Women's Studies Subject Resource Guide

WOMEN'S STUDIES
SUBJECT RESOURCE GUIDE

This site reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Women's Studies and contains selected sources that highlight women's contributions to the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences. In addition, it identifies sources that focus on gender issues, sexuality, women of color, the role of women in the family, feminist theory, and the history of the women's movement.

Finding Books

Library Catalog
Collection of books, government documents and audiovisual material found in the Axinn Library and the Deane Law Library. If Hofstra does not own a specific item, request it through Interlibrary Loan.

ebrary
Collection of over 23,000 electronic books in all disciplines that can be accessed through Research Databases or Library Catalog. If outside the Axinn Library Computer Lab, you must download the ebrary reader. (Instructions can be found under "Get ebrary Reader" link in the database).

WorldCat
Catalog containing over 54 million records, representing the holdings of thousands of libraries. Items found in WorldCat that are not owned by Axinn Library may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Finding Articles

The Axinn Library provides over one hundred online databases containing citations and often full-text articles from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers. These databases are listed alphabetically and by subject under Research Databases on the Library home page. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of Women's Studies, many of our databases could be appropriate for conducting your research. Below is a selected group.

Academic Search Premier
Full-text, multi-disciplinary database containing scholarly, peer-reviewed publications. Also contains indexing and abstracting for all journals in the collection.

Alternative Press Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

AnthroSource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), This full-text database brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public.

Dissertation Abstracts
Indexes dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index)
Offers in-depth coverage of Latin America and related issues with coverage spanning more than twenty-five years, from 1970 to the present. Now containing more than 210,000 citations.

JSTOR
Multidisciplinary database of full-text articles from a collection of scholarly journals which includes coverage from Volume I, Issue 1, up to a "moving wall" ranging from 3-5 years prior to the present date.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Full-text interdisciplinary database accessing newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legislative histories and statistics.

MLA International Bibliography
Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. Provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Contains some full-text articles.

MasterFILE Select
Provides full text from 750 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, humanities, and multi-cultural periodicals

New York Times Historical
The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Philosopher's Index
Primary indexing and abstracting service for philosophers and students of philosophy. Provides coverage of all major philosophy journals in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, as well as publications from related fields. Selected books are also indexed.

Project Muse
Project Muse contains the full text of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Hofstra University licenses the Johns Hopkins University Press journals only.

PsychInfo
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Women and Social Movements in the United States
Organized around 65 document projects with 1900 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements website offers new approaches for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History.

Finding Journals

To ascertain if the Axinn LIbrary has access to a specific journal, go to Journal Finder on the Library homepage and type in the name of the journal. If we do not have access to the item, make a request through InterLibrary Loan.

Reference Print Sources
(Harold E. Yuker Reference Library)

Encyclopedias

Ref. E185.5 .B542 2004 vol.1-2
Black Women in America: an historical encyclopedia
Alphabetized list of thematic and theoretical essays that deal with the constructs of class and gender.

Ref. BL2525 .B45 1998
Encyclopedia of American women and religion
Includes articles on individuals, denominations, groups and associations that dealt with women's influence on religion since Colonial times. Also includes an important chronology

Ref. HQ1115 .E43 2001
Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender
Provides comprehensive coverage of the many topics that encompass current research and scholarship on the psychology of women and gender.

Ref. HQ1170 .E53 2003
Encyclopedia of women and Islamic Cultures
This three-volume set is a broad-based, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural encyclopedia that focuses specifically on women and Islamic cultures.

Ref. HQ1127 .S25 2001
Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world
This useful tool includes 230 alphabetically-organized articles. The entries include individual women as well as social concepts such as contraception, abortion and prostitution.

Ref. RA778 .G39 2002
Encyclopedia of women's health issues
In more than 200 entries, terms are defined, and the health problems and issues surrounding them are explained.

Ref. HQ1115 .G74 2003 vol.1-6
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide.
Six-volume set presenting authoritative, comprehensive and current data on a broad range of contemporary women's issues in more than 130 countries around the world.

Ref. JF851 .H28 2000
International encyclopedia of women's suffrage
Entries are alphabetically arranged by topic; includes articles on the women's suffrage movement from different parts of the world and individual countries.

Ref. HQ75.5 .L4395 2000
Lesbian histories and cultures: an encyclopedia
Two volumes that concentrate on gay and lesbian history and culture.
Each volume consists of alphabetically-listed, signed entries by outstanding experts in these two complex and separate fields.

Ref. HQ1115 .R69 2000
Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge
Alphabetically lists 900 entries on a broad range of women's issues written by scholars in the field.

Ref. HQ1143 .W643 2004
Women in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia
Offers over 300 entries containing both basic and in-depth information on individual women and on broad topics relating to the experience of women in Europe and elsewhere in the world between the second and fifteenth centuries.

Ref. HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998
Women in the Third World: an encyclopedia of contemporary issues
Consists of 68 essays on developing countries written by established scholars, well-known activists, and important figures in feminist literature.

Ref. HQ1115 .W644 2006
The women's movement today : an encyclopedia of third-wave feminism
Includes 200 alphabetically arranged, signed entries, written by key activists and many entries conclude with a further reading section. Encyclopedia is the first to introduce the movement's "key issues, members, visions, writings, and more."

Ref. HQ1115 .W645 1989
Women's Studies Encyclopedia
3-volume set that concentrates on interdisciplinary feminist research. Articles are signed and are a good starting point for researchers new to the field.

