This is a very general introduction to resources for Gender studies in general, with a strong emphasis on Women's Studies and Feminism. Specific courses are covered by the subject guides listed on the Index page.
For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your Research Librarian for Gender Studies
Feminist.com Provides links to resources and information - topics include women's equality, justice, wellness and safety. Feminist Collections;a quarterly of womens studies reources reviews the latest print, electronic, and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies.
Intute: Social sciences provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. Includes Sociology, Social Welfare, Womens studies etc.
WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.
Gender-related Electronic ForumsAn extensive alphabetical listing of publicly-accessible electronic forums (or "lists") related to women or to gender issues.
H-Women:an H-net network discussing women's history
Electronic journals
The library now has thousands of journal titles available electronically. Just search for a journal title in the catalogue and an electronic version may well appear. Make sure to check the dates of electronic availability.
Titles in this list are either available free or, if from a publisher, check our library catalogue for university access with authentication. You will not get free get access via the publisher's website.
Academic OneFile Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text Coverage 1980-
Academic Search Premier Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Web of Science Much more than science! Includes the Arts humanities citation index and the Social sciences citation index, and can be searched by author, keyword or citation.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australia
AGIS Plus Full text 1999- Attorney-Generals Information System. Great for Australian legal issues, including delinquency, domestic violence etc.
FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts) 1980- Citations to Australian books, journal articles, published and unpublished reports, government documents and conference papers on children, demography, divorce, family relations, marriage and parenthood, sociology, economics and the family, sexual behaviour, fertility, counselling and family law.
MAIS: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies, 1990-
Australian women's book review, 1989- Reference collection 05 A9383 Some recent issues are available online.
Book Review Index A comprehensive online guide to book reviews. Coverage is from 1965 onwards
Finding theses
Theses (dissertations) are not usually included in regular indexing services hence the need for the following databases. There is no current index to Australian theses, but some are beginning to appear on the Australasian Digital Theses Program. Libraries Australia should be searched as well, limiting the theses
ProQuest dissertations and theses Index to doctoral dissertations from North American institutions with some international coverage.
Serials in Australian libraries will tell you the location of a journal title in Australia. Locations beginning with an S are South Austrlaian libraries.
Dictionaries and encyclopaedias
Andermahr, S. A glossary of feminist theory. 1997 Reference collection 305.4201 A543g (also in BSL main collection 305.4201 A543g)
Australian feminism : a companion. ed. Barbara Caine. 1998 Reference collection 305.420994 C135a
Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory. ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. 1997. Reference collection 801.95 K88e
Encyclopaedia of women in South Asia, ed. S. Mittra 8 vols 2004 Reference collection 305.40954 M6853e
Feminism and psychoanalysis: a critical dictionary. ed. Elizabeth Wright. 1992 Reference collection 305.403 W848f
Gay histories and cultures : an encyclopedia. ed. George E. Haggerty, 2000 Reference collection 306.76603 H145g
Historical dictionary of feminism, J. K. Boles Reference collection 305.4203 B688h
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences.26 vols 2001 Reference collection 300.3 S638i also available online.
Jaggar, A. Companion to feminist philosophy. 1998 Reference collection 305.4201 J24c
Kramarae, C. A Feminist dictionary. 1985 Reference collection 305.4203 K89f
Kramarae, C. Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge 4 vols. 2000. Volume 1 is available online Reference collection 305.403 K89r
Lesbian histories and cultures : an encyclopedia,ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, 2000 Reference collection 306.766303 Z72l
Tuttle, L. Encyclopedia of feminism. 1987 Reference collection 305.4203 T967e
Warren, M.A. The nature of woman: an encyclopedia and guide to the literature. 1981 Reference collection 305.403 W291n
Women in the Third World : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues. ed. N.P. Stromquist. 1998 Reference collection 305.42091724 S921w
Worell, J. Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender 2 vols 2001 Reference collection 305.403 W926e
Biographies, quotations, achievements
Dictionaries of women's biography are in the Reference collectionerence collection at 920.72. Others are: Rappaport, H. Encyclopedia of women social Reference collectionormers. 2 vols. 2001 Reference collection 305.420922 R221e
Feminist quotations: voices of rebels, Reference collectionormers, and visionaries ed C. McPhee and A. Fitzgerald. 1979 Reference collection 305.4 F3292
Olsen, K. Chronology of women's history. 1994 Reference collection 305.409 O52c
Salmonson, J. The encyclopedia of Amazons: women warriors from antiquity to the modern era. 1991. Reference collection 305.48 S172e
Oldfield, S Women humanitarians : doers of the word : a biographical dictionary of British women active between 1900-1950. 2001 Barr Smith Main collection 305.420941 O44w
Australia (biography etc)
Ambrus, C. The Ladies picture show: sources on a century of Australian women artists. 1984. Reference collection 709.94016 A4961
Amery, K.L. Hidden women: locating information on significant Australian women. 1986. Reference collection 305.42016 A512h
Contemporary Australian women.1996/97 Reference collection 305.42099405 C761
Seager, J. The state of women in the world atlas. rev ed.1997. Reference collection 305.42 S438w.2
The United Nations and the advancement of women 1945-1996: revised and updated to include the results of the Fourth World Conference on the Women held in Beijing in 1995. 1996. Reference collection 305.42 U575Pa
Bibliographies (all topics)
Contemporary social issues : a bibliographic series. Comp. Joan Norquist. 1986 - Reference collection 305 C7612 We hold several titles in this series. Several deal directly with gender issues: No.26 Violence against women. 1992. No. 29 Women and AIDS. 1993. No. 35 Women and aging. 1994. No. 41 Affirmative action. 1996. No. 44 Feminism worldwide.1996. No. 49 Violence against women : international aspects. 1998. No. 51 Labor abuses in the global economy : women and children. 1998. No. 52 Women and cyberspace : gender issues. 1998.
