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Women and Popular Culture : Databases

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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Incorporates CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.

GenderWatch
The best choice to reach articles in feminist news and magazines such as Off Our Backs. It also includes some magazines for girls and teens. It’s also rather up-to-date and most of the articles are there in fulltext.

Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Focuses on women's status starting approximately in the year 2000 and looks forward, defining women in the contemporary world.

Popular Culture in Britain and America
Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion, and youth culture from 1950-1975.

Victorian Popular Culture Module I: Spiritualism, Sensation, and Magic
Contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were.

Women's Studies International
Comprehensive index to women's studies articles, books, and more.


If you are researching a historical topic, use the Women's History Databases and E-Books section of the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian's website, both for links to databases of scholarly articles in history, including America: History and Life and to primary source collections, including Twentieth Century Advice Literature.