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Women's Studies

Below are suggested resources to use when researching a Women topic. For research strategies and techniques, visit the resources linked from the menu at the left.

Getting Started | Finding Articles | Getting Fulltext | Demographics

Getting Started

Before jumping in and looking for research, it is a good idea to have a refined topic and to know a little about it. Start with broad resources like encyclopedias, bibliographies, and handbooks to start to get a sense of what is available on your topic in the universe of information.

Women’s Issues(Ready Reference series)
HQ1115 .W6425 1997

VoS Gender and Sexuality
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711#id1810

Women's Studies Encyclopedia
HQ1115 .W645 1999

Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series)
HQ1115 .W6425 1997
This is an encyclopedia which contains articles on a wide variety of topics, including terms, personages, organizations, historical events and contemporary women’s issues. Though the focus is women in the United States, many entries provide a Canadian perspective.

WSSLINKS
http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html
WSSLINKS, a web site developed and maintained by the Women’s Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Library, offers a comprehensive list of links to women’s studies and feminist web sites and access to a wide range of resources in support of Women’s Studies.

Women’s Studies Encyclopedia
HQ1115 .W645 1999 v.1-3
The encyclopedia contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study. The references included at the end of many of the articles are meant primarily to direct readers to works from which they may obtain a fuller explanation, more detailed information, or different perspective on a subject. The focus of the encyclopedia is the American experience.

Women’s Studies and Feminism: Guides to Information Sources
HQ1180 .I53 2002
This source is organized into three sections of women’s studies issues: Issues of Form, Issues of Information Access & Issues of Diversity. The purpose of this book is to offer background knowledge about resources, highlight major sources of information and offer techniques for finding information on women’s studies & feminism on an international level.

American Woman
HQ1420 .A53 (Back issues in the stacks may be checked out with Simmons ID card)

Nature of Woman: An Encyclopedia & Guide to the Literature
HQ 1115 W37 1980
This source provides an overview of the philosophy and social studies literature on the nature of women. Fictional, historical or biographical material about women or written by women is not covered here. The encyclopedia provides introductions to arguments and conclusions on a wide range of Western thinkers. The main body of the text addresses issues with several hundred author and topic entries such that the topics are cross-referenced to the authors.

Encyclopedia of Women & Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender
HQ1115 .E43 2001
The encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of health, social, psychological and societal issues that encompass current research and scholarship on the psychology of women and gender. Across the articles attention is given to multicultural issues of diversity in human experience.

Finding Articles

Search the following indexes to find articles on the topic of Women. See individual Resources by Subject guides for more specific indexes covering topics within the broader field of Women.

Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary periodical database that includes indexing and abstracting both scholarly and popular content covering academic areas including social sciences, humanities, education, information science,engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical science, and cultural studies.Some coverage goes as far back as 1965, and over 4,000 titles are included fulltext.

Alternative Press Index
Alternative Press Index, with international coverage beginning from 1991, is an interdisciplinary & comprehensive guide to nearly 300 alternative sources of information in the humanities & social sciences including radical and left periodicals, newspapers & magazines, in addition to, selected abstracts from research journals. API is updated quarterly.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Focused on timely, relevant, and meaningful information on women, this resource indexes more than 1,500 sources, both periodical and non-periodical. It covers from 1992 - present, including links to fulltext, providing access to global information in women in over 150 countries.

Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database
Covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice. The scope is international including new areas of research and types of publications drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.

Gender Watch
A full-text database that covers diverse subjects on women's issues. Including content frommore than 150 academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklet

Social Sciences Index
This guide to the literature of the social sciences indexes and abstracts content from over 350 key international, English-language periodicals in the social sciences. Covers 1983 - present.

Sociological Abstracts
This database indexes over 2,600 International journals and other serial publications. Coverage begins from 1963 and includes abstracts of conference papers, dissertations and books.

Studies on Women Abstracts
Index Shelf
Simmons has volumes from 1983-1998.

Viva: a Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html
Indexes women's history articles published in 50 scholarly historical and women's studies journals from Western Europe and the United States. Content published between 1975 to the present is included.

Women and Social Movements: Info

Women's Studies Index
Index Shelf
This print resource is available upon request as it is kept in Renovation Storage. Simmons has volumes from 1989-1995 and 1997-2000.

Women’s Studies Serials: a Quarter-Century of Development
HQ1180 .W688 1998
This source has been co-published simultaneously as The Serials Librarian, Volume 35, Numbers 1 / 2 1998.

Getting Fulltext

Because not all indexes are fulltext--or 100% fulltext--you may have to elsewhere to find an article for which you have a citation. Once you have a citation for the article, follow the steps below for locating the entire fulltext of the article:

Search under the Title/Journal Title field in the library catalog for the title of journal in which your article is located
Click the journal title link, and you will see the holdings record for the journal. The record will tell you what issue dates are available in print, microfilm, and/or online. If the article is available in print or microfilm, note the call number for the journal. If the article is available online, click the link to go to the journal in the database that contains your article.
If your journal is not available, consider the other options listed or contact a librarian.