Biographical Sources

Ref. HQ1136 .L54 2000
Biographical dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman women
Alphabetically-organized compilation of 447 entries highlighting women who lived in Roman and Greece from the 7th to 4th century B.C.

Ref. PS151 .C665 2002
Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide
Includes biographical articles on American women poets who published a significant part of their work from 1946 to the present.

Ref. N8354 .D53 1997
Dictionary of women artists
Comprehensive two-volume set that includes 600 biographical entries of women artists born before 1945.

Ref. HQ1410 .E53 2002
Encyclopedia of women in American history
Three volumes contain biographical and topical essays that deal with women's lives and accomplishments. Include bibliographies and volume indexes.

Ref. HQ1143 .l38 2001
Encyclopedia of women in the Middle Ages
Profiles women from 500 to 1500 C.E. Biographical entries include information on women's issues during that time period.

Ref. PQ149 .F47 1999
The feminist encyclopedia of French literature
A biographical dictionary that presents a vast amount of information
on feminist and literary topics.

Ref. PQ6055 .F46 2002
The feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature
Useful biographical tool that includes signed articles about Spanish women writers from the Middle Ages to the present.

Ref. ML105 .C7
International encyclopedia of women composers
Includes 5,000 women composers from nearly 70 countries with complete biographies of 3,700 composers.

Ref. Q141 . H2167 2001
International Women in Science: a biographical dictionary to 1950
Covering the time period from 1600 to women in the 1950s, this dictionary contains 360 alphabetically-arranged biographical articles.

Ref. PR8733 .I75 2006
Irish women writers: an A-to-Z guide
Covers 74 Irish women novelists, poets, and playwrights from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Ref. ML82.W625 2002
Women and music in America since 1900 : an encyclopedia.
400-plus biographical entries written by leading musicologists.

Ref. R692 .W545 2002
Women in Medicine
Contains 250 biographical entries of women who have made significant contributions to the field of medicine.

Dictionaries

Ref. HQ1075 .D52 1984
A Dictionary of sexist quotations
Quotations are arranged by topics that are listed in the front of the book. Includes an index of authors and sources.

Ref. PE1689 .F54 1987
Fields' reference book of non-sexist words and phrases
Clear and concise guide to non-sexist language.

Ref. HQ1115 .B65 2004
Historical Dictionary of Feminism
Contains useful and succinct information about the history of the feminist movement.

Ref. PN491.3 .M55 2006
The Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature
Includes several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important writers such as Sappho, Colette, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many other less well known authors. Also includes a chronology, and an introduction depicting the progression of the genre, and a bibliography.

Selected Websites

4000 Years of Women in Science
Attempts to bring together biographical information, photographs and reference and historical material on women in science dating back 4000 years.

Core List of Journals for Women Studies
Compiled by Academic and Research Libraries Association to assist women's studies librarians in building collections. These serials offer a foundation for study and research from a feminist perspective.

Directory of Women's Media
Created by the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, a directory of media owned and operated by women. It includes both print and online titles and provides a good source for feminist writers looking for places to submit work. Areas of unique coverage include women's radio groups, news services, film and video groups and bookstore.

Feminist Theory Website
Constructed in three parts: 1) various fields within feminist theory; 2) different national/ethnic feminisms; and 3) individual feminists

Gay and Lesbian Politics
A selective, annotated guide to the best and most authoritative resources on politics, law, and policy.

International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism
Goal is to identify and either feature or link to the locations where ephemera and artifacts of the Second Wave are currently found, along with the current whereabouts of its leaders and members. It is also committed to featuring current theory and debate on contemporary issues.

Lesbian Herstory Archives
Houses the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities. Includes books, magazines, journals, news clippings (from establishment, Feminist or Lesbian media), bibliographies, photos, historical information, tapes, films, diaries, oral histories, poetry and prose, biographies, autobiographies, notices of events, posters, graphics, and other memorabilia.

The Varo Registry of Women Artists
Comprehensive registry of contemporary women artists. Provides women artists with their own personal webpage where they can their work and biographical information. Also includes a Library with research material on women artists.

Women's History
This page lists annotated links of various comprehensive sources of U.S. and global women's history.

Women's History Resources (U. of Wisconsin)
Comprehensive website that includes bibliographies, short topical core lists in women's studies, catalog of the UW System Women's Studies Audiovisual Collection, descriptions of other publications.

Women's Studies: A Research Guide from NYPL
The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library are one of the most important resource centers for Women's Studies. In addition to vast retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, NYPL has a strong collection of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship.

Women's Studies Database
The University of Maryland women's studies web site, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Site
Selective annotated website listing of resources created by Association of College and Research Libraries with emphasis on sites of particular interest to an academic women's studies program.

Primary Sources

American Memory
Historical collections from the National Digital Library, Library of Congress.
Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of women in the United States

A Celebration of Women Writers
Provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers and complete published books written by
women.

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Material in this on-line archival collection documents various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States. Focuses specifically on the radical origins of the movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.

The Emma Goldman Papers
University of California at Berkeley has collected, organized and edited
thousands of documents from around the world by and about Emma Goldman.

Monastic Matrix
An award-winning website that contains resources for the study of women's
religious communities.

Women and Social Movements in the United States
Organized around 65 document projects with 1900 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History.

Statistics

Center for American Women and Politics
The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is a university-based research, education and public service center whose mission is to promote greater knowledge and understanding about women's participation in politics and government.

Products on Gender
Information on Census publications containing statistics on gender.

UNECE Gender Statistics Website
Site maintained by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Highlights trends in Europe and North America.