Associations/Organizations

Encyclopedia of Associations

Location: GW REF/READY HS17.G32 35th ed. 4 vols.

General index to American organizations and associations.

International Organizations

Location: GW REF/READY HS17 .E53 35th ed. 2 vols.

General index to international organizations and associations.

Institute for Women's Policy Research.

http://www.iwpr.org/

An independent, non-profit, scientific research organization established to undertake relevant research on women's lives and to stimulate issues important to women.

National Organization of Women (NOW).

NOW is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to making legal, political, social and economic change in society in order to achieve its goal, which is to eliminate sexism and end all oppression.

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).

http://nwsa.org/

This organization supports feminist teaching, research, and community service. The home page includes information about the organization, conference information, call for papers, publications, and scholarship information.

NWO: a Directory of National Women's Organizations.

National Council of Research on Women, 1992.

Location: REF HQ 1903 .N9 1992

Includes nonprofit organizations, national in scope, with emphasis on women. Alphabetical arrangement with key word index.

Bibliographies: General

Directory of Women's Studies Programs & Library Resources. Beth Stafford, ed., 1990.

Location: REF HQ 1181 .U5 D57 1990

Reflects data collected 1987-1988; over 400 entries.

Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters: an Annotated Bibliography. Cheryl Cline, 1989.

Location: REF CT 3230 .C35 1989

Indexed by author, by profession, by subject, and location.

Women's Issues: an Annotated Bibliography.Laura Stempel Mumford, 1989.

Location: REF HQ 1206 .M85 1989

Contains broad content including, history, politics, education, women's movement, economics, heath issues, sexuality, family, home, psychology, violence, religion, and the arts.

The Women's Movement in the Seventies: an International English-language Bibliography. Albert Krichmar, 1977.

Location: REF HQ 1154 .K57

8600 plus entries of English language publications over 100 countries with an emphasis on change are indexed.

The Women's Review of Books

http://www.wellesley.edu/WomensReview/

Site includes: reviews of the latest books by and about women, authoritative comment and criticism, special Theme Issues every February and July, and poetry, interviews, letters and an invaluable list of new books.

Women's Studies: a Guide to Information Sources. Sarah Carter and Maureen Ritchie, 1990.

Location: REF HQ 1206 .C27 1990

Contains over 1,000 annotated entries arranged in three sections: general material, women in specific countries, and special subjects. General index.

Bibliographies: American Women

American Indian Women: a Guide to Research. Gretchen M. Bataille, 1991.

Location: REF E 98 .W8 B36 1991

Includes autobiographies, biographies, literature, literary criticism, and crosses disciplines including, anthropology, education, the arts, and law.

American Women's Magazines: an Annotated Historical Guide. Nancy K. Humphreys, 1989.

Location: REF PN 4879 .H86 1989

Includes alternative and mainstream publications.

Women in American History: a Bibliography. Cynthia E. Harrison, 1979, 2 v.

Location: REF HQ 1410 .H37

Vol. I covers research and teaching, the general US, colonial America, US 1783-1865, US 1865- 1945, America since 1945, regional topics, and Canada. Vol. II covers history, No. America, domestic roles, religion, education, ethnicity, culture, women in work force, politics, violence, and biology.

Women in Modern American Politics: a Bibliography, 1900-1995.Elizabeth M. Cox, 1997.

Location: REF HQ 1236.5 .U6 C69 1997

Emphasis is on post-1980 popular and scholarly articles. Author and subject indexes.

Women's History Sources: a Guide to Archives and Manuscripts Collections in the United States.Andrea Hinding, ed., 1979, 2 v.

Location: REF HQ 1410 .W65

Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines.Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck, eds., 1995.

Location: REF PN 4879 .W6 1995

Contains 75 articles about current and historical women's publications. Arranged alphabetically. Includes chronology and index.

Biographical Information

Great Lives from History. American Women Series. Frank N. Magill, ed., 1995. 5 v.

Location: REF HQ 1412 .G74 1995

Articles about more than 400 women from colonial times to the present.

Lesser-known Women: a Biographical Dictionary. Beverly E. Golemba, 1992.

Location: REF CT 3203 .G57 1992

Arranged in chronological order with name, country, and profession indexes.

