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GenderWatch 1980-- (some 1970's material) 
Subject coverage: family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders, social and societal roles; the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure
Materials indexed: scholarly journals, special interest magazines, regional publications, newsletters, special reports
Full text: available online

Women's Studies International (1972--     ) (Formerly Women's Resources International)
Paper:  see print equivalents, below
Subject coverage: feminist theory & history; family; mental & physical health; psychology; family planning; art, language & culture; political/social activism; law; domestic violence; developing countries; prejudice & sex discrimination; women's liberation movement; employment; reproductive rights; literary criticism;  sports & physical activities; child abuse; lesbianism; racial/ethnic studies; immigrant experience; international feminism; women in development
Materials indexed: journals and books

 Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
A full-text database of primary source documents and interpretive material.  More than 1,400 documents, almost 500 images, and 525 links to other websites are included, and new material is added quarterly. The project is intended to  demonstrate that historical analysis is an interpretive process based on documents. Viewers of the site are encouraged to participate in that interpretive process.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (1994--    )
Subject coverage: women, sexuality, and gender (including  masculinity and male homosexuality) during the Middle Ages. Geographic coverage: Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East as well as areas in which Europeans traveled
Materials indexed: more than 300 journals as well as many essay collections. A work in progress, all years of coverage are still incomplete.  Former title Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender

Academic Search Premier
Provides indexing and often full-text to the following journals in women's studies: European Journal of Women's Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, NORA: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, Women's Studies, Women's Studies in Communication, Women's Studies International Forum, and Women's Studies Quarterly.

Project Muse
Project Muse provides full-text to Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Journal of the History of Sexuality, among others. Can cross-search JSTOR.

African Women's Bibliographic Database
This English language database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current. The database indexes six types of materials: books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD)  includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.

Women Working, 1870-1930
Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,850 books and pamphlets, 1,125 photographs, and 7,489 pages from manuscript collections.

For additional resources, see the Women's Studies research guide.

 


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