New E-Resources at Northwestern

Northwestern University Library now has access to 80 Sage reference handbooks.  Access is via the Library’s catalog NUcat or from the following list.

Girlhood Studies

Girlhood Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a
forum for the critical discussion of girlhood and for the
dissemination of current research and reflections on girls’
lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars,
researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social
service, as well as health care providers and policy makers. – Publisher’s blurb.

Feminist Studies

Feminist Studies publishes research and criticism that address theoretical issues and offer analyses of interest to feminist scholars across disciplines. Feminist Studies features theoretically sophisticated essays that make an original contribution and advance interdisciplinary scholarship regarding women and/or gender. – Publisher’s blurb.

Perdita Manuscripts : Women Writers, 1500-1700

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations.

This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. – Publisher’s blurb.

Contemporary Women’s Writing

Contemporary Women’s Writing critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present. The journal aims to reflect retrospectively on developments throughout the period, to survey the variety of contemporary work, and to anticipate the new and provocative in women’s writing. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encylopedia of Gender and Information Technology

The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology is the only reference work that provides an all-encompassing perspective on the way gender and information technology impact each other. Hundreds of leading international experts have compiled their research about the role of gender in human interaction with IT and the IT profession. Special attention is paid to the contributions, challenges, issues, and experiences of women in the IT field.

Feminist Periodicals : A Current Listing of Contents

Table of contents pages from current issues of major feminist journals are reproduced in each issue of
Feminist Periodicals, preceded by a comprehensive annotated listing of all journals we have selected.

Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender

Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of “the feminine,” the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.

Journal of Sex Research

A scholarly journal devoted to the publication of articles relevant to the variety of disciplines involved in the scientific study of sexuality.