Women's Studies Subject Guide
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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 or browse the list under the topic Gender Studies and Sexuality. 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 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.."
Last modified: September 22, 2009 (SJ)