• REF HQ 1115 .K73 1985b Kramarae, Cheris & Paula A. Treichler. A Feminist Dictionary. Boston: Pandora Press, 1985. Uses quotations to define a variety of terms.
• REF HQ 1115 .H86 1995 Humm, Maggie. The Dictionary of Feminist Theory 2d ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995. A more traditional dictionary approach to feminist content. Good starting place for most terms and concepts.
• REF HQ 1115 .R68 2000 Gamble, Sarah. The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism. NY: Routledge, 2000. Fifteen signed essays on various topics plus an A to Z section of key themes and major figures, briefly described.
• REF HQ1190 .E63 2000 Code, Lorraine, ed. Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. NY: Routledge, 2000. Despite the title, this is a dictionary, designed to recognize women'sself-defining activities, resist exclusionary actions, and offerprovocative definitions of terms.
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General Encyclopedias

• REF HQ 1115 .R69 2000 Kramarae, Cheris & Dale Spender. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. 4 vols. NY: Routledge, 2000. The best starting point for research into topics in women's studies. Particularly valuable for its global focus.
• REF HQ 1115 .W645 1999 Tierney, Helen, ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia, rev. & ex. ed. 4 vols. CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Awork designed for non-specialists, to introduce them to the full arrayof women's studies in the U.S., with some articles dealing with otherareas of the world.
• REF HQ 1115 .W6425 1997 McFadden, Margaret, ed. Women's Issues. 3 vols. NJ: Salem Press, 1997. Intendedto address the changing nature of women's lives in the U.S. Each entryoutlines relevant issues and provides extensive cross-references andbibliography.
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Topical Encyclopedias

• REF HQ 76.6 .R442 2000 Rengel, Marian. Encyclopedia of Birth Control. AZ: Oryx Press, 2000. Short articles on all aspects of birth control. Includes articles on a sampling of other countries.
• REF HQ 777 .G5745 2001 Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Girlhood in America. 2 vols. CA: ABC-Clio, 2001 Lengthyarticles with cross-references and substantive bibliographies on issuesaffecting U.S. girls. Race, class, orientation, and religion areaddressed, and most articles have a strong historical perspective.
• REF HQ 1410 .H36 2000 Howard, Angela M. & Frances M. Kavenik, eds. Handbook of American Women's History. 2d ed. CA: Thousand Oaks, 2000 Persons, concepts, and events in women's history in the U.S.
• REF GV 709 .I58 2001 International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports. 3 vols. NY: Macmillan, 2001. Interpretssports in the broadest possible context (it includes arm wrestling),with illustrations, statistics, and bibliographies, and good historicalcoverage.
• REF JF .H28 2000 International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage. CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Designed to shift the focus away from the U.S. and U.K. suffrage movements to provide examples of other models.
• REF HQ 75.6 .U5 L35 1996 The Lesbian Almanac NY: Berkeley Books, 1996. History,statistics, illustrations, lists, slang, and directories for lesbians in the U.S., compiled by The National Museum and Archive of Lesbian andGay History.
• REF E 159 .K39 1994 Sherr, Lynn & Jurate Kazickas. Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks. NY: Times Books,1994. Arranged by state, with illustrations, bibliography, and index, but no maps. A useful source for lesser known aspects of women's history.
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Biography

• REF HQ 1115 .W6 1999 Commire, Anne, ed. Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999+ Over10,000 women from 3100 BCE to the present day have their stories told by several hundred contributors. Particularly useful are the genealogical charts and joint entries (e.g. "Astronauts: Women inSpace"). Expected to run to some 20 volumes when completed.
• REF CT 3260 .N57James, Edward T., ed. Notable American Women 1607-1950. MA: Belknap Press, 1971.
• REF CT 3260 .N573 Sicherman, Barbara, ed. Notable American Women: The Modern Period.MA: Belknap Press, 1980.One to two page signed biographies, with references, for women who died before 12/31/1975. These were the first biographical dictionaries for U.S. women ever printed.
• REF HQ 1412 .S56 1999 Scanlon, Jennifer, ed. Significant Contemporary American Feminists. CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Fifty lengthy portraits of women, mostly living, in politics, literature, and the sciences, representing many races, orientations, and classes.
• REF JC 599 .U5 H273 1993 Hardy, Gayle J. American Women Civil Rights Activists. NC: McFarland, 1993. Biobibliographies of sixty-eight women from 1825 to 1992, representing women activists for American Indians, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, children,lesbians and gays, adoptees, older adults, differently abled people, prisoners, economic opportunity, and many other causes.
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Full Text

• Contemporary Women's Issues Available: CBB only Coverage: 1992 - present Access: RDS/Gale Full Text from 600 sources relating to women's issues published by more than 100 organizations around the world.

• REF HQ 1075 .E68 2001 Worell, Judith, ed. Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. 2 vols. NY: Academic Press, 2001. Extensive essays on issues of the psychology of sex and gender as they pertain to women. Topics include body image, career, cross-cultural gender roles, friendship, media, lesbian and bisexual women, stress, and work environments.
• International Women's Health Coalition Essays,links, and information on their work to support global well-being andjustice through ensuring women's human rights, health, and equality.Particular focus on public policy and international organizations such as the U.N. and the World Bank.
• REF K 644 .R54 1998 Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important U.N. Treaties on Women's Human Rights . NY: International Women's Tribune Center, 1998. An introduction to human rights conventions, both established and in process, as they apply to women in different nations. Specific rights are spelled out, with references to the appropriate conventions. Useful Web sites, contact information, and work sheets.
• REF HQ 1426 .F685 1982 Fishburn, Katherine. Women in Popular Culture. CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. Extensive bibliographic essays on U.S. women in popular literature, magazines, film, TV, advertising, sports, and comic, with lists of journals, bibliographies, research centers, and a chronology. Somewhat dated, but useful for background information.
• REF HQ 1870.9 .W6548 1998 Stromquist, Nelly P. Women in the Third World. NY: Garland, 1998. Research essays on theory, concepts, politics, sex roles, demographics, health,marriage, family, production, environment, and social change for women in developing nations. There are also geographical essays on women in14 different regions, and an annotated bibliography.
• REF HQ 1421 .B47 1999 Berkeley, Kathleen C. The Women's Liberation Movement in America . CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Chronology, explanatory essays, biographies, primary documents, and a photo essay on women's liberation in the U.S. from 1848 to 1999.
• Women of Color Web--Acollection of essays and other writings by and about Women of Color in the U.S. Contributing writers include bell hooks, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua, and Lynn Lu. Good links to research sites, bibliographies, discussion groups, and organizations.
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  Indexes
•  Gender Studies
  Available: Colby only
  Coverage: 1972-present
  Gender Studies Database combines NISC's  Women's Studies Internationaland Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversityissues. GSD includes gender-engaged scholarship inside and outsideacademia.  Source documents include professional journals, conferencepapers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion andworking papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Severalhundred links provide access to carefully selected and importantwebsites. This database includes more than 552,250 records withcoverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.

•  GLBT Life with Full Text
  Available: Colby only
  Coverage: 1977 - present
  Access: Ebsco
  GLBT indexes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature and emphasizes history, culture, social issues, interests and concerns of the GLBTcommunity. Materials covered include periodicals, books, conference proceedings, newspapers, dissertations and web documents.

