LibGuides: History: 79-244: Women in American History: Background

Background

Just the facts, plus a bit of interpretation. Great way to get started or to understand a historical event or issue. You have access to many online reference books via Credo Reference, Oxford Reference, Sage Reference Online and the CQ Press Electronic Library, but don't forget excellent resouces exist in paper, too.

ABC-CLIO Companion to Women in the Workplace
Request from Offsite HD6095 .S34 1993
ABC-CLIO Companion to Women's Progress in America
HUNT REF-1 HQ1410 .F76 1994
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
HUNT REF-1 E185.86 .B542 2005

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1923-present. Unbiased research reports on timely topics. Each report provides an introduction, overview, background, current situation, outlook chronology, pro/con, bibliography, etc. Keyword search for additional reports also show links to other relevant reports. Database Guide.

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender
Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
Includes nearly 600 entries on all aspects of women and sports in the United States, from the different sports to people and events, from teams and organizations to laws and court cases.
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion.
HUNT REF-1 BL458 .E53 1999
Encyclopedia of Women in American History
HUNT REF-1 HQ1410 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.
Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography
Encyclopedia of Women's Health
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America
HUNT REF-1 HQ1410 .C85 2000
Feminist Philosophies A-Z
Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia
Carnegie Mellon users only.
Print: Hunt Ref-1 LC213 .G425 2007
Handbook of American Women's History
HUNT REF-1 HQ1410 .H36 1990
Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States
HUNT REF-1 HQ766 .5.U5 H57 2002
International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
HUNT REF-1 GV709 .I58 2001
Milestones: A Chronology of American Women's History
HUNT REF-1 HQ1410 .W434 1997
Reader's Companion to U. S. Women's History
Gathers together articles to offer a diverse, rich, and often neglected panorama of the nation's past.
Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America
HUNT REF-1 HQ1410 .P68 2000
Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit
From the Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health
Women and the Military: An Encyclopedia
Request from Offsite U21.75 .S54 1996
Women's Firsts
HUNT REF-1 CT3203 .W66 1996
Women's Studies Encyclopedia
HUNT REF-1 HQ1115 .W645 1999

Subject Guide

Charlotte Kiger Price

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