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Gender, Work and Social Inquiry : a guide to library resources

This is a very general introduction to resources.

Databases - search for journal articles

It may also be useful to look at other library resource guides:
Aboriginal Studies
Asian Studies
Australian literature and culture resources
Education
Gender and Race in Australian History
Legal research
Media
Politics
Sexuality and anthropology
Women's Health (Includes Men's health)
Women's writing resources

General Guides

Web resources

These are mainly "gateway" guides  that lead you to more specialised websites.

EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection

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.

Women Online Worldwide

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.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library Women's History (much more than history!)

Subject listing of Women and Gender Resources
maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian

Women Watch (UN)

Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland

Women and politics in South Australia

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Provides full text documents.

Discussion Groups

Gender-related Electronic Forums     An 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 
 

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

Northern Territory women's register, 1948-1988. 2nd. ed. 1991.
Reference collection 920.720994 N874

Lofthouse, A. Who's who of Australian women. 1982.
Reference collection 920.72 L829w

Principal women of the Empire: Australia and New Zealand. 1991 repr of 1940.
Reference collection 920.720994 P957

Radi, H. 200 Australian women. 1988.
Reference collection 305.420994 R129t

A sense of purpose: great Australian women of the 20th century. 1996.
Reference collection920.720994 S478s

Women in Australia [an historical biography].
Reference collection 920.094 B877w

Status of women (see also Statistics)

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

The history of rape: a bibliography, S Blaschke

Bibliographies by place

Australia

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

Statistics

World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics

World survey on the role of women in development : women and international migration

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

Australia

Australian Bureau of Statistics website. Statistics section

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.