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Guides by Subject: Feminist Studies INDEXES  |  REFERENCE WORKS   |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for feminist studies. Also visit the Southwestern University Feminist Studies Program homepage. INDEXES Academic Search Complete A multi-disciplinary, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions Full text or indexing for scholarly journals, with many dating back to 1984. Full-page images, as well as color embedded images are included. Through EBSCOhost. Alternative Press Index Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. In-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ARTstor The ARTstor image database is a searchable collection of downloadable high quality digital images for education and scholarship. The database documents artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. ARTstor is designed for researchers, teachers and students. Users can download individual images or use the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer to build a presentation using ARTstor images, arrange and caption the images, and deliver the presentation in the classroom.[ More infomation about using ARTstor.] The Chicana Studies Index: Twenty Years of Gender Research, 1971-1991 REFERENCE, 1st floor A useful print index for Chicana Studies. Contemporary Women's Issues Provides full text access to global information on women. Includes journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, fact sheets. JSTOR: Journal Storage Collection Online An electronic archive of scholarly journals from the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences. Each of the 624 titles is an essential or primary one for its field. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals (excluding the most recent five years) have been digitized, starting with the first issues, many of which date back to the 1800s. Users can browse the complete table of contents for every volume and issue, or search for words or phrases in the full text of the article, author and abstracts. JSTOR displays articles in page-image format. Project MUSE Provides full image journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, in particular the areas of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Women's Studies Index REFERENCE, 1st floor A print index to periodicals useful for women's studies. Holdings include 1989-present. Women's Studies International Includes citations from women's studies-related databases, some dating back as far as 1972. REFERENCE WORKS In multidisciplinary fields like feminist studies, resources in many different parts of the library's collection will be useful. To find printed reference material relevant to your topic start with the library's online catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords to describe your topic. You can also check the library's web pages for subject guides for specific topics to find other suggested sources. Below are a few books from the reference collection to get you started. Concise glossary of feminist theory REFERENCE, 1st floor 305.4201 An22c Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.8003 D561 Encyclopedia of American activism, 1960 to the present REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 323.04 D547e Encyclopedia of feminist theories REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.42 En19 Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.486 En19 Feminist dictionary REFERENCE, 1st floor 305.4 K127f Feminist writers REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.42 F349ke Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.42 G856 v. 1-6 Men and masculinities : a social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.31 M525 v. 1-2 Penguin atlas of women in the world, 3rd ed. REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.42 Se13p Reader's guide to lesbian and gay studies REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.90664 R227 Reader's guide to women's studies REFERENCE, 1st floor 305.4 R221 Routledge companion to feminism and postfeminism REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.4 R7646 Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 305.4 R765 v. 1-4 Wimmin, wimps & wallflowers : an encyclopaedic dictionary of gender and sexual orientation bias in the United States REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 306.74 H417w Women's studies encyclopedia REFERENCE, 1st floor 305.4 W8423 1999 v.1-3 WEB LINKS Best of the feminist web: links Feminist.com Subject listing of women and gender resources University of Wisconsin, Women's Studies Librarian's Office WSSLINKS: women and gender studies web sites Association of College and Research Libraries, Women's Studies Section Women's studies database Includes guides to feminist theory and other websites. Women's studies online resources University of Maryland--Baltimore County, Center for Women and Information Technology Organization links Feminist majority foundation National women's studies association National council for research on women Literature and media links Celebration of women writers Feminist science fiction, fantasy, and utopia Gifts of speech: women's speeches from around the world GLBTQ: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, & queer culture RWO: Renaissance women online Victorian women writers project Voices from the gaps: women writers of color Women writers online Women's studies database film reviews History links Diotima: materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world Documents from the women's liberation movement Early modern women database Feminae: medieval women and gender index National women's history project Women Working: 1800-1930 Statistics links Dept. of Labor Women's Bureau Genderstats from the World Bank International center for research on women National Center for Health Statistics: State trends in health and mortality National Women's Health Information Center Office of Violence Against Women: Research and statistical publications UNIFEM World's women 2000 WomenWatch: Directory of UN resources PERIODICALS To find holdings and location information for specific periodical titles (both print and online), search the Voyager catalog. To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes.

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