SELECTED WEB RESOURCES
MEDIA IMAGES: WOMEN AND GIRLS
About-Face--"don't fall for the media circus" group combats negative and distorted images of women in the media.
The Gender Ads Project--website featuring over 1,600 ads organized in topical areas to share information and images.
Girls, Women, + Media Project: What Are You Looking At?--increase awareness of how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls and women and promote media literacy.
Media Education Foundation (MEF): Challenging Media--good links for Gender, Media Literacy, and Media Education.
Mind on the Media--"to inspire independent thinking and foster critical analysis of media messages."
Gender & Media Module: Links--includes Representations of Women in the Media and more.
Resources for Change--from the website of Jean Kilbourne, pioneer in the work on women and advertising.
WINS (We Insist on Natural Shapes-- to change body images in the media and promote healthy lifestyles.
FEMINISM AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
Feminist.com--"grassroots, interactive community by, for, and about women."
Feminist Majority Foundation Online--"working for women's equality"; Feminist Research Center includes Feminist Magazines.
Guerilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination with Facts, Humor, and Fake Fur since 1985--"re-inventing the"f" word - feminism."
NOW (National Organization for Women): Media Activism--key issues include activist links plus other information on this website.
Subject Listing of Women and Gender Resources--from Wisconsin's Women Studies Librarian's Homepage.
Women's Studies--see annotated links for Communication & Mediaand Feminist Theory from the University of Iowa.
WSS (Women's Studies Section) Links: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--from the Association of College & Research Libraries / American Library Association.
Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Site--annotated websites arranged alphabetically or by subject.
MEDIA LITERACY
ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education)--works to promote media education, independent media production, and reform to respond to the threat of transnational corporation media ownership.
Adbusters--"We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."
AlterNet.org: MediaCulture--"infomediary" to battle information overload and to support democracy.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting): Women's Desk--national media watchgroup analyzes sexism, racism, and homophobia in the media.
Independent Media Center--"Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."
Media Awareness Network--media and information literacy for young people.
Media Research Center: America's Media Watchdog--"leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias."
MediaChannel.org: a Global Network for Democratic Media: Women's Media: Issue Guide--from "media issues supersite...as the media watch the world, we watch the media."
Well Connected: The Center for Public Integrity: Ownership Database--see Asheville area media ownership.