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Print Resources

Reference

Journals

E-Collections

UMD E-Collections

including GenderWatch

Internet Resources

Print Resources in the University Library

Reference

The University Library's Reference Collection contains a number of specialized guides, dictionaries and encyclopedias devoted to women's studies and women's issues. Some of the most useful are listed below.

• Journal Index

Women Studies Abstracts
REF HQ1101 .W6
Vol. 1-7 (1972 - 1978), Vol. 9- (1980 - present)

• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
REF PN 6081.5 .B43 1992

Concise Glossary of Feminist Theory
REF HQ 1115 .A53 1997

Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories
REF HQ 1190 .E63 2000

Historical Dictionary of Feminism
REF HQ 1115 .B65 1996

Women's Desk Reference
REF HQ 1236.5 .U6 F73 1993

Women's Studies Encyclopedia
REF HQ 1115 .W645

• Research Guides

American Women's History
REF HQ 1115 .W4 1994

The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
REF PN 471 .B57 1992

Chronicle of Women's History
REF HQ 1121 .O47 1994

Handbook of American Women's History
REF HQ 1410 .H36 1990

International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
REF GV 709 .I58 2001

The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
REF PS 147 .094 1995

Readers' Companion to American Women's History
REF HQ 1410 .H36 1990

Readers' Guide to Women's Studies
REF HQ 1180 .R43 1998

Resourceful Woman: Contacts and Connections
REF HQ 1115 .B83 1994

Timetables of Women's History
REF HQ 1121 .G74 1994

United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990
REF HQ 1410 .H85 1993

Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography
REF HQ 1180 .L63 1987

• Statistical Resources

American Women: Who They Are and How They Live
REF HQ 1421 . A486 1997

Statistical Handbook on Women in America
REF HQ 1420 .T34 1991

Statistical Record of Women Worldwide
REF HQ 1150 .S73 1991

• Biographical Resources

Note: This is a sample of types of reference works available. Most are shelved in Reference, but some are shelved in the General Collection. For additional materials, check the Voyager Library Catalog. If you find something useful on the list below, you can look for similar materials in the same call number area; be sure to browse both the Reference and General Collections. Don't hesitate to ask for assistance at the Reference Desk or to contact the Women's Studies Librarian for further help.

African American Women
REF E185.96 A45 1993

American Women Civil Rights Activists: Bio-bibliographies of 68 Leaders, 1825-1992
General Collection JC599.U5 H273 1993

American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present: A Biographical Dictionary
REF Q141 .B254 1998

American Women Managers and Administrators: A Selective Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Leaders in Business, Education, and Government
General Collection HC102.5.A2 L37 1985

Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America Since 1850
REF BN 6757 .D86 1990

Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers
REF PN481 . E5 1991

Feminist Writers
REF PN451 .F46 1996

Great Lives from History - American Women
REF HQ1412 .G74 1995

Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary
REF PR830.D4 G74 1994

International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
REF ML105 .C7 1987

Women and the Military: An Encyclopedia
REF U21.75 .S54 1996

Journals

Journals and magazines held by the UMass Dartmouth Library are shelved alphabetically by title on the 3rd floor of the library. For complete holdings information, please check the Voyager online catalog or the SMCL (Southeastern Massachusetts Cooperating Libraries) Union List of Serials (available at the Reference Desk).

Women's Studies students and faculty may find these publications of particular interest:

• Belles Letters
• Feminist Issues (continued by Gender Issues)
• Feminist Studies: FS
• Hypatia
• Lilith
• NWSA Journal
• Off Our Backs
• Psychology of Women Quarterly
• Signs
• Sojourner
• Women's Art Journal
• Women's Studies Quarterly
• Working Woman

Electronic Resources
in the University Library

The University Library provides access to a number of databases for the use of the University community, including a database devoted to women's studies issues:

GenderWatch
GenderWatch provides full-text access to a variety of magazines and journals dealing with women's studies, gender studies and gay/lesbian studies.

Depending on the focus of your research or the area you are interested in, a number of databases may prove useful. For example, articles about women in education or educational issues regarding women and girls can be located in ERIC. Articles dealing with women and health issues can be found in databases such as InfoTrac's Health Reference Center. Citations to articles about feminism or women and social issues are located in Social Sciences Index. Please refer to the Subject Guide for E-Resources or consult with a Reference Librarian for assistance in selecting appropriate databases.

Also remember that one of the best tools for finding articles about topics relating to women is Women Studies Abstracts, which is available only in print .

Internet Resources
outside the University Library

In addition to materials physically held by the Library, the Library provides users access to resources on the Internet. The following list contains links to a sampling of web sites that are available. These include research guides, full-text electronic archives, and informational pages from various centers and organizations. Many more web sites are certainly available; these are just a few that have proven useful to previous researchers. Be sure to evaluate carefully when you find other web sites through commercial search engines.

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement Electronic archive of papers and documents courtesy of the Duke Library Scriptorium
• Feminist Majority Online
• Feminist Theory Website Maintained by Kristin Switala, hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University
• Gender Inn from the University of Koln, a searchable database providing citations to articles and books - especially strong in literary studies
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• Voice of the Shuttle
• WomensNet (Institute for Global Communications)
• Women's Resources on the Internet University of North Carolina (Sunsite)
• Women & Politics, a quarterly journal of research and policy studies
• Women in Higher Education
• Women Writers: includes an online literary magazine, plus links to a variety of other sites

Links to Women Who Have Made an Impact

The following links contain information on prominent women who have made an impact on politics, the arts, literature and social issues:

• Margaret Chase Smith - www.mcslibrary.org
• Margaret Thatcher - www.margaretthatcher.org
• Mary Roberts Rinehart - www.members.aol.com/MG4273/rinehart.htm
• Edith Wharton - www.edithwharton.org
• Jacqueline Kennedy - www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html
• Pat Nixon - www.nixonfoundation.org/theNixons/PatNixon.shtml
• Betty Friedan - www.americanwriters.org/writers/friedan.asp
• Gertrude Lawrence -
  www.maurice-abravanel.com/lawrence_gertrude.html
• Rose Kennedy - www.wic.org/bio/rkennedy.htm