Women's and Gender Studies

Contains biographical information on over 500,000 individuals from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor. The advanced search option allows searching for people based on one or more personal facts, such as occupation.

Main Library Reference E 185.86 .B542 1993

A comprehensive picture of Black women in America, from 17th-century slave women to contemporary television personalities. The more than 800 signed entries include both biographical essays on individual women and broad topical essays on such subjects as slavery, religion, civil rights, the law, physicians, and education, which provide in-depth treatment of major contributions of Black women to American life and culture.

The first major modern reference book of women's biographies. Covers deceased individuals only (women who died after 1950 are not included. Entries include a bibliography of works by and about the biographee.

Represents 442 women who died between 1951 and 1975.

Contains biographical sketches of 483 women who died between 1976 and 1999, and follows the series' goal "to uncover and document women's contributions to politics and culture during historical periods when their significance was generally unrecognized by the society at large."

Contains over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.

Main Library Reference HQ 75.2 .W46 2001

Includes some 500 entries with geographical scope that takes in the whole of the Western world. Covers subjects drawn from politics, the arts and popular culture.

Signed biographical essays. "This book contains those figures of importance to gay and lesbian history, whether themselves homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, or none of the above" (introduction).

Main Library Reference HQ 1115 .W6 1999

Entries on over 10,000 individual women from all historical eras. Extensive genealogical charts and an index.

Main Library Reference D 107 .J33 1990

Contains 350 biographical sketches, from Egypt's Meryet-Net (31st century B.C.E.) to Nicaragua's president, Violeta Chamorro, are included. Scope, criteria for selection, and special problems are discussed in the preface; a useful overview by continent comprises the introduction; and a chronology lists each ruler by century. Narratives, arranged alphabetically by name, range from a paragraph to several pages, depending on the ruler's importance and availability of historical information.

The University of Georgia Press has published biographical, life-and-times histories of women from the various southern states. Each book is a collection of insightful essays focused on the lives of individuals or small groups of women that address larger issues in the history of the state, the South, and the nation. There is no volume in the series for Florida women. Among the titles available are the following: