Gender and Women's Studies Research Guide
Background Information
Books
Journal and Magazine Articles
Websites
Background Information
Selected Titles from the Reference Collection
American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia [X] HQ1090.3 .A453 2003
Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia [X] HQ75 .H63 1998
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America [X] HQ76.3.U5 E53 2003
Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia [X] HQ75.13 .G37 2000
International Handbook on Gender Roles [X] HQ1075 .I58 1993
Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia [X] HQ75.5 .L4395 2000
Men's Studies: A Selected and Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography [X] HQ1090 .A84 1985
Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-free Usage [X] PE1689 .M23 1989
Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism [X] HQ1115 .R68 2000
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge [X] HQ1115 .R69 2000
Sex and Gender Issues: A Handbook of Tests and Measures [X] BF692 .B38 1990
Women's Studies Encyclopedia [X] HQ1115 .W645 1989
Books
The Library Catalog includes records for books, journals, and media materials. Try searching some of the following suggested terms from Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies by Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan as keywords to locate books on your topic:Return to top
Journal and Magazine Articles
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries.Academic Search Premier
Social sciences, humanities, business, general science, and education. Includes some full-text.Expanded Academic ASAP
Humanities, social sciences, science, and communications. Includes some full-text. 1980 to date.JSTOR
Complete full-text back issues of hundreds of core journals in the Arts and Sciences.Project MUSE, Arts and Humanities Collection
Full text of over 100 journals in classics, culture, education, film, performing arts, history, literature, religion, theater and women's studies.
Websites
American Memory Historical Collections - Library of Congress"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
This site provides guidance on finding primary source material relating to women within the Library of Congress' American Memory collections as well as online exhibitions and web broadcasts.
American Women's History: Timeline
This site offers two approachs for the study of specific time periods in American women's history. Each selection includes a timeline that links specific events with highly relevant online sources, followed by a guide to research sources (e.g. census, newspaper, secondar sources) that are appropriate for specific time periods.
Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993
Online version of a 1993 book by Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli, and June Bundy Csida. "These Feminist Chronicles 1953 - 1993 are actually excerpted from a larger work in progress, the Feminist Chronicles of the 20th Century and use the National Organization of Women (NOW) as the organizing focal point of the movement in these years."
Gender and Sexuality Studies
This website includes links to resources about women's studies, feminist theory, ecofeminism, queer studies, men's movements, men's/masculinity studies, cybergender, techgender and sexual harassment, assault, and abuse. Voice of the Shuttle is sponsored by the English Department of University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture: Online Archival Collections
This collection contains digital archival material on topics including the women's liberation movement, African-American women, and Civil War women.
Sophia Smith Collection: Women's History Manuscripts at Smith College
The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history
Women Working, 1800-1930
Part of the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program, Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on the women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including: 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets and 1,200 photographs.
