Subject Guide — Women's Studies

Background Information

•     The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues Ref HQ1115 .G74 2003
•     Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge Ref HQ 1115 .R69 2000
•     Women's studies encyclopedia Ref HQ 1115 .W645 1989
•     Women's issues Ref HQ 1115 .W6425 1997

Electronic Reference Books

This full-text collection of more than 470 e-reference books includes many that are related to women's studies. This collection can be searched by keywords in the book or chapter title, author, or complete text.

A representative selection of available titles is listed here:

•  Women and Equality in the Workplace: A Reference Handbook
• Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World

Reference Resources

• Encyclopedia of women and world religion Ref BL 458 .E53 1999
• Encyclopedia of women in American politics Ref HQ 1236.5.U6 E53 1999
• Encyclopedia of women's history in America Ref HQ 1410 .C85 2000
• Great lives from history. American women series Ref HQ 1412 .G74 1995
• Women in the Third World: an encyclopedia of contemporary issues Ref HQ 1870.9 .W6548 1998
• The women's chronology: a year-by-year record from prehistory to the present Ref HQ 112 .T73 1994

• American women in science: a biographical dictionary Ref Q 141 .B25 1994
• American men & women of science Ref Q 141 .A474
• Women in chemistry and physics: a bibliographic sourcebook Ref QD 21 .W62 1993

• Masterplots II. Women's literature series Ref PN 471 .M37 1995
• North American women artists of the twentieth century Ref N 6503 .N67 1995
• The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United States Ref PS 147 .O94 1995
• Women in film: an international guide Ref PN 1995.9.W6 W657 1991

• • Biographies of American women Ref Z7963 .B6 S88 1990
  • The International who's who of women Ref CT 3203 .I58 1st ed
  • Notable Black American women. book III Ref E 185.96 .N68 2003
  • Prominent women of the 20th century Ref CT 3235 .S2 1995
  • American National Biography Database
    Biographical dictionary of about 17,500 notable American men and women from all eras of American history who are no longer alive. Includes illustrations and hypertext links to other web resources.
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  • Biography Index Database
    This database indexes articles in journals, newspapers, etc.; articles or chapters in books; entire books (individual biographies); and collective biographies (reference works with many biographical entries).
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