Women's
Studies


To Identify the
Latest Reference and Main Stacks Resources Use
FSU's
Automated Catalog
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Library
of Congress Call Numbers and Subject Headings
HQ 1101-2030.7 Women. Feminism
HQ 1871-2030.7 Women's clubs
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HQ 1-2044 The Family. Marriage. Women
HQ 12-449 Sexual life
HQ 503-1064 The Family.
Marriage. Home
HQ 755.7-759.92 Parents. Parenthood Including
parent and child, husbands, fathers, wives, mothers
HQ 760-767.7 Family size
HQ 767.8-792.2 Children. Child development Including child
rearing, child life, play, socialization,
children's rights
HQ 793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
HQ 799.5-799.9 Young men and women
HQ 799.95-799.97 Adulthood
HQ 800-800.4 Single people
HQ 801-801.83 Man-woman relationships. Courtship. Dating
HQ 802 Matrimonial bureaus. Marriage brokerage
HQ 802.5 Matrimonial advertisements
HQ 803 Temporary marriage. Trial marriage. Companionate marriage
HQ 804 Breach of promise
HQ 805 Desertion
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HQ 806 Adultery
HQ 811-960.7 Divorce
HQ 961-967 Free love
HQ 981-996 Polygamy
HQ 997 Polyandry
HQ 998-999 Illegitimacy. Unmarried mothers
HQ 1001-1006 The state and marriage
HQ 1051-1057 The church and marriage
HQ 1058-1058.5 Widows and widowers. Widowhood
HQ1060-1064 Aged. Gerontology (Social aspects). Retirement
HQ 1073-1073.5 Thanatology. Death.
Dying
HQ 1075-1075.5 Sex role
HQ 1088-1090.7 Men
HQ 1101-2030.7 Women. Feminism
HQ 1871-2030.7 Women's clubs
HQ 2035-2039 Life skills. Coping skills.
Everyday living skills
HQ 2042-2044 Life style
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- Abortion
- Abused Women
- Actresses
- African American Women
- Businesswomen
- Femininity
- Feminism
- Feminist Criticism
- Feminist Theory
- Minority Women
- Multiculturalism
- Pro Life Movement
- Older Women
- Urban Women
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Women and Literature
- Women and Literature United States
- Women and Religion
- Women and War
- Women Artists
- Women Athletes
- Women Authors
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- Women Biography
- Women Diseases
- Women Education
- Women Employment
- Women Health and Hygiene
- Women in Politics
- Women in Science
- Women Mental Health
- Women Owned Business Enterprises United
States
- Women Prisoners
- Women Psychology
- Women School Administrators
- Women Slaves
- Women Social Conditions
- Women Soldiers
- Women Teachers
- Women United States Biography
- Women World War
- Women With Disabilities
- Womens Health Services
- Womens Rights
- Womens Studies
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Selected Reference Resources
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Selected Encyclopedias
A to Z of American Women in
Sports Ref GV 697 .A1 E28 2002
Distinguished Women
Economists Ref HB 76 .C53 2003
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and
Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender
Ref HQ 1115 .E43 2001
Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America
Ref GV 709 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion
Ref BL 458 .E53 1999
Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space
Ref TL539 .W395 1998
Encyclopedia of Women in Radio, 1920-1960
Ref PN 1991.8 .W65 E53 2003
Encyclopedia of Women in the American West
Ref HQ 1438 .W45 E53 2003
Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World
Ref HQ 1127 .S25 2001
Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
Ref HQ 1236 .R29 2001
Encyclopedia of Women's Health Issues Ref
RA 778 .G39 2002
Encyclopedia of Women's History
in America Ref HQ 1410 .C85 2000
From Suffrage to the Senate: an Encyclopedia of
American Women in Politics
Ref HQ 1236 .5 .U6 S32 1999
Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to
