Women's studies
The focus for women's studies at Virginia Tech is to present students with new ways of thinking about how race, class, and sexuality shape our society and our experiences in it.
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Women's Studies International from EBSCOhost
Women's Studies International from EBSCOhost
Women's Studies International indexes abstracts, citations, and full-text articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, bulletins, books, conference proceedings, working papers, pamphlets, reports, theses, and dissertations in the arts, humanities, business, social sciences, and education. Full-text material is available in HTML and PDF formats. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1972-present.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the US indexes citations and full text of primary documents and archives; book, film, and website reviews; teaching tools; a directory of organizations; and a chronology of women's history. 1745-present.
Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online, 1543-1945 from Chadwyck-Healey
Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online, 1543-1945 from Chadwyck-Healey
The Gerritsen Collection contains full-text (PDF and TIFF) journals, books, and pamphlets covering the social science aspects of feminism and the women's rights movement. 1543-1945.
Contemporary Women's Issues from Gale
Contemporary Women's Issues from Gale
Contemporary Women's Issues indexes the full text of journal articles, newspaper articles, book reviews, reports and fact sheets, speeches, biographies, "gray" literature, and statistics on the social, medical, and economics aspects of women from around the world. 1985-present.
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