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Resource Guide for Research in Gender Studies
Reference Works | Databases | Web Resources

Includes Women's Studies as well as Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Studies. However, please refer to the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual pathfinder at http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/hsslgbr.html for more complete information.

Reference Works

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
(located in SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating))  

  • The ABC-CLIO companion to women's progress in America  HQ1410 .F76 1994   
  • Celebrating women coaches : a biographical dictionary GV697.A1 H367 2000   
  • Encyclopedia of feminist theories HQ1190 .E63 
  • Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America [electronic resource HQ76.3.U5 E53 2003 and Online.
  • Encyclopedia of women's history in America HQ1410 .C85 2000   
  • The Gay and lesbian literary heritage : a reader's companion to the writers and their works, from antiquity to the present PN56.H57 G365 1995   
  • From suffrage to the Senate : an encyclopedia of American women in politics HQ1236.5.U6 S32 1999
  • Gay histories and cultures : an encyclopedia HQ75.13 .G37 2000    
  • Historical and multicultural encyclopedia of women's reproductive rights in the United States HQ766.5.U5 H57 2002
  • International encyclopedia of women and sports GV709 .I58 2001   
  • International encyclopedia of women's suffrage JF851 .H28 2000   
  • Lesbian histories and cultures : an encyclopedia HQ75.5 .L4395 2000   
  • Rout ledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge HQ1115 .R69 2000   
  • Women, a modern political dictionary HQ1595.A3 L39x 2000   

Handbooks
(located in SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) unless otherwise noted)   

  • International handbook on gender roles SMATHERS LIBRARY   HQ1075 .I58 1993   
  • Handbook of American women's history HQ1410 .H36 2000   
  • Notable women in American history : a guide to recommended biographies and autobiographies CT3260 .A27 1999

Bibliographies and Research Guides
(located in SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating))   

  • American women writers, 1900-1945: a bio bibliographical critical sourcebook PS151 .A45 2000 
  • Gender equality in education : a select annotated bibliography West Retrieval   LC212.9 .H85 2001 
  • Women in U.S. history : a resource guide HQ1410 .H364 2000   
  • Women playwrights of diversity : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook PS338.W6 P48 1997   
  • Women's information services and networks : a global source book. LIBRARY WEST   HQ1177 .W661 1999   

Atlases, Almanacs and Statistical Sources
(located in SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) unless otherwise noted)      

  • The American women's almanac : an inspiring and irreverent women's history   HQ1410 .B47 1997   
  • The Rout ledge historical atlas of women in America MAP LIBRARY, Atlases (Non-Circulating)   HQ1410 .P68 2000   
  • Statistical handbook on women in America HQ1420 .T34 1996   
  • The women's atlas of the United States G1201.E1 G5 1995   

Indexes to Magazine and Journal Articles

This is a selected list of electronic and print resources at UF to help identify articles in magazines and journals. To access the online databases, go to the UF Libraries' Databases page at http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/databases.html and type in the first few letters of Database name in the Quick Search box. Click on the "Connect Now" hyperlink for the appropriate database. For a more complete list of electronic resources in this area, select the "DB" hyperlink for Multicultural Studies from Databases -> Databases by Subject -> Multicultural link.  You can also try searching in subject related databases, such as literature or history databases. Licensed only for UF students, faculty and staff, unless accessed on-campus.

  • America : History and Life
  • Anthropology Plus
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Left Index
  • Lexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
  • Contemporary Women's Issues Online.  Provides global information on women in over 150 countries regarding development, pay equity, education, politics, family life, reproductive rights, gender equity, sociology, health, violence and exploitation, human rights, women, legal status, the workplace and, lesbian concerns.
  • LGBT Life with Full Text (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) with Full Text) Online. Indexes the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues, including the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines, regional newspapers, and monographs. GLBT Life was created with the assistance of the One National Gay & Lesbian Archives, which holds a very significant collection of archival and present content in the area of GLBT studies.
  • GenderWatch Online.   Provides coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's daily lives, and of the impact of gender and gender roles on the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure
  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries
  • Studies on women and gender abstracts SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating)   HQ1180 .S78
  • Women's Studies International Online. Includes Women's Studies Abstracts and Women's Studies Database.

Selected Periodicals

Check the UF Libraries Catalog for specific periodical holdings, or to find a journal that is not listed.   Choose the magazine/journal title search, and type in the name of the journal that you wish to find.

  • The American woman SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) HQ1402 .A4   
  • Media report to women SMATHERS LIBRARY, Reference (Non-Circulating) HQ1402 .M44   
  • Women's studies quarterly West Retrieval, Periodicals   HQ 1181 .U5 W657   

Web Resources

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Women's Studies 

Bibliographies and Resource Guides | Associations and Organizations | Histories and Digital Collections

Bibliographies and Resource Guides

  • American Women's History: A Research Guide was selected as one of the Best Free Reference Web Sites (2004) and is maintained by Ken Middleton, reference/microforms librarian at MTSU Library.
  • Digital Librarian: Women's Resources provides a librarian's choice of the best of the web and contains an index to links for Internet sites covering a wide range of topics in the field of women's studies research.
  • Fogler Library Internet Subject Guide: Women developed by Fogler Library, The University of Maine.
  • The National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, provides bibliographies and histories, and consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library of Congress' larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938.
  • Pathway Services Browse Topics: Women lists Federal government sites, compiled by The University of Maine.
  • ViVa contains a bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history, provided by the International Institute of Social History.
  • The Women's Resource Project is a collection of feminist links and resources on feminism and women's studies, Jewish feminism, African American women and womanist studies, and women's art, literature, and history. Developed at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 1994.
  • Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated list of sites covering general, women's studies and feminist theory, compiled by Joan Korenman.

Associations and Organizations

  • Feminist Majority Foundation Online provides information on women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. 
  • Gender & Sexuality Associations provided by The Internet Public Library Associations on the Net.
  • National Organization for Women is dedicated to making legal, political, social and economic change in our society in order to achieve our goal, which is to eliminate sexism and end all oppression.
  • National Women's History Project is an educational nonprofit organization to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs.
  • Remember the Women Institute supports and conducts research in women's studies and women in history, with a special emphasis on the Holocaust period. Provides information on current projects and a bibliography of English language works.

Histories and Digital Collections

  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 is a digital collection maintained by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. 
  • Women Artists of the American West: Past and Present is a searchable site exploring "the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American West" and features illustrated essays arranged by themes of community, identity, spirituality, and locality. Topics include Asian American Artists, Lesbian Photography on the U.S. West Coast, Women on the Pacific Rim, and The Women in Photography International Archive."

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Bisexual/Gay/Lesbian Studies

For a more complete list of resources on this particular area of study, access the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Resources pathfinder, a resource guide, at http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/hsslgbr.html.

Selected Resources

 

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