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Subject Guide ~ Women's and Gender Studies

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Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality by Amy Lind; Stephanie Brzuzy
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories by Lorraine Code
Publication Date: 2000
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society by Jodi A. O'Brien (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Gender in Media by Mary Kosut
Publication Date: 2012
Encyclopedia of Identity by Ronald L. Jackson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America
Call Number: COMPACT STACKS Ref HQ76.3.U5 E53 2004
Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman (Editor); George E. Haggerty (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender by Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender by Judith Worell (Editor)
Call Number: COMPACT STACKS Ref HQ1115 .E43 2001
Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia by Claudia Mitchell
Publication Date: 2008
Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History by Howard Chiang
Publication Date: 2019

An authoritative and academically rigorous encyclopedia focused on LGBTQ history.
Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements by JoAnne Myers
Publication Date: 2013
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture by David A. Gerstner (Editor)
Call Number: COMPACT STACKS Ref HQ76.96 .R68 2006
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women by Cheris Kramarae; Dale Spender
Publication Date: 2000
The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies by Abbie E. Goldberg (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016

The work focuses on LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development and sociology, emphasizing queer, feminist and ecological perspectives.
Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism by Leslie L. Heywood
Call Number: COMPACT STACKS Ref HQ1115 .W644 2006
Women's Studies Encyclopedia by Helen Tierney (Editor)
Call Number: COMPACT STACKS Ref HQ1115 .W645 1999

Handbooks

Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers by Joey Sprague
Call Number: HQ1180 .S75 2005
Feminist Praxis (RLE Feminist Theory) by Liz Stanley (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Feminist Research in Theory and Practice by Gayle Letherby
Publication Date: 2003
Feminist Research Practice: A Primer by Sharlene Hesse Biber (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1180 .H47 2014

2nd ed.
Gender by Renee C. Hoogland (Editor); Nicole Fleetwood (Editor); Iris van der Tuin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016-2018

Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbook series. Volumes cover: Animals, God, Laughter, Love, Matter, Nature, Space, Time, War, and Sources Perspectives and Methodologies. Offers a conceptual approach that encourages a cross-, trans-, and interdisciplinary exploration of universal themes, addressed by feminist scholars and scientists.
Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook by Karen O'Connor (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Handbook of Feminist Research by Sharlene Hesse Biber (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1180 .H35 2012
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories by Amy L. Stone; Jaime Cantrell (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso (Editor); Toyin Falola (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021
Queer Methods and Methodologies by Kath Browne (Editor); Catherine J. Nash (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research by Rosemarie Buikema (Editor); Gabriele Griffin (Editor); Nina Lykke (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012

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