This page is a brief guide to reference sources for women & gender studies held by the British Library. It is a select list only, concentrating on bibliographies, biographies, and other finding aids. Much relevant material will also be found in our online catalogues. Items marked by an asterisk are not on open access.
Feminist Philosophy / Feminism | |
| Andermahr, Sonya, Lovell, Terry, Wolkowitz, Carol. A concise glossary of feminist theory. London: Arnold, 1997 | |
OPL301.412 | |
| *Basu, Amrita. The challenge of local feminisms, women's movements in global perspective. Boulder, Colo., Oxford: Westview Press, 1995 | |
SPIS305.42 YC.2000.a.1140 | |
| *Bibliofem, Fawcett library catalogue, comprises classified catalogue, author/title catalogue and subject index. London: City of London Polytechnic, Fawcett library, 1980- | |
MIC.F.137/1-3 (microfiches) OP&SS Reading Area | |
| Boles, Janet K.; Hoeveler, Diane Long. (eds.) From the Goddess to the glass ceiling, a dictionary of feminism. Lanham, London: Madison, 1996 | |
OPL301.412 | |
| Boles, Janet K; Hoeveler, Diane Long. Historical dictionary of feminism. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004 | |
HLR305.42 | |
| *Cain, William E. Making feminist history, the literary scholarship of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. New York, London: Garland Publishing,1994 | |
YC.1994.a.1001 | |
| *Caine, Barbara. English feminism 1780-1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
YC.1997.a.3319 | |
| *Curti, Lidia. Female stories, female bodies, narrative, identity and representation. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998. | |
YC.1998.a.1263 | |
| Duby, Georges and Michelle Perrot. A history of women in the West. Emerging feminism from Revolution to World War. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass; London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992 | |
HLR305.409 | |
| *Enloe, Cynthia. The curious feminist, searching for women in a new age of empire. Berkeley, Calif. ; London: University of California Press, 2004 | |
m04/37885 DSC | |
| *Evans, Judith. Feminist theory today: an introduction to second-wave feminism. London: Sage, 1995 | |
YC.1995.b.6718 | |
| *Evans, Mary. Introducing contemporary feminist thought. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997 | |
YC.2000.a.10062 | |
| Feminist Zines. See Further Resources for Women and Gender Studies | |
| Gamble, Sarah. The icon critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism. Cambridge: Icon, 1999. | |
SPIS305.4203j | |
| Gardner, Catherine Villanueva. Historical dictionary of feminist philosophy. Lanham, Md.; Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2006 | |
HLR305.42 | |
| Giele, Janet Zollinger. Two paths to women's equality, temperance, suffrage, and the origins of modern feminism. New York, London: Twayne, 1995. | |
SPIS305.420973 | |
| Gluck, Sherna Berger; Patai, Daphne. (eds.) Women's words, the feminist practice of oral history. Includes index. New York; London: Routledge, 1991. | |
HUS305.40722 | |
| *Harris, Geraldine. Feminist futures? : theatre, performance, theory. Basingstoke: Palgrove Macmillan, 2006 | |
YC.2006.a.14281 | |
| *Hartsock, Nancy C.M. The feminist standpoint revisited and other essays. Boulder, Colo.; Oxford: Westview Press. 1998. | |
YC.1998.b.5037 | |
| *Heywood, Leslie, Drake Jennifer (eds.) Third wave agenda: being feminist, doing feminism Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesotta Press,1997 | |
YC.2000.a.10083 | |
| Humm, Maggie, The dictionary of feminist theory. New York: Prentice Hall; London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995. | |
HLR305.42 | |
| Jaggar, Alison M, & Iris Marion Young. A Companion to Feminist Philosophy. (Blackwell companions to philosophy Vol.13.) Malden, Mass; Oxford: Blackwell. 1998. | |
HLR305.42 | |
| *Judith Butler's precarious politics: critical encounters, edited by Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers. London: Routledge, 2008 | |
| SPIS305.4201 m08/14144 DSC | |
| Kester-Shelton, Pamela. (ed.) Feminist writers, with an introductory foreword by Hortense Spillers. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Detroit: St James Press, 1996. | |
HLR305.42 | |
| Landes, Joan B. (ed.) Feminism, the public and the private. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998. | |
SPIS305.42 | |
| *Long, Judy. Telling women's lives, subject/narrator/text. New York, London: New York Press, 1999 | |
YC.1999.a.6638 | |
| *Miller, Connie. Feminist research methods, an annotated bibliography, with Corinna Treitel. (Bibliographies and indexes in women's studies, number 13). New York; London: Greenwood Press, 1991. | |
2725.e.1816 | |
| *Miitchell, Allyson (et al.) Turbo chicks, talking young feminisms. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2001 | |
YA.2002.a.8141 | |
| *n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal, Vol.1 1998- London: 1998. | |
ZC.9.a.5141 | |
| Richardson, Laurel, Taylor, Verta and Whittier, Nancy. Feminist frontiers 5. Boston, Mass.; London: McGraw Hill, 2000 | |
SPIS305.420973 | |
| Rogers, Mary F. Contemporary feminist theory, a text/reader. Boston, Mass.; London: McGraw-Hill 1998. | |
SPIS305.4201 | |
| Schmittroth, Linda. Statistical record of women worldwide. New York, London: Gale Research, 1995 | |
OPL301.412 | |
| *Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the politics of working women: the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. London: UCL Press, 1998 | |
| YC.1998.a.1931 98/14451 DSC | |
| *Singh, Sushila. Feminism, theory, criticism, analysis. Delhi: Pencraft International 1997 | |
YA.1998.a.11241 | |
| *Taylor, Barbara. Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | |
| YA.2003.a.10760 | |
| *Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist thought, a more comprehensive introduction. Boulder, Colo., Oxford: Westview Press, 1998 | |
| YC.2001.a.15064 | |
| *Warhol, Robyn R. & Herndl, Diane Price. Feminisms: an anthology of literary theory and criticism. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997. | |
| YC.1998.b.3509 | |
| Watson, Llewellyn G. Feminism and women's issues, an annotated bibliography and research guide. Llewellyn Watson with the assistance of Janet P. Sentner. New York; London: Garland Pub. 1990. | |
| HLR305.42 | |
| *Whelehan, Imelda. Modern feminist thought: from the second-wave to post feminism. Edinburgh University Press, 1995 | |
| YC.1995.a.4515 96/10143 DSC | |
| Women's rights, 1850-1995, an educational CD-ROM based on articles from The Times. | |
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