NOTE: The dates listed are either the date of the latest publication included in the bibliography or the latest revision date for the site.
- American Women's History: A Research Guide (2008)
- Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America (2008)
- Bibliography on Women and Religion (2002)
- Bibliography on Women in Byzantium (2007)
- Bibliography Relating to Sexuality, Feminism and Free Speech (2003)
- Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography (2008)
- Books about Women and Information Technology (2007)
- Gay/Lesbian Reference Materials (2006)
- Gender in Geography Bibliography (2008)
- H-Women Bibliographies - Collection of bibliographies generated by questions on the H-Women discussion list (2008)
- inforM Women's Studies: Bibliographies (2000)
- Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language and Gender On-line Bibliography (2007)
- The Men's Bibliography: A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities and sexualities (10th edition) (2008)
- Race, Gender and Affirmative Action (2008)
- South Asian Women Studies Bibliography (2004)
- Theories and Aesthetics of Feminist Theatre (1996)
- Vietnam War Bibliography: Women and Medical Personnel (2008)
- ViVa:A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals (2008)
- Women and Architecture: Selected Bibliography and Guide to Sources (2005)
- Women and Eighteenth-Century English Literature: A Checklist of General Resources, with Some Entries Relating to Earlier Centuries, to the Colonies, and to Other Nationalities (2006)
- Women and the Holocaust (2008)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940 (2008)
- Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography (2005)
- Women in Chinese History (2008)
- Women in History: Select Background Readings (2002)
- Women in Tennessee History (2005)
- Women Writers & the Environment Ecofeminist Bibliography (1999)
- Women Writers of the Middle Ages (2004)
- 1970s Lesbian Feminism Bibliography
Data and Statistics
- American FactFinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
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Population, housing, economic and social data.
- Children's
Defense Fund Data
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Provides National and State (U.S.) level data; includes the report, The State
of Children in America's Union and "What it Costs to Raise a Child".
- FBI's Uniform Crime
Reports
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Includes Hate Crime Statistics
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for
Federal Statistics
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The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
- GenderStats: A
Database of Gender Statistics
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Data sources for GenderStats include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
- National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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NCHS provides information about America's health and collects data from birth and death records, medical records,
interview surveys, and through direct physical exams and laboratory testing.
- Statistical Abstract
of the United States
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As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the
United States. Selected international data are also included.
- U.S. Department of
Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics
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"Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey." Includes
labor statistics by demographics.
- U.N.'s
Women Watch Statistics and Indicators
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Includes The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics and Women in Government among others.
- Women In
Development Network (WIDNET) Statistics
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In English and French
Databases
Key Women's Studies Databases (Available to Vanderbilt Users Only)Additional Vanderbilt Women's Studies Databases
- Gender Watch
- Women's Studies Encyclopedia
- Women's Studies on Disc
The electronic equivalent of the Women's Studies Index - available to Vanderbilt users in the Central Library
Databases Available to All Users
- AfricaBib.org:
African Women's Bibliographic Database
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"This English language database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986
to current. The database indexes six types of materials: books and
government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and
journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few
B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes. "
- Ariadne
Database
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A German-language bibliographic database (mainly articles) from the
holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, focusing on
"international and women's studies literature". Some results are English
language articles.
- The Commercial Closet: The World's Largest
Collection of Gay Advertising
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Includes over 1100 ads from all over the world since 1917 searchable by theme. "The
Commercial Closet Association is a unique, non-profit educational and journalism organization that proactively reaches out
to ad agencies, marketers, the media and world-at-large to encourage more inclusive and flattering representations of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people in advertising."
- DIOTIMA:
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
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"An interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of
gender around the ancient Mediterranean." A searchable bibliography is one
of many resources available at this site.
- Early Modern
Women Database
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"provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern
Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. Resources have been selected for
their scholarly value by librarians on the Arts and Humanities Team of the University of Maryland Libraries.
Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of
the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access."
- European Database: Women in
Decision-making | Europaeische Datenbank: Frauen in
Fuehrungspositionen
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"Provides information about women in political decision-making positions in the European Union, in Member States
of the European Economic Area and in the Candidate Countries. Data are collected on national, regional and on the European level."
Available in English, German and French.
- Feminae:
Medieval Women and Gender Index
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"Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women,
sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages."
- Films and Video on Women, Gender, and Feminism
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Extensive database of women's studies related films held in the University of Arizona's library system.
To see if held at Vanderbilt, search the title in ACORN,
the library catalog.
- Gender
Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database
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"Searchable database providing access to over 7000 records pertaining to
feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on
English and American literature."
- GenderStats: A
Database of Gender Statistics
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"An electronic database of gender statistics and indicators. ... Data sources for GenderStats
include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys."
- KVINNSAM
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"Produced by the Women's History Collections Dept at Gothenburg
University Library, KVINNSAM is an interdisciplinary database with
references - in English, Swedish and many other languages - from the
Göteborg University Library collections, mainly in humanities and social
sciences. The references consist of books, journals, articles, chapters,
pamphlets, researchreports etc. The database now includes about 90,000
references from 1958-[2002]. English is the predominant language: 63 % of the
references in the KVINNSAM database are in English."
- Mapping the World of Women's
Information Services
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"a database with over 350 women's information centers and libraries from more than 125 countries. Search this database for
services from Albania to China, from the Dominican Republic to Mongolia and from Tonga to Zimbabwe.
