INTERNET RESOURCES This section focuses solely on Internet-based resources, whether they be websites, Internet discussion lists, or blogs. Please note that due to the ever-changing nature of Internet, it is possible for some information to be no longer available.
4GIRLS.GOV
http://www.4girls.gov/ "This site was created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics that girls are concerned about and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and non-threatening messages. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home."
ADDWOMEN
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/addwomen/ "This is a list for women with Attention Deficit Disorder, both with and without hyperactivity. Many women with ADD have different issues than men; women are considered responsible for household organization and often carry primary responsibility for child-rearing. This can be especially challenging, considering the high possibility of an ADD woman having ADD children. Participants can exchange tips, coping strategies and other information for dealing with their own ADD, as well as providing general support for one another. Our focus is on ourselves as individuals and women with ADD/ADHD in a non-ADD/ADHD world. This is not a parenting or children's issues list."
ADD/ADHD WOMEN
http://www.communityzero.com/addwomen "Women with ADD/ADHD are often presented with unique challenges compared to men with ADD/ADHD. This group targets adult woman for support issues such as organizational skills, maintaining our homes, relationships, working and raising children."
AMAZON LIFELINE
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/amazonlifeline/ "Amazon Lifeline is a support and social group for lesbian, bisexual and transgendered women who are living with chronic illness or disability. The group provides a safe, accepting and supportive friendship circle--a source of encouragement, connection, laughter, information, and companionship."
AUTISM & GENDER
http://neurodiversity.com/gender.html Links on information concerning gender and autism.
AUTISM IN GIRLS
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Autism_in_Girls/ This list is for all parents and professionals who wish to exchange information regarding treatment of autism in girls, how autism effect females in the family, and any other issues dealing with autism and females and/or the comparison of males and females with autism.
BETH FINKE
http://www.bethfinke.com/ This is the companion website to Beth Finke's memoir,
Long Time, No See, about her life as a blind woman and mother to a son with a disability. Contains information on her NPR commentaries and information on upcoming speaking engagements.
BODY BEAUTIFUL/BODY PERFECT: CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO WHERE DO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES FIT IN?
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7319/sex.htm "When I decided to write about the issue of body image and its impact on women with disabilities, the challenge brought with it a chance to explore the link between fat oppression and the experiences of women with disabilities. Unfortunately, little research has been conducted on this issue as it effects the lives of women with disabilities, which may reflect the belief that the lived experiences of many women with disabilities are not important nor perceived as valid by mainstream researchers."
BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/cwitbooks.html This is a website listing resources on women and information technology. While this listing is not necessarily directed related to disability, there are many resources of interest. For most of these resources, there are either links to the Table of Contents or a brief description.
BREASTFEEDING WHEN MOM HAS A DISABILITY OR CHRONIC ILLNESS
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mom/bfhelp-mother.html#disability List of links for mothers with disabilities who are breastfeeding.
CRIP COMMENTARY
http://www.cripcommentary.com/ Website for Laura Hershey’s web column on a variety of issues related to disability.
D-WILD - INTERNATIONAL LIST FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES AND WOMEN ALLIES
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/d-wild/ d-WILD (Women's International Linkage on Disability) is an international e-mail list service for WOMEN with disabilities and WOMEN allies. Women from different countries exchange experiences, information and ideas on issues related to women with disabilities.
DAWN ONTARIO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES ONLINE COMMUNITY
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION NETWORK
http://dawn.thot.net/list.html Website coordinating DAWN Ontario's e-lists and web-based projects concerning women with disabilities.
DIGITALGIRLS
http://www.digitalgirls.org/ Digital Girls is a research project that brings together an international team of researchers, techno-geeks, tweens and teens, ethnographers, teachers, filmmakers and more who are interested in examining digital experiences in terms of sexualities, bodies and identities; the complexities of technology-based experiences and the construction of social and personal meanings; digital knowledge, literacies and education; and many more topics. Digital Girls examines the everyday digital experience of girls in Canada, South Africa, and the U.K, and highlights the need for girls' voices to be recognized, acknowledged, and given influence as citizens of a globally networked world.
DIRECTORY OF GENDER WEBSITES AND ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS
http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/documents/dir.pdf "This directory was compiled by the Centre for Research and Training on Development (CRTD), an organization based in Lebanon and working in the Arab region. Its chief aim is to facilitate learning, communication and exchange on women, gender and development worldwide. Through creating a database of gender-related electronic newsletters and websites, we hope to offer individuals, gender practitioners, and organizations an efficient tool of keeping up to date with the latest information and developments in the field, both regionally and internationally."
This not specifically a disability-related resource, but will be of great interest to women with disabilities globally.
DISABLED WOMEN IN SPORT
http://www.feminist.org/sports/disability.html This website, hosted by the Feminist Majority Foundation, discusses disabled women and sports.
