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Electronic Databases and Journal Indexes

The databases and indexes below specialize in sources for Women's Studies. Researchers may also wish to consult broader subject-related databases such as Historical Abstracts, MLA Bibliography, and Sociological Abstracts on the Indexes and Abstracts page.

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• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
  
  
• ARIADNE Database (Austrian National Library)
  
  Indexes women's studies articles and gray literature (ca. 10,000 entries since 1990) from the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Search interface is in German.
  
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• Black Women Writers. (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  Will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.
  
  
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  Currently includes approximately 38,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 201 women. With subsequent releases, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, as well as by characteristics of the authors, such as age, marital status, number of children, residence, etc.
  
  
• British Women Romantic Poets Project (University of California at Davis)
  
  
• Contemporary Women's Issues on FirstSearch (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  Provides full text access to global information on women in over 150 countries since 1992. Disciplines covered include sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Sources: journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies.
  
  
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World (University of Kentucky)
  
  An interdisciplinary resource on patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. Diotima includes course materials, a systematic and searchable bibliography with an emphasis on recent work, and links to online articles, book reviews, databases, and images.
  
  
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Emory University)
  
  
• gender Inn (University of Cologne)
  
  A searchable database providing access to over 6000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies, focusing on English and American literature. Begin search by clicking on "Research."
  
  
• Gender Studies in Agriculture (Wageningen Agricultural University)

  Indexes articles on the position of women in rural and agricultural societies from 240 agricultural and social science journals in the libraries of Wageningen Agricultural University. In some cases an abstract has been added.

• Italian Women Writers (University of Chicago)
  
  A long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors.
  
  
• Marriage, Women, and the Law, 1815-1914: Studies in Scarlet (RLG Digital Collections Project)
  
  This unique digital collection is the result of a coordinated, transnational project to which 7 major US and UK research institutions contributed primary and secondary materials gleaned from case reports, statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters. With a focus on family law and domestic relations in the 19th century, the collection provides electronic access to materials supporting research on a broad range of topics, including marriage, divorce, adultery, miscegenation, polygamy, and birth control.
  
  
• Medieval Feminist Index (MFI) (Haverford College)
  
  Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.). Over 300 journals in English, French, German, and Spanish and covered, 1994- . Includes links to full texts on the Web including reviews from the Medieval Review and journal articles from Project Muse.
  
  
• North American Women's Drama from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  When complete, the collection will include more than 1,500 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays, as well as detailed, fielded information on playwrights, theaters, production companies, and more.
  
  
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  Includes more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, dating from colonial times to 1950, drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, as well as by characteristics of the authors, such as age, marital status, number of children, residence, etc.
  
  
• Renaissance Women Online (Brown University) (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
  
  
• Sexbiblio: bibliography of the history of Western sexuality / 1700-1945 (Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna)
  
  The bibliography contains non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 1945.
  

• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
  
  
• ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
  
  A current bibliography (1995- ) of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than 90 European, American and Indian Journals.
  
  
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  More than 30,000 pages of text selected from a wide variety of sources, including some complete works. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, including subject terms, dates, characteristics of authors, etc.
  
  
• Women in the Ancient Near East: A Select Bibliography of Recent Sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  A current bibliography reflecting the acquisitions of The Oriental Institute Research Archives, 1988-1992.
  
  
• Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 (University of Minnesota)
  
  
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University)
  
  As part of the Harvard University Library Open Collection program, the site provides access to pages images of a large number of books and pamphlets, as well as manuscripts. When completed, the project will include over 2,000 digitized books, 10,000 manuscripts pages, and 1,000 images from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.
  
