Researching Topics in Gender and Women's Studies  Tags: gender women's_studies women feminism  

Welcome to the guide to Researching Topics in Gender and Women's Studies at UW-Madison.

The UW-Madison campus libraries have a combined homepage at http://www.library.wisc.edu. From this page you can do a quick search of Madcat (for books, videos, and journals by name), find databases by name, find journals by name, do a quick general search for articles, get to the ten most popular databases, including a UW-Madison authenticated entry into Google Scholar, get to the homepages of individual campus libraries and services, including the Women's Studies Librarian, Memorial Library, and College Library, and lots more.

The Women's Studies Librarian's website,  links to Research Resources on Gender and Women's Studies. Some of the specific sections include resources for women's history, women's literature, women's health, international topics, statistics on women & gender and more resources for research. There are also sections on organizations, women and popular culture, and media.

In addition, the Women's Studies Librarian has an editorial staff. They publish Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources (also in GenderWatch), New Books on Women, Gender, and Feminism (a bibliography of book information; the citations are also in Women's Studies International database) and Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents (useful to browse to see what's been published recently in about 150 feminist/gender periodicals -- can help in choosing course paper topics!)and WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English, a database of information about women-focused videos and DVDs, some of which are on campus. Look the video/DVD titles up in Madcat.