Databases & E-Reference Materials

Provides coverage on the best-known American women writers spanning from colonial days to the present, including biography, criticism, and bibliography for each; also includes lesser-known writers whose work is found in journals, letters, stories, and even hymns. Entries feature an assessment of the writer's works, basic biography and complete bibliography, as well as comprehensive data on writers' names, including pseudonyms, aliases, parents' names and husbands' names, etc.

Indexes a variety of materials from journal articles to fact sheets that focus on contemporary and international women's issues in areas such as education, health, legal status, reproductive rights, and feminism. Some full text is available.

Provides over 500 explanations of key themes and ideas within the field of feminist thought. Each entry contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading. This resource also includes over 50 biographical entries, providing a sense of how theories have developed out of the lives and situations of their authors.

This bibliographic database is an index of journal articles and book reviews covering the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. Subjects include anthropology, art, communication, law, music, sociology, gender studies, environmental studies, performing arts, political science, urban studies, international relations, criminal justice, and more. 

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. 

NOTE: Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

This collection provides full text access to the personal writings of more than 1,300 North American women from all classes and walks of life. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented, from colonial times to 1950. Resources include diaries and letters, as well as biographies.

This three-volume biographical dictionary covers the lives of notable women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. More than 1,300 women from all walks of life are included.

Contains entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976-1999. Women from a variety of fields are covered, including radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; politicians and entrepreneurs; authors and aviators; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. Women from a broad spectrum of ethnic, class, political, religious, and sexual identities are all acknowledged.

This biographical dictionary includes entries on over 400 notable women who died between 1951-1975. Women from a broad spectrum of ethnicities, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, religions, and political parties are included. Criteria for selection include an influence on time or field, a pioneering or innovative quality, the significance of achievement, or relevance of the career in the history of women.

Provides comprehensive information on major topics of scholarly interest within the study of Islam and women including self and body, immigration, culture and expression, politics, education, medicine, and community. Focus is on showcasing ways in which women, both past and present, have played a vital role at all levels of family and society.