Introduction to Gender Studies

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Selected Microforms:

History of Women. The complete collection is available in Hesburgh Library. To access the collection use the paper index to the collection available in: Microtext (110 HESBURGH) General Collection HQ 1121 .H578 1983.
Another way to access individual records in this collection is to use WorldCat.
Microfilm number 3845

Pamphlets in American History [microform] / edited by Henry Barnard. Group 1, pt. 5. Women (646 titles). Available in: Microtext (110 HESBURGH) General Collection Microfiche 4 x 6, filed by individual author/title. Use the printed guide that provides numerical, author title, subject and chronological indexes : Microtext E178.P23. Each individual title has a record in the library catalog.

Northern Ireland political literature on microfiche. Phase 1, Periodicals, 1966-1989. This collection of MF contains many women's periodicals. Ask staff in Microtext Reading Room for access. Each title within collection also has a record in the library catalog. Titles include: A woman's voice, Dublin : Sinn Fein Women's Department, Irish Women's newsletter, London : London Irish Women's Centre, Womenzade, Belfast : Belfast Women's Aid, Scarlet Women, Belfast :Scarlet Women Collective, and many others.

The papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Wilmington, Del. ; Scholarly Resources, c1991. The 45 microfilm reels are accompanied by a guide & index
Microfilm number 3322

Women and health / Women's History Research Center. Berkeley, Calif., 1974. 14 reels of microfilm. To access collection use Guide to the microfilm edition of the Women and Health Collection, (Microtext Z7963.H4W6).
Microfilm number 1978

Women's periodicals, 18th century to the great depression. Each title in this collection has a record in the library catalog. Microfilm numbers vary with individual titles.

Selected Print Reference Sources:

The A to Z of Native American women / Liz Sonneborn. New York : Facts on File, c1998. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection E 98 .W8 S65 1998

A to Z of women in science and math / Lisa Yount. New York : Facts on File, c1999. Location:
Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection Q 141 .Y675 1999

The almanac of women and minorities in American politics / Mart Martin ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1236.5 .U6 M3778

The almanac of women and minorities in world politics / Mart Martin; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1236 .M347 2000

Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women : notable women from Sappho to Helena / Marjorie Lightman and Benjamin Lightman. New York : Facts On File, c2000.
Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1136 .L54 2000

The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English / [edited by] Lorna Sage ; advisory editors, Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection PR 111 .C353 1999

Dictionary of women artists / editor, Delia Gaze ; picture editors, Maja Mihajlovic, Leanda Shrimpton. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection N 8354 .D53 1997

Encyclopedia of women social reformers / Helen Rappaport. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2001. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1236 .R29 2001

Encyclopedia of American women and religion / June Melby Benowitz. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection BL 2525 .B45 1998

Encyclopedia of women and world religion / edited by Serinity Young. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection BL 458 .E53 1999

The feminist encyclopedia of French literature / Eva Martin Sartori. Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection PQ 149 .F47 1999

The feminist encyclopedia of German literature / edited by Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection PT 41 .F46 1997

From suffrage to the Senate : an encyclopedia of American women in politics / Suzanne O'Dea Schenken ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1236.5 .U6 S32 1999

Handbook of American women's history / Angela M. Howard & Frances M. Kavenik, editors. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2000. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1410 .H36 2000

Historical dictionary of women's education in the United States / edited by Linda Eisenmann. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection LC 1752 .H57 1998

International encyclopedia of women and sports / edited by Karen Christensen, Allen Guttmann, Gertrud Pfister. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection GV 709 .I58 2000

International encyclopedia of women's suffrage / June Hannam, Mitzi Auchterlonie, and Katherine Holden. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection JF 851 .H28 2000

Quotable women of the twentieth century / edited by Tracy Quinn. New York, N.Y. : Wm. Morrow & Co., c1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection PN 6081.5 .Q64 1999

The Routledge historical atlas of women in America / Sandra Opdycke. New York : Routledge, 2000. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1410 .P68 2000

Significant contemporary American feminists : a biographical sourcebook / edited by Jennifer Scanlon. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1412 .S56 1999

The state of women in the world atlas / Joni Seager. London ; New York : Penguin, c1997. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1154 .S34 1997

United States government documents on women, 1800-1990 : a comprehensive bibliography / Mary Ellen Huls. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993- . Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1410 .H857 1993

Women and music : a selective annotated bibliography on women and gender issues in music, 1987-1992 / Margaret D. Ericson. New York : G.K. Hall. 1996. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection ML 128 .W7 E75 1996

Women pioneers in television : biographies of fifteen industry leaders / by Cary O'Dell ; with a foreword by Sally Jessy Raphaël. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection PN 1992.8 .W65 O34 1999

Women's studies encyclopedia / edited by Helen Tierney. Rev. and expanded ed. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. Location: Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection HQ 1115 .W645 1999

Useful External Sites:

Women's Studies Online Resources will help you find information-rich, high-quality web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or gender-related e-mail lists.
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/

The Women's Studies Section Links, developed and maintained by the WSS Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries provides access to web sites in a variety of academic disciplines as they relate to women and gender.
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html

International Institute of Social History. Women's History.
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/

The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

Statistical information and lists about women in elected office, women candidates, elections results, historical graphs, as well as women in federal cabinets, women candidates for presidential and vice presidential office, sex differences in voting, gender gap information, a list of women's PACs and other relevent information.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/

The National Women and Media Collection documents the roles women have played and are playing in media fields, both as media employees and as objects of coverage, how those roles have altered over time, and how attitudes of and towards women have changed. http://www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/nwm.html

Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women.
http://gos.sbc.edu/

NWSA supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession.
http://www.nwsa.org/

"History looks different when the contributions of women are included." - The National Women's History Project.
http://www.nwhp.org/index.html

The Center for Women and Information Technology, established at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in July, 1998, seeks to address and rectify women's under-representation in IT and to enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender and IT.
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/

The Feminist Majority Foundation's mission is to create innovative, cutting-edge research, educational programs, and strategies to further women's equality and empowerment, to reduce violence toward women, to increase the health and economic well-being of women, and to eliminate discrimination of all kinds.
http://www.feminist.org/

The National Organization for Women is the largest women's rights organization in the United States, with a membership of over 500,000 contributing women and men in more than 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
http://www.now.org/

The American Association of University Women is a national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls. Our commitment to these issues is reflected by the AAUW public policy program.
http://www.aauw.org/

Emily's list was founded in 1985 to create a grassroots network of donors that would give women the credibility they needed to win elections.
http://www.emilyslist.org/

January 2003