Library

Library Catalogs

Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Books, videos, government documents, etc. in Bowdoin's library.

NExpress
A combined catalog containing the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley, Williams, Middlebury, and Northeastern. Requests take 2-3 days.

MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. Requests take 2-5 days

WorldCat
A combined database of many library catalogs worldwide. Request items found in WorldCat through our Interlibrary Loan service.

Reference Sources

Women - Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Directories

The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide
Ref. HQ1115 .G74 2003
[1] Asia and Oceania -- [2] Central and South America -- [3] Europe -- [4] The Middle East and North Africa -- [5] North America and the Caribbean -- [6] Sub-Saharan Africa

Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge , 4 volumes.
Ref. HQ1115 .R69 2000

The American women's almanac: an inspiring and irreverent women's history
Ref. HQ 1410 B47 1997
A history of American women, the women who influenced the movement and the issues affecting American women.

American women's history
Ref. HQ 1115 W4 1994

Chronology of women's history
Ref. HQ 1121 O47 1994
Five thousand entries are organized by categories within time periods from nomadic to modern times. Status and daily life, science, medicine and activism are some of the topics covered.

What American Women Did, 1789-1920
HQ1154 .C665 2001

The dictionary of feminist theory
Ref. HQ1115 .H86 1990

Handbook of American women's history
Ref.HQ 1410 H36 1990

The nature of woman : an encyclopedia & guide to the literature
Ref. HQ1115 .W37
Introduces the arguments and conclusions of a wide range of western thinkers on "the nature of women." From Plato, Aristotle, and the early Church Fathers to modern feminists and anti-feminists, the ideas and major works of about 250 individuals are examined with regard to their influence (positive or negative) on women's lives.

The reader's companion to U.S. women's history
Ref. HQ1410 .R43 1998

The woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets
Ref. BL 458 W34 1983
A marvelous compendium of popular fantasies and hidden facts, where the complex subject of sexism is approached from both the historical and the mythic viewpoints

Women in the Third World : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues
Ref. HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998
Information is arranged in chapter format. Topics include middle aged women, the effect of the mass media, and women's access to higher education.

Women's studies encyclopedia
Ref.HQ 1115 W645 1989
v.1, Views from the Sciences; v.2, Literature, Arts, & Learning; v.3, History, Philosophy, & Religion.

Gender Studies - Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Directories

Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol, and spirit: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lore
Main Ref. HQ 75.15 C66 1997

Completely queer : the Gay and Lesbian encyclopedia
Main Ref. HQ75 .H63 1998

Encyclopedia of homosexuality, 2 vols
Main Ref. HQ 76.25 E53 1989

The gay and lesbian movement: references and resources
Main Ref. HQ76.5 .R53 1996

Gay histories and cultures : an encyclopedia
Main Ref. HQ75.13 .G37 2000

The International encyclopedia of sexuality, 3 vols.
Main Ref. HQ21 .I68 1998

Lesbian histories and cultures: an encyclopedia
Main Ref. HQ 75.5 L4395 2000

Reader's guide to lesbian and gay studies
Main Ref. HQ75.15 .R43 2000

St. James Press gay & lesbian almanac
Main Ref. HQ 76.3 U5 S75 1998

Women and Gender Studies-- Biography

General Biographical Sources in the reference collection:
browse Ref. CT 3202 C5 - Ref. CT 3260 W5

Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia, 17 volumes.
Main Ref   HQ1115 .W6 1999

Who's who in contemporary gay & lesbian history: from World War II to the present
Main Ref. HQ 75.2 W47 2001

Who's who in gay & lesbian history: from antiquity to World War II
Main Ref. HQ 75.2 W46 2001

Gay & lesbian biography
Main Ref. HQ 75.2 G39 1997

Index to women of the world from ancient to modern times; biographies and portraits
Ref. CT3202 .I73 1970
Over 13,000 women from Biblical times to the present.

Larousse dictionary of women
Ref. HQ 1115 L37 1996
Over 3000 profiles of women from Eve to Oprah Winfrey.

Notable American women: a biographical dictionary. 4 vols.
Ref. CT 3260 N57
Biographical sketches of more than 1,350 women, most of whom do not appear in the Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-3 cover the historical period 1607-1950; volume 4 is a supplement which includes subjects who died between 1951 and 1975.

Who's who of American women
Ref. CT 3260 .W5
A Biographical Dictionary of notable living American Women.
Biennial. Chicago: Marquis, 1958/59-1983/84.

Who’s Who Online 1985-

Woman's record; or, Sketches of all distinguished women, from "the beginning" until A.D. 1850
Ref. CT 3202 H3 1853a

Women and Gender Studies-- Bibliographical Sources

There are many useful bibliographies in the collection. Try doing a word search on a topic and add the word bibliography. Here are listed a few general bibliographies that may prove useful.

Through a woman's I : an annotated bibliography of American women's autobiographical writings, 1946-1976
Ref. Z7963.B6 A32 1983

United States government documents on women, 1800-1990, 2 volumes.
Ref. HQ1410 .H85 1993
Twenty topics per volume fall under the general headings of social issues or labor. The documents are organized by date of publication.

Women in American history: a bibliography
Ref. Z7962 .H37 1979
A two volume set organizes topics by time period from colonial times through the early 1970's. Detailed annotations describe primary and secondary sources.

Women in western European history
Ref. Z7961 .F74 1982
The references are organized by time period and topic. Going back to classical times and through the 1970's, topics include social/cultural conditions, religion and biographies.

Periodicals on women and women's rights
Main Micro IndexZ7964.U49 P4
A collection of microfilms and microfiche which reproduce the complete runs (with minor gaps) of 24 periodicals of special interest for women's studies. These titles, originally published in the 19th or early 20th century, include publications which focus on labor unions, family planning, woman suffrage, and women's rights. Individual articles in these periodicals are not indexed.

Web Sites

Women’s Studies

American Women
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/
A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.

WSSLINKS
http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html
Fourteen categories divide the links.

Women's Studies Database, University of Maryland
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/index.html

Feminist Internet Gateway
http://www.feminist.org/gateway
Annotated links, arranged by topic.

Femina
http://www.femina.cybergrrl.com/
Thousands of annotated sites relating to women's history and issues.

Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resources Sites
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html

Internet Resources on Women
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/updates.html
Site taken down - Try going into chapter 4; Web Resources. There are over twenty categories of links, all annotated.

WWWOmen
http://www.wwwomen.com/
Well categorized list of links.

Women Working, 1870 - 1930
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections

Gender Studies

Voice of the Shuttle, Gender and Sexuality Studies
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711

ASA Sex and Gender Section
http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?name=Section+on+Sex+and+Gender&section=Section+Pages
A section of the American Sociological Association web site.

Glbtq
http://www.glbtq.com/
An online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.

Gay/Lesbian Politics and Law: WWW and Internet Resources
http://www.indiana.edu/~glbtpol/

Queer Resources Directory
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/

Queer Theory
http://www.queertheory.com/