Native American Women: a Biographical Dictionary. Gretchen M. Bataille, ed., 1993.

Location: REF E 98 .W8 B38 1993

300 pages of entries. Also includes five indexes, by primary area of specialization, by decade of birth, by state or province, by tribal affiliation, and by keyword index.

Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography. Jennifer S. Uglow, 1999.

Location: REF CT3202.N67 1999

Title includes over 500 pages of entries and includes a subject index.

Notable American Women, 1607-1950; a Biographical Dictionary. Edward T. James, editor; Janet Wilson James associate editor, 1971, 3 v.

Location: REF CT 3260 .N57

Biographical sketches of over 1,350 women. An important source for American women's biographies. Includes index by profession or category.

Notable American Women: the Modern Period: a Biographical Dictionary. Barbara Sicherman and others, editors, 1980.

Location: REF CT 3260 .N573

Forms a supplement to the above, adding biographies of 442 women who died between 1951 and 1975. Also indexed by category.

Notable Women in American History: a Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies. Lynda G. Adamson.

Location: REF Z7963.B6 A27 1999

500 women included that fulfill three criteria, have lived in the US, or have become a naturalized citizen, have enriched life for other Americans, and have full-length biographies or autobiographies published since 1970.

Notable Women in World History: a Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies. Lynda G. Adamson.

Location: REF CT 3230 .A28 1998

Arranged alphabetically. Contains brief biographies followed by a bibliography of biographies, with indexes by birth country and occupation/field of interest.

Who's Who of American Women. Biennial, 1971-

Location: REF CT 3260 .W5

Two criteria for inclusion in this work are: a position of responsibility held, and the level of achievement attained by the individual. Includes geographic index, and professional index.

The World Who's Who of Women. Ernest Key, gen. ed., 14th ed., 1996.

Location: REF HQ 1123 .W65 1996/1997.

Current biographies of 5,000 women from all parts of the world.

Dictionaries

The Dictionary of Feminist Theory. Maggie Humm, 2nd ed., 1995.

Location: REF HQ 1115 .H86 1995.

From A to Z including both topics and feminist theorists.

Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Janet K. Boles, Diane Long Hoeveler, Rebecca Bardwell, 1996.

Location: REF HQ 1115 .B65 1996

Short entries on persons and topics, with emphasis on the U.S. and Europe.

Encyclopedias

American Women's History. Doris Weatherford, 1994.

Location: REF HQ 1115 .W4 1994

Includes entries about topics and people, arranged alphabetically.

Encyclopedia of Women's History in America. Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, 1996.

Location: REF HQ 1410 .C85 1996

Includes entries about topics and people, arranged alphabetically; includes index and bibliography.

Women in the Third World: an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues. Nelly P. Stromquist, ed., 1998.

Location: REF HQ 1870.9 .W6548 1998

Includes essays under subjects, with annotated bibliographies and an index.

Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Helen Tierney, ed., 1989-1990. 3 v.

Location: REF HQ 1115 .W645 1989

Divided into sections: sciences; literature, arts, and learning; history, philosophy, and religion. Includes indexes.

Government Resources

Office of Justice Programs: Violence Against Women Office

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/

Government Information about violence against women including a link to the text of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.

Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/

Government information including Federal Register notices and fact sheets on women in the workplace.

Handbooks and Statistics

The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women. Rosalie Maggio, comp., 1996.

Location: REF PN 6081.5 .N48 1996

Topical arrangement with name, subject, and key line indexes.

Statistical Handbook on Women in America. Cynthia Taeuber, ed., 1996.

Location: REF HQ 1420 .T34 1996

Statistical information reproduced from U.S. federal documents.

Statistical Record of Women Worldwide. Linda Schmittroth, ed., 2nd ed.,1995.

Location: REF HQ 1150 .S73 1995

Includes data from a variety of sources including government documents. Material about 60% U.S., 40% international. Includes a subject/geographical index.

The Timetables of Women's History: a Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's History. Karen Greenspan, 1994.

Location: REF HQ 1121 .G74 1994

Covers the Bronze Age to 1992, with essays, biographies and an index, as well as chronology.

The Women's Chronology: a Year-by-Year Record from Prehistory to the Present. James Trager, 1994.

Location: REF HQ 1122 .T73 1994

Arranged chronologically and then by subject categories.

