


• Association for Women Geoscientists - www.awg.org/
     The Association for Women Geoscientists exists to promote the professional development of its members, to provide geoscience outreach to girls, and to encourage women to become geoscientists.


• Association for Women in Science - www.awis.org/
     The Association for Women in Science is dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.


• Association for Women in Slavic Studies - www.loyola.edu/AWSS/
     The Association of Women in Slavic Studies is a networking resource for people concerned with the problems, status, and achievements of women in the profession. It also attempts to cover research and teaching in women's studies and questions of gender and family life in Central/Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.


• Association of Women Professionals - www.awoman.org/
     A networking organization for women executives.


• Coordinating Council for Women in History - www.theccwh.org/
     Its primary goals are to educate men and women on the status of women in the historical profession and to promote research and interpretation in areas of women's history.


• Feminist Campus - www.feministcampus.org
     The Feminist Majority Onlines program for campus feminist activism


• Feminist Majority Foundation Online - www.feminist.org/
     The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.


• Feministas Unidas - www.west.asu.edu/femunida/
     A coalition of feminist scholars in Spanish, Spanish American Luso-Brazilian, Afro-Latin American, and U.S. Latina/o Studies


• feministing.com - feministing.com/
     Young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Feministing provides a platform for us to comment, analyze and influence.


• Feminists for Animal Rights - www.farinc.org/
     A non-profit national educational organization dedicated to ending all forms of abuse against women, animals and the earth. Welcome to our online exploration of the interconnections between the exploitation of women and animals and how you can help bring about a more caring society for all.


• Feminists for Free Expression - /www.ffeusa.org/
     A group of diverse feminists working to preserve the individual's right to see, hear and produce materials of her choice without the intervention of the state "for her own good."


• Global Fund for Women - www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/
     International grantmaking organization.


• Global List of Women's Organisations - www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html
     A country-by-country list compiled by Denise Osted. She includes organizations that are not entirely women-focused if they have a women's program (or programs). Not all countries are represented, even though they may have women's organizations.


• Gray Panthers - www.graypanthers.org/
     The Gray Panthers is a national organization of intergenerational activists dedicated to social change. We are age and youth in action. For almost thirty years, Gray Panthers have worked to make America a better place to live for the young, the old, and everyone-in-between. Taking on our society's toughest problems — peace, health care, jobs, and housing — Gray Panthers have been effective in creating change


• Guerrilla Girls - www.guerrillagirls.com/
     A group of women artists and arts professionals who make posters about discrimination.


• Harvard Women's Health Watch - www.health.harvard.edu/women
      Every day, new findings are changing the way physicians diagnose and treat many medical conditions in women. It’s important that you be well informed about the healt issues that impact women most. And there’s no better source for women’s health information than Harvard Women’s Health Watch. The facts come directly from the more than 8,000 doctors and researchers at Harvard Medical School. They will give you straight answers, put the risks and benefits into perspective, and help you make informed decisions about your health and take action to live a longer, life.


• Helpmate - http://www.helpmateonline.org/
     For 28 years, Helpmate has been Buncombe County's primary provider of crisis services to victims of domestic violence and their children. We are proud to be an agency working with our community to eliminate abuse and fear. Crisis Line: (828) 254-0516


• History of Science Society Women's Caucus - depts.washington.edu/hssexec/committee/hss_women.html
     


• International Association for Feminist Economics - www.iaffe.org/
     It seeks to advance feminist inquiry of economic issues and to educate economists and others on feminist points of view on economic issues.


• Land of Sky Regional Council, area agency on aging - www.landofsky.org/aaa
     The Land-of-Sky Regional Council Area Agency on Aging (AAA) is the designated regional organization to meet the needs of persons over 60 in Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, and Transylvania counties, by the North Carolina Division of Aging and Adult Services. There are 17 AAAs in North Carolina and over 600 in the United States.


• Ms. Magazine Report on Roe vs. Wade Incursions - www.msmagazine.com/summer2007/blowtoroe.asp
     Lest anyone believe that the Bush Supreme Court isn't hostile to abortion rights...


