Women's Studies

Sources for Background Information

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Companion to Gender Studies
• Encyclopedia of gender and society
• The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
• Encyclopedia of women social reformers
• The women’s suffrage movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928
• Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender
• Feminist philosophies A-Z
• Handbook of gender and women’s studies
• Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women’s issues and knowledge
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures
• Women’s studies encyclopedia

Biography

• Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
• Encyclopedia of women social reformers
• The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women’s biography
• Who's Who of Canadian Women,1999
• Notable American women, 1607-1950
• The International Who's Who of Women

Core and Additional Databases

• Gender Studies Database
• Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• EBSCO (Academic search complete)
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• Women Go Global: the United Nations and the International Women's Movement, 1945-2000
• Genderwatch
• Gender & society : official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society
• GLQ : a journal of lesbian and gay studies
• Google Scholar
• Health care for women international
• ProQuest Central
• SocIndex
• Women in business
• Women & health
• Women + environments international magazine

Primary Sources

• Gale Newsvault
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Newsday (1940-1984)

Statistics (Electronic Databases)

• WomenWatch. Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
• Status of Women in Africa 1968-1998

Selected Internet Sites

• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke University)
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index. Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
• National NOW Times (National Organization for Women)
• ViVa. A current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, and, occasionally Spanish, are selected from 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals.
• Women and Gender Studies Web Sites. Created by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Women's Studies Section. Provides topical access to a wide range of women’s and gender studies websites.
• Women Working, 1800–1930. A digital exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression by Harvard University.

Multidisciplinary (Electronic Databases)

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• ProQuest Research Library
• Academic Search Complete(EBSCO)
• JSTOR

Related Subject Guides

• LGBTQ Studies
• Feminist theory

Other Resources

• QPIRG McGill Resource Centre