DISABLED WOMEN ON THE WEB
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/ Disabled Women on the Web was established by Corbett O'Toole of the Disabled Women's Alliance to provide information, resources, and support for women with disabilities.
DISEASES AND DISORDERS RELATED TO WOMEN'S HEALTH AND SELECTED TREATMENTS - NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/womenshealth/diseases.cfm "Women have some unique health needs. They are affected by a wide variety of conditions and diseases that do not affect men. For conditions that strike both men and women, the effects in women may be very different from the effects in men. In addition, the issue of fertility, and of protecting and maintaining that fertility in light of various conditions adds another facet to understanding women's health. The NICHD's research efforts in women's health focus on understanding these conditions and their affects on women. The Institute also develops and evaluates different treatments for these conditions, with a woman's unique health needs in mind."
DIVERSE FEMINIST GROUPS: LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION AMONG WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.feministleadership.com/topic16/ This initiative builds on Norine Johnson's initiative that resulted in the book Shaping the Future of Feminist Psychology some ten years ago. We now add telecommunication technologies to convene, dialogue and publish on feminist leadership and diversity. Invited dialogue of feminist voices on 15 different topics by teams of feminist psychologists discussing diversity, collaboration and leadership will be convened through an Internet-based website. An introduction article for each topic, written by team leaders will kick-off each discussion.
DV-DISABILITY LIST SERVICE
http://www.rochestercdr.org/DVDisabilityListServiceText.html DV-Disability Online Discussion List is a discussion group that allows New York State domestic violence program advocates, disability-related service organizations, and Deaf service providers the opportunity to exchange ideas and information, raise questions, network, and share resources and successes throughout the state on the topic of domestic violence experienced by women with disabilities or who are Deaf.
EDGE - EDUCATION FOR DISABILITY AND GENDER EQUITY
http://www.disabledwomen.net/edge/curriculum/ This is a web-based curriculum, targeted toward high school students, "…show(ing)…interesting facts and ideas about sciences and humanities that look at men and women and disability."
FEMALES WITH DISABILITIES
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FemalesWithDisabilities/ "This is a group for women to talk about their disabilities and illnesses, seen or unseen, and how we cope with those disabilities and illnesses in everyday life."
FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL RADIO ENDEAVOUR (FIRE) DISABLED WOMEN’S SECTION
http://www.fire.or.cr/disabilities/notas/dis-home.htm This is the website for the FIRE web space focusing on women with disabilities. Features interviews with women on a range of topics concerning women with disabilities, including technology, health, media, human rights and more.
GENDER AND DISABILITY
http://genderwarrior.itgo.com/ This is the website of a woman with a disability, a transsexual woman, and whose site “exists to look at some of the issues that [she] face(s) in dealing with cerebral palsy and being a woman, who started life as a boy.”
GENDER BIAS? EXPLORING WOMEN AND DRUG RESEARCH
http://www.medhunters.com/articles/genderBias.html "It is one of the sad facts of medical research that, until recently, women have been either neglected or specifically excluded from research studies. This has meant that information about appropriate treatment of diseases and reactions to drug therapy was based on studies conducted only on men."
GENDER-RELATED ELECTRONIC FORUMS
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html This website is “an annotated, frequently-updated, award-winning listing of publicly-accessible e-mail discussion forums…related to women or to women-focused gender issues.” While it doesn’t appear there are many lists on women with disabilities, this is a very lengthy list, and the woman who maintains this site offers the reader to send additions.
GIMPGIRL COMMUNITY
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=gimpgirl "This is an extension of the GimpGirl Community (
http://www.gimpgirl.com/), a place where women with all kinds of disabilities (and abilities) have come together to talk about what it means to be a "gimp girl" since 1998. GimpGirl Community has been a long-time resource for women with disabilities, hosting mailing lists, sponsoring polls, and publishing a newsletter at one time. Our presence on LiveJournal has become our primary, and as of December 27, 2004, only service to the community."
GIRL POWER
http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/bodywise/disability/index.htm This is a website designed for girls with disabilities, including information on growing up with a disability, making doctor & hospital visits easier, help with homework, and many more topics.
GIRLS & WOMEN ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM
http://neurodiversity.com/girls_and_women.html Links to information on girls & women on the autistic spectrum.
GIRLZONE - WHERE EVER GIRL IS COOL
http://www.girlzone.com/ Webzine promoting "the betterment of girls in many areas including technology and health/body issues."
HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/women/default.htm “CDC’s disability and health team has targeted women with disabilities as a major area of emphasis and works to promote their health and well-being through research, partnerships, and education.”
