Women's
Studies Library Resources for Florida State University
FSU Libraries:
SELECTED
SOURCES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
SCOPE
The purpose of this guide is
to identify some basic reference sources in Women's Studies. The FSU Libraries
own many more materials than can be listed here. Please ask for assistance
if you have difficulty locating relevant library sources for your research.
FINDING
BOOKS
Use LUIS or WebLUIS, the FSU
Libraries' online catalog, to locate specific titles (t= ) or works
by a specific author (a= ), or to search for subjects (s= ). LUIS
may be accessed from computers in each of the libraries on campus, and also
via the Internet. The subject headings used in LUIS are from the Library
of Congress Subject Headings list, a copy of which is available on
each floor of the Libraries. Examples of relevant subject headings are
listed below. It is also possible to use keyword searching (k= ) in LUIS.
Please ask at a service desk if you need more information on searching LUIS.
- women
- feminism
- sexism
- women's rights
- feminist theory
- sex role
- women's studies
- feminist literary criticism
- sex discrimination
PRINTED
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND RESEARCH GUIDES
Feminism and women's issues:
an annotated bibliography and research guide. Ref HQ 1206 .W37
1990
Feminist companion
to literature in English: women writers from the Middle Ages to the present
. Ref PRl13 .F45 1990
Introduction to
library research in women's studies.
Ref Z7961 .S42 1985
Subject guide
to women of the world. Ref Z7963 .B6 P45 1996 Shelved on Index Table
14.
Third world women's
literatures: a dictionary and guide to materials in English.
Ref PN849 .U43 F58 1995
Women: a bibliography
of bibliographies. 2nd ed.
Ref Z7961 .Al B34
1986
Women online:
research in women's studies using online databases. Ref HQ1180
.W675 1990
Women, race, and
ethnicity: a bibliography.
Ref HQ1233 .W65 1991
Women's issues:
an annotated bibliography.
Ref HQ1206 .M85 1989
Women's movement:
reference and resources.
Ref HQ1236.5.U6.R93
1996
Women's movements
of the world: an international directory and reference guide.
Ref HQ1883 .W63 1988
Women's studies:
a guide to information sources.
Ref HQ1206 .C37 1990
PRINTED
INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
Index to women of the world
from ancient to modern times; biographies and portraits.
Ref Z7963 .B6 I73 Shelved
on Index Table 14 with supplement
Journal of Women's
History Guide to periodical literature. Ref HQ1101 .F57
1992
Women in particular:
an index to American women.
Ref HQ1412 .H47 1984
Shelved on Index Table 14.
Women studies
abstracts. Ref Z7962 .W65
Latest years on Index Table
22. Library has: 1972+
Indexes over 2000 journals
ranging across many academic disciplines for articles dealing with women and
their relationship tothe world. Abstracts arranged by broad subject headings.
Includes a detailed subject index. (Ref Table 13)
Women's studies
index. Ref Z7962 .W66
Shelved on Index Tables
22. Library has: 1989-1991
ELECTRONIC
INDEXES AND FULL-TEXT RESOURCES
There are a number of indexes
and full-text resources relevant to research in women's studies available.
in LUIS or WebLUIS (http://www.fcIa.edu/
). Among the databases available are General Academic Index, Business Index,
FirstSearch, RLIN and Citadel Files, Dialog@CARL, and LEXIS-NEXIS Universe.
Most full-text resources require that you have a web browser to access them.
'Mere are also several indexes available on the FSU Libraries' LAN. For additional
information about electronic sources available, check at a service desk.
FINDING PERIODICALS
To identity and locate periodicals
and journals in women's studies owned by the FSU Libraries, search LUIS for
specific titles (tj= ) or search under specific subjects using the subheading
periodicals (e.g., s=feminism--periodicals; s= womens studies--periodicals).
Another way to search is by keyword (k= and periodical format (fint=per)
(e.g., k=feminism and fmt=per; or k=women? and fmt=per). For additional help
in locating periodicals, ask at a service desk.
