If you have any questions about locating, evaluating, incorporating, and citing sources, please feel free to ask a librarian
Welcome to the subject guide for women's studies research at TLU!
Reference books can provide background material and be a launching point for further research. Here are a few.
You can find many more in the library catalog advanced search with the Location limited to Reference.
You can also search for e-reference items using our Gale Virtual Reference Library or Credo Reference.
International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities by 
Women's Lives Around the World: a Global Encyclopedia [4 Volumes] by The Library Catalog is the gateway to finding books on women's studies. Some commonly used terms in the catalog are Feminism, Gender, Masculinity, and Women--[country name].
Blumberg Memorial Library arranges materials by the Library of Congress Classification System. Books on women's studies generally fall into the following call numbers:
| The family, marriage, women | HQ |
| Feminist ethics | BJ 1395 |
| British women authors | PR 111-116 |
| American women authors | PS 147-152 |
Use databases to find articles from newspapers, magazines, or scholarly journals.
To see all of TLU's databases, visit the Blumberg Memorial Library Resources page and select either databases by Subject or by Title.
Provides full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Provides citations to 450,000 resources on the history of the U.S. and Canada (prehistory-present).
Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
If you are using an off-campus computer, you will be prompted for your last name (Not your network username but last name only) and your 8-digit TLU number.
To see if a journal or magazine is available, either online or in print, look in the Periodicals by Title list.
