Reference Materials

A to Z of Native American Women
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR E98.W8 S65 1998
Provides brief biographical essays, plus references for further reading. Includes an extensive bibliography, and indexes by profession, tribe, birth year and an alphabetical index.

American Women Historians, 1700's -- 1900's: A Biographical Dictionary
3rd Floor, E175.45 .S27 1996
Provides an alphabetical listing of women historians and their contributions to the field. Each essay includes biographical information and a listing of additional sources for research.

Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850
Reference 1st Floor N6757 .D86 1989
This alphabetical listing of primarily painters and sculptors includes references for each entry, the location of examples of the woman's work, and an extensive bibliography.

Feminism: A Reference Handbook
Reference, 1st Floor, HQ 1410 .H365 1998
A brief chronology and discussion of feminism, primarily since the 1960's (termed the Second Wave. Touches on violence against women, economics, education, and politics. Includes a directory of organizations, references and an index.

A History of Women in the West
3RD FLOOR HQ1121 .S79513 1992
This five-volume set considers the history of women throughout time. Volume titles include From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints, Silences of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War, and Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century. Each volume is organized into sections with distinct articles on specific topics.

Native American Women: a Biographical Dictionary
Reference 1st Floor E98 .W8 B38 1993
Provides brief biographical information and references. Includes appendices which list the subjects by area of specialization, birth year, birth state, tribal affiliation and alphabetically.

Notable American Women, 1607 - 1950 and The Modern Period
Reference 1st floor, CT 3260.N57
Provides brief biographical essays for each woman. Listed alphabetically, with the addition of references for each essay.

Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary
Reference, 1st Floor, Q141.N734 1997
This alphabetically organized work about women in science includes a chronological listing of significant dates in each woman's life, a short essay, and a bibliography for each. Includes an index, which includes a listing of women in specific subjects (Astronomers, Bacteriologists, etc.).

Statistical Record of Women Worldwide, 2nd Edition
Reference, 1st Floor, HQ 1150 .S73 1995
Provides statistical information about many different subjects for women throughout the world, including marriage and divorce, childbearing, labor and employment, crime, etc. Each table of statistical information cites its source.

Women in American History
3rd Floor, HQ1410 .H35x
Organized by subjects, this bibliography provides citations to articles and books about women in American History. Subject topics include Research and Teaching, United States General, Colonial America, United States 1783 - 1865, United States 1865 - 1945, United States Since 1945, United States Regional and Canada. Organized alphabetically by author within each section. Includes a subject and author index

Women in World History
Reference, 1st Floor, HQ 1115 .W6
Provides biographical information on notable women, spanning nationalities and areas of significance. Each entry includes brief biographical information, an essay, significant works, and resources. Entries vary in length and content.

Women Studies Abstracts
INDEX TABLES 1ST FLOOR (latest 5 years);
2ND FLOOR BOUND PERIODICALS (earlier years)

Women's Studies Index
HQ 1181 .U6, Last Vol. in Reference, 1st Floor; previous Vols. on 3rd Floor.
A yearly index of published articles from selected Women's Studies journals. Article citations are arranged by topic and by author name.

Journals

Feminism and Psychology (1991 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Frontiers (1975 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Gender & History (1989 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Ms. (v. 1 - 18, no. 5; July 1972 - November, 1989)
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Plainswoman (Oct 1977 - )
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Psychology of Women Quarterly (Fall 1976 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Resources for Feminist Research: RFR = Documentation sur la recherche feministe: DRF. (Mar. 1979 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Signs (Autumn 1975 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Woman's Art Journal (Spring/Summer, 1980 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Women (Fall 1969 - )
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Women's Studies (1972 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Women's Studies Abstracts (1972 - )
Index Tables 1st Floor (latest 5 years)
2nd FLOOR BOUND PERIODICALS (earlier years)

Women's Studies Quarterly (Vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1981 - )
CURRENT PERIODICALS 2ND FLOOR
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Academic Search Elite
Provides full text for over 1,230 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more.

American Memory
Provides access to digital collections in the National Digital Library. Allows for searching across collections.

Bibliography of Native North Americans
Citations to journal articles, books, essays and dissertations relevant to Native North Americans dating from the 1700s.

Biography Index
Coverage includes more than 2,700 English-language periodicals and more than 1,800 books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Timely and relevant information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection in such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Covers over 600 sources published by over 100 organizations around the world. This is an excellent resource.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Use this database to find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

Humanities Abstracts
Periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Full-text is now available for approximately 100 titles.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
This is a general, multi-discipline database that includes material from over 14,000 sources, including the full-text of over 100 daily newspapers, magazines, and academic journal articles, as well as biographical material, company and industry information, court decisions, market research, and transcripts from CNN and NPR. Coverage from 1970 with 120,000 articles added each day.

PapersFirst
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research aid covering every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October 1993. Users may order the full text of papers.

A Celebration of Women Writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
A thorough site that provides links to web pages about women authors, indexed by time period, country, and alphabetically by author's name.

Diotima:
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html
Provides course materials and extensive bibliographies on the study of women and gender in the ancient world.

Distinguished Women of the Past and Present:
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/
A good starting place for research on women in many different disciplines. Provides links, bibliographies, and biographical information. Not all entries are consistent in the type of information provided.

Feminism and Women's Resources:
http://www3.50megs.com/jmansfield//feminism/
A thorough listing of links to organizations, resources, forums and more.

Gender Inn:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm
A searchable bibliography of articles and books in feminist theory, literary criticism, and gender studies. Available in German and English.

Magazines and Newsletters on the Web [Woman Focused]:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/mags.htm
This is a thorough listing of women's journals on the web, providing access to an international collection of journals, magazines, newsletters and e'zines. Not all of these are online, but the web pages provide contact information for subscriptions.

Margaret Sanger Papers Project:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger
Provides biographical information, articles on Sanger and birth control, descriptions of the organizations Sanger led, and a small selection of documents.

NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy:
http://billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/WomeninPhilosophy/WomeninPhilo.html
A searchable bibliographic database of thousands of works on and by women working in Philosophy.

On-line Archival Collections, Center for Women's History and Culture Special Collections Library, Duke University:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/digital.html
Provides access to information about archival collections in the Women's Movement, Afro-American Women and Civil War Women, including transcriptions and images of original documents.

Publications on Feminism and Women's Studies (Carnegie-Mellon):
http://eserver.org/feminism/default.html
Provides an extensive list of both websites and full text articles. Includes a full text version of Mill's The Subjection of Women, publications by bell hooks, Katha Pollitt and others.

Women's Resources on the Internet:
http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/wresources.html
Provides a large, alphabetical listing of women's sites from the Women's Resource Project (http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/)

Women's Studies Database:
http://www.inform.umd.edu/WomensStudies/index.html
Provides extensive information on Women's Studies research, including information about conferences and employment, bibliographies, links to online resources and organizations, and syllabi.

Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites:
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html
Provides links to women's studies related pages, indexed by subject.

Women Watch:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Provides United Nations data and information on women and an electronic forum on global women's issues. Includes information on UN Global conferences, including a follow up to the 1995 Conference in Beijing.

Advancing Women in Leadership:
http://www.advancingwomen.com/awl/awl.html
An online professional journal for women in professional and scholarly arenas.

Online Exhibits

Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm
This online exhibit includes full text entries from two journals that Alice Cunningham Fletcher kept during a six week stay with the Sioux in 1881. Drawings from the journals accompany the text, as well as photographic images from the National Archives and Fletcher's papers.