GENERAL LINKS
The National Women’s History Project
http://www.nwhp.org
The online site for the nonprofit National Women’s History Project includes links to sites that focus on women’s history, related women’s organizations, and suggestions for ways to get involved in your community.
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.
SELECTION LINKS
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, 1980
Artchive: Self-Portrait Tour
http://www.artchive.com/tours/selfport.html
This collection of self-portraits by painters is part of a larger Artchive, a comprehensive art resource that includes Art Links, Galleries, Theory and Criticism, and JuxtaPositions.
Orazio Centaro’s Art Images on the Web: Robert Mapplethorpe
http://www.ocaiw.com/mapple.htm
A Mapplethorpe page in a searchable links catalogue of online painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.
PAIR
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
William H. Johnson, Li'l Sis
Jamaica Kincaid
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kincaid.html
This site, sponsored by the Department of Post-Colonial Studies at Emory University, includes an interview with Kincaid, a biography, photographs, and related links.
Narratives of African American Art and Identity: William H. Johnson
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/ArtGal/.WWW/exhibit/98-99/driskell/exhibition/sec2/john_w_01.htm
Sponsored by the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, this page with William H. Johnson art, biography, and related links is part of an online exhibit documenting changes in African American identity and belief from the 1870s to the present day.
Mavis Hara, Carnival Queen
The Miss Universe Pageant
http://missuniverse.com/home.html
The web site for the Miss Universe pageant contains photographs of beauty pageant competitors from all over the world, as well as marketing materials to help you think about how beauty pageants exist as products.
RETROSPECT: Women Join the Cause
Military Women Veterans
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/index.html
This site, put together by Captain Barbara A. Wilson, career military since the 1950s, commemorates women who have served, from the American Revolution to Operation Desert Storm. There are also collections of posters, recruiting posters aimed at women, and sheet music.
The RuPaul Site
http://www.rupaul.net
The official RuPaul site.
Daphne Scholinski, The Last Time I Wore a Dress
Review: The Last Time I Wore a Dress
http://www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1997/10/13review.html
In this Salon review, Professor Laura Green considers Daphne Scholinksi’s book by the same title as the essay; Green also provides commentary on the emerging genre of confessional memoir.
PORTFOLIO: Nancy Burson
Nancy Burson: Portraits
http://www.forumart.org/burson.html
One of many past exhibits posted online for the nonprofit museum of St. Louis, the Forum for Contemporary Art, invites us to read and view more of Nancy Burson’s work.
The Gender Gallery
http://songweaver.com/gender/gendergallery.html
Assembled by Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues (1993), this site includes links to books about cross-dressing and images of icons who play with their gendered identity, such as k.d. lang, Annie Lennox, RuPaul, and Andy Warhol.
Daniel Harris, Effeminacy
The Daniel Harris Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/4130/index.html
Daniel Harris plugs his book The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (1997), provides selected excerpts from the book, and shows photos from his life.
Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson
http://www.marilynmanson.net
The official site for Marilyn Manson provides links to articles, news, photos, and merchandise relating to the band.
LOOKING CLOSER: Gender Training
Wonder Woman
http://www.wonderwoman.simplenet.com
This extensive Wonder Woman site includes a synopsis of the TV series, a retrospect of costume changes from the 1940s to the 1990s, and a list of animated adaptations.
Katha Pollitt, Subject to Debate
http://www.thenation.com
Katha Pollitt’s bimonthly column can be found at the online version of The Nation.
This Old Toy
http://www.thisoldtoy.com
This web site for Fisher Price Toys is designed for collectors. The numerous pictures and histories of toys spanning the period from the 1930s to the present provide an excellent resource for looking at differences in the gender training of boys and girls.
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