Overview of women's studies
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Women's Studies Encyclopedia
Women's Studies Encyclopedia
The Women's Studies Encyclopedia provides full-text reference articles in HTML about women in all fields of study, primarily in the United States.
American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Online
American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
American Men & Women of Science provides full-text biographical entries in HTML and PDF of living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.
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