JU GOSLING
http://www.ju90.co.uk/ju90.htm Ju Gosling, aka ju90, is a 42-year-old disabled webmaster and multimedia storyteller who has been involved with many different projects involving disability and the arts. She is also a director of Bettany Press, a small publisher specializing in books for fans of British girls' fiction.
MADGRRLS - WOMEN'S VOICES IN MENTAL HEALTH
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~madgrrls/ "The MadGrrls email list was established in 1997; a derivative of the original Madness list (http://www.peoplewho.org/madness/). The list conversations are about many things; the women on the list all have the experience of being psychiatrically labelled (or likely to be) in common. The list membership is diverse: many countries, many perspectives (from the value of meds to sexual preferences), many voices. We are women who have moodswings, fears, voices and visions, and we share a fundamental respect for the diversity contained within that experience."
MOBILEWOMEN.ORG
AN ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN IN WHEELCHAIRS
http://carecure.rutgers.edu/mobilewomen/wearewomen.php "mobileWOMEN.org is the creation of women in wheelchairs who were having difficulty finding answers to their health, fashion, and other questions. Our mission is to bring together current and accurate information on issues of interest to our community."
NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH INDICATORS DATABASE
http://www.4woman.gov/statedata/ National, regional, state and county data are available by gender, race, ethnicity, and age. You can make your own custom tables, graphs, and maps. Search the database for statistics on: demographics, mortality, access to care, infections and chronic disease, reproductive health, and more.
NOMY LAMM
http://www.nomylamm.com The blog and website of Nomy Lamm, “a White/Jewish middle-class queer/disabled/fat girl.”
ORCHID: HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/orchid/ “Orchids take amazingly different shapes, forms, and growth habits. A handful of species bloom year round and orchids come in all colors of the rainbow. A common misconception is that orchids are fragile and difficult to grow. Actually, most species are quite resilient. This beautiful and resilient flowering plant shares characteristics of strength and diversity with women with disabilities. Orchid seemed a perfect name for a magazine that offers a brand new look at women with disabilities.”
ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEES CONCERNED WITH ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/02-11-05_orgs.htm This is a web site organized by Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI) to collect contact information for organizations or and for women with disabilities globally.
PARENTS WITH DISABILITIES ONLINE
http://www.disabledparents.net/resources.html Trish Day is a mom with a disability on a mission. When her own child, Diana Michelle, was born in 1996, information, support, and resources for parents with disabilities were not readily available. The resources that did exist were hard to find, and word of mouth was the only means of sharing information. She and her husband, John, started “Diana Michelle’s Home Page: The Internet’s One-stop Resource for Parents with Disabilities” in May of 1996. It became immediately obvious that the need for such information existed, and the site has grew exponentially through the support of others in the following years. In May 2000, Trish expanded that site to its own domain, which is its present home at Parents with Disabilities Online.
QUEERNET GROUPS - LESBIANS WITH DISABILITIES DISCUSSION AND SUPPORT GROUP
http://groups.queernet.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?user=&passw=&func=lists-long-full&extra=living Internet discussion list for lesbians with disabilities.
RESOURCES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS WITH DOWN SYNDROME
http://www.dsansw.org.au/info/WomenandGirls.html Australian reference and resource list compiled to help find accurate, up to date information on personal development issues for women and girls with Down syndrome.
SAGA CENTRE BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.saga.ubc.ca/bibliography.htm This is an extensive “webliography” compiled by the Wall Narratives of Disease, Disability and Trauma project, and is focused primarily on narratives of disease, disability and trauma, including personal narratives, biographies, case histories, and novels as well as secondary texts of works on narrative analysis. This project resulted in the Centre for Studies in Autobiography, Age and Gender (SAGA), which “exists to foster research in auto/bio/graphy in its broadest interpretation, including lifewriting in written, oral or visual forms, with a particular focus on issues raised by gender and age throughout the life span.”
SEXISM, RACISM, ABLEISM, HETEROSEXISM, CLASSISM: MAKING THE LINKS WITH SEXUAL VIOLENCE
http://orcc.net/rah.html "Sexual assault experiences are embedded within the personal, as well as the social and historical context within which we all live. To acknowledge the diversity and complexity of female experience, violence against women has to be considered in relation to an entire structure of domination of which patriarchy is but one part. Sexism, as it intersects with racism, classism, homophobia and able-ism, and a range of other experiences will affect women's responses to the trauma of sexual violence."
SICK CHICKS AND TWISTED SISTERS MAILING LIST
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sickchicksandtwistedsisters/ "This is the mailing list for Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters, an advocacy and support network for disabled and chronically ill women and girls. We welcome all women and girls with disabilities, either physical or emotional, to join us and find support. We also encourage activism efforts for disability rights on behalf of all disabled people everywhere. You will find supportive, caring, and inspiring women on this list who understand the difficulties of being disabled in a world made for healthy people."
