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Gender & Women's
Studies

Subject Specialist: Marilyn Scoville
Questions? mscoville@smcvt.edu  

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Reference

 Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America
REF HQ 76.3 .U5 E53 2004

Encyclopedia of Women in American History
REF HQ 1410 .E53 2002

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide
REF HQ 1115 .G74 2003

Women in World History
REF HQ 1115 .W6 1999

The Women’s Movement Today
REF HQ 1115 .W644 2006
    


 

Websites

  • Directories

ACRL Women's Studies Section
http://libr.org/wss/
Provides links to many women's studies online resources as well as lists of Women's Studies journals and books.

American Women's History: A research guide
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Feminist and Women’s Studies: the University of Kentucky
http://www.uky.edu/Subject/women.html
World Wide Web Subject Catalog from UKY. Provides excellent links to a subject listing of sites including periodicals, organizations, and other resources.

Queer Culture
www.glbtq.com
A comprehensive encyclopedia of art, literature, and social science topics related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities.

Queer Resources Directory
http://www.qrd.org/QRD/
Subject directory to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual resources and information.

WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html
A comprehensive directory of women's studies resources in the areas of art, culture, history, education, health, lesbian studies, politics, religion, philosophy, science and technology.

  • History

American Women through Time
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

Library of Congress Women's History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

American Women: a gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html
Fantastic site for studying women and gender issues during ancient times; provides links and allows searching the site.

Early Modern Women Database
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3

International Museum of Women
http://www.imow.org
Provides links to women's history, discussion groups, forums and virtual exhibits.

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Provides links to organizations, networks and resources along with information about women's history month celebrations and programs.

WWW Virtual Library: Women's History
http://www.iisg.nl/w3vlwomenshistory
Links provided to women's history resources including organizations, discussion lists, collections, journals, etc.

Women Working, 1800-1930
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww
This collection "provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections" and "explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections." 

Women's Studies in Digital Archives
http://www.bama.ua.edu/~mbarrett/WSinDigitalArchives/Home.htm

  • Social Issues

Center for Women and Technology
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
Includes global news, program announcements, and articles of interest to students, faculty, and professionals.

Global Fund for Women
http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw
A nonprofit organization that providing funding and support to women's rights groups around the world.

Feminist Majority Foundation Online
http://www.feminist.org
Addresses action, education, research, and news on feminist issues.

  • Writing Women

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century:
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html  
A wonderful site where  you can search by author, title or genre; or get biographical information.  

A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
This wonderful index of women authors can be searched by name or pseudonyms, ethnicity, century or country of origin from Albania to Zimbabwe.  A major focus of the Celebration is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.

Domestic Goddesses
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/
An E-journal that focuses on women writers of domestic fiction beginning in the 19th century, this also has links to other sites that focus on different time periods. 

Emory Women Writers Resource Project
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html
This collection of edited and unedited texts from women authors writing in English from the seventeenth century through nineteenth century allows both graduate and undergraduates the opportunity to edit their own works.   

The Orlando Project 
http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/
This collaborative project involving participants from Canada, the United States, the British Isles, and Australia is an ongoing work to create an integrated history of women's writing in the British Isles .

Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/vwwp-about.html
This resource provides accurate transcriptions of works by British women authors of the 19th century. 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Selected Sources, Sex and Gender
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1v.html
This site contains a bibliography of works by and about women who were writing in  the Middle Ages; authors are listed alphabetically by the writer's name.   

Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (women-focused)
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/mags.htm
Part of the website from the Women's Studies Librarian's Office of the University of Wisconsin, this resource lists and provides links to women-focused periodicals and articles about women-focused periodicals.

Women Writers Project
http://www.wwp.brown.edu
This resource brings pre-Victorian texts by women into the present by placing them online to improve accessibility for a larger audience.   

Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
http://www.wifp.org
International directory of media by and about women including periodicals, publishers, and media organizations.  Includes a history of women's media: The Development of Communication Networks Among Women, 1963-1983.

 

 

 


 

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