crafts
Uncoverings
Uncoverings, the annual peer-reviewed journal of American Quilt Study Group, features papers that present the most recent advances in quilt-related research.
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Women's Digital Knowledge Library
Arts and Literature Collection
Resources about performing, visual, and fine arts, literature, and applied arts including architecture and graphic design; crafts; film.
Germany
Women in German Expressionism
This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works.
Marleen Gorris
Book about the Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris
theatre
Nightwood Theatre: A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
A feminist theatre company’s journey toward defining itself and highlighting its artistic leadership
dance
Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism and Queer Possibility in Senegal
Chronicles the ways in which contemporary dancers in Senegal navigate the global contemporary dance circuit while challenging heteropatriarchal ideologies at home.
history
Jane Austen among Women
In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist?
art
Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture
Studies the intersection of painting and femininity in 16th & 17th-century Europe as a site for exploring abstract ideas of gender construction and subjectivity
A Change of World Documentary: Poetry and the Women’s Movement
Radio documentary about the Women’s Movement’s impact on poetry.
Revealing all secrets
The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Our work aims to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.
Women Who Dare! Women in the Performing Arts
Lecture women in the performing arts.
feminism
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
Highlights female artists with prominent influence on performance art.
Women in Visual Art
Organization elevating women artists.
Women in Music Timeline
Timeline of women in music.
Women in Literature
Research on portrayal of women in literature.
Woman Made Gallery
Nonprofit for women and nonbinary artists.
Women Arts
News about women artists and activists.
art
Women Artists – National Gallery of Art
Art by women across the globe and different time periods.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Museum advocates for better representation of women artists and serves as a vital center for thought leadership, community engagement, and social change.
feminism
The Amelia Bloomer Book List
An annual annotated book list of well-written and well-illustrated books with significant feminist content, intended for young readers.
girls
Girls Write Now
Girls Write Now is a national premier creative writing and mentoring organization for young women and gender expansive youth aged 14-24.
film
Bechdel Test Movie List
The Bechdel Test is a simple test which names the following three criteria: at least two women in it, who who talk to each other, about something besides a man.
Black women
Black Women Film Network
The Black Women Film Network celebrates and uplifts the voices of Black women in the film industry.
Women at Sundance Institute
Supports filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities to cultivate career sustainability, build community, and strengthen the artist pipeline.
education
Films for the Feminist Classroom
An online, open-access journal that publishes film reviews exploring the value of films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom.
film
Women in Film
Women in Film advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries – to achieve parity and transform culture.
film
NY Women in Film and Television
Works in collaboration with the moving image industry and supports women at every stage of their careers.
film
Women in Film and Television International
A global network dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video and other screen-based media.
film
Women Make Movies
Multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
storytelling
The danger of a single story
Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
literature
White Heat: Emily Dickinson in 1862
This year-long project to immerses users in the atmosphere, networks, and associations of Dickinson’s writing around 1862.
United States
Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project
On this site, you can view artwork, listen to audio clips from interviews, and meet women making art in Iowa.
Black women
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
A digital collection of published works by 19th-century Black women writers.
literature
Women Writers Project
A long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding.
literature
Emory Women Writers Resource Project
A collection of texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century.
literature
Sisters in Crime
Promotes the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers.
LGBTQ
Queer Music Heritage
A radio show and a website, preserving and sharing the music of our culture.
global
International Alliance for Women in Music
An international membership organization dedicated to fostering and encouraging the activities of women in music.
history
Honky Tonk Women: The Changing Role of Women in Country Music
A look at women’s contributions to honky tonk and country music and how women overcame both the sexist society and the sexist music industry.
music
Ladyslipper Music
Ladyslipper is a North Carolina non-profit, tax-exempt organization which has been involved in many facets of women’s music, and most specifically the Women’s Music & Culture Movement, since 1976.
music
New York Women Composers, Inc.
Creating opportunities for members and working for betterment of all women concert-music composers.
The Kapralova Society
A Canadian non-profit music society and affiliate member of the International Alliance for Women in Music.
Discovering Marian Anderson
With the assistance of a CLIR Hidden Collections grant, the Kislak Center staff digitized five series of Marian Anderson’s surviving archives.
literature
The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing
Project recovers activist library and draws attention to women’s book history and literary history.
