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Women's Studies Subject Guide

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Find Articles and Journals
Find Dissertations and Books
Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides
Selected Internet Resources
Selected Journals for Women's Studies

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Collection Development Librarian for Women's Studies

Vicky Lebbin / 808-956-2527 / vickery@hawaii.edu

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Honolulu, HI 96822

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Find Articles and Journals

Note: The UHM Library subscribes to many journals in both paper and electronic formats. Use a database or index to locate articles. To find a specific journal title in electronic format, search the library's list of electronic journals. Use Hawaii Voyager to find paper (and some electronic) formats for specific journal titles. If you do not find the journal you are looking for, please ask for further assistance at a reference desk.

Top Picks

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals.

Psycinfo
PsycINFO provides citations and abstracts of international journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Produced by the American Psychological Association it covers over 1,400 journals, representing professional and scientific literature from over 50 countries going back to 1872. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English language material published since 1987. Use the Find It button to link to fulltext journal articles.

Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts is an index with abstracts to the literature of sociology from 2,700 journals and other serials, books, dissertations, and conference papers published worldwide. Coverage is from 1963 and includes all facets of sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology and urban studies. Use the Find It button to link to fulltext journal articles.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
This database provides abstracts of internationally-produced materials concentrating on education, employment, women in the family and community, medicine and health, female sex and gender role socialization, social policy, the social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism and historical studies.

More Suggestions

JSTOR Arts and Sciences I Collection
Provides full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. The JSTOR project's primary goal is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
PAIS International is an index to the world's public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences. It has references and in some cases abstracts of articles from over 3,660 journal titles, books, gray literature, internet material, conference proceedings, government and ngo documents and statistical publications. 1915-present.

Web of Science
A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences (Science Citation Index Expanded) as well as both the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Approximately 70% of the records have author abstracts. Online coverage from 1980 to present.

Find Books, Dissertations

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.

Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations & Theses (PQD&T) includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download.

New Books at UHM Library
Interface for identifying new books. Can be limited by keyword and date range.

Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides

Almanac of women and minorities in world politics
HQ1236 .M347 2000 Hamilton Main Reference

American Women's History
HQ 1115 .W4 1994 Hamilton Main Reference

Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women : notable women from Sappho to Helena
HQ1136 .L54 2000 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of American women and religion
BL 2525 .B45 1998 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of feminist theories
HQ1190 .E63 2000 Hamilton Main Reference
Online access

Encyclopedia of women and crime
HV6046 .E56 2000 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of women in the American West
HQ1438.W45 E53 2003 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world
HQ1127 .S25 2001 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
HQ1170 .E53 2003 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of women social reformers
HQ1236 .R29 2001 Hamilton Main Reference

Encyclopedia of women and world Religion
BL 458 .E53 1999 Hamilton Main Reference

Greenwood encyclopedia of women’s issues worldwide
HQ1115 .G74 2003 Hamilton Main Reference

A history of women in the United States : state-by-state reference
HQ1410 .H58 2004 Hamilton Main Reference

International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage
JF851 .H28 2000 Hamilton Main Reference

Living legacy : outstanding Japanese women of the 20th century in Hawai'i
HQ1438 .H3 S77 2002 Hamilton Main Reference

Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women’s issues and knowledge
HQ1115 .R69 2000 Hamilton Main Reference

Women artists in the 20th and 21st century
N8354 .W653 2005

Women in early America : struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world
HQ1416 .M395 2004 Hamilton Main Reference

Women in higher education : an encyclopedia
LC1569 .W66 2002 Hamilton Main Reference

Women in the Middle Ages : an encyclopedia
HQ1143 .W643 2004 Hamilton Main Reference

Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia
HQ1115.W6 1999 Hamilton Main Reference

Women’s studies : a recommended bibliography
HQ1180 .K75 2004 Hamilton Main Reference

Selected Internet Resources

Women & Gender Studies Websites
Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, the purpose of WSSLINKS is to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies.

Women Writers Online
Women Writers Online presents all WWP texts currently available online, covering a period from 1400 to 1850. This collection includes the texts which appear in the Renaissance Women Online site. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

UHM Women's Studies Department Program
"The Women's Studies Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues. The program provides a rigorous and integrated academic experience for students interested in feminist research and analysis, giving them a coherent program of study in contemporary scholarship in a Pacific-Asian context.."

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Selected Journals for Women's Studies

"Selected Journals" include those listed in Magazines for Libraries, 2004, PN4832.K2 CVR, that are currently owned by Hamilton Library. Search the library catalog for complete holdings information.

Asian journal of women's studies
Hamilton Asia HQ1726 .A13 (print only)

Columbia Journal of Gender & Law
Law K3 .O348

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Hamilton HQ1101 .D54

Feminist Economics
Hamilton HQ1381 .F46

Feminist Studies
Hamilton HQ1101 .F45

Feminist Teacher
Hamilton LB2837. F45

First Language
Hamilton LB1139.L3 F57

Foreign Language Annals
Hamilton PB1 .F67

Frontiers
Hamilton HQ1101 .F93

Gender & Society
Hamilton HQ1075 .G457

Gender Issues
Hamilton HQ1101 .F455

Harvard Journal of Law & Gender
Law K8 .A795