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Women's & Gender Studies

History of Women in the U.S.

URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/womensstudies/historyUSwomen.html

The following is a selected list of resources for starting research in Women's and Gender Studies. For further assistance, contact Sara Brownmiller, Women's Studies Librarian.

Starting Your Research

These reference sources can help you identify a topic for your research, provide an overview of a specific issue or topic, and suggest other materials which might be useful for your research.

  • ABC-Clio Companion to Women's Progress in America. [HQ1410.F76 1994 Knight Reference]
  • ABC-Clio Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America. [E169.02.H3515 1997 Knight Reference]
  • Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century. [HQ1420.C55 1987 Knight Reference]
  • Chronology of Women's History. [HQ1121.O47 1994 Knight Reference]
  • This Fabulous Century. [E161.T55 Knight]
  • Handbook of American Women's History; HQ1410.H36 2000 Knight Reference
  • Women's Studies Encyclopedia

Finding Articles

To look for articles in journals, newspapers, or magazines, you will need to start with an index. An index will allow you to look by subject or a few keywords which describe your topic or by author.

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Finding Books

  • UO Libraries' Catalog
    Identify books by topic, title or author; identify journals and magazines owned by the UO Library. To find journal articles on your topic, use the databases listed in the section above. Once you have a citation, you can check the library catalog by doing a title search on the name of the journal to see if we have it here.
  • Summit Union Catalog
    The Summit Union Catalog contains records for the collections of academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest. You can borrow books not owned by the UO Library by selecting the Request Item option. Summit borrowing works only for books. If you want to request a journal article, you'll need to fill out an interlibrary loan form.

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Web Resources
Maintained by: Sara Brownmiller, snb@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 04/21/2008