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Gender and Women's Studies

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Gender Studies Database
Gender Studies Database combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues and the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Internet are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected and important websites. This database includes more than 921,000 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to the present

RELEVANT BOOKS

The Madame Curie Complex by Julie Des Jardins
Call Number: Q141 .D44 2010

ISBN: 9781558616134

Publication Date: 2010-03-01

Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions?The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations--limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men--to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences.
Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives by Pnina G. Abir-Am (Editor); Dorinda Outram (Editor)
Call Number: Q130 .U525 1987

ISBN: 0813512565

Publication Date: 1987-11-01

Focuses on 19th and 20th century American and European women scientists. Great introduction by the editors of essays written by 12 women historians.
Complexities - Women in Mathematics by Bettye Anne Case (Editor); Anne M. Leggett (Editor)
Call Number: QA27.5 .C66 2005

ISBN: 0691114625

Publication Date: 2005-01-30

This captivating book gives voice to women mathematicians from the late eighteenth century through to the present day. It documents the complex nature of the conditions women around the world have faced--and continue to face--while pursuing their careers in mathematics.
African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown
ISBN: 9780199909612

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

This book will present a wide-ranging historical introduction to the relatively new presence of African American women in the field of chemistry. It will detail their struggles to obtain an education and their efforts to succeed in a field in which there were few African American men, much less African American women. The book contains sketches of the lives of African America women chemists from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts were passed and greater career opportunities began to emerge.