Research Guides: Women's History: How to Locate Book Sources

Suggested Terms While Searching

African American feminists
African American women
Feminism
Feminism -- United States
Feminists
Lesbianism
Socialist feminism -- United States
Women
Women -- Employment -- New York (state)
Women -- Employment -- United States
Women -- Suffrage -- United States
Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women anarchists -- United States
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Women and communism -- United States
Women and socialism -- United States
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Library of Congress Scheme

You can also use the Library of Congress (LC) Classification to browse shelves online by using a search of Call Numbers in the Library's catalog. Click on the book below to see which section is relevant:

Feminism Subject Headings

Helpful Subject Terms

These are some subject or key word terms that you might use to find sources when you search Discover or the Library's Catalog:

Feminism

Feminism - Research

Feminist Economics

Feminist Theory

Feminists

Nationalism and feminism

Sex Discrimination and Women

Womanism

Women - Social Conditions

Women - History

Anti-feminism

Videos to Borrow

Shackled women by A Journeyman Pictures production
Publication Date: 1999

This program assesses second- and third-world abuses of women's rights by the male establishment and examines how female collaboration sometimes contributes to their perpetuation. VHS format.
The hidden story : a quest for women's unrecorded history by Shika Jhingan; Ranjani Mazumdar
Explores the multiple roles of women in rural India through the stories of four peasant women from different parts of the country, who narrate their stories of struggle, hardship, and collective achievement. VHS format.
Hidden figures
Call Number: PN1997.2 .H53 2017
ISBN: 6316777205
Publication Date: 2017

Johnson, Katherine G. Drama.
Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 Drama.
Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 Drama.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Drama.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Women mathematicians United States Drama

Reference Books in the Library

Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary by Edited by Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green with Ilene Kantrov, Harriette Walker.
Call Number: Ref. CT3260 .N573
Publication Date: 1980
Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary. by Edward T. James, editor. Janet Wilson James, associate editor. Paul S. Boyer, assistant editor.
Publication Date: 18971
Reference library of American women by Jennifer Mossman, ed.
ISBN: 0787638641
Publication Date: 1999
Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge by Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, general editors.
ISBN: 0415920884
Publication Date: 2000
The Women's book of world records and achievements by Edited by Lois Decker O'Neill.
Publication Date: 1979

Videos to Borrow

A Great step forward: Chinese women in the 20th century by Yuan Zhengming; Liu Chun; Peter George; Christopher McCullough; Zhong yang dian shi tai (Beijing, China)
Publication Date: 2003

A two-part look at how Chinese women broke with their age-old traditions of subservience and prejudice to confront issues and agitate for reforms in the 20th century. DVD format.
Iron jawed angels by Katja von Garnier film
ISBN: 0783125364
Publication Date: 2004
Kumekucha at sunrise: women of Tanzania by Flora M'Mbugu-Schelling; Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America.
Documents the daily life of Tanzanian women as they seek to take their place in their society, as it is influenced through education and the impact of Western civilization. VHS format.
Pandora's box: the roles of women in classical Greece by Ellen D Reeder; Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.); Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Cincinnati, Ohio); New Step Productions
Publication Date: 1995

Through works of art gathered from museums and private collections from around the world, Dr. Ellen D. Reeder illustrates how images reveal to us the values, perceptions, and concerns that surrounded the women of classical Greece. VHS format.