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Women's Studies

Using Reference Material

Reference sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, etc.) help provide background information, context, historical timelines, etc. when you need to learn more about a topic.

Reference Sources and Background Information

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
Provides a “gender lens” on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research.
Encyclopedia of Gender in Media
Critically examines the role of the media in enabling, facilitating or challenging the social construction of gender in our society.

Historical Dictionary of Feminism by Janet K. Boles; Diane Long Hoeveler
Call Number: HQ1115 .B65 2004
ISBN: 0810849461
Publication Date: 2004-05-17
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Maggy Hendry; Jenny Uglow
Call Number: CT3202 .P26 2005
ISBN: 1403934487
Publication Date: 2005-04-16

Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
Call Number: E185.86 .B542 2005
ISBN: 0195156773
Publication Date: 2005-05-19
The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality by Robert T. Francoeur (Editor); Raymond J. Noonan (Editor); Martha Cornog (Editor)
Call Number: HQ21 .I68 2004
ISBN: 0826414885
Publication Date: 2003-10-28
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender by Judith Worell (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1115 .E52 2001
ISBN: 0122272455
Publication Date: 2001-09-13
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide by Lynn Walter (Editor-In-Chief); Amy Lind; Manisha Desai; Cheryl Toronto Kalny; Bahira Sherif-Trask; Aili Mari Tripp
Call Number: HQ1154 .G74 2003
ISBN: 0313327874
Publication Date: 2003-09-30
This 6-volume set covers Asia and Oceania, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, North America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Its call number is HQ1154 .G74 2003. Other such valuable sources are on shelves nearby.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1121 .O93 2008
ISBN: 0195148908
Publication Date: 2008-01-23
A multi-volume encyclopedia devoted to women's history. Other similar sets are shelved nearby.
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women by Cheris Kramarae (Editor); Dale Spender (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1115 .R69 2000
ISBN: 0415920884
Publication Date: 2000-12-27

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Subjects: Social Sciences

Tags: feminism, gender studies, queer studies, women's studies