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FYS 490 - The History of Persistence: American Women's Protest: Resources

Article Indexes

Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Gender studies journal articles.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history journal articles. Citations with links to full text. Publication dates: 1964 to present america history and life ahl

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Humanities, social sciences, and science full text journals. Recent years not included.

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The Oxford Handbook of U. S. Women's Social Movement Activism
Available online.
Chapters on "waves" of feminism, movements related to specific issues (e.g. workplace issues, reproductive rights, etc.), movement strategies, intersectionality, and women activists within other movements.
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
Published: 2016
Available online
Significant Contemporary American Feminists by Jennifer Scanlon
Location: Reference HQ1412 .S56 1999
The Women's Chronology: A Year-By-Year Record from Prehistory to the Present by James Trager
Location: Reference HQ1122 .T73 1994
Encyclopedia of Abortion in the United States
Location: Reference HQ767.5.U5 P35 2009
A Companion to American Women's History by Nancy A. Hewitt; Karen Anderson (Contribution by); Juliana Barr (Contribution by); Norma Basch (Contribution by)
Location: HQ1410 .C63 2002
Published: 2002

Historical Women's Magazines

Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Includes Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, and Woman's Day.
Includes Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, and Woman's Day.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
Includes some early women's journals

Open Collections Program: Women Working, Magazines
Particularly good for Woman's Home Companion, 1899 - 1921

The following collections can be searched individually, or in the American Antiquarian Society Periodicals database.

Christine Murray

Contact:

Ladd Library 132
(207) 786-6268
cmurray2@bates.edu

I am usually at the Research Desk Mon. 10-1, Tues. 6-9, and Thurs. 1-4

Subjects: African Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Chinese, Economics, Environmental Studies, History, Japanese, Languages and Literatures, Legal Studies, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, U. S. History