The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries

Women's Studies Resources

The lists of sources provided in this guide are not exhaustive, but will provide you with general background information on your topic. Please see the Information Desk for additional guidance.

General Reference In addition to the reference works listed below, be sure to also look at general encyclopedias and reference works focusing on subjects not specific to women or women's studies. For example, you may find information about African American women in a reference book about African American history.
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women InfoServ HQ1115 .R69 2000	Larousse Dictionary of Women InfoServ HQ1115 .L37 1996
Women's Issues InfoServ HQ1115 .W6425 1997	Women's studies encyclopedia InfoServ HQ1115 .W645 1989

Journals The below listed journals are "suggested" titles only. Remember not to limit yourself to just women's studies journals. This is an interdisciplinary field and you may find useful articles in many other journals.
Women's History Review v.6 (1997)- to date HQ1101 .W7564	Women's Studies in Communication v.9 (1986)- to date P96.S48 W66
Women's Studies International Forum v.5 (1982)- to date HQ1101 .W775	Women's Studies Quarterly v.27 (1999)- to date HQ1181.U5 W657
Signs v.4 (1979)- to date HQ1101 .S5	Feminist studies : FS v.9 (1983)- to date HQ1101 .F46
Women's Studies v.6 (1978)- to date HQ1101 .W77	Gender & Society HQ1075 .G457 (Online)

Databases From the USM Libraries homepage under "Databases and Resources by Subject" you can choose subject databases in which to search for articles by subject. If you are studying women writers, you may want to choose the subject "Literature." If you are studying women's health issues you will want to choose the subject "Health." Even though the databases for women's studies are limited, remember to search more general databases as well. For example, JSTOR contains journals for women's studies and Wilson Biographies contains the biographies of many famous women. The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center would contain information on controversial issues related to women.
Contemporary Women's Issues	JSTOR
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	Wilson Biographies

Suggested Resources by Subject Remember that this list is only a small sample of what is available. Use the suggested "Subject Begins With" search terms to explore the library holdings on your own or ask for help at the InfoServ Desk.
American History and Politics HQ1410 .C85 2000	Encyclopedia of Women's History in America InfoServ HQ1410 .H36 2000
Handbook of American Women's History InfoServ JF851 .H28 2000	International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage InfoServ HQ1421 .B47 1999
The Women's Liberation Movement in America InfoServ JK1899.A6 S8736 1999	Susan B. Anthony: Rebel for the Cause [videorecording] Cook Library 2nd Floor South HQ1236.5.U6 S32 1999
From Suffrage to the Senate: An Encyclopedia of American Women in Politics InfoServ HQ1236.5.U6 E53 1999	Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics InfoServ JK1012 .F57 1999
Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women InfoServ HQ1236.5.U6 M3779 2001	The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics 2002 InfoServ JK1896 .L48 1998
Let the Women Vote! [videorecording] Cook Library 2nd Floor South E175.45 .S27 1996	American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary InfoServ HQ1233 .B57 1981
Hellraisers, Heroines, and Holy Women: Women's Most Remarkable Contributions to History InfoServ

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMENS RIGHTS UNITED STATES
WOMEN SUFFRAGE UNITED STATES
WOMEN HISTORY UNITED STATES
WOMEN IN POLITICS UNITED STATES

Visual Art, Music, Theatre and Film
Contemporary women artists InfoServ N8354 .C66 1999 1999	Women filmmakers & their films InfoServ PN1998.2 .W66 1998
The female dramatist: profiles of women playwrights from the Middle Ages to contemporary times InfoServ PN471 .P37 1998	An encyclopedia of women artists of the American West InfoServ N8214.5.U6 K68 1998
The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers InfoServ ML105 .N38 1995	North American women artists of the twentieth century : a biographical dictionary InfoServN6503 .N67 1995
America's first women filmmakers: Alice Guy-Blaché and Lois Weber [videorecording] 2nd Floor South PN1995.75 .A44 1995	Women film directors: an international bio-critical dictionary InfoServ PN1998.2 .F67 1995
Contemporary women dramatists InfoServ PR736 .C58 1994	'Tis pity she's a whore : the first women on the London stage [videorecording] 2nd Floor South PN2592 .T58 1994 1994
The Silent feminists: America's first women directors [videorecording] 2nd Floor South PN1998.2 .S525 1993	Reel women: pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present InfoServ PN1998.2 .A24 1991
International encyclopedia of women composers InfoServ ML105 .C7 1987	A world of our own: women as artists since the Renaissance Stacks N8354 .B67 2000
Women artists : an illustrated history Stacks N8354 .H45 1997 1997	Women & music: a history Stacks ML82 .W6 2001

