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Women's Studies: Women's Studies Resources

Department Research Guides identify and define standard information retrieval tools for a specific department. Each guide was created and is maintained by the library liaison for that department. We encourage you to recommend resources for the guides.

Journals

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Journal Titles List for WIU

Reference Materials

Print reference books located in the Reference Collection, Malpass Library, 2nd Floor:

  • A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference. 2004. D.L. Weatherford, ed. Danbury, CT: Grolier. REF HQ1410.H58 2004
  • Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies. 1998. E.B. Amico, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. REF HQ1180.R432 1998
  • Women in World History : a Biographical Encyclopedia. 1999. A. Commire, ed. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications. REF HQ1115.W6 1999 v.1-17
  • Women’s Roles and Statuses the World Over. 2006. S. Hepburn and R.J. Simon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. REF HQ1236.H46 2006
  • Women’s Studies Encyclopedia. 1999. H. Tierney, ed. Rev. & expanded ed. Westport,CT: Greenwood. REF HQ1115.W645 1999

Online reference books from Sage Reference includes Encyclopedia of Women in the American West as well as many interdisciplinary titles of interest.

Or search for more print and online books using the WestCat library catalog below.

Women's Studies Databases

Gerritsen Collection
International database of unique materials about women and their lives. Full text (digitized images) of 4,700 books, pamphlets and periodicals covering the years 1543-1945. Focuses primarily on the US, British Isles, and Western Europe.

Women and Social Movements
Contains primary source documents and articles related to the history of women in social movements in the United States, 1600-2000.

 

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Websites

Women's Archives

Provides links to archives of primary source materials for women's studies.
Available at: http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/c.php?g=177948&p=1168872

Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites

A selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies and women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.
Available at: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html

Feminae: Medieval Women & Gender Index

Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Available at: http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/default.aspx

Collective Biographies of Women

Collective Biographies of Women, with its annotated bibliography, growing archive of texts, resources featuring individual women, and new tools for interpreting prosopography (collective biography), is an experiment in digital humanities focused on a widespread genre, the collection of short biographies. Available at: https://womensbios.lib.virginia.edu/