INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF GENDER VIOLENCE:
Library and Internet Resources
A Guide for PLS 449/649


Prepared by Karen Kimber, Social Sciences and Humanitites Team Leader
January 2007

Background Information

• Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender. 2 vols. HQ1115 .E43 2001 - chapters of broad topics; good for topic ideas
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide. 6 vols. Ref HQ1115 .G74 2003
• Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. 4 vols. Ref HQ1115.R69 2000
• Where Women Stand: An International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries, by Naomi Neft and Ann D. Levine. Ref HQ1154 .N39 1997
• Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues, ed. by Nelly P. Stromquist. Ref HQ1870.9.W6548 1998
• Women in the Third World: Reference Handbook, by Karen L. Kinnear (1997)
  Print copy also available: Ref HQ1870.9.K58 1997
• Women's Issues. 3 vols. Ref HQ1115.W6425 1997
• The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-wave Feminism. 2 vols. HQ1115 .W644 2006
• Women's Studies Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Ref HQ1115.W645 1999

Finding Books in the Library Catalog

Each book is also assigned standardized subject headings. When you find a record for a book that interests you, you can find similar books by clicking on any highlighted subject listed in the book's record. In the example above, when you look at the subjects toward the bottom of the record, you see Female circumcision, and you can click on that to find more books.

If books you need are not available in the WSU Libraries, click on OhioLINK Central on your search page to connect to the OhioLINK network.

Finding Journal Articles

GenderWatch	First choice for journal articles on women's studies topics. Provides full text of journal and newspaper articles, as well as other materials
Contemporary Women's Issues	Full text of a variety of materials, including journal and newspaper articles, fact sheets, and research reports. NOTE: Subscription ended with July 2006
Women's Studies International	Indexes a wide variety of materials, including journals, newspapers, newsletters, books, dissertations, NGO studies, and grey literature. *Includes Find It!

The following databases give information about journal articles in the social sciences

Academic Search Premier	Citations to articles in general interest periodicals and some professional journals. Full text is available for some articles. *Includes Find It!
Social Sciences Citation Index	Citations to articles in about 1700 scholarly journals. *Includes Find It!

* Find It! means that you can click for information on an article's availability online or in print at the WSU libraries or OhioLINK.

Finding Newspaper Articles

Finding Editorials

• LexisNexis Academic - In a news search, include Editorial as a keyword

Finding Statistics

• Population Reference Bureau
  Includes Datafinder and special reports by topic
• GenderStats (World Bank Group)
• Social Indicators (U.N. Statistics Division)
• Statistics and Indicators on Men and Women
  • Includes The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
    Print copy also available: Ref HQ1154.W95 2006
• World Development Indicators

International Agencies

• Europa World Plus - Subscription allows 1 user at a time, so please log off when finished.
• International Organizations and Related Information (Univ. of Michigan Documents Center)
• Yearbook of International Organizations. 5 vols. Ref JX1904.A42 1999/00

Human Rights Organizations

• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch

Selected Internet Resources

• GenderNet (World Bank Group)
• International Women's Web Sites - website maintained by Joan Korenman
• The United Nations and the Status of Women
• Women in Development (U.S. Agency for International Development: USAID)
• WomenWatch (U.N. Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality: IANWGE)