Women's Studies
Women's Studies Librarian: Robert Ridinger
Founders Memorial 15E
815-753-1367
rridinger@niu.edu
- America: History and Life - - Provides citations to articles from over 2,100 journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. Coverage is 1982 to the present and is updated three times per year. Abstracts Only.
- Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945 - - In the late 1800's, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, The Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages. This online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works.
- Journal Citation Reports - - Journal Citation Reports: Science and Social Sciences Editions--the former edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology. The latter includes data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. The database can be searched at the individual title level or by subject category, publisher and country/territory.
- PsycInfo - - Compiled by the American Psychological Association, contains indexes, journal articles, chapters in books and entire books on psychology and related fields. Covering
1,300 journals in 27 languages, it also provides abstracts. Coverage is 1887 to the present. PsychInfo is on OVID. Some Full Text.
- Sage eReference - - This database represents a collection of more than sixty recent reference works published by Sage. The volumes can be searched either individually or collectively. As a group the titles cover a wide swath of social science and allied health fields.
- Sociological Abstracts - - Includes indexes and abstracts for articles in sociology and related disciplines in 20,000 journals in 30 different languages. Doctoral dissertations and book reviews are also included. Includes some full text. Coverage is 1963 to the present.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 - - This database includes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social
Movements, and an enormous collection of images. The collection is not static and additions will be loaded on an ongoing basis.
- Black Studies Center - - At the heart of Black Studies Center is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience. This unique database examines interdisciplinary topics on the African experience throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines along with important research articles, images, film clips and more.
All of the resources from Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience can be cross-searched with journals from the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) and newspaper articles from The Chicago Defender.
IIBP includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
- Book Review Index Plus - - The database offers a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications. Coverage is 1965 to the present.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online, 15th edition - - This new edition of the venerable guide to the preparation of manuscripts, articles, and papers has been thoroughly overhauled and updated to reflect the new realities of digital texts and electronic publishing.
- Chronicle of Higher Education - - The Chronicle provides well-researched and thoughtful analyses of current issues in higher education.
- ebrary Academic Complete - - This electronic book package includes more than 24,000 individual texts covering a broad array of academic disciplines. The database boasts a distinguished set of publishers including such university presses as Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, etc. The content of the database is well paired with an advanced set of tools that allows for expansive searching capabilities, and manipulation and storage of text.
- PsycArticles - - Is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated publishers. Most of the 63 journals included in PsycArticles extend to the initial release of the journal. For instance, the earliest journal--Psychological Review--goes back to 1894. The database also contains journals that are no longer published.
- Web of Science - - The database allows access to both the Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes. One can locate not only specific articles, but more important explore how specific articles have been treated by the literature in their respective fields. The backfile extends to 1965.
Tutorial
Web Resources
Web Resources
- Achieving Gender Equity in the Science Classroom: A Guide for Faculty (PDF)
- Compiled by women science students and the science faculty and staff of the New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education and based on work by Brown University students. Access through "Achieving Gender Equity."
- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
- An Archive of Memorable Quotes by Women
- FeMiNa
- Feminist Activist Resources on the Net
- Feminist Theory Website
- The materials are currently divided into 31 fields, including traditional disciples such as education, history, and law, and topics such as Post-Colonialism, Separatism, and Body Studies.
- Feminist.Com
- From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont
- Gendernet
- Sponsored by the World Bank, this site summarizes how its projects work to reduce gender disparities and promote womens involvement in economic development.
- National First Ladies' Library
- Research in Feminist Studies
- Research Resources for the Social Sciences
- The site is well organized into 18 different categories, including general resources, reference materials, data archives, and news resources. Each category provides links to web sites including e-journals, listservs, and full-text resources. Another useful category, "Aggressive Pattern Searches," provides links to information about searching the web, effective search strategies, and guides to using Internet search engines.
- SAWNET: South Asian Women's Network
- SAWNET is a voluntary non registered organization, begun by Jyothy Reddy and Susan Chacko. The countries covered are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Linked sites include statistical data, reports, children's books, etc. SAWNET will be useful to a wide range of audiences interested in South Asian women's issues.
- SPARROW- Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women
- ViVa: a Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
- Voice of the Shuttle - Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Women in Politics
- Women's Law Initiative
- Women's Resources on the Internet
- Women's Rights and Democracy in the Arab World
- Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews
- Women's Studies in Digital Archives
- WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies
- WWWomen The premier search directory for women online.
Organizations
Bookstores
Domestic Violence
Government Agencies
Health
History
- "No Job for a Woman": The Effects of War on Women's Lives During the 20th and 21st Century
- 300 Women Who Changed the World
- Profiles of women who have left their mark on the world.
- A *Daring Experiment*: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937 - 1970
- Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
- Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935 - 1938
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians
- Covers mostly nineteenth century to the present with a few eighteenth century and before.
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- Early Modern Women
- Database This site is browseable by subject, type, time period, language, and geographic area.
- Early Women Masters East and West
- This website has changed its name from Early Women's Art (earlywomensart.net).
- Femainae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
- Can be searched alphabetically or chronologically, 1848-.
- Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
- Home Economics Archive - Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH)
- Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
- Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
- Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camp
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
- National First Ladies' Library
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- National Women's History Project
- Other Women's Voices
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-E
- Ukiyo-e (translated as pictures of the floating or sorrowful world) is a showcase of the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. These works are complemented by related works from the Library of Congress' collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists in the 20th century.
- The Gertrude Bell Project
- The International Archive of Women in Architecture
- The Jean Thomas Collection
- This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920
- Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889- 1963
- Women Immigrants, 1945 to the present
- Women in America: 1820-1842
- A collection of eighteen travelers accounts by both sexes of the United States in the first decades of the nineteenth century, intended to provide a fuller picture of women's lives than that given in Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy In America. Writers included range from James Fenimore Cooper and Charles Dickens to John James Audubon. Searching is provided by author and topic.
- Women in the U.S. Postal System
- Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Women's Party
- Women Physicians, 1850s- 1970s
- Women Working, 1800-1930
- Women's History Month
International
Lesbians
- Lesbian.org
- Dedicated to promoting lesbian visibility in the Internet
Literature
- African American Women Writers of the 19th century
- This site makes available several dozen works, each text scrupulously reprinted with no posthumous editing, each preface intact, from 30 hitherto inaccessible volumes of 19th century African American women's literature. This site is well organized, providing search tools that allow the reader to search by title, author, and genre.
- Andrea Dworkin Web Site
- Beyond Nancy Drew
- A detailed and informative annotated bibliography of books for girls based on materials held in the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library of Duke University.
- Brown University Women Writers Project
- Dickinson Electronic Archives
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- The works in this small collection of previously unedited 17th century texts by little-known writers focuses on various aspects of women's lives: intellectual freedom, religious inquiry, and women's standings in royal families. Anyone who wishes to find out more about unrenowned women writers or the process of editing a text will find this site worthwhile.
- Reading Women Writers and African Literature
- The Zora Neal Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection.
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Genres represented will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Users should consult both the list of works available and those being encoded to ascertain the status of a particular author's work.
Military Service
- MilitaryWoman.org
- A useful site for women in the military, women contemplating military service, and women veterans.
Research Centers
Women's Studies Programs