the Present Ref HF 3023 .A2 O64 2000
International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage
Ref JF 851 .H28 2000
Women and American Television: an Encyclopedia
Ref PN 1992.8 .W65 L69 1999
Women and Music in America Since 1900: an Encyclopedia
Ref ML 82 .W625 2002
Women in Higher Education: an Encyclopedia
Ref LC 1569 .W66 2002
Women in Medicine: an Encyclopedia Ref R
692 .W545 2002
Women in the Third World:
an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues Ref HQ 1870.9
.W6548 1998
Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia Ref
HQ 1115.W6 1999 |
Selected Dictionaries
An A
to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts Ref N 6505
.K59 2002
American
women in science: 1950 to the Present: a Biographical Dictionary
Ref Q 141 .B254 1998
American Women Writers,
1900-1945: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Ref PS 151 .A45 2000
Biographical Dictionary of
Women Economists Ref HB 76 .B535 2000
Biographical Dictionary of
Women in Science; Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the
Mid-20th Century Ref Q 141 .B5285 2000
Black Women Scientists in the
United States Ref Q 141 .W3677 1999
Celebrating Women Coaches: a
Biographical Dictionary Ref GV 697 .A1
H367 2000
Concise
Dictionary of Women Artists Ref N
8354 .D532 2001
Concise
Glossary of Feminist Theory Ref HQ 1115
.A53 1997
Contemporary American Women
Poets: an A-to-Z Guide Ref PS 151
.C665 2002
Contemporary Women Artists Ref N8354 .C66
1999
Dictionary of Feminist Theologies
Ref BT 83.55 .D53 1996
Dictionary of Feminist Theory
Ref HQ 1115 .H86 1995
Glossary of Feminist Theory Ref HQ 1190
.A53 1997
Larousse Dictionary of
Women Ref CT 3202 .L37 1996
Notable
Black American Women Ref E 185.96 .N68
1992
Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American W: a Biographical
Dictionary Ref CT 3290 .N68 2001
Notable Women in Mathematics: a Biographical
Dictionary Ref QA 28 .N68 1998
Notable
Women in the Life Sciences: a Biographical Dictionary
Ref QH 26 .N68 1996
Notable
Women in the Physical Sciences: a Biographical Dictionary
Ref Q 141 .N734 1997
Significant Contemporary American Feminists: a Biographical
Sourcebook Ref HQ 1412 .S56 1999
Women
Filmmakers and Their Films Ref PN 1998.2
.W66 1998
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Other Reference Materials
African
American Women Playwrights: a Research Guide
Ref PS 153 .N5 G29 1999
American
Women: Who They Are & How They Live
Ref
HQ 1421 .A486 2002
Century of Women: the Most Influential Events in
Twentieth-Century Women's History Ref HQ
1410 .F44 1998
Directory of Financial Aids for Women, 2003-2005
Ref LB 2338 .S35 2003
Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists
Ref PR 888 .W 6 W44 1997
Handbook of American Women's History
Ref HQ 1410 .H36 2000
Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender
Ref HQ 1206 .H2385 2001
In Praise of Black Women: Vol. 2, Heroines of the Slavery Era
Ref HQ 1123 ..S37913 2001
Men and Women of the Bible: a Reader's Guide
Ref B 5571 .T57 2002
Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women's Literature
Ref PN 6069 .W65 P74 2000
Reader's
Guide to Women's Studies Ref HQ 1180 .R43
1998
Westerns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and
Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s
Ref PN 1995.9 W4 M25 1999
Women's
Chronology: a History of Women's Achievements
Ref HQ 1122 .W67 1997
Women's
Firsts Ref CT 3203 .W66 1996
Women's
Liberation Movement in America Ref HQ
1421 .B47 1999 |
Selected Electronic Databases

To Identify the
Latest Article Databases Use the
Database Finder
Academic Search Premier
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text:
1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering
the social sciences, humanities, education and more. |
AHSearch
Arts & Humanities Search.
