Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Resources Essential Resources | Additional Resources | Multidisciplinary Library Databases | Public Websites |
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Women’s Studies: A Recommended Bibliography, 3rd
ed., 2004
The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of
Third-Wave Feminism, 2 vols., 2006
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide,
5 vols., 2003
Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women,
2003
Encyclopedia of Women in the American West, 2003
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global
Issues and Knowledge, 4 vols., 2000
Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies, 1999
Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics, 1999
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia,
17 vols., 1999
Historical Dictionary of Feminism, 2004
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, 2000
LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender History in America, 3 vols., 2004
Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2000
The Gay & Lesbian Literary heritage: A Reader’s
Companion to the Writers and their Works, from
Antiquity to the Present, rev. ed., 2002
Sexuality: The Essential Glossary, 2004 |
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Women's
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International (BiblioLine):
Citations and abstracts are drawn from a variety of essential
women's studies databases which range in coverage from classic works
& core studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage: 1972 to present. Updated:
semi-annually.
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limited to 1 simultaneous user. If access is unavailable,
please try again later.
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British & Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: 1500 - 1900 (Alexander
Street Press):
Spanning more than 300 years, this collection will bring the
personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers,
students, and general readers. Represented are all age groups and life
stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and not
so famous. More than 500 biographies enhance the use of the database. Coverage: 1500 to
1900.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
(ProQuest):
Full-text articles from 240 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press. Subject areas: general reference, history and politics,
humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1990 to present. Updated: weekly.
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North American
Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press):
North
American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate
experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of
diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more
than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years.
The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated
bibliography of the sources in the database. Coverage: 1700s to
1950.
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Project
Muse:
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the
fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and
performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science,
gender studies, and many others. Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated:
monthly.
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Scottish
Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press):
This
release includes some 60 volumes from 47 poets. The critical and
biographical essays for some poets will be added in a future release,
as will selected criticism from printed works. In addition selected
essays, criticism and Web resources will be added from time to time.
Coverage: 1770s to 1918.
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Social Sciences Citation Index (Web
of Science):
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as
covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of
the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Can also be
used to find other articles citing a specific article (footnotes in
reverse). Coverage: 1987 to present. Updated: weekly.
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Note: To search only the Social Science
Citation Index, click the change limits link towards
the bottom of the screen and uncheck the boxes for
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Multidisciplinary Library Databases: |
These full-text
resources also include information related to this subject area:
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost). Includes full text of
scholarly and popular periodicals.
MasterFile Premier (EBSCOhost). Includes full text of
mostly popular periodicals, some scholarly, newspapers, and more.
LexisNexis Academic. Includes full text of popular, scholarly,
trade, and professional periodicals, and much more.
CQ Researcher. For in-depth reports on current and past topics
in all subject areas.
JSTOR. For reliable access to full text of articles from more
than 490 periodicals more than 2-5 years old.
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Public Websites: |
The following web resources were selected by librarians:
Celebration of Women Writers (contains electronic versions of
classic texts by women, including some works
by feminist authors)
Documents from the Women's Liberation
Movement (Duke University)
Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
Suffragists Oral History Project
from the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral
History Office, collected interviews
with twelve leaders and participants in the
woman's suffrage movement.
Women Working (Harvard University Libraries
and Museums)
Access digitized books, manuscripts, and
images on women in the U.S. economy from
1870-1930.
Gender
Ads Project
Scott A. Lukas of Lake Tahoe Community
College has gathered thousands of
advertising images to promote understanding
of sexism and advertising, gender and
advertising, women and advertising, men and
advertising, advertising and violence,
advertising and racism, as well as social
change and advertising.
American Women: A Gateway to Library of
Congress Resources for the Study of Women's
History and Culture in the United States
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Subject
Listing of Women and Gender Resources
Early Women
Database
Black American Feminisms: a
Multidisciplinary Bibliography
Compiled by Sherri L. Barnes, University of
California Santa Barbara Libraries
GenderNet (World Bank)
GenderStats (World Bank)
glbtq
encyclopedia
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Studies (Penn State Libraries)
National Women's
History Project Resource Center
Women
Immigrants, 1945 to the Present
A Bibilography Compiled by Eleanore O.
Hofstetter (1996-2005)
Women's
Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Labor (statistics)
Women's Studies Librarian Office
(UW-Madison)
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