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMEN MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS
WOMEN DRAMA
WOMEN ARTISTS
WOMEN COMPOSERS
WOMEN MUSICIANS
FEMINISM AND MUSIC
FEMINISM AND THEATER
FEMINISM AND THE ARTS

Technology, Science and Business
The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century InfoServ Q141 .B5285 2000	American women in technology: an encyclopedia InfoServ T36 .Z54 2000
Notable women scientists InfoServ Q141 .N736 1999	A to Z of women in science and math InfoServ Q141 .Y675 1999
Black women scientists in the United States InfoServ Q141 .W367 1999	Encyclopedia of women in aviation and space InfoServ TL539 .W395 1998
American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary InfoServ Q141 .B254 1998	Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary InfoServ QA28 .N68 1998
Notable women in the physical sciences: a biographical dictionary InfoServ Q141 .N734 1997	Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary InfoServ QH26 .N68 1996
Women in computer science [videorecording] 2nd Floor South T36 .W66 1995	American women in science: a biographical dictionary InfoServ Q141 .B25 1994
History of women in the sciences: readings from Isis Stacks Q130 .H58 1999	A biographical dictionary of women economists InfoServ HB76 .B535 2000

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMEN SCIENTISTS
WOMEN IN SCIENCE
BUSINESSWOMEN

Health and Sports
A biographical dictionary of women healers: midwives, nurses, and physicians InfoServ R692 .S38 2002 2002	Beyond diagnosis: our journeys with breast cancer [videorecording] 2nd Floor South RC280.B8 B49 1999
Celebrating women coaches: a biographical dictionary InfoServ GV697.A1 H367 2000	Encyclopedia of women and sport in America InfoServ GV709 .E53 1998
Outstanding women athletes: who they are and how they influenced sports in America InfoServ GV697.A1 W69 1998	The women's sports encyclopedia InfoServ GV709 .W589 1997
The women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: a biographical dictionary InfoServ GV875.A56 M34 1997	Encyclopedia of women and sports InfoServ GV709 .S44 1996
The new A to Z of women's health: a concise encyclopedia InfoServ RA778 .A494 1995	Abortion, desperate choices [videorecording] 2nd Floor South HQ767 .A175 1992
Black American women in Olympic track and field: a complete illustrated reference InfoServ GV697.A1 D38 1992

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMEN ATHLETES
SPORTS FOR WOMEN
WOMEN HEALTH AND HYGIENE
BREAST CANCER
CANCER IN WOMEN
EATING DISORDERS
MENOPAUSE
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
MOTHER AND INFANT
MOTHER AND CHILD
MOTHERHOOD

Violence, Crime, War and the Military
Encyclopedia of women and crime InfoServ HV6046 .E56 2000	Safe: inside a battered women's shelter [videorecording] InfoServ HV6626 .S34 2000
Women and the military: an encyclopedia InfoServ U21.75 .S54 1996	The encyclopedia of Amazons: women warriors from antiquity to the modern era InfoServ HQ1115 .S25 1992
Women warlords: an illustrated military history of female warriors Stacks 21.75 .N48 1991	The warrior queens Stacks D109 .F72 1989
Women of the Afghan War Stacks HQ1735.6 .E45 2000	Battle cries and lullabies: women in war from prehistory to the present Stacks D25.5 .D44 1998

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMEN SOLDIERS
WOMEN AND THE MILITARY UNITED STATES
UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES WOMEN
FAMILY VIOLENCE
WIFE ABUSE
ABUSED WIVES
WOMEN CRIMES AGAINST
FEMALE OFFENDERS
WOMEN AND WAR

