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Sources for Background Information
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of gender and society
- The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
- Encyclopedia of women social reformers
- The women’s suffrage movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928
- Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender
- Dictionary of Feminist Theory
- Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories
- Feminist philosophies A-Z
- Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism
- Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
- Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures
Biography
- Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
- Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
- The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women’s biography
- Who's Who of Canadian Women,1999
- Notable American women, 1607-1950
- The International Who's Who of Women
Guides to the Literature
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - women, Canad?, femini?, etc.
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| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. femini? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words feminist, feminism, feminine, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "United States" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United Staes |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
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Core and Additional Databases
Women's Studies (Electronic Databases)
- Gender Studies Database
- Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Women Go Global: the United Nations and the International Women's Movement, 1945-2000
Statistics (Electronic Databases)
- WomenWatch. Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
- Status of Women in Africa 1968-1998
Multidisciplinary (Electronic Databases)
Including women's studies related material.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- ProQuest Research Library
- Academic Search Complete(EBSCO)
- Sociological Abstracts
Selected Internet Sites
Accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
- McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women
- Global Gender Gap Report 2010 - Published by the World Economic Forum, the Gender Gap Index measures inequality between women and men around the world.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Gender and Sexuality Studies
- WSSLINKS : Women and Gender Studies Web Sites (WWW Virtual Library)
- Celebrating Women's Achievements
In each theme, a selection of Canadian women who have made outstanding contributions. - PAR-L
Policy, Action, Research: Feminist Strategies. "A Canadian Electronic Feminist Network." - International Women's Health Coalition
- Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
- Electronic Resources Information and Assessment (Womens Studies Section, ACRL)
Not all listed are available at McGill. - UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
- Women's Human Rights Resources
- World Survey on the Role of Women in Development
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. The theme for the World Survey in 2009 is “Women’s control over economic resources and access to financial resources, including microfinance - gender Inn
Women's and gender studies searchable database of 8,000+ records re feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature; weblinks, bibliographies.
History (Internet Resources)
- Heroines.ca: Women in Canadian History
- Canada's Early Women Writers
- Women's History (International Institute of Social History )
Includes ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History. - American Women's History: A Research Guide
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
- Living the Legacy : the Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook
- Early Modern Women Database
University of Maryland Libraries' links to scholarly resources for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas, primarily ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 but also includes some medieval and nineteenth-century resources. - Jewish Women Resources (Columbia University)
- Resources for and about Muslim Women
- South Asian Women's Organizations
E-Journals (Internet Resources)
- Resources for Feminist Research
Table of contents, with summary of each issue 1991- , internet sources, etc. - Trivia Voices
A public forum for the creative and critical thinking of a great diversity of women. - Ling Lung Women's Magazine, Shanghai, 1931 to 1937
- Journal of International Women's Studies
Vol. 1- , 2000-