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Women's Studies

Included in this guide are the many print and electronic resources that will be useful for research and investigation into Women's Studies.

Useful Starting Places: Finding Books

  • Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health. 2006. Main Collection 153.333 H19W
  • Women in the Middle Ages: An encyclopedia. 2004. 2 volumes. Ref 305.4094 W84W
  • Wimmin, wimps and wallflowers: An encyclopaedic dictionary of gender and sexual orientation bias in the United States. 2001. Ref 306.766 H41w
  • Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world. 2001. Ref 305.4 Sa34e
  • International encyclopedia of women's suffrage. 2000. Ref 324.623 H19
  • Women's issues. 1997. Ref 305.42 W84M
  • The dictionary of feminist theory. 1990. Ref 305.42 H88d
  • Handbook of American women's history. 1990. Ref 305.4 H19Z
  • Feminist quotations: Voices of rebels, reformers, and visionaries. 1979. Ref 301.412 F34

Finding Articles

  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    Combines information on women worldwide in the fields of psychology, sociology, health, education and human rights.
  • JSTOR
    Presents the searchable full text of the complete back files for over 100 important scholarly journals. Coverage generally includes the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent 3-5 years (current issues are not available in JSTOR). Includes journals from a variety of disciplines. Also search JSTOR via Google Scholar by including "+JSTOR" in the search. JSTOR = Journal STORage.
  • PsycINFO
    Includes citations, most with abstracts, for more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages. Full text to more than 50 periodicals.
  • Project MUSE
    This collection of 400 journals represent the publications of 100 not-for-profit organizations. Every article available in Project MUSE is in full-text, meaning you will immediately be able to view, print, or save the article for later use.
  • Academic Search Premier
    A general database that covers a multitude of topics, ASP is a great place to start, to find preliminary research and launch from the articles you find there into other, more in-depth sources.

Finding Journals

  • The List of Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers provides you with a place to search for TITLES of these types of sources (journals, magazines, and newspapers). You can search by title keyword (i.e., type in "feminism" or "womens studies") and view the results, which will all have your keyword in the title of the journal.
  • Look at a list of women's studies journals that we have available in print and electronic form. Below is a sampling of the journals you'll find on the list.

    Feminist Issues
    Feminist Studies: FS
    Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
    Gender and Development
    Hypatia
    Journal of Gender Studies
    Journal of International Women's Studies
    Journal of Women's History
    The Priscilla Papers
    Psychology of Women Quarterly
    Women and Environments
    Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Internet Resources

  • Women's Studies Section (of the Association of College & Research Libraries--ACRL)
    This rather bare bones site is dedicated to providing a range of resources to support women's studies. The Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) maintains the page and links. Arranged by subjects as related to Women's Studies.
  • Feminism and Women's Studies (eserver.org)
    Designed in 1993 and now one of the most popular women's studies sites on the web, eserver.org boasts that this "contains documents and links to quality information which represent the perspective of previous editors (who solicited resources that represent a cultural studies view) on women's studies. For the past four years it has been maintained by a three-person team of former MA students from the Carnegie Mellon University Literary and Critical Theory program." Information is grouped by broad category (i.e., activisim, history, workplace, etc.).
  • Women's Issues Resource Sites (Joan Korenman of University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
    "A selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies and women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program." Feel free to browse subject sections for links focused on particular women's topics.
  • Women's Studies Resources (Karla Tonella of University of Iowa)
    Provides very useful links, divided up by subject as related to women's studies topics. Also has a section called Mainstream News concerning women.


Other Research Tools

  • Credo Reference
    A conglomeration of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias that allows you to search for definitions and encyclopedia articles, as well as develop ideas for expanding or refining a research strategy.
  • Oxford Reference Premium Online  
    Oxford University Press produces a number of extremely useful reference materials, many of which they have made available here. You can search by keyword, but you can also choose particular subjects and from there, particular books within which to search. This willl provide you with all sorts of background and broad spectrum information on a particular topic.
  • Biography Resource Center  
    Find background information about people, authors, famous personalities, and others. Search by first or last name.


Citation Help

One of the least favorite aspects of research papers are the citations, documenting the sources where you gleaned your information. To make that a little easier, the Library offers a few resources.

  • The Citation Style Guide is a place where you can find call numbers for print Style Manuals and Handbooks, as well as online help from several different universities around the States. Check it out and see if it helps!
  • RefWorks
    is a Citation Management program. Fully available online, and linked from the Library's home page, it allows you to keep it all ELECTRONIC. Download your citations from the various databases you're using into RefWorks. This program will create the Works Cited page for you with little effort. In a database, look for the option to EXPORT - that is where you'll find this gem of a program.
  • Automatically Generated Citations can be found in our Library Catalog (to the right of the item on the Results page), as well as in most EBSCO databases (like Academic Search Premier, PsycINFO, Communications and Mass Media Complete, etc.). Most databases either provide an instant citation in a couple of different styles, or they allow Exporting to RefWorks (see above). Ask a Librarian for more help in managing your citations and creating your bibliographies and works cited pages faster.
  • WorldCat.org
    "Cite this item" within individual item record lists the citation in APA, MLA, Chicago and more.
  • The Writing Center is also a solid resource. Available in the Library, this is run by the English department. If you'd like face-to-face help individually with citing or any aspect of writing and editing your paper, the Writing Center is the place to go. For more information, see their page on the Portal, or you can contact them at writingctr@taylor.edu.


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Created by Lana Wilson, Reference Librarian

Last revised October 30, 2009 - 11:14 AM