Subject Headings

Abortion
Civil Rights Movements (use with other keywords, e.g. "women")
Equal Rights Amendments
Feminism
Feminist Theory
Gay liberation movement
Gender Identity
Lesbians-Political activity
Reproductive health (includes books on reproductive rights)
Roe, Jane, 1947- --Trials, litigation, etc.
Sex role
Social action
Social movements
Women social reformers
Women's Rights
Women's Studies

Search YouTube and Google Scholar

Type in the terms below to search YouTube and Google Scholar for relevant articles and videos.

ACT UP (and) AIDS Rights
Civil Rights movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Equal rights amendment
Radical feminism (Google Scholar)
Reproductive Rights
Second-wave Feminism (Google Scholar)
Suffrage movement
Women's movement
Women's Rights

Books, Print and Electronic

The following sources provide basic information and brief introductions to Women's Studies. Call numbers and locations are listed below the book's description. Refer to the Ask-A-Librarian, IRIS Guide and Building Map pages for more information. Links to online sources are provided.

Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers [Rutgers Restricted Access]
Articles on women reformers from the French Revolution to the second wave of feminism in the 1970s, with a few important contemporary figures.

Hawkesworth, M. E. Globalization and feminist activism.
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
DOUGLASS, ROBESON STACKS HQ1155.H39 2006
"Mary Hawkesworth is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University"

Heywood, Leslie. The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
DOUGLASS REF HQ1115.W644 2006 v.1-2

Jeydel, Alana S. Political Women: The Women's Movement, political institutions, the battle for women's suffrage and the ERA.
London: Routledge, 2004.
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1418.J49 2004

Kaplan, Temma. Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements.
New York : Routledge, 1997.
DOUGLASS STACKS HN49.W6K36 1997
"Temma Kaplan is a Professor of History and a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Faculty."

Roth, Benita. Separate roads to feminism: Black, Chicana, and White feminist movements in America's second wave.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1421.R684 2004

Rowland, Debran. The boundaries of her body: The troubling history of women's rights in America.
Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2005.
DOUGLASS STACKS KF478.R69 2004

Sartain, Lee. Invisible activists : Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the struggle for civil rights, 1915-1945.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
ALEX, DANA, ROBESON STACKS E185.93.L6S27 200

Other Print Resources

Women's File at Douglass Library
The "Women's File" is a pamphlet file collection with an assortment of information resources on women's issues, covering the period from 1970-1980. Of particular interest is information on the institutionalization of Rutgers' Women and Gender Studies department.
The collection is the product of past Douglass Women's Studies Bibliographers, including current Media Librarian Jane Sloan). It is mostly on American women, but contains some information on worldwide women's activities. The collection is organized into 417 subject folders, each containing a combination of bibliographies, clippings from major newspapers, popular and academic journals, newsletters, reports and miscellany. These items record women's history in the years surrounding the Women's Liberation Movements, Amendments to Title IX, and other distinctive and often contentious events.
DOUGLASS REFERENCE ROOM

Journals

The journals below may contain relevant articles on your chosen topic. To locate the online versions of these journals, search for the title in IRIS and select "Periodical title begins with" from the dropdown menu. The results page will include a link to the electronic version.

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Journal of International Women's Studies [Open Access, Online Resource]

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Indexes

Journal articles from a variety of periodical sources can be found via these specialized and multidisciplinary indexes. Students can use their Net ID and password to log into Rutgers Restricted databases from off-campus. See the "How Do I Connect From Home?" guide for more information.

Contemporary Women's Issues (1992-present) [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]
Covers over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world. Coverage includes more than 150 periodicals in addition to non-periodical source publications.

>New Jersey Women's History
A resource about the history of New Jersey Women.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]
Documents women's activism in public life by bringing together books, images, documents (including primary documents), scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, and links to other websites.

Women's Studies International (1972 - present) [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]
Includes records from several U.S. and some international material on women's issues.

Websites and Blogs

1987 PBS interview with Gloria Steinem

ACLU: Reproductive Freedom page

ACT UP/ New York (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) records [1969]; 1983-1997. (New York Public Library Digital Gallery)

The Center for American Women and Politics (Rutgers University)
From the website: The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is a university-based research, education and public service center. Its mission is to promote greater knowledge and understanding about women's participation in politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life.

Center for Reproductive Rights

Democracy Now!: Reproductive Rights Discussion (YouTube)

The Equal Rights Amendment (Alice Paul Institute)

Feministing (MySpace Page)

Livingston Social Justice House (Rutgers Housing)
The Livingston Social Justice Living-Learning Community provides an exciting opportunity for 20 first-year students to become the next generation of social justice advocates and activists.

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League

Office for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities (SJE) (Rutgers)