Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Encyclopedias & Reference Sources
Subject Encyclopedias
Scholarly subject encyclopedias provide background information about specific topics. Entries or articles, written by scholars or subject experts, include bibliographies or suggested readings that will lead to more information on your topic.
You can use subject encyclopedias to identify keywords for your research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Background Information Video
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Online Subject Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias are tremendously useful resources, especially for researching a new topic. Encyclopedias provide summaries of research topics to get you up to speed quickly: important research findings and researchers, discussions and critiques of theoretical models and methodologies. The summary is followed by a bibliography, leading you to the important articles and books in that area.
- The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (ebook) byISBN: 9781405196949Publication Date: 2016
- Encyclopedia of gender and society (ebook) byISBN: 1849725268
- Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (ebook) byISBN: 1412926947
- Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies byCall Number: Available OnlineISBN: 1405196947Publication Date: 2016-05-09
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures byISBN: 9780815333548Publication Date: 1999-12-01
- The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 5 Volume Set byPublication Date: 2016-05-09
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History byPublication Date: 2008-01-23
- The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender (ebook) byPublication Date: 2017
General Online Encyclopedia & Reference Sources
Reference sources can perform a number of information functions: define concepts and vocabulary, provide chronologies, provide a coherent overview of a topic or discipline, contextualize a subject area by virtue of the topics which are included in the scope of a particular work, get you up to speed quickly by filling in background facts and themes.
- Oxford Bibliographies OnlineIncludes scholarly bibliographies that provide research guidance in several topical areas. Our current subscriptions cover the classics, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, Latino studies, medieval studies, the renaissance and the reformation, British and Irish literature, childhood studies, Chinese studies, cinema and media studies, American literature, education, communication, linguistics, philosophy, public health, and international relations.
- Oxford Reference OnlineContains full text subject encyclopedias, reference works, dictionaries, and handbooks in all disciplines.
Print Encyclopedias
The encyclopedias listed are also designed to provide overview, background, synthesis and a quick examination of a topic. Articles are written by discipline experts for general readers and often will include a selected bibliography of the important works on a particular topic. While some of the encyclopedias listed are also available online, most of these are located on the second floor of the library.
- Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories byCall Number: HQ1190 .E63 2000 (2nd floor Reference collection as well as online)Publication Date: 2000-07-01
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History byCall Number: HQ1121 .O93 2008 v.1-4 (2nd floor Reference collection as well as online)Publication Date: 2008-01-01
- Women in World HistoryCall Number: HQ1115 .W6 1999 v. 1-17 (2nd floor Reference collection as well as online)ISBN: 078763736XPublication Date: 1999
- Encyclopedia of Sex and GenderCall Number: HQ16 .E52 2007 v. 1-4 (2nd floor Reference Collection)Publication Date: 2007
- Men and Masculinities: a social, cultural, and historical encyclopediaCall Number: HQ1090.3 .M436 2004 (2nd floor Reference collection)Publication Date: 2003
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in AmericaCall Number: HQ76.3.U5 E53 2004 v.1-3Publication Date: 2003
- LGBTQ America Today byCall Number: HQ73.3.U6 L43 2009 v. 1-3 (2nd floor Reference collection)Publication Date: 2009
- Sexuality: the essential glossaryCall Number: HQ9 .S49 2004 (2nd floor Reference collection)Publication Date: 2004
- Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic CulturesCall Number: HQ1170 .E53 2003 v. 1-6 (2nd floor Reference collection as well as online)Publication Date: 2007
- Women and Gender in Medieval EuropeCall Number: HQ1147.E85 W64 2006 (2nd floor Reference collection)Publication Date: 2006
- International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciencesCall Number: H41 .I58 2001 v. 1-10 (2nd floor Reference collection)