Women's Studies Resource Guide: Other Sources
Biographical Information Book Review
Dissertations & Theses Websites
Finding Book Reviews
Many article indexing databases actually allow you to limit your search to only book reviews by checking a box. Reviews can also be found by simply adding the word "review" to your search string. For example: women and United States and review. If you are searching for the review of a particular title try searching by that title or author.
Book Review Digest Plus and Book Review Digest Retrospective (via Wilson Web)
Indexes book reviews from a variety of subject areas including many peer-reviewed women's studies journals. Reviews written 1905-present. An index with abstracts, may lead to full-text.
Find Brief Biographical Entries (that may lead to more extensive sources)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
"Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor"-- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) Website. Includes citation only does not include full-text.
Biography Resource Center
"This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search"--Biography Resource Center (Gale) Website.
Finding Dissertations & Theses (excellent source for "chasing footnotes")
Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)
Includes full-text of the first 24 pages of many of the dissertations and some items can be downloaded in entirety, free of charge. Use Illiad (inter-library loan) to request entire dissertation.
Finding Websites
Women's Organizations
- The national Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity Resource Center works to improve educational, social, and economic outcomes for women and girls.
- is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of encouraging and sharing research on women in war and women and the military.
- is an organization devoted to furthering women's rights through education and litigation.
- of the Association of College and Research Libraries was formed to discuss, promote, and support women's studies collections and services in academic and research libraries.
University Websites on Women's Studies
Women's Studies and History Websites
- 300 Women Who Changed the World
- By Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- 4000 Years of Women in Science
- Includes inventors, scholars and writers as well as mathematicians and astronomers.
- The Ada Project
- Promotes and encourages women to investigate potential careers in computer science.
- American Women in Uniform
- Amazing women from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War.
- Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1920: Author List.
- Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)
- Hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers.
- Civil War Women
- An On-line Archival Collection of the Special Collections Library, Duke University.
- Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
- An archive of 20th century women who made original and important contributions to physics before 1976.
- The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory
- The early years for women.
- CWLU Herstory Project
- Documents the history of the women's liberation movement in Chicago during the 1960's-1970s.
- An interdisciplinary resource for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.
- Biographies of women who have contributed to our culture in many different ways.
- Scholarship on women, sexuality, and gender during Medieval times.
- A subject specific resource highlighting local and regional information.
- Provides a voice for American women who believe in individual freedom and personal responsibility.
- The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 - 1998. 1998 is the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, launched at the world's first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
- Source for updates about events, conferences, publications, films and other resources related to U.S. women's history.
- Lists documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women.
- A new media network providing a centralized link to sites geared toward professional women.
- Women who made a contribution to the history of Indiana University.
- Journalists, photographers, and broadcasters During World War II.
- The life of the American woman as seen from a traveler's perspective.
- News and views, focus and opinion, and the writings of noted author, activist and mentor of new generations of womenpower - Irene Stuber.
- The park commemorates the First Women's Rights Convention and the early leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States.
- Contains women and gender studies web sites.
- A search directory for women online.
- Link to Feminist academic sites on feminist theory and women's and gender studies.
