TopLinks: Gender and Sexuality

About-Face
http://www.about-face.org
About-Face promotes “self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism.” The site features advertisements that About-Face considers exploitive of women (“gallery of offenders”) and others that it believes present positive images of women (“gallery of winners”).

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/journals
Visit this site to search the database of journal articles related to gender differences and similarities.

Children Now
http://www.childrennow.org
This site presents studies and news updates on scholarship about how the media influence gender roles.

Fathom: Rethinking Masculinity
http://www.fathom.com/course/21701720/index.html
Fathom is an online learning resource that brings together various libraries and learning institutions, such as the British Museum and the New York Public Library. This page addresses issues of gender and masculinity, compiled by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Feminism and Women’s Studies
http://feminism.eserver.org
This site provides information about women’s activism, health, and sexuality, and links to cultural topics for women.

GenderAds
http://www.genderads.com/
GendeAds.com examines gender tropes in popular culture ads. The site offers thousands of advertisements as a resource for analyzing images that relate to gender. The site is easily navigable by category of trope.

GenderNet: World Bank Gender Homepage
http://www.worldbank.org/gender
This site describes how the World Bank “seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects.”

Genders
http://www.genders.org
Genders is the online version of a journal that publishes cross-disciplinary essays on the intersection of gender and the arts, the humanities, social theories, economics, and so on. The site offers access to current and archived articles as well as a listing of external gender- and sexuality-studies links and interviews.

Independent Gay Forum
http://www.indegayforum.org
This comprehensive site was created by a group of gay writers, academics, attorneys and activists who wanted to raise the level of discussion of gay-related issues.

International Gender and Language Association
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.html
Read about IGALA’s support of research on language, gender, and sexuality, with links to other topics on language and gender.

Lauren Greenfield's “Girl Culture”
http://www.laurengreenfield.com/index.php?p=9R2AJPO2
Photojournalist Lauren Greenfield documented what she calls “the performance and exhibitionism that seems to define the contemporary experience of being a girl” in a five-year project called “Girl Culture.” The site combines compelling documentary photography with brief interviews.

Media Awareness Network: Stereotyping
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/index.cfm
The Media Awareness Network is a nonprofit Canadian organization that develops media literacy programs to help people understand how the media work and how to think critically about the media. Its site offers numerous articles and related links on stereotyping, violence, privacy, marketing to children, and the portrayal of diversity in the media.

National Organization for Women
http://www.now.org
NOW is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. Since its founding in 1966, NOW has pushed for social change to bring about equality for all women.

Our Bodies Ourselves
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/
Our Bodies Ourselves—a public-interest women’s health education, advocacy, and consulting nonprofit organization—offers comprehensive information on sexuality and reproductive health from a "feminist and consumer perspective." The site features resources, links, and a blog titled "Our Bodies Our Blog."

Out Proud
http://www.outproud.org/
OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, has a Web site with access to coming out stories, information for making schools safer, biographical profiles of role models, surveys, book reviews, suggested reading, links to other sites, and ways to help out or get help in your community.

Planned Parenthood
http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood works to provide reproductive health care and information for everyone, regardless of age or income. This site contains clear information for teenagers on sex and adolescent health, and news about recent developments in abortion advocacy.

The Kinsey Institute
http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/
The online site for the Kinsey Institute, sponsored by Indiana University, features archives, sexology links, descriptions of the special collections, and more.