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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Interdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences
Women & Gender Studies

Women and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field. This guide may be complemented by other guides, including SOCIOLOGY and HISTORY.

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David Michalski MyCard (http://people.lib.ucdavis.edu/~davidm/mycard.html)
michalski@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑2086 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)

Librarian subject specialist and bibliographer for African and African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Cultural Studies, Geography, Human and Community and Regional Development, Psychology, Sociology, and Women and Gender Studies.

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Subject Specific Databases

Women's Studies International [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/16677) [Restricted] VPN
An interdisciplinary database combined from Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women's Studies Database (1972-present), New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975-present), and several major bibliographies.
Coverage: 1972 (and earlier)-present
Gender Watch (http://uclibs.org/PID/4741) [Restricted] VPN
A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.
Sociological Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/socabs/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Coverage: 1963-present
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LGBT Life [via Ebsco] (http://uclibs.org/PID/99171) [Restricted] VPN
LGBT Life (previously GLBT Life) contains indexing and abstracts for LGBT-specific core periodicals, in addition to data mined from over 1400 select titles. LGBT Life contains all relevant data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies database.
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Social Science Citation Index [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) [Restricted] VPN

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It is particularly suited to trace citations to authors and articles across publications. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Coverage: 1956-present
Related:
  • Online tutorial (http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/webofscience5/)
    For help in using the Web of Knowledge Citation indexes.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html)
This index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Bi-monthly print index/abstract source with citations to interdisciplinary articles on women and gender issues. Each volume has a cumulative subject index in the back.
Coverage: 1991-2004
Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, HQ1180.S78

General Databases

Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/126936) [Restricted] VPN
The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Coverage: 1887-present
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Full-Text Resources

