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Subject Guide: Women's Studies

Books

Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):

  • The Bias-Free Word Finder: A Dictionary of Nondiscriminatory Language (REF PE1460 .M26 1992)
  • The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (REF HQ1115 .H86 1990)
  • Encyclopedia of Feminism (REF HQ1115 .T87)
  • Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature (REF PN 471 .W455 2004)
  • Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (REF BL458 .E53 1999)
  • The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America (REF HQ1410 .C85 1996)
  • Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to the Present (REF HF3023.A2 O64 2000)
  • The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage (REF PE1689 .M23 1987)
  • Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism
    (REF HQ 1410 .K444 1997)
  • Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge (REF HQ1115 .R69 2000)
  • Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication P96.S48 S34 2006
  • Statistical Handbook on Women in America (REF HQ1420 .T34 1996)
  • Women and Political Participation (REF HQ 1236.5 .U6 B875 2004)
  • Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues (REF HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998)
  • Women's Firsts (REF CT3203 .W66 1996)
  • Women's Studies Encyclopedia (REF HQ1115 .W645 1999)
  • The World's Women, 1970-1990: Trends and Statistics (REF HQ1154 .W95 1991)

Biographical Information

  • American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide From Colonial Times to the Present
    (REF PS147 .A4)
  • Dictionary of Women Artists (REF N8354 .D53 1997)
  • Encyclopeida of Woemn's Autobiography (REF HQ 1236 .E63 2005)
  • Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers (REF HQ 1236 .R29 2001)
  • Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary (REF CT3260 .N57)
  • Notable American Women: the Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary (REF CT3260 .N573)
  • Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century
    (REF CT3260 .N5725 2004)
  • Notable Black American Women (REF E185.96 .N68 1992)
  • Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary (REF QA28 .N68 1998)
  • Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary (REF QH26 .N68 1996)
  • Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary (REF Q141 .N734 1997)
  • Women Film Directors: A Bio-Critical Dictionary (REF PN1998.2 .F67 1995)
Research and Bibliographies
  • Reader's Guide to Women's Studies (REF HQ1180 .R43 1998)
  • Introduction to Library Research in Women's Studies (REF Z7961 .S42 1985)
  • Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography, 1980-1985 (REF HQ1180 .L63 1987)

Articles

  • Humanities Index [1975 -] (REF AI3 .H85) contains citations to 500 English-language periodicals in the
    areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion.
  • Reader's Guide To Periodical Literature [1890 -] (REF AI3 .R48) is a subject and author
    index of approximately 200 popular and general interest periodicals.
  • Religion Index One: Periodicals [1981 -] (REF BL1 .R4) indexes more than 12,500 articles from approximately 1700 religion journal issues.

Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers on the Web:

Search these databases to find articles:

  • America History & Life and Historical Abstracts from ABC-CLIO cover history of the US and Canada from prehistory to the present. Abstracts from approximately 2,000 journals, book/media reviews, and dissertations. Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the US and Canada). No full-text.
  • AltPressIndex | AltPressIndexArchive A&I
    Index of journals (archive covers 1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change via FirstSearch
  • Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost provides full-text for nearly 1,560 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education, and more.
  • Biography Resource Center contains biographical information from periodicals and reference sources on over 900,000 people.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select via INFOTRAC is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
  • Contemporary Women's Issues via FirstSearch provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP via INFOTRAC from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals,news magazines, and newspapers - many with full-text and images.
  • FirstSearch is a collection of databases covering humanities, education, social sciences, and the sciences. Relevant indexes to Women's Studies include MLA and PAIS International
  • JSTOR is a searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly journals, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most recent 3 to 5 years of a journal are not included in this archive.
  • Project MUSE® is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is the sole source of complete, full-text version of titles from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies."
  • ProQuest Journal Collections: Social Science:The database includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.
  • SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers. via EBSCOHost

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