Women's & Gender Studies

Key Databases (Please note, you must be on campus or connected via the Proxy or VPN to access the key databases listed below)

• Defining Gender Provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.
• Everyday Life and Women in America  c. 1800-1920 Showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Gender Studies Collection  The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
• GenderWatch  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.
• LGBT Life with Full Text  Lesbian, Gay, 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.
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
• Sylvia: "Inspired by Sylvia Plath's tenacity and curiosity, this growing resource of hand-selected entries identifies recent books for researchers, scholarly editions, selected memoirs, and notable works for a general audience. Records include citations that can be copied and inclusive subject categories linked to related material."
• Web of Science Provides access to the world's leading citation indexes.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000 The collection of primary resourses currently includes 94 document projects and archives with more than 3,750 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,100 authors.
• Women's Studies International  Women’s Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts and humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites and web documents and grey literature from 1972 (and earlier) to the present.

Selected Online Bibliographies and Resource Guides

Contemporary

• Asian American Feminist Collective
• Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography an extensive bibliography of multidisciplinary Black American feminist thought.
• Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution an online exhibit from Clio Visualizing History
• Feminist Theory Website  Provides research materials and information for students, activists and scholars. Explore various fields within feminist theory, different national/ethnic feminisms and individual feminists.
• gender Inn A searchable database providing access to over 8,400 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.
• Gender Studies: Foundations and Key Concepts JSTOR Daily
• Gifts of Speech: Women Speeches from Around the World
• H-Women - H-Net Internet Links for Women
• Institute for Women's Policy Research Founded in 1987, this organization conducts and disseminates research on domestic women's issues.
• Title IX: Working to Ensure Gender Equity in Education. Report by the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Women in Politics Searchable database of references to books and articles on women in politics provided by the UN Inter-Parliamentary Union.
• 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...

Historical

• Studies in Scarlet Includes American, British, and Irish cases from 1815-1914 involving domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children, as well as trials for murder and rape. These trials are especially rich sources for the study of the history of women in early modern society.
• Victorian Web - Gender Matters
• Victorian Women Writers Project Transcriptions of works by 19th c. British women.
• Women Archives Library Information Center US National Archives – historical documents.
• Women in the National Archives
• Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982. Recordings by Alice B. Toklas and Anais Nin among others. These audio files require Real  Audio Player.
• Woman Suffrage Memorabilia  A site devoted to such artifacts as buttons, post cards, ribbons, sheet music, and ceramics.
• Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa  A database with more than 1800 citations.
• World Quilts: The American Story - website developed by the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.

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Reference books are great sources:

• to help you choose and/or refine your topic;
• to provide an overview;
• to find additional primary and secondary resources.

Looking for specific reference books on a subject?

Blogs

• Forbidden Discourse: The Silencing of Feminist Criticism of "Gender".
• Meeting Ground OnLine; A blogzine dedicated to organizing for the liberation of women and working people.
• Notches "A peer-reviewed, collaborative and international history of sexuality blog."

Zines Online

• Sallie Bingham Center at Duke University  Links to Zine Collections: https://guides.library.duke.edu/zines/collections

• International Museum of Women
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• National Women's History Museum
• Women's Museums in the United States