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 (http://uclibs.org/PID/36739) [Restricted] VPN
From Alexander Street Press, this database currently includes searchable full text historical documents, a number of document projects based around key questions, teaching tools, plus book, film and website reviews.
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Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920 [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113691) [Restricted] VPN
This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of books, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.
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Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/9286) [Restricted] VPN
A searchable, full-text collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. The texts, collected between the late 1800s and 1945 are in fifteen different languages and cover four centuries
Coverage: 1543-1945
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) (http://uclibs.org/PID/1400) [Restricted] VPN
Includes the full text of diaries and letters of more than 100 women from the 18th and 19th centuries, with biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography on women's narratives.
Coverage: 1675-1950
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Women Working 1870-1930 (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
Provides free access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.
Coverage: 1870-1930
Women Writers Online (http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html) [Restricted] VPN
Also known as the Brown University Women Writers Project, this full-text database includes writing by pre-Victorian women authors, as well as topic essays and introductions. Documents include notation on original pictures and line breaks. Renaissance Women Online (RWO) is a specific subset of this database.
Coverage: approximately 1500-1830
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HarpWeek (http://uclibs.org/pid/1554) [Restricted] VPN
Provides full-image reproductions of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912, one of the most important weekly magazines read by Americans during the 19th Century.
Coverage: 1857-1912
Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition [via Cambridge University Press] (http://uclibs.org/PID/108043) [Restricted] VPN
Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) is the long-awaited 4th edition of the landmark government reference tool, last published in 1975. This expanded digital edition (available also as a five-volume print edition) updates and expands the original tables and introduces dozens of new topics. HSUS was culled from more than 1,000 sources to produce nearly 2,000 tables containing some 37,000 time series covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: agriculture, population, the economy, government, welfare and work. Some data from the 1975 edition have been extensively revised, and data determined to be unreliable or inaccurate have not been included. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a scholar in the field. Tables can be downloaded and viewed, as well as graphed and merged into custom tables.
Related:
  • 5-volume print edition of Historical Statistics of the United States is available in Shields Library Gov Info Reference and H/SS Reference (HA202 .H57) and the Agricultural and Resource Economics Library (HA202 .H57 2006)
Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) [Restricted] VPN
EENA contains full text letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters, centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. Includes information on the peoples, places, environment, flora and fauna encountered. Of note are more than 9,000 Audubon prints from "The Birds of America" as well as the complete contents of the three-volume "The Quadrupeds of North America".
Coverage: 1534-1959
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UC Press eBooks Collection [via eScholarship] (http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/)
The University of California eBooks Collection includes about 2,000 titles and is made available through a partnership between the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. About 25% of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only.
Coverage: 1982-2004
A Celebration of Women Writers (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/)
Developed by the U. of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page, this free site offers digital copies of women writers' works from antiquity to the present and bio/bibliographical web page links.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/)
An electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records. From the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.
Making of America (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/)
Making of America is a digital library of 19th century primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes full text of both books and journals.
American Memory [Library of Congress] (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/)
American Memory provides open access to full text historical documents and materials from the Library of Congress. Includes written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 (http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/)
This website makes available primary documents, photographs, illustrations, and secondary sources documenting the life and times of Jane Addams, the history of Hull-House, and the history of the Near West Side neighborhood and its immigrant communities.
HEARTH: Home Economics Archive (http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html)
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site.
Coverage: 1850-1950
Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/)
Created at UNC-Chapel Hill, this is a collection of primary sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the twentieth century. Includes numerous digitized slave narratives.
Project Diana: An Online Human Rights Archive (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/diana.asp)
An international archive of human rights legal documentation, provided by Yale Law School.
HeinOnline (http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals) [Restricted] VPN
Full-text database of US legal periodicals. Includes the following sections: Law Journal Library (Comprised of Most-Cited Law Journals, Core U.S. Law Journals and International & Non-U.S. Law Journals); Federal Register Library (1936-1989); U.S. Supreme Court Library; and Treaties and Agreements Library, the Statutes at Large (1789-), U.S. Code (1924-)
Coverage: Coverage: Volume 1- Volume preceding current year
Location: Online access is made available by the UC Davis Law Library.
Empire Online [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113692) [Restricted] VPN
Empire Online contains several thousand searchable scanned images of original documents relating to Empire Studies. Includes documents from English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and German points of view, and that from indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America. Sections also include thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies.
Coverage: 1492-present
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online [via Gale] (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=ECCO) [Restricted] VPN
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) provides full-text searchable access to the digital images of 150,000 books and other materials published during the 18th Century. Based on the English Short Title Catalog bibliography, it includes English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Coverage: 1701-1800
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Duke University Press Journals Online (http://dukejournals.org/) [Restricted] VPN
The e-Duke Scholarly Collection provides access to current issues of 29 electronic journals from Duke University Press. The list includes 18 titles previously available from Project Muse, in addition to other titles still currently updated in Muse.
Taylor and Francis: collection of online journals. (http://www.tandfonline.com/search/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Advanced search interface for nearly 1000 online journals published with the Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and Psychology Press imprints. Browse list of titles available. Disciplinary scope and coverage vary.
Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/31861) [Restricted] VPN
Project Muse provides full text access to hundreds of journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics. It is useful for searching interdisciplinary cultural studies topics. Its full-text search engine permits finer-grained searching than any other index for these journals. Coverage varies by journal.
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British Women Romantic Poets Project, 1789-1832 [UC Davis] (http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/)
BWRP provides TEI encoded full-text SGML and HTML editions of volumes from the UC Davis Library's Kohler Collection.
Coverage: 1789-1832
Related:
  • Collex search from NINES (http://nines.org/collex/browse)
    To conduct a full text word search of BWRP, use the federated Collex search from NINES. You can constrain by "Project" to British Women Romantic Poets:
North American Women's Drama [via Alexander Street Press] (http://uclibs.org/PID/108526) [Restricted] VPN
North American Women's Drama includes full text of over 1000 plays, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Approximately 20% of the titles have never been previously published. The collection begins with the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson in the colonial period and spans the 19th and 20th centuries to the present.
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (http://uclibs.org/PID/17686) [Restricted] VPN
Published by Alexander Street Press, this collection contains more than sixty volumes of lyric poetry written between 1789 and 1832 by fifty-one Scottish women. In addition, the database contains biographical, critical, and contextual information for each poet
Women's Movement in the United States [CD-ROM]
Full-text information on the history of the American Women's Movement, from colonial times to the present. Includes timelines, biographies, primary documents, and images on nearly 700 topics.
Date: 1999
Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Computer Station "RIO"
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures [via Brill Academic Publishers] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113652) [Restricted] VPN
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project. It provides critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. Coverage includes the period just before the rise of Islam to the present.
Related:
  • Print volumes of the Encyclopedia are available in H/SS Reference, 2nd floor Shields Library, call number HQ1170.E53 2003
Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID) Working Papers (http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/publications/papers.htm)
Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID) Working Papers includes scholarly work on global social, political, and economic change and its gendered effects in developing nations. This fulltext open-access repository brings together research, critical analyses, and proposals for change. GPID is part of the The Center for Gender in Global Context, or "GenCen" at Michigan State University.
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia [via the Jewish Women's Archives] (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia)
This online encyclopedia contains more than 2,000 entries, including updated versions of the articles in the "Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia" (Routledge, 1997). With an emphasis on American Jewish Women, it also covers women from all time periods and all parts of the world.
Women in Islam (http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/)
By the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association.

Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

Women and Gender Studies Research Guide [UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/women-studies/)
A guide to UC Davis collections, news, and recommended print and electronic research sources in Women and Gender Studies.
Date: 2002
Fashion, Costume, and Textiles Subject Guide [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php)
This pathfinder provides information on reference books, internet resources, suggested subject headings, and related library subject guides available from Shields Library.
History Subject Guide [UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=18)
Guide to subject specific databases and resources in History available at UC Davis.
Sociology Subject Guide [UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=23)
Guide to subject specific databases and resources in Sociology available at UC Davis.
Borderlands Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/borderlands.php)
Guide to databases, full-text resources and print works related to the U.S. - Mexico borderlands region.
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals (http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.php)
ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history, maintained by the International Institute of Social History. Articles published in English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are selected from 175 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals published from 1975-present.
Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/blackfeminism/)
A bibliography of books, articles, speeches, websites, and more covering black feminist scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. This is a freely available site developed by Sherri Barnes at UCSB.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World (http://www.stoa.org/diotima/)
Interdisciplinary resource covering patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean. Includes searchable bibliographies and links to many online resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images.
Gender and Global Issues in the Classroom: Bibliography (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/women-studies/gender-global.php)
A guide to K-12 teachers' resources for curriculum planning and pedagogy on global gender issues. Some resources are UC Davis use only.
Internet Resources in LGBT Studies [UC Davis Guide] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/lgbt/lgbt-internet.php)
Annotated list of links to general gateways to LGBT Studies issues, as well as information on local research institutions and collections in Northern California.
In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (http://www.inthefirstperson.com)
Contains indexing of more than 4,000 collections of oral history in English from around the world for a total of 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. Much but not all of this material is freely available.
The Men's Bibliography (http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/)
First published in 1992, this extensive online bibliography lists entries for writing on interdisciplinary masculinity studies, including the study of sexuality.
Bibliographic Index
Designed as a "cumulative bibliography of bibliographies" in yearly volumes, this source indexes bibliographies published in books and periodicals. Covers English and some foreign languages.
Coverage: 1937-present
Location: H/SS/GIS Reference Z1002 B5
Essay and General Literature Index
This index cites essays and articles contained in book collections and series that have been published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Focus is on the the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1900-present
Location: H/SS/GIS Reference Z5871 E8
This Shall be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920 (http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/)
Online exhibit from the Women of the West Museum. This site includes a timeline, basic historical information about the Western suffrage movement by state, and a bibliography of further reading resources.
Women's Studies Microform Collections, University of California Libraries (http://gort.ucsd.edu/ek/ushist/consort/microform/wsmfilm2008.pdf)PDF
Checklist of Women's Studies Microform Collections, University of California Libraries. Updated annually by Sherri Barnes, Women Studies Librarian at UC Santa Barbara for the Consortium for Women Studies and US and British History. Contains a list of microform collections held at UC libraries, including brief descriptions of content, scope, and coverage, as well as the location of the microform material and the location of their corresponding guides.
Location: This link is to a MS Word Doc.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
Location: H/SS/GIS Reference HN57 E594 2004
Encyclopedia of American Studies (http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/) [Restricted] VPN
Author: Miles Orvell, Editor
This is the electronic continuation of Groiler's four volume print version of Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS) It is published online by Johns Hopkins Press. Like its predecessor, it provides topical entries on the transdisciplinary field of American Studies, from Hinduism to Hip Hop, from Television to Think Tanks. Its scholarly survey articles, which cover a deep range of social cultural topics, are furnished with key references to further reading. The editorial advisory board to this publication is appointed by the American Studies Association.
Date: 2010
Related:
  • Encyclopedia of American Studies, 4 volume print version, Groiler
    Humanities and Social Sciences Reference E169.1 E625 2001

Other Resources

UC Davis Women's Resources and Research Center (http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/)
Located in North Hall, the WRRC provides programming and special events, classes, information on campus women's issues, and a library of books and periodicals for gender study.
UC Davis LGBT Resource Center (http://lgbtcenter.ucdavis.edu/)

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at UC Davis is located at the University House Annex, One Shields Avenue. The site includes information about services and campus organizations, as well as a database of the Center's collection of books and videos.

The "Second Wave" and Beyond (http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com/display/WASM)
Connected with the database "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000" from Alexander Street Press, this website is a scholarly community with discussion groups, chronologies, oral histories, bibliographies, syllabi, and more.
H-Net Reviews (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/)
Online source of scholarly book reviews available from H-Net.
Gender and Development [World Bank] (http://www.worldbank.org/gender/)
This frequently updated site from the World Bank includes numerous reports, data sets, and reports on global economic women's issues.
Women's Resources and Research Center (http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/)
The Women's Resources and Research Center (WRRC) offers educational programs, consulting and referrals, newsletter, discussion groups and advocacy for students, staff and faculty. The WRRC library houses the Forum on Disability Issues book and video collection, a circulating collection featuring alternative and empowering views of disability.
SPORTDiscus [via EBSCO] (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=sph) [Restricted] VPN

SPORTDiscus is the world's leading database in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine. SportDiscus has over 1.7 million qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites that focus on different areas involving sport, including: sport sciences, engineering, psychology, administration, sociology, history, coaching, training, physical education, physical fitness, health and recreation.

As of July 2012+: Unlimited users access.

Coverage: 1800-Present