Cañada College Library:

Women in US History

 

 

The following bibliography is a selective guide to informational sources in the Cañada Community College Library relevant to women in U.S. History. The guide lists library materials that cover women’s contributions to the social, political, and economic development of the United States, the challenges to full equality that women have faced and the impact that class, race, ethnicity and sexuality had on women’s experience.

 

LIBRARY’S HOMEPAGE

http://canadacollege.net/library/

 

LOCATING BOOKS:

 

The Library Catalog lists books located at all Peninsula Libraries, including the Cañada College Library.  To search the catalog you will need to use a computer with Internet access.  Go to the Cañada Library homepage at http://www.canadacollege.net/library.  Using the mouse, click on Locating Books and then click on PLS LIBRARY CATALOG.  Type a title, author or subject into the empty box in the middle of the screen, and then click on Search.  A list of one or more titles should appear on the screen.  If necessary, at the top of the screen, click on the button “Modify Search.” Then using the limit to location menu, select Cañada College and click on submit. You have just limited your list of titles to only books owned by Cañada College Library.  Click on a book title to get the call number. Also, try exploring the subject headings of books that you find interesting. Some of these subject headings include:

 

Women -- United States – History -- Sources

 

Women -- United States – History

 

Women's rights -- United States -- History

 

Feminism -- United States -- History

BASIC REFERENCE SOURCES:

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND ALMANACS

 

Clark, Judith Freeman. Almanac of American Women in the 20th century. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Prentice

Hall, 1987. (REF/HQ1420.C55 1987) 

 

Schultz, Jeffrey D. and Laura van Assendelft, eds. Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics.

Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1999. (REF/HQ1236.5.U6 E53 1999)

 

The Asian American Almanac. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. (REF/E184.O6 A824 1995)   

 

Tierney, Helen, ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia. 3 vols. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989-1991.

(REF/HQ1115.W645 1989)

 

Young, Serinity, ed. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference

USA, 1999. (REF/BL458.E53 1999)

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES, SURVEY AND PRIMARY SOURCES

 

Cott, Nancy F., ed. Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women. [1st ed.] New

York: Dutton, 1972. (REF/HQ1410.C68) 

Humm, Maggie. An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Feminist Criticism. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1987.

(REF/HQ1206.H95x)

 

Kenyon, Olga. 800 Years of Women's Letters. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993. (REF/HQ1121.K46 1993)

 

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage.

1881-1922. 6 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1969. (REF/JK1896.S8 1969)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

 

Bataille, Gretchen M. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 2001.

(REF/E98.W8 B38 2001)   

 

Bataille, Gretchen M. and Laurie Lisa, eds. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed.

New York: Routledge, 2001. (REF/E98.W8 B38 2001)    

 

Engelbarts, Rudolf. Women in the United States Congress, 1917-1972: Their accomplishments.

Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1974. (REF/JK1030.A2 E5)  

 

James, Edward T., ed. Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 3 vols.

Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. (REF/CT3260.N57)

 

Meier, Matt S. Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987. New York: Greenwood

Press, 1988. (REF/E184.M5 M454 1988)

 

Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. (REF/E184.S75N68 1993) 

 

Sicherman, Barbara, Carol Hurd Green, eds. Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical

Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980. (REF/CT3260.N573)

Smith, Jessie Carney. Notable Black American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, c1992.

(REF/E185.96.N68 1992)

 

Zia, Helen and Gall, Susan B. Notable Asian Americans. New York: Gale Research, 1995.

(REF/E184.06.N67 1994) 

 


STATISTICAL SOURCES

 

Taeuber, Cynthia, ed. Statistical Handbook on Women in America. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1991.

(REF/HQ1420.T34 1991)

 

CIRCULATING BOOKS:

This is not a comprehensive list. Please search the catalog to find additional sources!

 

Blanc, Marie Therese. The Condition of Woman in the United States: A Traveller's Notes. [1895]. New York:

Arno Press [1972]. (HQ1419.B65 1971b)

 

Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston. Women in the Twentieth Century: A Study of their Political, Social and

Economic activities. 1933. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972. (HQ1419.B7 1972)

 

Degler, Carl N. At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1980. (HQ1418.D44) 

 

Evans, Sara M. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press

Paperbacks, 1997. (HQ1410.E83 1997)

 

Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. 1972. Reprint,

New York: Atheneum, 1973. (HQ1410.F6)  

Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980. New York: Ktav Pub. House; Cincinnati:

American Jewish Archives, 1981. (HQ1172.M37)

 

McCall, Laura and Donald Yacovone, eds. A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender.

