Women's Studies Sites

1. WWW Virtual Library: Women & Gender Studies  (ACRL Women's Studies Section)
2. Selected Women & Gender Resources on the WWW (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
3. Selected Internet Resources in Women's Studies (NYPL)
4. Women's Studies  :Vanderbilt : Guide to Internet Resources

Gender Issues in Computing and Selected Papers on Women & Computing

1. NCWIT : National Center for Women & Information Technology established 2004 with funding from the National Science Foundation, Avaya, Microsoft, Pfizer, Bank of America, Intel, HP, the Kaufmann Foundation and Qualcomm.
2. WITI: Women in Technology International Very active site, includes links to and information about women and technology in academics, business and the computer industry.
3. CPSR (Computing Professionals for Social Responsiblity): Gender & Computing Page

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4. Ellen Spertus' Professional Web Page   see links to Selected Publications
5. Our Computer Science Classrooms: Are They 'Friendly' to Female Students?  An influential article by L. Moses, first published in the SIGSCE Bulletin in September 1993
6. Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?  by Ellen Spertus, MIT.
7. Educational Pipeline Issues for Women a paper presented by Nancy G. Leverson in July 1990 and published in Computing Research News,  October 1990 and January 1991.
8. The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline  by Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines An edited version of this paper appears in Communications of the ACM , vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 103-110, Oct. 1997. Reconfirms the findings of Leverson's paper above.

• MacWorld An electronic version of one of the most widely circulated Macintosh magazines.
• MacAddict An electronic supplement to a CD-ROM/print publication. More informal than MacWeek or MacWorld.
• TidBITS "A free email and Web publication that covers the Macintosh Internet community." Published weekly, this site has existed in various formats for nearly 10 years, it has good coverage and a good reputation for accuracy.

• Mac Download A good shareware site, sponsored by Ziff Davis Publishers (Macweek, etc.)
• Kaleidoscope Scheme Archive Includes a link to download Kaleidoscope.
• PageSpinner  a very good shareware HTML editor for the Mac OS.

• The ULTIMATE Macintosh  Very comprehensive, has pointers to everywhere about anything Mac/Apple related, because of this may be a bit slow loading.
• MacFixIt--Troubleshooting Solutions for the Mac

  
  

• Yahoo's Desktop Publishing Area
• Microsoft's Free TrueType Fonts for the Web Available for both Macs & Windows
• Ragnorak Press' Free Web Fonts Available for both Macs & Windows

It should be obvious from the earlier portions of my web site that I prefer to compute on a Mac; that I'm interested in women and technology; that my greatest areas of academic specialization are librarianship, the history of books and reading, and European History --in particular German history after 1848. Below is the more informal part of this web page.

Art: All art sites are a bit slow, where possible I've pointed to mirror sites, otherwise I've attempted to point at sites that load relatively fast as compared to the average. My favorite artists are Wassily Kandinsky and Georgia O'Keefe, but other than some general museum pages I haven't found a site I really like for O'Keefe although this Oklahoma-based site is my favorite so far. I also like poster art by such artists as Mucha, Beardsley, Michael Whelan and David Lance Goines. Finally, I have a liking for artists and photographers from my native state (Oklahoma). These include artist Jerome Bushyhead and photographers David Fitzgerald (use the FLIC database [pop up menus] for access to his photographs) and Michael Hardeman.

Wassily Kandinsky (for other artists see The WebMuseum: Louvre).

Aubrey Beardsley

William Blake

David Lance Goines Online Exhibit and Goines Home Site

Michael Whelan--Glass Onion Graphics

Music: My favorite classical composers are Wagner,  Beethoven-- Beethoven-Haus Bonn Digital Archives  and   Ludwig von Beethoven: The Magnificent Master  and Handel.

Mostly Leisure/Mostly Reading: A general purpose publishing site with links to publisher's home pages and other bookish areas of interest is offered through Bowker's Bookwire site.
My leisure reading encompasses a number of genre fictions: mystery, spy thriller, fantasy, science fiction, travel, etc. Below I highlight a few science fiction sites. SF film sites and anything "Trek" or "Star Wars" related are too numerous to mention.

• Tor Books Web Page is one of the more informative web pages put up by publishers, it contains links to many other areas of interest to SF fans.
• Locus Online: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field  One of the earliest and still the best fanzine in the field.
• Andre Norton Site My favorite fantasy writer.

Another area of interest is Arthurian literature from the "Alliterative Morte Arthure" through Tennyson to John Boorman's Excalibur. The University of Rochester houses an interesting area called  The Camelot Project with a plethora of Arthurian related links.

My favorite "serious" modern writers are Margaret Drabble and her sister Antonia Byatt. There are no really good academic web sites on these two authors. However recently (1999) a well-organized and attractive site put up by a fan of Margaret Drabble's  work fills a much needed gap. A recent interview with Margaret Drabble provides a good overview of her work and appears on-line in The Oklahoma Review. A short current (2008) biography is available at Britannica Online. Antonia Byatt now has an official homepage. Byatt is also covered by pages from Bluestocking and receives treatment in Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English. If you haven't read these authors give them a try. For a few addresses of online bookstores and my favorite book clubs see below.

Most well known of all web bookstores is probably Amazon.com. However there are several other bookselling sites of interest: IndieBound : Independent Booksellers , Barnes & Noble Online, and a site maintained by "Publisher's Weekly" Bookwire.

I've just been introduced to a new site AddALL  which describes itself as "a free service to search for the book deals online." It is set up to compare prices for the same title from various online book stores.

My favorite book clubs include: The Science Fiction Book Club; and The Mystery Guild.