USEFUL
MAJOR MICROFORM SETS
Gerritsen collection of
women's history. Film 4256; Mif 458 Guide: Doc Ref
HQI 121 G47 1983
A comprehensive international
library of over 4,700 titles--books, pamphlets and periodicals--recording
the intellectual, political, legal, economic, and social history of women
and feminism from antiquity to the twentieth century. (Film 4526 and MIF 458).
Hard copy guide to this collection.
Herstory: women's
history collection. Film 5425 Guide: Doc Ref Z 7963 H5
H47
Microfilm Collection. Berkeley,
Calif. Women's History Research Center. Library has 1971 to date. Contains
women's serial literature from the International Women's History Periodical
Archive assembled in 1978 by the Women's History Research Center. This Collection
includes newsletters, journals and newspapers published by and about women's
liberation, civic, professional, religious and peace groups. Most of the
material was published between 1968 and 1974; but some titles date back to
1956. The literature constitutes a detailed record of contemporary feminism.
History of women.
Film 4068 and Film 4068p Guide: Doc
Ref Z7965 H577
1983
New Haven, Conn.: Research
Publications, 1975. One of the largest and most comprehensive collections
of primary source materials for the study of women's history. An interdisciplinary
collection of printed books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs.
Much of the collection is drawn from the two major women's history libraries:
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America,
Radcliffe College (special focus on women's role in the American crusade
for social justice) and the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College (focus
on the social and intellectual history of women since 1795). The collection
also includes material from: The Ida Rust Macpherson Collection on women
in the westward movement; the Jane Addams Memorial Collection, U. of Illinois'
Chicago Circle, on women in the Midwest and in social reform movements; The
Miriam Y. Holden and Galatea Collections on Medieval and European women;
and supplementary materials from the New York Public Library, the Widener
Library at Harvard, and the Yale University Libraries. (Film 4065 and 4068p).
Guide to the Collection--subject-indexed chronological bibliography of literature
on women's history.
Pamphlets in American
history. Mif 773 Guide: Doc
Ref Z1236 P27
Women and health
collection: Film 5428 Guide: Doc
Ref Z7963 H4
W6
Women's History Research
Center, Inc., 1974. This collection presents a unique record of women and
the health care system. Over 150 files contain clippings, articles, pamphlets,
essays and papers on the socialization of children and health care in other
countries and on the sexual, psychological and physical results of restrictive
sex roles. Additional material covers every aspect of the national health
care controversy. Materials were assembled between 1968 and 1974.
Special Subject
Units from Sex Research: Early Literature, from Statistics to Erotica
Film 9255
This collection of nearly
1,000 definitive and rare titles from 1700-1860 covers a spectrum of topics
including rape, incest, celibacy, prostitution, extramarital sex, homosexuality,
sex offenses, divorce, veneral diseases, reproduction, adultery, anticlericalism,
birth control, the status of women, and immoral effects of music, theatre,
and dancing. The collection is divided into four basic subject areas: sex
and literature; sexual behavior and attitudes; sex, law, and medicine; and
sex and the humanities. The collection facilitates research and includes social
history books, guidebooks to cities, dictionaries, art books, romances, poetry,
epistolary novels, and trial accounts -- all from the Alfred C. Kinsey Institure
for Sex Research at Indiana University.
FINDING
OTHER MICROFORMS
To identify and locate microforms
owned by the FSU Libraries and useful in women's studies research, search
LUIS for specific titles (t= ) or search under specific subjects or
keywords using the format command (fmt=mic) (e.g., k=women? and fmt=mic).
Many primary sources are available only in microformat. For additional help
in locating microforms, ask at a service desk.
REFERENCE
BOOKS, DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Black women in America:
an historical encyclopedia.
Ref E185.86 .B542
1993
Book of women's
firsts. Ref CT3260 .R428 1992
Encyclopedia of
feminism. Ref HQ 1115 .T8 1986
Encyclopedia of
women's associations worldwide.
Ref HQ1883 .E53 1993
Feminist dictionary.
Ref HQ 1115 .K73 1985
Handbook of American
women's history.