Demographics and Statistics

Statistics and demographics are important to many research projects, but they can be hard to find. Try some of the resources below when looking for statistics. If you still cannot find what you need, contact a librarian.

All About Women Consumers
HC110.C6 A44

The Women’s Atlas of the United States
G1201.E1 G5 1995

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America
HQ1410 .P68 2000

The Status of Women in the States: Politics, Economics, Health, Rights, Demographics
http://www.iwpr.org/states2002/pdfs/US.pdf

American Women: Who They Are and How they Live
HQ1421 .S486 2002

World’s Women, 2000: Trends and Statistics
HQ1154 .W675 2000

Finding information on Specific Research Topics

For more information on more specific topics within the discipline, contact a librarian.

Art

Women Artists in the United States: a Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986
N6536 .W65 1990

Contemporary Women Artists
N8354 .C66 1999

Architecture and Women: a Bibliography documenting women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural critics and writers, and women in related fields working in the United States
NA2543 .W65 D6886 1988

American Women Artists: from Early Indian Times to the Present
N6505 .R8 1982

A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850
N6757 .D86 1989

Biography

American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences
E185.86 W56 1994

Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia
E185.86 .B542 1993

Notable Women in World History: Guide to Recommended Biographies & Autobiographies
CT3230 .A28 1998

Notable Women in the Physical Sciences
Q141 .N734 1997

Notable Hispanic American Women
184.S75 N68 1993

Notable Black American Women
E185.96 .N68 1996

American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present
Q141 .B254 1998

Women in Congress: Congresswomen’s Biographies
http://bioguide.congress.gov/congresswomen/index.asp

Contemporary Women World Leaders
http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00women.htm
(from OnlineWomen in Politics Web Site: http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/resources.htm)

Great Women
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00women.htm

Women in World History
HQ1115 .W6 1999

Feminism

Historical Dictionary of Feminism HQ1115 .B65 2004

International Feminist Journal of Politics
Simmons E-Resource

Feminist Studies
Periodical: PER HQ1101 .F8, 1974- and Simmons E-Resource

Feminist Collection: a quarterly of women’s studies resources
Simmons E-Resource

Dictionary of Feminist Theory
HQ1115 .H86 1995

Feminist Dictionary
HQ1115 .K73 1985

Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism & Postfeminism
HQ1115 .R68 2000

Health

New Our Bodies, Ourselves
HQ1426 .B69 1992

WSSLinks Women’s Health
http://cc.usu.edu/~fshrode/wss_health.htm

National Center for Health Statistics on Women's Health
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/women.htm

National Women's Health Information Center
http://www.4woman.gov/

MedlinePlus: Women's Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealth.html

History

History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference
HQ1410 .H58 2004

African American Women’s History
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/africanamerican/index_r.htm

Library of Congress American Women Web Site
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

International Issues

Women's Human Rights Resources (WHRR)
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/

WSSLinks International Women
http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/intl.html

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge
HQ1115 .R69 2000

International Journal of Women’s Studies
PER HQ1101 .I58 v.1-8; 1978-1985

Women’s International Center: Women’s Resources on the Net
http://www.wic.org/misc/resource.htm

Literature

Contemporary Women Poets
PS151 .C67 1998

Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States
PS147 .O94 1995

Black American Women in Literature: a Bibliography 1976 through 1987
PS153 .N5 G57 1989

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
PS217 .W64 N56 1997

American Women Writers
PS147 .A4 1979

Politics and Government

OnlineWomen in Politics
http:// www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org

Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/

Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics
HQ1236 .M347 2000

Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women
HQ1236.5 .E85 E52 2003

OnlineWomen in Politics
http:// www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org

Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women
HQ1236.5 .E85 E52 2003

Religion

Encyclopedia of Women & World Religion
BL458 .E53 1999

Science

American Men & Women of Science: Biographical Directory of Today’s Leaders in Physical, Biological & Related Sciences
Q141 .A474 2003

Sexuality

Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
HQ21 .I68 2004

Sexual Diversity Studies 2002-
Simmons E-Resource

Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
HQ60 H36 1998

Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
HQ75 .15 .R43 2000

Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History in America
HQ76.3 .U5 E53 2004

St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac
HQ76.3 .U5 S75 1998

Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement
HQ76.5 .M94 2003

Lesbian Histories & Cultures: An Encyclopedia
HQ75.5 .L4395 2000

Work

Women and Work: a Handbook
HD6095 .W678 1996

ABC-CLIO Companion to Women in the Workplace
HD6095 .S34 1993

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