• NARAL Pro-Choice America - www.naral.org
     NARAL Pro-Choice America is committed to advancing our shared values. We are committed to protecting the right to choose and electing candidates who will promote policies to prevent unintended pregnancy. We are going on the offensive, reshaping the terms of the debate, and bridging the false divides that are meant to keep us from progress on reproductive health.


• National Women’s History Museum - www.nwhm.org
      The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM), founded in 1996, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of women, and integrating this rich heritage fully into our nation's history.


• National Women’s Law Center - www.nwlc.org
     Since 1972, the Center has expanded the possibilities for women and girls in this country. The Center uses the law in all its forms: getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families.


• Ni putes ni soumises - niputesnisoumises.com
     If you read French, here is a fascinating site concerning the rise of feminism in France's Muslim communities


• NOW Chapters in North Carolina - www.now.org/chapters/nc.html
     


• Off Our Backs - www.offourbacks.org/
     The mission of the magazine is to provide news and information about women's lives and feminist activism; to educate the public about the status of women around the world; to serve as a forum for feminist ideas and theory; to be an information resource on feminist, women's, and lesbian culture; and to seek social justice and equality for women worldwide.


• Our Bodies Ourselves - www.ourbodiesourselves.org/
     Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC), is a nonprofit, public interest women’s health education, advocacy, and consulting organization.


• OUR VOICE, Inc. - www.ourvoicenc.org/
     Formerly the Rape Crisis Center, is a non-profit crisis intervention agency which serves all victims of sexual violence in Buncombe and Madison Counties. The agency was founded in 1974 as an all-volunteer grassroots organization. The agency remained an "underground" agency until 1982 when we received our non-profit status and the first employee was hired. Now, 30 years and considerable growth later, OV employs seven paid staff and over 30 volunteers. We are no longer a secretive, underground agency. Instead, we are very visible in our community in an attempt to inform as many as possible about our services and the issue of sexual violence.


• Planned Parenthood - www.plannedparenthood.org
     Planned Parenthood is America's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. Founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916 as America’s first birth control clinic, Planned Parenthood believes that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, that every child should be wanted and loved, and that women should be in charge of their destinies.


• Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South - rcwms.org/
     Our mission is to weave feminism and spirituality into a vision of justice for the world.


• Sister Toldjah - www.sistertoldjah.com/
     Feminist political blog from a native North Carolinian


• The Clothesline Project - www.clotheslineproject.org/
     The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women.


• The Feminist Bloggers Network - blogsheroes.com/
     


• The Feminist Majority Online - www.feminist.org/
     Includes reports from The Feminist Majority, daily feminist newsbytes, media watch, and other information about the organization.


• The Huffington Post on Feminism - www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/feminism
     Topical comments


• TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism - www.triviavoices.net
     TRIVIA, deriving from "tri-via" (crossroads), was one of the names of the Triple Goddess. Recognizing that what is of primary importance in women's lives tends to be relegated to the margins of patriarchal history and thought, dismissed as "trivial," we conceive TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism as a place at the crossroads where women's ideas can assume their original power and significance.


• Western North Carolina Woman - wnc-woman.com
     WNC WOMAN is a print/Web publication of Infinite Circles, Inc., founded in 2002 by Julie Savage Parker and Sandi Tomlin-Sutker. The mission of Western North Carolina Woman is to celebrate the inherent strength, wisdom, and grace of women.


• Woman Vision - www.womanvision.org
     Woman Vision was founded in 1993 to promote tolerance and equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, including video. Through diversity trainings, lectures, and other educational outreach programs, Woman Vision promotes understanding and diversity as values, and provides positive role models and supportive images of societally marginalized people.


• Women (Catholic) Priests? - www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us/11catholic.html
     This is the article in the NY Times on the activities of Roman Catholic Womenpriests.


• Zenska Infoteka - www.zinfo.hr/engleski/pages/education/REWIND/asp/IndocHomeW.htm
     The DB of the women's groups and initiatives consists of 564 groups from 12 countries. These countries are: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro together with Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia.