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Women's Studies Resources

Reference Sources

encyclopedia 

Subject Guides
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Bibliographies
Additional Resources

Subject Guides

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Historical Dictionary of Feminism
Lilly Reference & Perkins/Bostock Reference

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography

Perkins/Bostock Reference

Encyclopedia of Women’s History in America
Lilly Reference & Perkins/Bostock Reference

International Encyclopedia of Women’s Suffrage
Lilly Reference & Perkins/Bostock Reference
Full text available in History Reference Online

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge
Perkins/Bostock Reference

International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950

Perkins/Bostock Reference
Full text available in History Reference Online

Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century

Perkins/Bostock Library & Perkins, Lilly, Divinity and Special Collections Reference

Women, a Modern Political Dictionary
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women’s Studies Encyclopedia
Lilly and Perkins/Bostock Reference

Bibliographies

America’s White Working-Class Women: A Historical Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Feminist Research Methods: An Annotated Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference

The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Significant Contemporary American Feminists: A Biographical Sourcebook
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Sources on the History of Women’s Magazines, 1792-1960: An Annotated Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women: A Bibliography of Bibliographies
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women and Mass Communications in the 1990’s: An International, Annotated Bibliography   
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women in China: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography

Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women Writers of Spanish America: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Women’s Studies: A Recommended Bibliography
Perkins/Bostock Reference 

More Annotated Bibliographies about Women and Women's Issues

Additional Sources

Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies
Perkins/Bostock Reference

A History of Popular Women’s Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995
Perkins/Bostock Reference

The American Woman [serial]
Perkins/Bostock Reference

New Books on Women & Feminism [serial]
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Introduction to Library Research in Women’s Studies
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Words to the Wise : A Writer’s Guide to Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals & Publishers
Perkins/Bostock Reference