Selected Women's and Gender Studies  Resources
Emily M. Belcher
July 23, 2003

I. Bibliographies, Indexes, and Abstracts

Contemporary Women's Issues
http://search.rdsinc.com/texis/rds/sessions
A selective full-text resource of journal articles, newsletters, research reports, and book reviews covering the following topics in women's studies: reproductive rights, psychology, sexuality, human rights, violence, and politics.  The scope is international, and coverage is from 1992 to the present.  Many of the publications are not readily available in the library.

Women's Resources International
http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname=QWRI
One of the best cross-disciplinary databases in the field, WRI was launched in 1996 as a cd-rom.  Now available on the web, WRI is comprised of the following bibliographic and abstract resources: Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present); Women's Studies Database (1972-present); New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present); WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies (1985-90); Women, Race, and Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-90); The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines (1975-95) selective coverage; Indexes to Women's Studies Anthologies (1980-89); European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography (1610-present); POPLINE: Subset on Women (1964 and earlier-present); and Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995).

Women's Studies on Disc
WSD is the electronic version of G.K. Hall's Women's Studies Index, (DR) Z7962.W66.  It is international in scope but primary emphasis is on United States publications, from 1989 to the present.  Bibliographic citations to popular and scholarly journals deal with all aspects of women's and gender studies, including feminist and lesbian issues.

International Institute of Social History - Women's History
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html
ViVa is one of several digital resources of the International Institute of Social History.  Founded in 1935, IISH is one of the largest documentary research institutes in the field of social history and the history of labor movements.  ViVa is a bibliography of scholarly articles on women's and gender history published in over 160 journals from 1975 to the present.  Articles are published in English, French, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

GenderWatch
http://gw.softlineweb.com/searchFrame.asp
Formerly called Women R, GW is a full-text database of newsletters, research reports, articles, regional publications, NGO and government reports issued primarily from 1980 to the present.  However, GW contains some archival resources from the 1970's.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
http://swa.metapress.com/app/home/main.asp?wasp=5g048mqgxk4wvrjgvkwp
Formerly Studies on Women Abstracts, SWGA, is an international abstracting service that treats the main areas of women and gender studies.  Coverage is from 1995 to the present, and abstracts are linked to some full-text sources.  The print edition of Studies on Women Abstracts, 1983 to 2003 is available in (DR) HQ1180 .S78.

II. History

American Women's History: A Research Guide
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
"American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources."

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
An interdisciplinary web site produced by the Stoa Consortium.  Stoa is a project designed to produce "new models for scholarly publication in the humanities." Diotima database contains bibliographies, anthologies, essays, and images for the study gender patterns around the ancient Mediterranean.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
An excellent database for users interested in women in the Middle Ages.  Types of resources indexed include essays in books, scholarly journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews about gender, sexuality, and women published from 1992 to 2001.  In addition, users will find publications about art, architecture, iconography, politics, religious life, masculinity, and male homosexuality.  At present, Feminae has nearly 7,000 citations published in English, French, German, and Spanish.  Beginning in 2001, publications in Italian are also represented.  Plans are underway to link to full-text articles available in JSTOR and Project MUSE.

Library of Congress
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/
This gateway is the electronic version of American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, (F) Z7164.U5 A47 2001.  The updated and expanded web site offers users access to some of the digitized holdings of the Library of Congress, and the American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.  Internal links permit access to relevant Library of Congress Exhibitions' web pages, digital content, home pages and lists of finding aids for American Memory Historical Collections.

Library of Congress
American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
By Popular Demand:  "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Votes for Women is part of the larger series entitled, By Popular Demand.  For the first time, the Library of Congress will make available digitized images of high-demand prints and images drawn from the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscripts Division.  Votes for Women contains only 38 pictures of suffrage parades, suffragists and anti-suffrage activities, and cartoons.  Text documents are available in "'Votes for Women': Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920."

Library of Congress
American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Only 167 items documenting the campaign for women's suffrage were selected from the NAWSA Collection and digitized for the American Memory Historical Collections Project.  This collection complements "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDlive/
NWLD  is projected to be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence written from Colonial times to 1950.  The databases contain approximately 150,000 published and unpublished letters and diaries drawn from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, and monographs.  All ethnicities, numerous geographical regions, and the famous and not so famous are represented.   Arranged in two parts, documents represent individual letters or a month of diary entries, and sources are collections of letters or diary entries as published in a book, journal, or in a manuscript collection. There are 1,070 authors and 512 works.

III. Literature

Brown University
Women Writers Project: Women Writers Online
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/index.html
The collection of WWO is a full-text database of over 200 works published by English and American women from 1400 to 1850.  A special subset of WWO is Renaissance Women Online.  Works are listed by author, title, and date of publication.  Users may consult other related women writers projects that complement WWP, such as The Orlando Project, which is a history of women's writing in the British Isles.  The objective is to produce a five-volume print set and a searchable electronic textbase.  The Perdita Project: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations, "will produce an online guide to over 400 manuscript  compilations around the world."  The majority of manuscripts were compiled during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and contain poetry, cookery, and autobiographical works. Women Writers Resource Project at Emory University is a pedagogical tool for text editing by undergraduates and graduate students. Users may access edited and unedited works written by women from the seventeeth through the nineteenth centuries.  Although limited in terms of texts represented, the database offers users access points by genre, ethnicity, form, geography and time period.

