STUDENT DEVELOPMENT

"Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence"
This site is dedicated to all victims of sexual violence. It includes information about local support for victims of sexual violence, legislation and public policy with regards to Sexual Violence, and opportunities to join in the efforts against sexual assault and violence in the state of Michigan.

"YWCA Sexual Assault Program"
This site includes a comprehensive overview of the programs offered by the YWCA of Kalamazoo, MI. Program services include counseling, advocacy, community education, and volunteer opportunities. Also included is the crisis hotline number, which is in effect twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

"Feminist Majority Foundation"
This site is focused specifically for women who have been sexually harassed or know someone who has been sexually harassed. It contains valuable links to other Internet sites, specific state-based agencies which may be able to help a woman who has been harassed, and information concerning feminist issues both nationally and internationally.

"The Stalking Victims Sanctuary"
This site may seem rather campy at first, for example, the visitor must click on a link which says, "Enter the Sanctuary," which is beneath a picture of a doorway into paradise with "Sanctus" engraved above it, in order to move further into the site. However, once the visitor enters the sanctuary they will find personal stories and reflections from victims of stalkers, as well as helpful information about what to do as the victim of a stalker.

American Association of University Women
This organization promotes education and equity for all women and girls. This site keeps you up-to-date on the actions of AAUW. It also describes various sources of funding and grants for women's programming and details the Legal Advocacy fund that provides money for women who are challenging discriminatory practices. Perhaps most empowering is the link "Get the Facts?" (found under "issues") that updates us on the status of various issues in Congress.

Women in Higher Education
This site offers statistics on women in higher education positions. It also posts positions in higher education.

Women's Education Equity Act
This organization promotes bias-free education, believe that gender-equity works for everyone--for girls, women, men, and boys. One highlight of this website is the index of influential women past and present.

The Feminist Majority Foundation
The name Feminist Majority is a consciousness-raiser, inspired by a Newsweek/Gallup public opinion poll that showed the majority of women (56%) in the United States self-identified as feminists. Most polls since then reveal that this majority continues with over two-thirds of young women self-identifying as feminists.

Most men, especially young men, view themselves as supporters of the women's rights movement. This site defines feminism this way: feminism is simple yet broad: "the policy, practice or advocacy of political, economic, and social equality for women." A feminist is any person -- woman or man, girl or boy who advocates feminism. The Feminist Majority Foundation views feminism as a global movement dedicated to equality and seeks to eliminate discrimination of all kinds -- sex, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability, and marital status. And, like feminists since the late 19th Century, they advocate nonviolence and work to eliminate social and economic injustice. The site includes information on issues such as stopping gender apartheid, breast cancer, student activism, governmental and political issues, global feminism, reproductive rights, and art and literature. Provides links to up-to-date reports on various campaigns and legislative action.

You may be interested in an internship or a career in a women's organization or a job that focuses on the needs of women. There are many jobs and internships available in the women's issues/women's studies field. Here is just a sample of a few of the websites that contain information on this type of employment and/or internships. You will then need to contact the organizations of which you are interested to get further information. Specific sites were selected from a list researched and compiled by Amelia Berta (K'02). Thank you for your hard work, Amelia!
http://www.kzoo.edu/career/students.html
Further information is available at the Center for Career Development. Call the Center or visit their website listed above.

Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence Information and resources focusing on domestic and sexual violence. The Center describes itself as "an educational resource on abuse and religion," and considerable attention is paid to religious issues, including sexual abuse by clergy.
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Feminist.com
This is a grassroots, interactive community by, for and about women. Their aim is to facilitate information-sharing among women and encourage mobilization around political issues.

Colorado College
Colorado College has links to national women's organizations. This list provides links to internship programs across the country.

• Feminist Studies
• The European Journal of Women's Studies
• The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review
• Journal of Lesbian Studies
• Journal of Women's History
• Women's History Review
• Women's Studies Quarterly

• Psychology of Women Quarterly
• Feminist Review
• Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
• Journal of Marriage and the Family
• Women and Politics
• Women Studies International Forum

• Advancing Women in Leadership
  Advancing Women in Leadership represents the first on-line professional, refereed Journal for Women in leadership. The Journal publishes manuscripts that report, synthesize, review, or analyze scholarly inquiry that focuses on women's issues.
• Feminist Collection: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
  Contains news of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in Women's Studies. Access to selected articles only.
• Genders
  Electronic publication of this journal began in 1998. Access is free.

• Gender and Education

• Gender and History

• Gender and Society

• Faludi, Susan (1991). The Undeclared War Against American Women, New York, Crown Publishers.
• Baker Miller, Jean (1986). Toward a New Psychology of Women, Boston, Beacon Press.
• Pipher, Mary (1994). Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, New York, Ballantine Books.
• Dobkin, Rachel and Sippy, Shana (1995). Educating Ourselves: The College Woman's Handbook, New York, Workman Publishing.
• Belenky Mary Field, Clinchy, Blythe McVicker, Goldberger, Nancy Rule, and Tarule, Jill Mattuck (1997). Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York, Basic Books.
• Bem, Sandra Lipsitz. (1993). The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven, Yale University Press.
• Brown, Lyn Mikel and Gilligan, Carol. (1992). Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development. New York, Ballantine.
• Our Bodies, Ourselves: For the New Century (1998). New York, Touchstone.