Women's Studies

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Contemporary Women's Issues   1992+   ChRiv-px
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES is a full-text database, international in scope, covering such subjects as violence and sexual exploitation, human rights, development, health, family life and the arts. Sources include journals, research reports, newsletters, alternative press literature and fact sheets. Coverage is from 1992 to date.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index      WWW
Database covering journal articles (from 500+ journals), book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450-1500 CE, with Russia extending to 1613). Geographic coverage includes Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Language coverage includes English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The database currently contains more than 11,000 records.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts      ChRiv
STUDIES ON WOMEN AND GENDER ABSTRACTS includes citations and abstracts for journal articles and books on women's studies and gender studies. Coverage is from 1995 onward.

ViVa      WWW
Viva is a current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages are selected from 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals. All bibliographic descriptions are stored in the ViVa database. It now contains more than nine thousand records describing articles from 1975 onwards.

Women Writers Online      ChRiv-px
WOMEN WRITERS ONLINE is a product of the Brown University Women Writers Project. It is a full text database of pre-Victorian women's writing in English. Covering the period 1400-1850, WWO includes fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as writings in religion and philosophy, history and politics, science and medicine.

Women's Studies International   1972+   BU-px
WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL is a database (citations or citations/abstracts) of over 548,000 records combining ten women's studies resources, including Women Studies Abstracts (1972-), Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database (1972-), MEDLINE Subset on Women (1964-) Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995), Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995) and four files from Women's Studies Librarian.

Library Research Guides

Women in Developing Countries

Women in the United States in the 19th Century

Women's Studies