Karen Olson
Women Studies
There are many resources through the library and the Internet to do your
research on Women Studies. Here are just a few suggestions:
Books: 
Some of the books on Women are in the H (Social Issues) section of the
library.
Do a subject search using the
CCBC Dundalk Library Catalog to find books on your topic. Use
the index or table of contents in the books to narrow your search.
(Hint- Start with a subject search on your topic,ex:rape. If you can't
find anything on your topic, try a keyword search ex: rape and defense.)
Magazine, Journals, & Newspapers:
Use the Periodical Databases to find focused journal, magazine , and
newspaper articles on your topic.
Go to the
All databases or go to
List of all Databases by Subject find databases on a specific
subject area. Off
campus instructions and more information about the databases are on
the Magazine & Journal page.
The best databases for Women Studies & Social Science articles are in:
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Gender Watch database has magazine and newspapers on women
studies.
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Proquest Research Library has modules in women studies,
Social Sciences, and multicultural.
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Depending on the perspective of your topic, there are Psychology
Journal, Health, & Newspaper databases you can use.
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In EBSCO click on Academic Search Premier for general journal
articles and choose the other databases that pertain to your
specific topic. ( Example PsychArticles and /or PsychInfo
for psychological aspects.
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Opposing Viewpoints & SIRS have articles on contemporary
women studies issues. For more general databases see General
Interest Periodical Databases.
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Search Tips for Databases - Remember to try
different search words to find information. Use your particular
topic or use broad terms to look for topics
Research Tips :
How to Do Research - helpful link on research
How
to Write a Research Paper - From OCLC Hot Topics - June 5, 2002
Citing
Sources -Make sure you use the correct citation for your research
material.
Web Resource Tips:
Use Evaluative Web Guides, such as Librarian's
Internet Index, to find evaluated web sites on your topic.
Use Search
Engines , such as Google, to
find web sites on a specific topic.
To get better results connect
your terms with the Boolean term "and" (ex:lesbians and
adoption,) or put quotes around a phrase (ex:"spousal abuse".)
See
Performing
Precise Searches on web searching.
Evaluate: Evaluate your material for its relevance and
authenticity. See evaluation criteria for web
sites.
Suggested Web Sites:
Many
of these sites were from the Librarians' Internet Index.*denote
better sites
Librarians' Internet Index Women
Web Sites
American Women: A Gateway
to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and
Culture in the United States This site "contains a slightly expanded
and fully searchable version of the print publication 'American Women: A
Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture
in the United States' ... with added illustrations and links to existing
digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site."
Includes books, maps, manuscripts, music, images, and other research
materials. Browsable and searchable. From the American Memory Project of
the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/
Library
of Congress- American Memory- American Women-General Collection- See
side panel for links to other information, moving
image section, manuscripts, folklore...
American
Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference
sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The
guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to
find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary
sources. Includes:1200+ links to Internet sources, 500+ links to
Digital Collections of Primary Sources,
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html.
Hot
Topics: Women's History Month"Designed to honor women in every
walk of life" this site emphasizes government resources "to inform,
enlighten and to close the gender gap in American history." It links to
information on Women's History Month, International Women's Day,
biographies, women's history, and women and defense, education,
suffrage, labor, health, science, family, and violence. From from the
Daniel J. Evans Library of The Evergreen State College (Olympia,
Washington).
http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/womenshistory/index.html
Office of International Women's
Issues http://www.state.gov/g/wi/ This part of the U.S. Department
of State "coordinates the integration of women's issues into the broader
U.S. strategic, economic and diplomatic goals." This site provides press
releases, fact sheets, reports, and related material on topics such as
women in Afghanistan and Iraq, and trafficking in people.
Women's Studies
Online Resources Frequently updated, annotated links to sites
containing resources and information about women's studies/women's
issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic
women's studies program. Topical listings and one large alphabetical
list; A frequently-updated listing and description of approximately 600
e-mail lists that focus on women- or gender-related issues. Includes
topical subsections; A list of more than 600 other Women's Studies
Programs, Departments, and Research Centers in the U.S. and abroad.
