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Women’s Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies with an emphasis on scholarship in feminist research. It contains materials from Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database (1972-present), New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975-present), The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: a Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and Disciplines (1970-1995), Women's Health and Development: an Annotated Bibliography (1995), Women, Race, and Ethnicity: a Bibliography (1970-1990), WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English(1985-1990) and the MEDLINE subset on women (1964-2000).  

Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented in this resource, many with abstracts, including journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, plus books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, important websites and web documents.

Examples of the types of references are:

• Lancaster, Jane  
  Cowboys, Indians and Perky Waitresses: Contesting Tourist Myths of the American West.
  Journal of Tourism & Cultural Change, 4(1): pp. 53-60;   2006 
• Hindi, Munira bin  
  Disabled women in the United Arab Emirates.
  Al-Raida, V. 22, NO. 108, WINTER, 2005;   pp. 58-59  ISSN: 0259-9953   
• Rosenberg, Merri  
  Jewish moms, Chinese daughters.
  Lilith: the independent Jewish women's magazine, V. 31, NO. 1, SPRING, 2006;   pp. 26-27, 33

Search Tips:

• Use Index in both Basic and Advanced searches to find subjects; authors’ names; etc.
• Use Advanced Search for additional search options, such as Author Affiliation, Institutional Author, URL, Language, and Publication Type.
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For more information, please contact: 

Kuei Chiu ~ Social Science Bibliographer at 827-3705, email kuei.chiu@ucr.edu