Helpful Resources


Student Services Sites at Bowdoin

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Queer-Trans Resource Center

Career Planning Center

Counseling Service

Dudley Coe Health Center

Office of Health Professions Advising

Office of Residential Life

Academic Resources

Please visit the Gender and Women's Studies Program for a comprehensive listing of academic resources and other useful Gender and Women's Studies-related links.

Useful Websites

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Violence Prevention

V-Day: www.vday.org/

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Activism

Feminist Majority: www.feminist.org/

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Miscellaneous Sites

Z magazine: www.zmag.org/

Family Planning and Reproductive Rights

  1. Maine Family Planning Association http://www.mainefamilyplanning.org/
  2. SCARY false pregnancy centers that spread FALSE information about abortions and plan-b etc. http://www.care-net.org/ & http://www.optionline.org/
  3. Freedom of Choice Act (Obama & Clinton are both sponsors): http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/issues/abortion/access-to-abortion/freedom-of-choice-act.html
  4. The Hyde Amendment, which prevented Medicaid from providing money for abortions, http://www.nchla.org/datasource/ifactsheets/hyde8b.00.PDF
  5. Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: http://www.house.gov/hensarling/rsc/doc/PBA_LB.pdf (this is the 2003 version that was upheld in April 07)
  6. NARAL (pro-choice): http://www.naral.org/
  7. Women Deserve Better (pro-life, called “Feminists for Life): http://womendeservebetter.com/
  8. Planned Parenthood: http://www.plannedparenthood.com
  9. Northern New England Branch: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppnne/

Domestic & Sexual Violence

  1. Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine: www.sassmm.org
  2. V-day: http://www.vday.org/main.html
  3. Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): http://rainn.org/
  4. V-day: http://www.vday.org/main.html
  5. National Domestic Violence Hotline: http://www.ndvh.org/
  6. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence: http://www.ncadv.org/
  7. GREAT links to other organizations: http://www.ncadv.org/resources/OtherUSOrganizations_72.html

Sexuality & Sex Education

  1. Anti-funding AB-only education: www.nomoremoney.com
  2. Pro-AB only education, www.communityactionkit.com
  3. The Self Guided Tour to Women's Sexual Anatomy (care of Our Bodies Ourselves): http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=13&compID=37
  4. Sex information for Teens (a pp site): http://www.teenwire.com/

Women's Health

  1. Our Bodies Ourselves: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/
  2. US Department of Health & Human Service's Websites for women and girls: http://www.4women.gov/ & http://www.girlshealth.gov/
  3. NIH Office on Research of Women's Health: http://orwh.od.nih.gov/
  4. Hardy Girls Healthy Women: Hardy Girls is an NPO dedicated to raising strong, healthy girls that grow to be powerful women: http://www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org/index.php
  5. Breast Cancer Answers: http://www.canceranswers.org/

Birth

  1. Birth Roots, Emily Murray (contact): A local network of parenting, birthing, and wellness groups and providers in the midcoast: http://www.ourbirthroots.org/
  2. The hormone that gives women orgasms and makes them love their babies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
  3. Mom to Mom of Maine: An organization that links together moms in the Portland area to create a community of babies and moms! (they take volunteers): http://www.momtomomofme.org/

Joining the Work Force

  1. Women Are Getting Even: an organization dedicated to women receiving equal pay and treatment in the work place: http://www.wageproject.org/
  2. Seacoast Women's Network: a networking organization for women professional and entrepreneurs on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts: http://www.seacoastwomensnetwork.org/
  3. Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network: WREN is a networking organization and supporter of women entrepreneurs in rural northern New England: http://www.wrencommunity.org/

Organizations with jobs & internships

  1. Legal Momentum works to better women's and girls rights through a legal perspective: www.Legalmomentum.org
  2. The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) focuses on how US policies affect the health & livelihoods of women and girls overseas, it lobbies and does programming around making these programs efficient & helpful: www.genderhealth.org
  3. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) is a lobbying group in DC dedicated to fighting unfair and promoting just legislation around sexual health and freedoms: http://www.siecus.org/
  4. Feminist Majority Foundation: http://www.feminist.org/ (Bowdoin Women's Association is connected with this organization, and has contacts for it if any one is interested!)

Fun factoids, games, laughs etc.

  1. Finding your congressperson to write letters to: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
  2. The F-word: http://bowdoinfeminist.wordpress.com/
  3. Z-mag: An online magazine for revolutionaries: http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag/zmagabout.htm
  4. Feminist Gamers: a blog for feminist reality gamers: http://www.feministgamers.com/

Herstory

  1. Redstockings: A Women's Liberation organization started in the 1960s, now a think tank: http://redstockings.gimenez.biz/
  2. Chicago Women's Liberation Union: http://www.cwluherstory.com/index.html
  3. American Women: The Library of Congress' database on U.S. women's history and culture: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/
  4. Women's Studies Database: University of Maryland's GWS department database on resources about women's issues: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/index.html
  5. Women Working, 1800-1930: A Harvard database of information about women working in the 19th and early 20th centuries: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/

WRC community: Universities and Northern New England

  1. University of Connecticut: www.womenscenter.uconn.edu
  2. Maine Women's Lobby: http://www.mainewomen.org
  3. UMaine: http://www.wrc.umaine.edu/index.htm
  4. Maine Women's Labor Institute : State group dedicated to working for and with women in unions and organized labor groups: http://www.maineaflcio.org/women%20index.htm
  5. New Hampshire's Women's Policy Institute: Organization dedicated to promote awareness about women's issues and generate policy that supports women: http://www.maineaflcio.org/women%20index.htm
  6. Women Supporting Women Center: Located in Exeter, New Hampshire WSW is like a WRC in the real world!: http://www.wswcenter.com/WSW/WSW_Home.html

Global Feminism

  1. The United Nations Women's Fund: http://www.unifem.org/
  2. United Nations Commission on the Status of Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/
  3. Women Thrive Worldwide: An organization dedicated to making a priority in US international development and aid programs focus on women: http://www.womensedge.org/
  4. International Center for Research on Women: Studies poverty, hunger and disease through focusing on women: http://www.icrw.org/
  5. National Council for Research on Women: Promotes research on women's lives and is a think tank for promoting women in the world: http://www.ncrw.org/
  6. The Women Waging Peace Network: Part of the Hunt Alternative Fund, the Women Waging Peace Network connects women in conflict zones who are promoting peace: http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/