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst
Women's Studies
Database A comprehensive directory of Women's Studies sites.
Contains conference announcements, calls for papers, course syllabi, and
employment opportunities, a picture gallery, a significant number of
government documents, and much more. Includes list of links on Women
Issues section. Most are pages are updated winter 2004.
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/
WSSLINKS: Women and
Gender Studies Web Sites Distributed, annotated directory of women's
studies resources. Directory includes pages on Archives; Art & Film;
Culture; Education; Health; History; International; Lesbian; Music;
Philosophy; Politics; and Science & Technology. Maintained by the
Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research
Libraries Division of the American Library Association.
http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html
Women's
History Month Infoplease.com celebrates Women's History Month and
International Women's Day by featuring articles on the women's history
movement and on women's current status in politics, business, the arts,
and other fields. There is a categorical list of notable women and
reference articles and links on awards, achievements, education, the
labor force, motherhood, health, crime statistics, and organizations.
There are also some puzzles, trivia games, and other "fun stuff."
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenshistory1.html
Women and Social Movements in
the United States, 1820-1940 A searchable collection of "primary
documents related to women and social movements in the United States
between 1820 and 1940. It is organized around editorial projects" each
of which "poses a question and provides 15-20 documents that address the
question." They address specific topics, such as Lucretia Mott's Reform
Network; Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woman Suffrage,
1900-1915; Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike,
1909-1910; Women's Peace Mission to European Capitals, 1915; Women and
the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912; Women Suffragists; Pacifism vs.
Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s, and more. Some related
links are provided below.http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Women
& Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000.Links to
projects in women history, archives and webliographies in women issues, Contemporary
Women Issues & Social movements (Links to various social
movements in contemporary times. ) and teaching
links.http://womhist.binghamton.edu/links/mainlink.htm
Documents from the
Women's Liberation Movement Texts and images of articles, pamphlets,
flyers, and booklets published from 1969 to 1974 that focus specifically
on the early radical origins of this movement in the United States.
Includes classics such as Pat Menardi's Politics of Housework, "Notes
from the First Year", the Radicalesbians' " The Woman-Identified Woman"
and early works from Steinem, Bunch, Firestone, Alpert, and Freeman.
Searchable and browsable. From the Special Collections Library, Duke
University. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Women and
Political Participation
http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-women-politics.html This site
"highlights strategies employed in enhancing women's political
participation, looks at the provisions on women's political
participation in the Beijing Platform for Action and CEDAW [Convention
on the Elimination All Forms of Discrimination Against Women], and
presents interesting facts and updates on women in political
decision-making." Also includes annotated links. From WHRNet, a project
of the Association for Women's Rights in Development. Only updated to
2003.
Office on Women's Health
(OWH) http://www.4woman.gov/owh/index.htm was established in 1991
within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. OWH coordinates
the efforts of all the HHS agencies and offices involved in women's
health.
Healthy
Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/chartbook.htm "'The Women's Health
and Mortality Chartbook,' developed by National Center for Health
Statistics, ...describes the health of people in each State by sex,
race, and age by reporting current data on critical issues of relevance
to women."
Gender Studies Page A
directory page of briefly annotated links. Topics include general
resources; women's studies and feminist theory; gay, lesbian, and queer
studies; men's movements and men's studies; and cybergender and
techgender. A part of the Voice of the Shuttle site. From the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711
FEMINIST
COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES contains news
of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching
in women's studies. From the Women's
Studies Librarian's Website University of Wisconsin
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm
Women's Human Rights
Resources http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/ Issues included at
this site are education, equality, feminist theory, health, labor and
employment, marriage and family, political rights, property law,
housing, prostitution, race and gender, religion, and violence. Each
topic areas has articles with citations (most are annotated) of
published scholarly materials; documents with abstracts (some full-text)
of cases, UN publications, reports from nongovernmental organizations,
international conventions/treaties, and more; and annotated links. From
the University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library. Searchable.
