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Research Guide: Women's Studies

Books

Selected reference books in Emmanuel d'Alzon Library (located on the first floor):

  • Reader's guide to women's studies / editor, Eleanor B. Amico REF HQ1180 .R43
  • American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women’s history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey REF HQ1410 A47 2001
  • The reader’s companion to U.S. women’shistory / editors, Wilma Mankiller
    REF HQ1410 .R43 1998
  • Who’s who of American women and women of Canada REF E176 .W647
  • Women’s studies encyclopedia / edited by Helen Tierney 3 vol. REF HQ1115 .W645 1999
  • Women in American religious history : an annotated bibliography and guide to sources / Dorothy C. Bass, Sandra Hughes Boyd REF BL458 .B37 1986
  • Women’s firsts / Caroline Zilboorg, editor ; Susan B. Gall, managing editor ; foreword by Christine Todd Whitman REF CT3203 .W66 1996
  • Women and music : a selective annotated bibliography on women and gender issues in music, 1987-1992 / Margaret D. Ericson REF ML128.W7 E75 1996

Search the catalog for more print and electronic books owned by the Library. Try these sample subject headings.

  • Women’s Studies
  • Autobiography --Women authors
  • African American women
  • Women --Psychology
  • Women in politics
  • Sex role

To find additional related subject headings, look at a sample catalog record or consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings, located near the OPAC computers on the first floor.

Books in Other Libraries

Other Libraries in the Worcester area -
http://www.assumption.edu/dept/library/resources/libraries_rev.htm

Other Libraries in North America -
http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url=
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat&autho=100308921

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Articles

Selected print indexes and periodicals. Most recent issues located on the 1st floor. Older volumes are located on the 2nd floor.

  • Feminist collections: a quarterly of women's studies resources, 1993 to the present
  • Women's Studies, 1983-1997
  • Feminist periodicals: a current listing of contents, 1993 to the present
  • New books on women and feminism (latest three years)

Online Library Resources

(These can be found on the Library's top page. Go to Databases/Indexes and then to the alphabetical list.)

  • Academic Search Premier - http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url=
    http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
  • Issues & Controversies - http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url= http://www.2facts.com/Direct2.asp?ItemID=WE57&ID=95241
  • JSTOR - the journal, Hypatia
    http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hyp/
  • Project MUSE - the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
    http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url=
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_feminist_studies_in_religion/
  • Project MUSE - the National Women's Studies Association journal
    http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 - http://lib.assumption.edu/login?url=http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/wasmlive

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