• REF Z 7962 .W65Women's Studies Abstracts 1972+
• Women's Resources International includes this index from 1984 to the present. Use the paper index for years prior to 1984, and as a backup to the electronic version.
• WorldCat Available: Colby only Updated: daily Access: OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) WorldCat contains millions of catalog records from OCLC member libraries worldwide. Among the wide variety of materials included in the bibliographic database are books, manuscripts, serials, newspapers, electronic materials, maps, web sites.
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  Primary Source Material
• American Women's Diaries: Segment 1 New England Women. Readex Corporation, 1984
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 22 reels. The lives of eight middle and upper class women residing on the Eastern Seaboard, 18th-20th centuries. Filmed from the handwritten originals at the American Antiquarian Society.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st Floor. MICROFILM 1500-1520
• ACCESS: Guide and index to women's diaries. Segment 1. New England women REFERENCE HQ1418 .A442 1984
• American Women's Diaries: Segment II Southern Women. Readex Corporation, 1988-1990.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 34 reels. Includes 37 manuscript diaries located in 13 repositories.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st Floor. MICROFILM #3167-3200
• ACCESS: REFERENCE HQ1438 .S65 B43 1990
• American Women's Diaries: Segment III Western Women. Readex Corporation, 1998.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 35 reels. Has 800 diaries of the journey westward and settlement of the west.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st Floor. MICROFILM #1616
• ACCESS: REFERENCE HQ1438 .W45 A4 1998
• Catt, Carrie Chapman. The Papers of Carrie Chapman Catt. Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 18 reels. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, etc. relating to women's suffrage, feminism, and world peace.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st Floor. Microfilm 3254
• ACCESS: Paper Guide. REF Z6611 .W6 L52 1985
• Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The Collected correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880. Kraus Thompson Organization Microform, 1979.
• DESCRIPTION: 97 MICROFICHE.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st Floor. Microfiche #213
• ACCESS: Paper Guide. REF E449.C534152 H64
• Les Femmes. Clearwater Pub. Co., 1971-1980.
• DESCRIPTION: 481 MICROFICHE. Rare works from France on microfiche from the Bibliotheque Nationale. A collection of 127 titles dating from the 17th-20th centuries, scrutinizing every aspect of women's lives.
• LOCATION: Miller, First Floor. Microfiche #212
• ACCESS: Printed Guide. REF HQ 1613 F4
• (League of Women Voters) Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918-1974. University Publications of America, Inc., 1985.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 48 reels
• Pt.1 Meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committees: Minutes and Related Documents. 14 reels.
• Pt.3: Series A National Office Subject Files, 1920-1932. 34 reels
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st floor. MICROFILM #1995
• ACCESS: Paper Guide. REF JF848 P32 1985
• National American Woman Suffrage Association (records, 1839-1961). Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 73 reels.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st Floor. Microfilm 3257
• ACCESS: Paper Guide. REF Z6611 W6 L52 1985
• (National Association of Colored Women's Clubs) Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1922. University Publications of America, 1933-.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 26 reels. Pt.1 Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President's Office Correspondence.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st floor. MICROFILM #3250
• ACCESS: Paper Guide, REF E185.86 B64 1994 Guide
• (Roosevelt, Eleanor) Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945. University Publications of America, Inc., 1986.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 20 reels. Microfilmed in cooperation with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. Advisory Editors Dr. Susan Ware and Dr. William H. Chafe.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st floor. MICROFILM #1975-1994.
• ACCESS: Paper guide. REF E807.1 R575 1986
• Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. University Publications of America, Inc., 1991.
• DESCRIPTION: MICROFILM 49 reels. Series A, Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, ChapelHill
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st floor. MICROFILM #3201-3249
• ACCESS: Paper Guide. REF HQ 1438. S65 S34 1991
• The Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman: Vehicle for Social Change: Oral History Project, pt.1 Microfilming Corporation of America, 1978.
• DESCRIPTION: 61 MICROFICHE containing 41 oral histories of women and their union activities.
• LOCATION: Miller Library, 1st floor. Microfiche #211
• ACCESS: Look at fiche headers, no separately published guide.
• REF Z 7963 .B6 A32 1983 Addis, Patricia K. Through a Woman's I: An Annotated Bibliography of American Women's Autobiographical Writings, 1946 - 1976. NJ: Scarecrow, 1983.
• REF Z 7963 .B6 C55 1989 Cline, Cheryl. Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters. NY: Garland, 1989. Published private writings of women from various nations, mostly from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
• REF Z 5305 .U5 A74 1983 American Diaries. 2 vols. MI: Gale, 1983. Volume 1 covers 1492 through 1844; volume 2 covers 1845 through 1980. Includes men and women. Return to Top

Associations

• Colby's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Home Page--Information about WGSS at Colby and a list of great links not included on this page.
• Feminist Majority Online--Maintained by The Feminist Majority Foundation, this page includes the Feminist Internet Gateway to links on the Web, news, research, voter information, and current issues pages.
• Franco American Women's Institute--A Maine organization promoting ethnic women's voices
• NOW--Information about the National Organization for Women.
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  Other Web Sites
• Academic Info: Women's Studies--Excellent site of well-organized links pertaining to women's issues worldwide. A good place to start an Internet search.
• Feminist Activist Resources--Links to other Web sites.
• Feminist.com-- A Webportal (like Yahoo) designed for feminists to form grassroots community, facilitate information sharing, and encourage mobilization around political issues.
• Gender-Related Electronic Forums--A list of electronic discussion lists on women and/or gender.
• Women's Studies Resources--Pages of links and of electronic discussion lists assembled by librarians at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
• Women's Studies Resources (Iowa)--Lists of links as well as specialized search engines which produce fewer sites with greater relevance. Particular focus on literature, sports,activism, arts, feminist theory, and history.
• Women's Studies (University of Wisconsin)--Bibliographies maintained by the Women's Studies Librarian, as well as Web links to other sites, e-zines, and syllabi.
• Worldwide Feminism Resources--Excellent list of links maintained by the Social Science Information Gateway of Australian National University.
• WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--anothermeta-site, with many links arranged in 14 sections and maintained byvarious members of the Women's Studies Section of the Association ofCollege and Research Libraries
• WWWomen--an Internet subject directory maintained by a San Francisco company to provide quick access to sites for and about women