  
• Women Writers Online (Brown University) (University of Chicago subscription)

Electronic Journals

• Advancing Women in Leadership, a journal on women's professional issues
  
  
• Agenda, South African feminist journal - selected articles only
  
  
• Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Institute for the Study of Women, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia - tables of contents and excerpts
  
  
• Blau: Femzine aus Berlin
  
  
• La Boletina, publication of Puntos de Encuentro (Nicaragua)
  
  
• Catt's Claws, an electronic feminist newsletter
  
  
• Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Duke University Law School
  
  
• Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources - tables of contents and selected articles only
  
  
• Feminista! an electronic journal "of art, literature, social commentary, philosophy, wit, humor, and respect"
  
  
• Forum for køn og kultur, from KVINFO, the Danish Centre for Information on Women and Gender - selected articles in English under title Forum for Gender and Culture
  
  
• Geekgirl (Australia) calls itself "the world's first cyberfem' webzine"
  
  
• Gender, Place and Culture - A Journal of Feminist Geography
  
  
• Genders - recent issues only
  
  
• Godey's Lady's Book - selected issues only
  
  
• Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context
  
  
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies
  
  
• The Ladies Repository, 1841-1876, has been digitized as part of the University of Michigan's Making of America project. Click on "browse," then "Ladies Repository."
  
  
• LolaPress, an international feminist magazine with offices in Uruguay, Germany, and South Africa - tables of contents and selected articles only
  
  
• n. paradoxa: international feminist art journal
  
  
• National NOW Times
  
  
• off our backs: a women's newsjournal - tables of contents and selected articles only
  
  
• On The Issues: The Progressive Women's Quarterly - selected articles only
  
  
• Outskirts: feminisms along the edge, a feminist cultural studies journal from the English Department, University of Western Australia
  
  
• RFR/DRF: Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche féministe, Centre for Women's Studies in Education, University of Toronto - tables of contents and abstracts
  
  
• Re/productions
  
  
• sapphic ink: a lesbian literary journal
  
  
• Sister, "Columbia University's feminist magazine" - excerpts online
  
  
• Vanity Fair, 1860-1862, has been digitized as part of the University of Michigan's Making of America project. Click on "browse," then "Vanity Fair."
  
  
• La ventana: revista de estudios de género
  
  
• WE International, formerly Women & Environments Magazine - recent excerpts, plus tables of contents
  
  
• We/Myi, English translations from The Women's Dialogue, a Russian magazine for women
  
  
• W.i.g.: women in general magazine "art, sports, music, and culture"
  
  
• Womanist Theory and Research, Womanist Studies Consortium at the University of Georgia - tables of contents and selected articles only
  
  
• Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory - full text of current issues, contents of back issues
  
  
• Women & Politics: a quarterly journal of research and policy studies, Political Science Department, State University of West Georgia - abstracts of articles in the print edition
  
  
• Women in Higher Education - tables of contents and selected articles only
  
  
• Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal
  
  
• Women's Health Issues on Elsevier Science Direct (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  
• Women's History - selected articles only
  
  
• Women's Studies on Catchword (University of Chicago subscription)
  
  
• Women's Studies International Forum on Elsevier Science Direct (University of Chicago subscription)

Archives and Libraries

Directories

Links to libraries and other institutions with archival collections. Many have online guides.

Provides links to institutions with primary source material by and about women.

Review article by Ginny Daley with links to significant websites.

Addresses and contact information for archives with women's studies holdings.

Individual Institutions

Information regarding selected modern manuscript and archival collections pertinent for women's studies.

Extensive website of one of the most important resource centers for Women's Studies in the United States. In addition to vast retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, NYPL has a strong collection of current Women's Studies materials.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library is the foremost library on the history of women in America. Its holdings of books, manuscripts, periodicals, photographs, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials document the social history of women in the United States, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England.

The Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian, created in 1977, produces many regular and special publications and hosts this website.

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Some Starting Points on the Web (Comprehensive Sites)

• Academic Info: Women's Studies
  
  An annotated directory of websites, topically organized.
  
  
• The Library of Congress American Memory Project: American Women
  
  A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States that goes beyond resources available at the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender Studies Page
  
  Annotated links to web resources for women's studies & feminist theory (and other gender studies).
  
  
• WSSLINKS: Women & Gender Studies Web Sites - Women's Studies Section, Assn of College & Research Libraries
  
  A collection of topical subsites (for example Art & Film, Music, Philosophy, Politics) maintained by women's studies librarians.
  
  
• Women's Studies - University of Pennsylvania Library
  
  An electronic "reference shelf" and a collection of links arranged by topic.
  

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Academic Programs

• Center for Gender Studies University of Chicago

  Details about the undergraduate program, faculty, courses, projects, events

• Artemis Guide

  Some 230 women's studies programs in the United States

• Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers

  Over 450 programs in the United States and abroad

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