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Databases by Subject: Women's Studies

Major Indexes
Gender Studies Database   
Citations to journal articles, books and book chapters, conference papers and more, covering women's studies, men's studies, and sexual diversity issues, from 1972-present.

GenderWatch
Citations and some full-text to scholarly journal articles, books, alternative magazines, and more, in gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender research from 1970 to present.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and citations to articles in journals in sociology, family studies, women's studies, and related social sciences, as well as abstracts to dissertations, conference proceedings, and books, covering 1952-present.

Additional Indexes
Alternative Press Index   
Index to journal, magazine, and newspaper articles from 1991-present from international alternative, radical, and left publications covering racial and gender issues, gay and lesbian studies, labor, and more.

Black Women Writers
It offers fiction, poetry, and essays from Africa and the African Diaspora giving an unparalleled view of black women's struggles through time.

Defining Gender, 1450-1910  (English)
Online access to over 60,000 images of primary source documents, including manuscripts, periodicals, diaries, travel journals, and ephemera. Includes introductory essays and is organized in five sections: Conduct & Politeness, Domesticity & the Family, Consumption & Leisure, Education & Sensibility, The Body.

English Short Title Catalog  (English)
A database of catalog records of early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801 in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index.  (English)
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays from 1990-present about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E., Russia up to 1613.

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Full-text/full-image database of unique materials about women's history, ranging from 1543-1945, with more than 4,500 publications (265 periodicals and 4,471 monographs and pamphlets).

ITER
Bibliography of more than one million records of material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes indexing to Early English Books Online and provides a link to the material through the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership

Literature Criticism Online  (English)
Provides online access to full text entries for ten of the Gale Literature Criticism series, including: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review

North American Women's Drama
Full-text plays that are browsable and searchable. Also includes playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. From colonial times to the present.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
Large collection of women's diaries and correspondence, from Colonial times to 1950.

Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700  (English)
Digitized original manuscripts of women's writing in in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts.

WGSN Fashion Trend Forecasting & Analysis  (English)
WGSN's comprehensive research and analysis service provides for every stage of the product development life cycle. Trends are tracked and analysed from their earliest emergence right through to the products driving retail and e-tail today.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition
Full text primary source documents, books, images, scholarly essays, and more around about women's activism in the United States, 1600-2000.

Women Writers Online
Provides access to electronic encoded texts by early modern women writers from 1400 to 1850. .

World Development Indicators Online (WDI)
It contains statistical data for over 800 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2007 for 227 economies.