Advancing women's status : women and men together? M. de Bruyn . 1995 (Gender, society & development: Critical reviews and annotated bibliographies series) Reference collection 305.4016 B914a
Reader's guide to women's studies. ed. E B. Amico. 1998 Reference collection 305.4016 A516r
Lent, J. A Women and mass communications in the 1990's: an international, annotated bibliography.1999 Reference collection 302.23082 L574w
Humm, M. An annotated critical bibliography of feminist criticism. 1987. Reference collection 305.42016..H925a
Miller, C. Feminist research methods: an annotated bibliography. 1991. Reference collection 305.42016 M647f
Taking the byte : the impact of new media technologies on women in film, TV, video and related media industries : resource kit. 1998 Multimedia collection 302.23082 W811t
Wheeler, H.R. Women and aging : a guide to the literature . 1997 Reference collection 305.26016 W563w
Women refugees in international perspectives, 1980-1990 : an annotated bibliography, ed G. Neuwirth, 1997. Reference collection 362.87082016 N498w
Argos, V. P Sexual harassment : analysis and bibliography. 2000 Reference collection 305.42 A693s
The new men's studies : a selected and annotated interdisciplinary bibliography. E.R. August. 2nd ed. 1994. Reference collection 305.31016 A923n
The men's bibliography : a comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities and sexualities. Comp. Michael Flood. 5th ed. 1992. Reference collection 305.3106 F631m * For later editions, see The men's bibliography online.
SEXBIBLIO bibliography of the history of western sexuality, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna
An introductory bibliography : written histories of women's organisations in South Australia and Australia / International Women's Day Committee of South Australia. 1993 Reference collection Reference collectionerence collection 305.42099423 I61i
Immigrant women's health : an annotated bibliography. 1992 Reference collection 362.108804 I33
Settlement and employment of migrant women in Australia an annotated bibliography. 1995 Reference collection 331.40994 A938Is
Immigrant women in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1993 Reference collection 305.40994 A938Ii
Settlement and employment of migrant women in Australia an annotated bibliography. 1995. Reference collection 331.40994 A938Is
Kaplan, G. Spectrum: a bibliography of women in Australia 1945 to the present. 1995. Reference collection 305.420994 K175s
Europe
Frey, L.Women in western European history : a select chronological, geographical, and topical bibliography. 1982-84 and supplement 1986. Reference collection 305.4016 F893w
France
French feminist theory: Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous. A bibliography comp. by J Nordquist. 1990. Reference collection 306.420944 I68Z.N
Gelfand, E. French feminist criticism. 1985. Reference collection 305.420944 G316f
Great Britain and Empire
Crawford, Elizabeth.The women's suffrage movement : a Reference collectionerence guide, 1866-1928. 2001 Reference collection 324.6230941 C899w
Beddoe, D Discovering women's history : a practical guide to researching the lives of women since 1800 3rd ed. 1998 Reference collection 305.40942 B399d
Bailey, S.F. Women and the British Empire: an annotated guide to sources. 1982. Reference collection 305.409171241 B156w
Kanner, B. Women in English social history, 1800-1914: a guide to research. 1987-90. Reference collection 305.40942 K16w
Hannam, J. British women's history: a bibliographical guide. 1995. Reference collection 305.40941 H243b
Hammerton, J. Bibliography of women in British history, 1800-1945. Reference collection 305.40941 H224b
Islamic women
Encyclopedia of women and Islamic cultures, ed. Suad Joseph. 6 vols. 2003- on order for Reference collection
Kimball, M. Muslim women throughout the world : a bibliography. 1996. Reference collection 305.486971 K49m
Inglehart, R. Islam, Gender, Culture, and Democracy : Findings From the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey, 2004 Main collection 297.272 I51i
Schmittroth, L . Statistical record of women worldwide. 2nd, ed. 1995 Reference collection 305.4021 S355s
World economic and social survey (UN). 1999 Reference collection 330.9006 U5.2 .......(earlier eds in main collection)
U.N. The world's women 1970-1990, trends and statistics. 1991. Reference collection 305.4021 W927 and U.N. The world's women, 1995, trends and statistics.2nd, ed. 1995. Reference collection 305.4021 W927 and U.N Statistics and indicators on women and men
Hopes and realities : closing the gap between women's aspirations and their reproductive experiences, Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1995. [Focuses on the less-developed world. Includes statistics on family planning issues] Reference collection 305.4 A319h
Statistical profile : women in South Australia 2004 Main collection 305.4099423 P925s
Australian women's year book 1994- 1997 Reference collection 305.409905 A966 latest (other copies in Main collection)
Women in Australia, 1993 Reference collection 305.40994 C353w
Lennon, R. About migrant women : statistical profile, 3rd ed., 1994. Reference collection 305.480994 L567a
Women's health. 319.406 A984 1994
Jones, F.L. Is it true what they said about women: the census 1801-1911, and women in the economy. 1984. 330.9005 W926 23
Much statistical material is in the Main Collection, not in the Reference Collection and can be found using a keyword search in the catalogue.
Managing your information
As you assemble your references and other bibliographic information you will need to use Endnote to organise and format your citations. It is worth spending the time to learn this software as it will save you hours of work later on. Training and manuals are available.
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