Women's and Gender Studies

 

Reference Books | Indices | Databases | Internet Resources


Selected Reference Books: 

  • A to Z of Native American Women
    Call Number: E 98 W8 S65 1998
  • A to Z of Women in Science and Math
    Call Number: Q 141 Y675 1999
  • Black Women in American
    Call Number: E 185.86 B542 1993
  • Dictionary of Women Artists
    Call Number: N 8354 D53 1997
  • Encyclopedia of Women and Crime
    Call Number: HV 6046 E 56 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion
    Call Number: BL 458 E53 1999
  • Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics
    Call Number: HQ 1236.5 U6 E53 1999
  • International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
    Call Number: ML 105 C7
  • North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
    Call Number: N 6503 N67 1995
  • Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important UN Treaties...
    Call Number: K 644 R54 1998
  • Statistical Handbook of Women in America
    Call Number: HQ 1420 T34 1996
  • Women in China
    Call Number: HQ 1767 W44 1984
  • Women in World History
    Call Number: HQ 1115 W6
  • Women Philosophers
    Call Number: B 105 W6 K47 1989
  • Women's Progress in America
    Call Number: HQ 1410 F76 1994
  • Women Studies Encyclopedia
    Call Number: HQ 1115 W645 1989

Databases:

GenderWatch
  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: 1970-present
  • Content: full-text articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, etc. focused on how gender impacts a variety of areas.

InfoTrac Search Bank Expanded Academic ASAP

  • Access: password restricted (see librarian)
  • Coverage: 1980-present
  • Content: full-text, abstracts, and citation indexing for scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Broad subject coverage in all academic areas.

Lexis Nexis

  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: varies (most collections 1980's-present)
  • Content: News (full text national, international, business, arts, campus, and foreign language newspapers), Business (news, financial, companies, SEC filings, industry, and market), Legal (news, reviews, state, federal and supreme court cases, state and federal code), Medical (news, journals, and abstracts), and Reference (biographies, country profiles, polls and surveys, quotations, state profiles, and world almanac).

Project Muse  

  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: varies
  • Content: full text Women's and Gender Studies titles include: Differences, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Hypatia, Journal of Women's History, Legacy, and NWSA Journal.

ProQuest PA Research II

  • Access: password restricted (see librarian)
  • Coverage: varies (1980's-present)
  • Content: full-text, abstracts, and citation indexing for over 2,000 periodicals (scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers). Broad subject coverage in all academic areas.

Proquest Psychology Journals

  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: 1987-present
  • Content: abstracts and selected full text of psychology journals covering a wide range of topics including all psychology disciplines, plus related articles in education, business, medicine, nursing, law, and social work.

PsychInfo CD-ROM

  • Access: CD-ROM, library only
  • Coverage: 1887-present
  • Content: citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and book literature in psychology as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Sociological Abstracts

  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: 1963-present
  • Content: abstracts in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences (including psychology) from over 2,600 journals and other publications, including conference papers and dissertations.
Wilson OmniFile  
  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: 1982-present
  • Content: full-text, abstracts, and citation indexing for scholarly journals and magazines. Broad subject coverage in all academic areas.
Wilson Essay and General Literature Index
  • Access: network restricted (proxy server access required for off campus use)
  • Coverage: 1985-2000
  • Content: indexing of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. 

Internet Resources: 

  • Gender Inn ("a searchable database providing access to over 7,500
    records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and
    gender studies focusing on English and American literature.")
  • Genders (online magazine containing essays about gender and sexuality.)
  • Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index ("...journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.")
  • Feminist Theory (research oriented website on feminist theory containing links to fields within feminism, national and ethnic feminisms, and individual feminisms with Web links and bibliographies.)
  • The Lesbian History Project (megasite of lesbian history links including lesbians of color, journals, archives, bibliographies, etc.)
  • Women's Literary Salons Archive, 1975-1985 (digitized documents, letters, newsletters, photographs, announcements, and bibliographies.)
  • WSSLINKS (megasite of links arranged in broad subject areas such as archives, art, health, history, music, politics, lesbian studies, etc.)
  • Letters- Cyber Lyceum (Eckerd Intranet)

  

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