WOMEN'S STUDIES

  • Contemporary Women's Issues. Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 1992–. A full-text database of journal articles, newsletters, alternative press publications, and reports produced by nongovernmental organizations on women's issues. International in scope, it includes material from 190 countries.
  • Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Indexhttp://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html An index to journal articles, books, and dissertations on women in the Middle Ages. The index includes a sophisticated search engine and lists of broad topics and subjects. The site is hosted by Haverford College.
  • GenderWatch. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 1998–. A database of full-text articles from 175 publications, some dating to the 1970s, on women's issues, including scholarly journals, magazines, and newsletters as well as conference proceedings and reports.
  • Women's Studies: Core Bookshttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ACRLWSS/ A searchable database of the most important books in print on issues ranging from girls and girlhood to aging, covering women's studies approaches to religion, sports, the arts, law, media, politics, and more. Books are chosen for inclusion by specialists in the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • Women Studies Abstracts. Rush: Rush Publishing, 1972–. Offers abstracts of scholarly books, articles, and other publications focused on women's studies. Available in print and electronic formats.
  • Feminist Internet Gateway: Reviewed Linkshttp://www.feminist.org/gateway An extensive list of links on arts and media, education, health, LGBT information, politics, reproductive rights, and so on. The site, a project of the Feminist Majority Foundation, also provides a research center, court watch, a calendar, and more.
  • Institute for Women's Policy Researchhttp://www.iwpr.org Links to information on violence, employment and economic change, democracy and society, poverty and welfare, the family and work, and health care policy. The Institute for Women's Policy Research is a nonprofit organization that conducts scientific research for use by women's organizations.
  • Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Siteshttp://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html A substantial, selective directory of hundreds of sites on such topics as women and activism, cyberculture, health, higher education, sports and recreation, and women of color. All entries are annotated. The site also offers an international directory of women's studies programs and research centers. Maintained by Joan Korenman of the Center for Women and Information Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  • WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studieshttp://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html Selected, annotated links for women's studies covering art, education, film, health, history, sexuality, music, philosophy, politics, science and technology, and theology. Links are chosen by an editorial team from the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • WWW Virtual Library: Women's Historyhttp://www.iisg.nl/w3vlwomenshistory A directory of annotated links to women's history resources, arranged by chronological period, geographical location, and topic, with additional links to discussion lists, conferences, associations, and more. Maintained by Jenneke Quast for the International Institute of Social History.
  • The Dictionary of Feminist Theory. By Maggie Humm. 2nd ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995. Covers theoretical issues in feminism and is particularly useful for putting them in historical context. The work is also helpful for pinpointing primary documents related to feminist theory.
  • Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001. Provides lengthy, technical articles on the psychology of women and gender, covering such topics as gender and achievement, aging, child care, and body image concerns.
  • From Suffrage to the Senate: An Encyclopedia of American Women in Politics. By Suzanne O'Dea Schenken. 2 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999. Coverage includes political leaders, issues and movements, organizations, and court cases.
  • Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Edward T. James et al. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. With supplements and related series books. Provides lengthy and thorough biographies of women, followed by useful bibliographies. A supplement, Notable American Women: The Modern Period, published in 1983, profiles women who died between 1951 and 1975.
  • Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. Ed. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 vols. New York: Routledge, 2000. A record of women's knowledge and experience, offering essays on international approaches to the arts, economic development, education, health and reproduction, sexuality, households, families, politics, and peace and violence.
  • Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues. Ed. Edith H. Altbach and Nelly P. Stromquist. New York: Garland, 1998. Offers substantial overviews of topics related to women in the developing world, including theoretical issues, political and legal contexts, sex-role ideologies, demographics, economics, and the environment. It also provides regional surveys.
  • Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer. 17 vols. Waterford: Yorkin, 1999–2002. The largest compilation of biographical material on the world's women. This work contains biographies of historically significant women from all walks of life from all countries.
  • The Women's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. By James Trager. New York: Holt, 1994. Provides brief descriptive entries on women through history. Entries are arranged chronologically and are marked with symbols indicating the topic area in which they fall.
  • Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Ed. Helen Tierney. 3 vols. rev. and expanded. New York: Greenwood, 1999. Provides overview articles on women's involvement in a wide variety of fields.
  
       
   
 
       
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