The World's Women. United Nations, 1995.

Location: REF HQ 1154 .W675 1995

An official document of the Fourth World Conference on Women. Has worldwide statistical information on population, health, etc.

Health Resources

National Women's Health Information Center

http://www.4woman.org/

A service of the U.S. Public Health Service, providing a gateway to federal and other women's health information resources. Does not duplicate work by other federal web sites.

Women's Information in Healthfinder

http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Tour of women's information in this gateway consumer health information web site from the United States government.

History Resources

Celebrating Women's History on the Web: A Growing Resource

http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/womenhistory.htm

This University of Colorado site has links to many U.S. government and United Nations information sources concerning women.

National Women's History Project

http://www.nwhp.org/

Project has links to women's history resources such as chronologies of women's rights and biographies of women in different fields.

Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

A collection in the Library of Congress of books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. Part of the American Memory Project.

Susan B. Anthony University Center at the University of Rochester.

http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/

Includes links documenting the history of women's suffrage, including a chronology of events leading to women's right to vote and a bibliography of the suffrage movement.

Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

A collection of photographs from the Library of Congress, featuring individual suffragists as well as suffrage parades and cartoons. Part of the American Memory Project.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930.

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

Organized around editorial projects at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Each project asks a question and provides documents addressing the question. Subjects include: suffrage, labor, peace movements, and African-American women.

Indexes for Finding Articles

To access databases with a location of "ALADIN", click on the title of the database. To see a list of databases available through ALADIN, go to the ALADIN Home Page. Under "Databases by Title" on the right side of the screen, choose from the three alphabetical groupings.

ALADIN databases are available for use only by current GW students, staff, and faculty. If you are using this page from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter the barcode number from the back of your GWorld ID card before you can access the database.

Contemporary Women's Issues

http: ALADIN

Full text access to global information on women.

Gender Studies

Location: ALADIN

Covers diversity, men's, and women's studies interdisciplinary scholarship from pre-1972 to the present. Some records link to full text.

Women's Studies Index v. 1- 1989-to present. Annual

Location: REF HQ 1180 .W66

A selective author and subject index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals, mainly American. For later editions see Women's Studies on Disc, a CD-ROM.

International Women Resources

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)

http://www.undp.org/fwcw/daw1.htm

The official site for reports from this conference with links to other U.N. information on the status of women worldwide.

Women, Gender & Sexuality in Latin America (from Latin American Network Information Center)

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/women

This site is part of LANIC, the most comprehensive gateway to Internet resources focused on Latin America and is managed by the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. Organized by country.

Library or Archive Resources

Archives and Manuscripts for Women's Studies at Arlington County Public Library

http://www.co.arlington.va.us/lib/history/arcwomen.htm

Brief descriptions of archival material for women's studies in the Virginia Room at the Arlington County Central Library.

Documents form the Women's Liberation Movement: an on-line Archival Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm

Documents various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, especially the radical origins of the movement during the 1960s and 1970s.

University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies

Contains many bibliographies including the American Library Association's Core Lists in Women's Studies, as well as links to other Internet sites.

WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites

http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html

Web sites compiled by the Women's Studies Section of the American Library Association.

Women's Presses Library Project

http://www.litwomen.org/subjects.html

This site states 'keeping women's words in circulation' and has an extensive list of titles about women in many different subjects or disciplines.

Speech Text Resources

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World

http://ripley.wo.sbc.edu/departmental/library/gos/

Transcripts of important speeches by women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Search by name or browse alphabetically or chronologically.

University or Women's Studies Departments with in a University

George Washington University Women's Studies Program Home Page

Location: http://www.gwu.edu/~wstu/

Includes course listings, faculty information, newsletter, and links to women's studies resources.

University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities

http://www.inform.umd.edu/WMST/

Includes departmental information, faculty, course descriptions, etc.

Women's Studies Resources from the University of Maryland

Location: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies

Includes bibliographies, class syllabi, calls for papers, employment opportunities, film reviews, and government information and gateways to other women's studies Internet resources.

Women of color web

Location: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/WoC/

This site on a Harvard School of Public Health server and contains information on 'feminisims' sexualities, reproductive rights, teaching tools, organizations, and discussions.

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