Reader's Guide to Women's Studies

by Eleanor Amico (Editor)

Overview

The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135314033
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/20/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	762
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Eleanor B. Amico

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note, Advisers and Contributors, Alphabetical List of Entries, Thematic List: Entries by Category, Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies, Booklist Index, General Index

Editorial Reviews

In the academic world, the field of women's studies is still relatively uncharted territory. Although such programs are offered at many institutions, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject (encompassing history, literature, social science, arts, and humanities) presents a real challenge for the researcher. Aiming "to guide the reader through the mass of published work on women and gender to date," this work surveys more than 500 topics as well as individuals in women's studies and provides brief discussions of recommended books in each area. Entries are arranged alphabetically by topic and begin with a list of the relevant books followed by a bibliographic essay. Helpful features include a simple alphabetical list of entries, a thematic list of entries, a list of all books discussed in the entries, and numerous cross references within entries. Subjects range widely, from "Aboriginal Women" and "Battlefield Nursing" to "Widowhood" and "Womanism," and individual women featured include Louisa May Alcott, Marguerite Yourcenar, and "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias. Comparable sources, such as Sarah Carter and Maureen Ritchie's Women's Studies: A Guide to Information Sources (McFarland, 1990) and Catherine Loeb and others' Women's Studies: A Recommended Core of Bibliography 1980-85 (1987), as well as its 1979 predecessor, Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography, are in need of updating, and this work meets that need. A solid addition to all reference collections.--Carolyn M. Mulac, Chicago P.L.

Library Journal

Since birthed in the 1960s, Women's Studies has burgeoned to the point where interdisciplinary scholars and students require such a guide to the literature on women and gender. The entries are listed thematically by category (from activism to writers: 20th century), as well as alphabetically. Fashioned by over 200 contributors (about ten percent of whom are men), the volume contains a booklist index of global topics and individuals in the field<-->beyond the general subject index. The editor notes women for whom book-length treatment is still pending. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"Highly recommended for college and university libraries." — American Reference Books Annual
"A solid addition to all reference collections." — Library Journal
"Highly recommended." — College and Research Libraries
"A solid one-volume reference work... A large book—physically as well as intellectually—and one capable of handling inquiries from novices and sophisticated researchers alike... It is an excellent record of the published book literature in the field thus far." — Feminist Collections
"A welcome addition to the limited resources available in women's studies. Academic and larger public libraries will find this to be very useful as a starting place for further research." — Booklist/RBB
"Academic and larger public libraries will find this a very useful work to which to refer students and general readers for an overview of research in the field." — Reference & User Services Quarterly
"Faculty preparing to teach classes on unfamiliar topics, undergraduate and graduate students writing research papers, and other readers needing escort through the rapidly developing field of women's studies will find this guide a useful entry point for their research." — Choice
"The essays ... will help students, as well as scholars venturing into new intellectual territories, select the best books available and give them a sense of how each relates to collective understanding or disagreements about topics in women's studies. It can play an invaluable reader's advisory role." — Rettig on Reference

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