Women and Gender Studies Journals & Indexes | Web Resources | Primary Sources | Reference Works | Bates Women and Gender Studies Department | Librarian This subject guide is a good starting place for researching general topics in Women's Studies; however, you might also look at American Cultural Studies or Sociology. Full Text Journals & Indexes   Online Reference Sources   Gender Studies Database ABOUT     North American Women's Letters and Diaries. Both this and the following site are indexed in such detail that one can easily extract particular passages by women in particular circumstances.   Contemporary Women's Issues ABOUT       SocINDEX ABOUT     British and Irish women's letters and diaries from 1500 to 1900   Alternative Press Index ABOUT     Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000   LGBT Life ABOUT       Multi-Database Search : Women/Gender/Sexual Diversity Studies Web Resources WSSLINKS:women and gender studies web sites WSSLinks is one of the best available gateways to web resources and is maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. American Women's History: A Research Guide This site provides citations to print and Internet sources, links to "Digital Collections of Primary Sources" and to online interviews, speeches, etc. American Women Through Time Compilation of important women's history websites by time and theme. The Status of Women in the States The Institute for Women's Policy Research provides reports and statistics on the status of women in all states, each individual state, and rankings of the best and worse states for women in particular categories. Women's Studies Research Guide, New York Public Library Listings of bibliographies and reference titles some of which we might own. Academic Info: Women's Studies Good compilation of web sites pertaining to various aspects of Women's Studies. Women Working, 1870-1930 Digitized resources from Harvard's library and museum collections on women's roles in the U.S.economy. Center for Women & Information Technology Website of a Center at the University of Maryland which includes numerous listings of print and online resources under the "resources" section. Hearth: Home Economics Archives HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940 Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton organizes more than 600 documents and images around 30 learing modules. Only a quarter of the items are available online, the rest can be found in the catalog or through ILL. Women Writers Project This long term research projects makes texts by pre-Victorian women writers available online. Victorian Women Writers Project Works by British women writers of the 19th century, available online. This site includes links to other WWW literature sites. Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges. Primary Sources (also see Online Reference Sources at the top of this page) American Memory's resources for Women's History from the Library of Congress New England Women and Their Families in the 18th and 19th Centuries Personal Papers, Letters and Diaries Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Papers, 1930-1942 Dorothy Freeman Collection A part of Bates Special Collections, the Dorothy Freeman Collection contains several series of material related to the biologist, conservationist, and writer Rachel Carson. Included are two series of correspondence: Dorothy Freeman's Letters to Rachel Carson (1954-1964) and Rachel Carson's Letters to Dorothy Freeman (1952-1964). The Women at Work Collection from the Imperial War Museum, London pertaining to the British Red Cross The Papers of Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon Women and education in England, 1849-1921 GUIDES TO: Comprehensive Index to Oregon trail diaries Guide to the microfilm edition of Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs This is a microfilm set that Bowdoin's Library own and is requestable through interlibrary loan. Reference Works Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide volumes covering Asia and Oceania, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America and Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa Reference - various call numbers Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Reference HQ 1170.E53 2003, multivolumed American women: a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States Reference Z7164.U5 A47 2001 Supreme Court cases on gender and sexual equality, 1787-2001 Reference KF4758.A7 A96 2002 Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender Reference HQ1115 .E43 2001, 2 vols. Handbook of the psychology of women and gender Oversized HQ1206 .H2385 2001 The Women's Movement Today: an encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism Reference HQ 1115.W6444 2006, 2 vols. Historical and multicultural encyclopedia of women's reproductive rights in the United States Reference HQ766.5.U5 H57 2002 History of Women in the United States : Historical articles on Women's Lives and Activities HQ 1410.H57 1992, 20 vols. Women's mental health : a comprehensive textbook RG103.5 .W66 2002 The World's Women: Trends and Statistics 2005 Series covers back to 1970 Reference HQ1154 .W95 2005 Library contact: For more information, contact: Laura Juraska Associate Librarian for Reference Services 207-786-8324 e-mail: ljuraska AT bates.edu The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College 48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240 (207) 786-6263

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