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Using the Online Catalog

Subject Headings: 

Feminism--United States

Women--United States--History--20th century

Women--United States--Social conditions

Women's rights--United States--History--20th century

 

Call Numbers:

305.420973

 

 

Reference Books

The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America

R Q.305.40973

C897e

cop.2

 

Handbook of American Women's History

R Q.305.40973

H191

2000

cop.3

 

Statistical Handbook on Women in America

R Q.305.40973

T122s

cop.4

 

American Women's History: A Student Companion

R Q.305.4097303

M432a

 

 

Databases

List of Women's Studies journals

 

Contemporary Women's Issues: This database provides access to information about women from over 190 countries. Indexes over 600 journals, newsletters, research reports and fact sheets. Covers subject areas such as health, education, psychology and sociology. Full text is available for the majority of sources indexed.

 

GenderWatch: This database provides full text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and governmental and special reports. The publications indexed focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Contains archival material that dates back to 1970.

 

 

Digital Collections

American Memory's American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States

 

American Women's History: Digital Collections (Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee University)

An excellent index to digital collections relating to women in American history. Among the topics are Advice Literature, Immigrant Women, Prostitution, and Settlement Homes.

 

 

Websites

Facts on Women (motherhood, earnings, education, businesses, voting, jobs, military, marriage, computers, sports and recreation) from the U.S. Census Bureau, released in honor of National Women's History Month (March 2007).

 

The American Woman on the Web: A Statistical Portrait provides information previously published in print in the biennial report The American Woman by the Women’s Research and Education Institute (WREI).

 

The Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Website is an online historical archive documenting and celebrating the activities of the CWLU from 1969 through 1977. Included are the life stories — in text, audio, or video format — of many former members and associates of the union.

 

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998 is sponsored by the National Women's History Project and includes a history of the movement as well as a detailed timeline of legal women's history.

 

 

Other

E-books:

Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers' Rights. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Clean Clothes Campaign, 2005. 128p. 

 

Karen Messing & Piroska Östlin, Gender Equality, Work and Health: A Review of the Evidence. World Health Organization, 2006. 46p.

 

 

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