(1980-current). A citation index. |
Alternative Press Index
Comprehensive guide to alternative
sources of information published from 1969-1990. Coverage is
international and interdisciplinary. Indexes alternative,
radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. |
America: History and Life
Historical coverage of the United
States and Canada from prehistory to the present. |
American National Biography
The premier biographical resource
for notable people in American history. Click on the
"Subscribers Click Here" link in the menu at the top of the
page. |
Articles First
Indexes journals in science,
technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities,
and popular culture. |
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Index to biographical sketches
found in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. |
Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers will contain
approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by
women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also
present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of
feminism and genre studies in these regions. There are 13,000
pages of text in this first release. |
Blackwell Synergy
459,037 articles from 780 leading
journals |
Britannica Online
The complete encyclopedia, with
related Internet sites and more. Encyclopedia Britannica. |
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
This edition of British and Irish
Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences
of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of
diaries and letters. The collection now includes primary
materials spanning more than 300 years. |
Contemporary Women’s Issues
(1992-current). Contemporary
Women's Issues with full text. |
CQ Researcher Online
Comprehensive, non-biased reporting
and analysis on issues shaping our world. |
CQ Weekly
Fully archived to 1983 on the Web,
CQ Weekly looks forward and back. Readers get in-depth reports
on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete
wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills
in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor
activity, debates and all roll-call votes. |
CREDO Reference
CREDO Reference, formerly
Xreferplus, is a digital reference library, which contains all
types of reference books (currently 169 titles) that you'd want
to see in any library: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri,
and books of quotations, not to mention a host of
subject-specific titles covering: art, bilinguals, biography,
business, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, food,
geography, history, language law, literature, medicine, music,
philosophy & psychology, quotations, religion, science, social
sciences, technology. Features include a concept mapping search
interface. |
Dissertation Abstracts
(Indexing: 1861+, Abstracting
Dissertations: 1980+, Abstracting Theses: 1988+). The complete
range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted
at accredited institutions. |
Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Provides access to full-text of
many of FSU's online journal subscriptions and also EJS Journals
via pay per view. Includes searching in article titles, journal
titles, abstracts, full-text and title list browsing. |
Ebscohost
Search up to 24 of FSU's databases
simultaneously |
ECO
(Electronic Collection Online). An
OCLC collection of scholarly journals. |
Enciclopedia Universal en Español
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Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Current). This resource features
over 25,000 informative segments to meet the research needs of
elementary, middle, and high schools students. |
Gale Ready Reference Shelf
Integrates 14 of Gale's reference
directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings for
associations, research centers, publishers, publications,
databases, television and radio stations, and more. |
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of E-Book reference
titles. |
JSTOR
STOR is a not-for-profit
organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a
trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide
access to these journals as widely as possible. |
Latin American Women Writers
Literature by Latin American women
from the colonial period in the 17th century forward to the
present. Literary works, along with memoirs, letters, and
essays, comprise the 100,000 pages of works in their original
language. |
Master File Premier
Provides full text for over 1,770
general reference, business, consumer health, general science,
and multi-cultural periodicals. |
National Women's Health Information Center
This web site and toll-free call
center were created to provide free, reliable health information
for women everywhere. |
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
Over 150,000 pages of published
letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished
materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of
women. Remote access coming soon. Contains materials from
Colonial times to 1950. |
North American Women's Drama
This edition of North American
Women's Drama contains 1,174 plays by 275 playwrights, together
with detailed, fielded information on related productions,
theaters, production companies, and more. |
Papers First
An index of papers presented at
conferences. |
Periodical Abstracts
(1987-current). Abstracts from
general and academic journals, covering business, current
affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's
studies, and others. |
Primary Sources of the Women's Movement
This edition of Primary Sources of
the Women's Movement, 1960 to present includes the full text of
312 reports and publications issued by commissions in more than
thirty states. |
Proceedings First
(1993+). An index of conference
publications. |
Project Muse
Currently, Project MUSE® offers
nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.
As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals
resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and
criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies,
economics, and many others. |
Proquest Dissertations and Theses- Full Text
More than two million dissertation
and theses from 1861 to the present, many of them full text. |
PsychInfo
1887-current). Indexes and
abstracts journal articles and book chapters in psychology and
behavioral sciences. |
Reader’s Guide
(Indexing: 1983+, Abstracting:
1984+). Abstracts of articles from popular magazines. |
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Scottish Women Poets of the
Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry,
extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material
specially written for this database by leading scholars. |
Serials Directory
(Indexing: current). Information
includes journal price, e-mail and Internet address. |
SIRS Researcher
(Indexing: 1988+, Summaries:
1994+). Thousands of full-text articles exploring social,
scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. |
Union Lists of Periodicals
(Current). Journal bibliographic
information and Library holdings. |
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
With Full text of articles from
over 1,750 publications and Article abstracts and indexing from
over 3,500 publications, Wilson OmniFile is especially
convenient for users with inquiries in areas that cross
disciplines—ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, and more.
Wilson OmniFile is even helpful to those who are unsure which
specialty to search for their topic of interest. |
Wilson Select Plus
(1994-current). Contains indexed
and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full
text online. |
Women and Social Movements
"Currently includes 61 document
projects with 1,645 documents, and at least 21,000 pages of
additional full-text documents. It includes as well book, film
and website reviews." |
World Almanac
The World Almanacs - fundamental
reference resources. |
World Cat
Union catalog of materials held in
libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly. |
Selected Journal Titles

Listed below are selected journal
titles owned by the Library. To Identify the Latest Journal Titles
Use
Journal
Finder. See a list of titles on
Women's and Gender Studies in Journal Finder.

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