Ref HQ 1410 .H36 1990
International
encyclopedia of women and sports. GV709 .I58 2001
International
encyclopedia of women composers. Cohen, Aaron I.; 1981. Allen
Music Library Reference (non-circulating) ML105 .C7
International
encyclopedia of women's suffrage. Hannam, June; 2000
Temporary Control Number:
AKV 1864
NOW: a directory
of national women's organizations.
Ref HQ1903 .N86 1992
Resourceful woman.
Ref HQ 1115 .B83 1994
Routledge international
encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge.
HQ 1115 .R69 2000
The first major reference to provide comprehensive global, multicultural coverage
of women's issues and concerns. A collaborative project among 800 women from
six continents, this unique encyclopedia features over 900 signed A-Z entries
frmo some 70 countries. Subjects include: Arts and Literature; Culture and
Communication; Ecology and Environment; Economy and Development; Education;
Health, Reproduction, and Sexuality; History and Philosophy of Feminism;
Households and the Family; Politics and the State; Religion and Spirituality;
Science and Technology; Violence and Peace; Women's Studies; and Bibliographical
Resources.
Statistical record
of women worldwide.
Ref HQ 1150 .S73 1991
U.S. women's interest
groups: institutional profiles.
Ref HQ1904 .U2 1995
WAC stats: the
facts about women. 2nd updated and rev. ed. Ref
HQ1421 .W33 1993
Womanwords:
a vocabulary of culture and patriarchal society. Ref
HQ1115 .M54 1989
Women's desk reference.
Ref HQ1236.5.U6 F73 1993
Women's studies
encyclopedia. Ref HQ 1115 W645 1989
Women's thesaurus.
Ref Z695.l.W65 W65 1987
CHRONOLOGIES/
TIME LINES
Chronology of women's history.
Ref HQ1121 .O47 1994
Timetables of
women's history. Ref HQ1121 .G74 1994
Women's world:
a timeline of women in history.
Ref HQ1122 .F69 1995
INDEXES
TO QUOTATIONS BY WOMEN
Beacon book of quotations
by women.
Ref PN6081.5 .B43
1992
New quotable woman.
Ref PN6081.5 .N49 1992
Women's words:
the Columbia book of quotations by women. Ref PN6084.W6
B47 1996
SOURCES
OF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
American men & women
of science.
Latest ed. at Dirac Science
Library Ref. Q141 A5
Next to latest ed. in Strozier
Library Ref. Q141 .A5
International
who's who of women. Ref CT3202 .I58
Lesser-known women:
a biographical dictionary.
Ref CT3203 .G57 1992
Notable American
Women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary. Ref CT3260
.N57
Notable American
Women: the modem period: a biographical dictionary. Ref
CT3260 .N573
Notable Black
American women. Ref E 185.96 .N68 1992
Notable Hispanic
American women. Ref E184.S75 N68 1993
Who's who of American
women. Ref CT3260.W5
LIBRARY HAS: lst ed. (1958-59)+
USEFUL
INTERNET SITES
Diotima: materials for the
study of women and gender in the ancient world
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html
New York Public Library,
Center for the Humanities. Women's studies: a research guide
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/women.html
University of Maryland.
Women's studies resources
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies
University of Texas.
Uncovering women's history in archival collections: a guide to WWW pages (with
geographic index)
http://www.utsa.edu/Library/Archives/links.htm
University of Wisconsin
Libraries. Subject listings of women and gender resources
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/othsubj.htm
ViVa: a current bibliography
of women's history in historical and women's studies Journals (Index to 60
journals in English, French, German and Dutch, 1995+)
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhis/index.html
WSSLinks: archival
sites for women's studies
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~mfpankin/archwss.htm
WWWomen: search directory
for information on women
http://www.wwwomen.com/
Women's Studies/Women's
Issues Resource Sites
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/-korenman/wmst/links.html
Available
in alternative format on request.
Compiled
by: Lucy Patrick, Ph.D.
Special
Collections Dept.
Strozier
Library, Florida State University
September
1997
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