The database can be searched by name, country, subject, sort of organization and other key words. It is updated weekly."
- ViVa: A
Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies
Journals
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"ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in
English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are selected from 149 European, American,
Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals. Today, the ViVa database contains bibliographic records
describing more than seven thousand articles published from 1975 to 2002 in historical and women's studies journals."
- Women In
Politics: Bibliographic Database
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"has been developed with the contribution of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The database is
regularly up-dated to take account of new books and articles produced throughout the world on the subject of women in politics.
It covers titles representing international, regional, country-by-country as well as thematic perspectives."
- Women's Human
Rights Resources
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Provides "diverse, quality information on women's international human rights law."
Employment
- American Associtaion of University Women (AAUW): Job Market
- Career Opportunities for Women's Studies Majors: A Bibliography
- The Chronicle of Higher Education - Job Openings
- Feminist Career Center
- Financial Aid and Career Opportunities
- H-Net Job Guide
- Ms. Mentor columns in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Job Announcements
- University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database: Employment
Funding and Financial Aid
- Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation
- AAUW: Fellowships, Grants, Awards
- Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities
- FinAid: the Financial Aid Information Page
- Financial Aid and Career Opportunities
- National Council for Research on Women: Fellowships and Opportunities
- Women's Funding Network
Guides to Internet Resources
- Digital Librarian: Women's Resources - maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson
- Femina: Web Search for Women
- feminist.com
- Feminist Internet Gateway (Feminist Majority Foundation)
- Gender-Related Electronic Forums - compiled by Joan Korenman
- H-WOMEN Internet Links
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook
- SocioSite: Sex-Gender and Queer Studies
- Subject Listings of Women and Gender Resources - compiled by the Univ. of WI Women's Studies Librarian's Office
- Voice of the Shuttle: Gender Studies Page
- Women's Studies Database - Univ. of Maryland
- Women's Studies Resources - Univ. of Iowa
- Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites - compiled by Joan Korenman
- WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites - compiled by the Association of College and Research Libraries Women's Studies Section
Journals
- Select New E-Journals
- Cardozo Women's Law Journal [HeinOnline]
- Gender Issues [ingenta]
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse [ProQuest] NOTE: Full text coverage for 1995 (Volume 4, Issue 1) - 1997 (Volume 6, Issue 4) only.
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies [ProQuest]
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies [Expanded Academic ASAP]
- Journal of Family History [ProQuest]
- Journal of Feminist Family Therapy [Haworth Press]
- Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion [ATLAS]
- Journal of Homosexuality [Haworth Press]
- Journal of Lesbian Studies [Haworth Press]
- Journal of Marriage and Family [ProQuest]
- Journal of Marriage and the Family [JSTOR]
- Psychology of Women Quarterly [ingenta]
- Sexual Health Exchange [Expanded Academic ASAP]
- Women and Health [Haworth Press]
- Women and Criminal Justice [Haworth Press]
- Women and Politics [Haworth Press]
- Women and Therapy [Haworth Press]
- Complete list of Women's Studies E-Journals at Vanderbilt
- Vanderbilt Library's list of fulltext electronic journals
- Northern Arizona University Women's Studies, Feminist, and Gender Periodicals & Journals -- This listing includes many journals that are available at Vanderbilt. Check the title in ACORN, the library catalog, or at out e-journal site, linked above.
- Magazines and Journals on the Web - Women Focused
News and Announcements
- AVIVA: An International Women's Listing Magazine
- FMF - Feminist News
- Feminist.com Calendar of Upcoming Events
- NOW News Releases
- Washington Feminist Faxnet (WFF)
- Women's Studies Database: Announcements
Organizations
- American Association of University Women
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Feminist Majority Foundation: Directory of Professional Women's Organizations
- Ms. Foundation for Women
- The National Organization for Women (NOW)
- National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)
Scholarship and Research
- Association for Women in Psychology
- Association of African Women Scholars
- Center for Women Policy Studies
- Feminist Anthropology
- Feminist Economics
- Feminist Theory
- H-WOMEN's Links to OnLine Resources for Teaching and Research
- IDRC: Support for Gender Equitable Research
- IFPRI: Gender Research Network
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender (Stanford University)
- Institute for Women's Policy Research
- International Association for Feminist Economics
- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
- Internet Resources on Women for Curriculum Transformation: Updates
- Mapping the World of Women's Information Services -- A database with over 350 women's information centers and libraries from more than 125 countries.
- NCCTRW: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women
- National Council for Research on Women
- National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)
- NOISE: Network Of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe
- Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
- Society for Women's Health Research
- Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses
- WISE: Women's International Studies Europe
- Women in Higher Education
- Women-Related Higher Education Web Sites
- Women's Research and Education Institute
- Women's Studies EuroMap HomePage
- WMST-L E-mail List
Women's Studies Programs and Women's Centers
- Artemis Search For Women's Studies Programs
- June Anderson Women's Center at MTSU
- Margaret Cunningim Women's Center (Vanderbilt)
- University Women's Centers
- Women's Centers & Offices at American Colleges & Universities
- Women's Studies EuroMap
- Women's Studies MTSU
- Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University
- Women's Studies Programs, Departments & Research Centers
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