The issues--let's not forget--are CyberWars or Sexual Politics in the New Technology. The issues, as the readings suggest, grow out of the stereotypes of 'only men' work with computers. Here are a few Web sites that can only begin to suggest just how many women are working on computers and on the Internet and the WWW:
Barbara Kantrowitz in "Men, Women, and Computers" refers to a number of websites for women. Here is one that she mentions and a few others:
And here are some more links:
Women's Web, know as "WomWeb."
Women Homepage.
Feminist Use of Cyberspace. Notice that this is a gopher site. What you will find is Ellen Balka's article "Women's Access to On-Line Discussions about Feminism," an invaluable article with much research informing it.
Feminism and Women's Studies, which states, "This page publishes women's studies and feminist works, particularly focusing on issues of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices."
Voyager: Guerrilla Girrls. Performance art as a response to sexism!
Geek
Girl.
Tank
Girl.
Women's Space: Site Map. "Lost in space? Follow the links on this site to all the nooks and crannies of Women'space!"
Conference Proceedings of Virtue and Virtuality: Gender, Law, and Cyberspace, April 20-21, 1996. A number of papers are published at this site, papers by Amy Bruckman, Jennifer Mnookin, Jullian Dibbell, et al.
Groups Relating to Women in Computer Science/Computing.
Web-sters' Net-Work: Women in Info Technology.
TAP: The Ada Project , Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: In order to get to the information on women, you must get to the EFF Archives. Then you must go to Topical Index. Once in the index, go to the topic Cyberlinguistics and if you scroll down, you will notice Gender in Cyberia, both of which have loads of information, many sites and papers on various subjects. (Often files get shifted around at EFF, so you may have to look through the archives.)
I'm NOT Miss Manner's of the Internet": Here you will find Arlene Rinaldi's Netiquette Home Page, which has valuable resources on the issue of behaving in cyberspace.
WebGrrls Unite! Women on the Web.
Tandem Story, Battle of the Sexes: This is much fun, with a blow-by-blow account of e-mail and the genders.
Newsgroups (Usenet)
alt.feminism
alt.internet.media-coverage
clari.news.women
soc.women
Gender-Related
Electronic Forums
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