New York: New York University Press, 1998. (HQ1075.5.U6 S48 1998)     

 

Mora, Magdalena & Adelaida R. Del Castillo, eds. Mexican women in the United States: Struggles past and

Present. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, University of California,

1980. (E184.M5 M53)       

Norton, Mary Beth and Alexander, Ruth M., eds. Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents

and Essays. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1996. (HQ1410.M34 1996)  

Papachristou, Judith. Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women's Movement in the United

States. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf: distributed by Random House, 1976. (HQ1426.P34)   
 

Ryan, Mary P. Womanhood in America, from Colonial times to the Present. New York: New Viewpoints,

1975. (HQ1410.R9 1965)

 

Ware, Susan, ed. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century.

Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 2004. (CT3260.N5725 2004)

 

LOCATING ARTICLES:

 

To search for articles start at the Cañada Library homepage at http://www.canadacollege.net/library.  Click on Locating Articles.  Next, click on either On Campus or Off Campus depending on where the computer you are searching with is located. Click on the preferred database.

 

DATABASES AND INDEXES

 

History Resource Center: U.S.

                -Includes primary and secondary sources and articles.

 

Gale’s Student Resource Center Gold

-Includes primary sources, newspapers, magazines, biographies, background information, photographs, audio,

               and video. Use the Advanced Search to limit results to primary sources.

California Historical Society Index

- allows you to look up a subject and get a list of article citations on that topic that have been published in the journals California History and California History Quarterly . Use the list of citations (title, author, volume, issue, page #) to find the print article on the shelf in the Periodicals area.

 

U.S. Census

 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

 

To access electronic journals that include sources related to Women’s history in the United States, go to the Cañada college Library homepage (http://canadacollege.net/library/index.htm). Click the “Locating Articles” link. Then click the “Cañada's Online Magazines, Journals and Newspapers List” link. Unless the title of the journal is known, browse the e-journals by subject by clicking the downward arrow next to the “--Please select a subject category--” text. Highlight “History and Archaeology” text, then click search. Click on the “United States – General” link or the “United States Local History” link, for a list of the specific history e-journal titles. A BETTER way to search for potential journals that pertain to your subject is to type a word that relates to your topic in the top search box next to the scroll box that reads “Title begins with.” After typing the word or words click search button to the right of the box. PLEASE EXPLORE OTHER SEARCH FEATURES.

 

Here is a list of just a few of  our 73 electronic journals that contain articles related specifically to women.  

 

Journal of women's history

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Women's Studies Center

Women's studies

William & Mary journal of women and the law  

UCLA women's law journal  

 

PRINT MAGAZINES, JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS LIST

 

The Cañada college library contains about 130 print magazine and journal and newspaper titles that Cañada Library subscribes to. These publications are shelved by title in the Reference Area. In order to locate specific articles within these and other publications, it is necessary to use the databases and indexes mentioned above. To access a list of the print magazines, journals and newspapers related to Women’s history in the United States, go to the Cañada college Library homepage (http://canadacollege.net/library/index.htm). Click the “Cañada's Print Magazines, Journals and Newspapers List” link. Pay attention to the notes in two columns to the right of the journal or newspaper name. In the second column, the “P”, means that the library contains the actual print source. If you see an “M,” this means that the library contains the microfilm version of the journal or magazine.

 

Here is a list of print journal or newspaper titles that contain articles related to Women’s History in the U.S.:

 

Amerasia Journal

  

American Heritage

 

American Historical Review

 

California Historical Quarterly

 

California Historical Society

 

California History

 

History Today

 

Journal of American History

 

Magazine of History

 

OAH Newsletter

 

LOCAL EXPERTS:

 

Alison Field, Professor of History

bldg-Room: 03-243

phone number: 650-378-7301 ext. 19515

email: fielda@smccd.edu

 

Daniel Rivers Professor of History

Specialty: Lesbian Parenting

bldg-Room: 03-243

phone number: 650-306-7301 ext. 19674

email: riversd@smccd.edu

 

Jeanne Gross, Dean of Canada Community College

Specialty: 1970s feminism

bldg-Room: 05-105

phone number: 650-306-3416

email: gross@smccd.edu

 

Lezlee Ware, Professor of Political Science

bldg-Room: 03-212

phone number: 650-306-3441

email: warel@smccd.edu

 

 

INTERNET SOURCES:

American Women's History: A Research Guide (Ken Middleton)
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Distinguished Women of Past and Present (Danuta Bois)
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/

Women's Bureau (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
http://www.dol.gov/wb/

Women's Studies Resources (Karla Tonella, University of Iowa)
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/        

 

by Mitchell Yangson, 2006-2007

 

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