SISTAHS WITH LUPUS
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SistahsWithLupus/ This group is for African American women (and men) diagnosed with Systemetic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE), or other chronic or autoimmune disorders.
SHARING OUR STORIES – A PLACE IN THE SUN
http://dawn.thot.net/sos/ "A Place in the Sun: where audacious women with disAbilities meet to share our stories. What it was like, what happened, and what it's like today: that's what we aim to share. Being a woman and having a disAbility (or two, or three) makes us neither a saint nor a martyr, but it does necessarily challenge us to be adaptable. Society was not initially constructed to include those of us who are not flawlessly able. It has been our duty to ourselves to find the back doors and shaded windows of opportunity, scaling walls of resistance, all just to reach or build a barrier-free place where the sun shines equally on us all."
SOUNDING OFF: DISABILITY AND GENDER
IS HAVING A DISABILITY IN OUR CULTURE EASIER OR MORE DIFFICULT FOR WOMEN THAN MEN? IN WHAT WAYS?
NEW MOBILITY MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 2003
http://www.newmobility.com/review_article.cfm?id=759&action=browse A variety of perspectives on gender and disability from the October 2003 issue of New Mobility, a magazine written by and for wheelchair users.
UN ESCAP WORKSHOP ON WOMEN AND DISABILITY
http://www.worldenable.net/wadbangkok2003/Default.htm This is the website for the “…two [UN ESCAP] workshop events designed to provide a good package of advocacy skills, targeting mainly women with disabilities. The agenda of the first workshop covered the various aspects of a convention and the Biwako Millenium Framework (BMF) targets to enhance the understanding of the concept of gender mainstreaming among NGOs and self-help organizations of persons with disabilities. Participants became familiar with and accepted the BMF and were motivated to implement the necessary actions to achieve the BMF goals, particularly those related to women and disability. Beneficiaries were policy makers of NGOs, IGOs, and self-help organizations in addition to some governmental organizations.”
WEBSITES FOR GIRLS
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_girls.html Lengthy list of websites for girls and young women although not specifically sites on women and girls and disability. They indicate the difference between sites designed for girls and/or young women, rather than sites for adults about girls/young women.
WMST-L
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/wmst-l_index.html http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/wmsttoc.html WMST-L is an international electronic forum for people involved in Women's Studies as teachers, researchers, librarians, and/or program administrators. It offers a rapid and cost-free way for participants to ask questions and exchange information about the academic side of Women's Studies: current research, teaching strategies, useful texts and films, online resources, innovative courses, building Women's Studies majors, minors, and graduate programs, and other academic issues.
WOMEN-ORIENTED MAILING LISTS
http://www.eetaa.gr/UnUsed/NOW/el/help/mlistop.html Brief listing of women-oriented Internet mailing lists. Can be viewed in order by topic or in alphabetical order.
WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.4women.gov/wwd/ "To help women overcome social, financial, physical, or other kinds of barriers to health care services and information, the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) created this web site - Women with DisAbilities. It puts a wealth of useful information together into one place for women with disabilities, caretakers, health professionals, and researchers. This site addresses numerous issues of particular interest to women with disabilities, such as abuse, parenting, and sexuality. It also offers general resources about critical health issues for a variety of disabilities, including physical, neurological, hearing, speech, and visual impairment. It will also provide information on psychiatric, learning, and developmental disabilities. You will also find information on federal laws and regulations that protect disabled citizens, services and support resources, news about medical research, statistical information on disabled women, and information for healthcare professionals on improving healthcare access for women with physical limitations."
WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES DISCUSSION LIST
http://www.nwjc.org.au/avcwl/lists/info/wwda-discuss.html "wwda-discuss is an email list to facilitate discussion between members of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), and other women with disabilities. It has been established to share information, network, raise issues, participate in research and consultations, and much more."
WOMEN’S HEALTH RESOURCE PAGE
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/rrtcamr/womenshealth.html “The resources on this page provide information about issues related to health and health promotion. Resources include aging and general health issues, mental health, violence and abuse issues, sexuality and reproductive health, and access and barriers to health services for women with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Resources related to professional associations and organizations that advocate and disseminate research findings for individuals with I/DD and their caregivers across the lifespan are also provided.”
WOMEN'S LISTSERVS
ALPHABETICAL BY SUBJECT
DIRECTORY OF WOMEN'S MEDIA
WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
http://www.wifp.org/DWM/Listservs.html Listing of Internet listservs on women's issues. Also available is a list of Internet periodicals (
http://www.wifp.org/DWM/InternetPeriodicals.html).
YOUNG DISABLED WOMEN
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/youngdisabledwomen/ "This is for women under 30 to discuss all aspects of life with a disability--medical issues, dating, relationships, and just friendly support."