Reference Sources

This is a list of selected reference sources available in the Drew Library on Women and Gender.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks

• Eichler, Margrit.  Nonsexist Research Methods: A Practical Guide.  Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1988.
  Stacks  300.72  E34n
• Humm, Maggie. Dictionary of Feminist Theory.  Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 1995.
  Reference  305.4201  H925d
• Karmarae, Cheris.  Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary.  London: Pandora P, 1992.
  Reference  305.4203  K89a
• Tuttle, Lisa. Encyclopedia of Feminism.  NY: Facts on File, 1986.
  Reference  305.4203  T967e
• Women’s Issues.  Pasadena, CA: Salem P, 1997.
  Reference  305.403  W8722w
• Women’s Studies Encyclopedia. Helen Tierney, ed.  NY: Greenwood P, 1991.
  Reference  305.403  W872w

Indexes and Bibliographies

• Women Studies Abstracts.  Rochester, NY: Rush, 1972.
  Periodicals Room  301.41205  W872w
• Women’s Studies Index.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989.
  Periodicals Room  050  W872w
• Carter, Sarah.  Women’s Studies: A Guide to Information Sources.  NY: Mansell, 1990.
  Reference  016.3054  C325w
• Humm, Maggie.  An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Feminist Criticism.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.
  Reference  016.30542  H925a
• McCullough, Rita I.  Sources: An Annotated Bibliography of Women’s Issues.  Manchester, CT: KIT, 1991.
  Reference  016.3054  M133s
• Nordquist, Joan.  Feminism Worldwide: A Bibliography.  Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research, 1996.
  Reference  016.30542  N832fem
• Nordquist, Joan.  The Feminist Movement: A Bibliography.  Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research, 1992.
  Reference  016.30542  N832fe

Women’s Biography

• Addis, Patricia K.  Through a Woman’s I: An Annotated Bibliography of American Women’s Autobiographical Writings, 1946-1976.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow P, 1983.
  Reference  016.92072  A224t
• Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography.  NY: Continuum, 1989.
  Reference  920.72  I61i2
• Dictionary of Women Artists.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
  Reference  927  D554d
• British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide.  NY: Continuum,1989.
  Reference  928.2  B862b
• Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio- Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.  Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1993.
  Reference  928.10992006643  C671c
• Makward, Christiane P. and Madelein Cottenet-Hage.  Dictionnaire Litteraire des Femmes de Langue Francaise.  Paris: Karthala, 1996.
  Reference  928.4099287  M235d
• An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers.  NY: Garland, 1988.
  Reference  928.2  E56e
• Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.  Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1997.
  Reference  928.1099287  N714n
• Notable American Women 1607-1950; Edward T. James, editor. Janet Wilson James, associate editor. Paul S. Boyer, assistant editor. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
  Reference  920.073  N899n
• Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook.  Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1994.
  Reference  928.1098924  J59j
• Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia.  NY: Garland, 1997.
  Reference  928.089287  W8722w
• Bailey, Martha J.  American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary.  Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 1994.
  Reference  925  B155a
• Black Women in America: An Historical Dictionary.  Brooklyn: Carlson P, 1993.
  Reference  920.7208996  B627b
• European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary.  NY: Garland P, 1994.
  Reference  920.720869  E89e
• Hardy, Gayle J.  American Women Civil Rights Activists: Biobibliograpies of 68 Leaders, 1825-1992. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
  Reference  923.2  H269a
• Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.  NY: Routledge, 1997.
  Reference  920.72089924  J59j
• Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary.  NY: Greenwood P, 1988.
  Reference  923.06  W872w