This guide contains resources that focus exclusively on women’s history. It should be used in conjunction with other History Subject Guides and the Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Guide where many other relevant resources may be found.
Resources within each box on this page are listed by breadth of scope and chronology
Key Resources
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowAn interdisciplinary database combined from Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women's Studies Database (1972-present), New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975-present), and several major bibliographies.
[Coverage: 1972 (and earlier)-present] - Gender Watch This link opens in a new windowA full-text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.
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The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History is one of the resources available through this link. Oxford Handbooks review the current state of research in multiple disciplines.
The History module of this collection includes 65 separate handbooks, about one third of which are licensed by UC Davis. - Gale ebooks This link opens in a new window
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The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) History is one of the volumes included in the Gale ebooks set of reference works.
Additional Bibliographic Indexes
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender IndexFeminae identifies and indexes articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender in the Middle Ages.