Brown University
Women Writers Project: Women Writers Online - Renaissance Women Online
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/rwoentry.html
A subset of Brown University's Women Writers Online, RWO will have about 100 Renaissance texts drawn from the main Women Writers Project.  The database contains topical essays about the life and writings of women, and contextual introductions.

New York Public Library
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Digital Schomburg African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
During the nineteenth-century, laws were enacted banning the teaching of reading and writing to the majority of  African-Americans held in bondage.  Inspite of laws limiting access to education many did learn to read and write.  As part of the Digital Schomburg, this web site provides full-text access to 50 literary works produced by African-American women in the nineteenth-century.

Association of College and Research Libraries
Women's Studies Section (WSSLinks)
Literature and Culture Links
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html

IV. Biography

Hine, Darlene, Clark, ed.  Black women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.  Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1993. (DR) Oversize E185.86 .B542 1993q

Ireland, Norma Olin.  Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times; Biographies and Portraits. Westwood, Mass., F. W. Faxon Co., 1970.  (DR) (Holden) Z7963.B6 I73

Commire, Anne, ed.  Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.  Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, c1999-.
(DR) HQ1115 .W6 1999

Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.  (DR) (Holden) CT3260 .N57

Notable American Women, The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980. (DR) (Holden) CT3260 .N573

V. Politics and Law

Cox, Elizabeth M.  Women in Modern American Politics: A Bibliography 1900-95.  Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997.
(F) (Stokes) Z7963.P64 C69 1997

Inter-Parliamentary Union
Women in Politics: A Bibliography
http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp
An annotated bibliography pertaining to gender and women's participation in politics.  Sponsored by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations Development Programme, the database is international in scope and provides access to books, scholarly articles, and reports published around the world.

RLG Digital Collections Project
Marriage, Women, and the Law, 1815-1914--Studies in Scarlet
http://www.rlg.org/scarlet/index.html
The Studies in Scarlet project concerns family law and domestic relations in the 19th century.  Seven major research institutions, including Princeton, contributed primary and secondary materials.  Princeton's contribution pertains to the practice of polygamy among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1852 through the end of the century.  Users will find case reports, statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters on such topics as marriage, divorce, adultery, miscegenation, polygamy, and birth control.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Eagleton Institute of Politics: Center for American Women and Politics
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/index.html
Founded in 1971, "the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is a university-based research, education and public service center.  Its mission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women's participation in politics and goverment and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life."  CAWP publishes a number of online Fact Sheets, Research and Education reports, and Publications List about women's political activites on local, state, and federal levels.
                  

VI. Government Documents and Statistics

Huls, Mary Ellen. United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993- .  (F) Z7964.U49 H85 1993

LexisNexis Statistical Universe
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv/form/stat/s_abstract.html?_m=

U.S. Bureau of Census
Products on Gender
http://landview.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/women02.html
An index to "census publications containing information on gender."

U.S. Bureau of Census
Women's Statistics News Releases
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/women.html

U.S. Bureau of Census
Women in the United States
http://landview.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/ppl-121.html
These tables are derived from the March 2000 supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS).  Users may access demographic, social, and economic variables of women in the United States.

University of Wisconsin System
Statistical Resources on Women and Gender
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/stats.htm

Women's Indicators and Statistics (WiStat)
An international statistical database of gender, population, and social development, WiStat was developed by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.   The cd-rom contains detailed data for over 200 countries, and is arranged in nine categories that are further subdivided into narrower topics.  Data is available for 1970, 1980, and 1990.  Users will also find data for the latest year only, and other topics include data projections up to 2010.  The cd-rom is available in the Social Science Reference Center.

VII. Women of Color and International Resources

University of California at Berkeley
International Gender Studies Resources
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/GlobalGender/

University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Women of Color Resource Sites
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_wc.html

University of Wisconsin System
Women of Various Countries, Ethnicities, Races, and Other Group Identities
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/woc.htm

Making Face, Making Soul...A Chicanas Feminisms Homepage
http://www.chicanas.com/academica.html

University of Texas  at Austin
Latin American Network Information Center: Women & Gender Studies
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/women/

UN Internet Gateway to the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
WomenWatch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

VIII. Multi-Disciplinary Internet Directories

Academic Info
Women's Studies
http://www.academicinfo.net/women.html

University of Wisconsin System
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm

Feminist Majority Foundation
Feminist Internet Gateway
http://www.feminist.org/gateway/1_gatway.html

Virginia Tech University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture: Feminist Theory Website
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/enin.html

Ingenta: Gender Studies Resources
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/VisitSubjectResource/ingenta?subject=240
One of 15 subject areas offering users "the best free research content on the web."  Users may browse and search for statistical data, e-prints, gray literature, reference resources, technical reports, images and much more.

Northern Arizona University
Women's Studies, Feminist, and Gender Periodicals & Journals
http://www.nau.edu/~wst/access/periodichome.html

Internet Scout Project
Scout Report Archives: Women
http://scout.wisc.edu/archives/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=1079
"A searchable archive of the best of the net's resources from the Scout Report, the Scout Report for Science & Engineering, the Scout
Report for Social Sciences & Humanities, and the Scout Report for Business & Economics.  Resources are cataloged and browseable by
Library of Congress Subject Headings."

University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Women-Related Web Sites in the Arts and Humanities
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_arts.html

University of Maryland
Women's Studies Database
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/

University of Wisconsin System
Women's Studies Librarian's Office
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/

Association of College & Research Libraries
Women's Studies Section: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html