Find Your Way to…Women's Studies
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Books

The Library uses the Library of Congress shelving arrangement.

Select areas:
HQ 1101-2030 Women. Feminism.

Basic Reference Sources

Location

Women's Studies

American Women: a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States REF HQ 1410 .A54 2001 (see also Key Web site)
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women REF HQ .1115 R69
Encyclopedia of Women's Associations Worldwide REF HQ .1883 E53 1993
Women's Issues REF HQ .1115 W6425 1997
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies REF HQ 1180 R42 1998
Chronology of Women Worldwide REF HQ .1121 C617 1996
Women in History on File REF HQ .1121 W8853
Statistical Record of Women Worldwide REF HQ .1150 S73
Statistical Handbook on Women in America REF HQ .1420 T34 1996
U.S. Women's Interest Groups REF HQ .1904 U2
Women and Political Participation REF PN 1995 F545 v. 2 1950-1985
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture Society History Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body.

Find Articles and Other Materials

Select PC Indexes and Databases

Contemporary Women's Issues
Contemporary women's issues with full text articles published back to 1992

Gender Watch A full-text general database covering subjects that are "uniquely central to women's lives".

North American Women's Letters and Diaries A full-text database covering immediate experiences of 442 women as revealed in approximately 50,000 pages of diaries and letters, colonial to 1950.

Women Writers Online A full-text database of pre-Victorian women's writing.

General

Academic Search Premier Indexes and links to actual articles in major scholarly journals including Women's Studies and related disciplines

Key Journals

Women's Studies

Camera Obscura Print/Online
Differences Print/Online
Hypatia Print/Online
International Journal of Women's Studies Print
Media Report to Women Print
MS Print and Selected Articles using ABI/Inform
Resources for Feminist Research= Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe Print and Selected Articles using Lexis-Nexis Academic
Signs Print/Online
Women and Health Print/Online
Women's Rights Law Reporter Print and Selected ARticles using the LAw Reviews portion of Lexis-Nexis Law
Women's Studies Quarterly Print/Online

Select Websites

National Organization for Women 
Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites
Global List of Women's Organizations

Women-based Search Engines:

FeMiNa
WWWomen Web

Gateways:

American Women: a Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites

Primary Sources

Women Working, 1870-1930

Writing Guides

Location

MLA HandbookREF LB.2369.G53 2003
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Print Copies are available REF BF76.7 P83 2001 and Circulation Desk Reserves
Citing Sources Examples of APA, MLA and Chicago Citation styles
APA Online A portion of the Publication Manual online
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Ann Sullivan and Connie Cameron, Women's Studies Liaisons
Last revision to this page : 13 June 2007