Race, Religion and Ethnicity
Notable twentieth-century Latin American women: a biographical dictionary InfoServ CT3290 .N68 2001	Voices of power: African-American women [videorecording] 2nd Floor South E185.86 .V65 2000
Sifters: Native American women's lives Stacks E89 .S454 2001	Encyclopedia of women and world religion InfoServ BL458 .E53 1999
Biographical dictionary of Chinese women: the Qing Period, 1644-1911 InfoServ HQ1767.5.A3 B56 1998	A to Z of Native American women InfoServ E98.W8 S65 1998
Notable Hispanic American women InfoServ E184.S75 N68 1993	Notable Hispanic American women: Book II InfoServ E184.S75 N68 1998
Encyclopedia of American women and religion InfoServ BL2525 .B45 1998	Jewish women in America: an historical encyclopedia InfoServ DS115.2 .J49 1997
Facts on File encyclopedia of Black women in America InfoServ E185.96 .F2 1997	European immigrant women in the United States: a biographical dictionary InfoServ E184.E95 L58 1994
Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women: notable women from Sappho to Helena InfoServ HQ1136 .L54 2000	African American women : a biographical dictionary InfoServ E185.96 .A45 1993
Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia InfoServ E185.86 .B542 1993	The woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets InfoServ BL458 .W34 1983
Native American women: a biographical dictionary InfoServ E98.W8 B38 1993

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
INDIAN WOMEN
HISPANIC AMERICAN WOMEN
JEWISH WOMEN

Feminism and the Media
Encyclopedia of feminist theories InfoServ HQ1190 .E63 2000	Women as citizens: vital voices through the century [videorecording] 2nd Floor South E169.1 .M556 1999
Significant contemporary American feminists : a biographical sourcebook InfoServ HQ1412 .S56 1999	Feminism : a reference handbook InfoServ HQ1410 .H365 1998
From the goddess to the glass ceiling: a dictionary of feminism InfoServ HQ1115 .F77 1996	Black women in television: an illustrated history and bibliography InfoServ PN1992.8.A34 H55 1990
The pocket essential feminism Stacks HQ1154 .O83 2001

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMEN ON TELEVISION
MASS MEDIA AND WOMEN
FEMINISM
BODY IMAGE IN WOMEN
WOMEN IN ADVERTISING
FEMINIST HISTORY

Literature
Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British women poets InfoServ PN451 .D53x vol. 240 2001	American women prose writers: 1820-1870 InfoServ PN451 .D53x vol. 239 2001
American women prose writers, 1870-1920 InfoServ PN451 .D53x vol. 221 2000	The feminist encyclopedia of French literature InfoServ PQ149.F47 1999
Victorian women poets InfoServ PN451 .D53x vol. 199 1999	American women prose writers to 1820 InfoServ PN451 .D53x vol. 200 1998
Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory InfoServ PN98.W64 E53 1997	Women writers of Great Britain and Europe: an encyclopedia InfoServ PN471 .W565 1997
Women writers in the United States: a timeline of literary, cultural, and social history InfoServ PS147 .D38 1996	Great women mystery writers : classic to contemporary InfoServ PR830.D4 G74 1994
Great women writers: the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present InfoServ PN471 .G74 1994	An Encyclopedia of continental women writers InfoServ PN481 .E5 1991
Harlem Renaissance and beyond: literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945 InfoServ PS153.N5 R65 1990	An Encyclopedia of British women writers InfoServ PR111 .E54 1988

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
WOMEN AUTHORS
FEMINISM AND LITERATURE

Web Resources For a more extensive web guide please see the USM Libraries Women's Studies Internet Resources Page and the USM Women's Studies page.
U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau http://www.dol.gov/wb/ This page provides statistics, reports and publications concerning women in the work force.	Women Watch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ Statistics, publications and reports from the United Nations concerning women worldwide.
Center for American Women and Politics http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/ "CAWP provides up-to-the-minute information and analysis on the developing women's political movement. The Center's National Information Bank on Women in Public Office, with its growing database on current and past women officeholders and candidates, offers timely and accurate summary information, specific demographic and political data on individual officeholders, and a picture of the trends and context in which women's political history is being made."	The Ada Project http://women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/ "The Ada Project (TAP), originally located at Yale, is a WWW site designed to serve as a clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing."
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/ Archival collection from Duke University's special collections library containing, "various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, [focusing] 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."