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Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
Ref PS153 L46 C65 1993
This book is an alphabetical listing of lesbian writers. Each listing includes a biography, major works and themes, critical reception and a bibliography. This would be a great place to find reading lists of writers being researched since the bibliographies are extensive and the section on major themes also places the writer contextually and thus leads to further research ideas.Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
Ref PN98 W64 1997
This is an encyclopedia of feminist literary scholars in the US and Britain since the 1970s. It includes entries not only of people but also of critical terms in feminist literary studies. In this way it could be used more as a desk reference and then also as a resource if you know a specific feminist literary scholar to investigate.Feminist Criticism of American Women Poets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1975-1993
Ref PS151 S35 1994
This is a bibliographic listing of feminist literary criticism and theory of poetry from 1975-1993. It is more helpful them many bibliographies, however, because it is very well annotated. The first half of the book is on American theory; the second half on analyzing poetry—with the aim to divide the book by distinguishing between woman as reader and woman as writer. It could be helpful in finding resources but it is also overwhelming if you do not have an idea about what you are looking for since it is just listing after listing of books, dissertations and articles.Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
Ref PT41 F46 1997Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature
Ref PQ4063 F45 1997Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature
Ref PQ6055 F46 2002Feminist Writers
Ref PN451 F46 1996
This book provides an encyclopedic type style for various feminists authors. Each entry includes biographic information, bibliographic listings, and a basic contextual description of the author and time period. This resource is most helpful as a starting point in research or if you are looking up a specific author since you can not search by topic, time period, or anything else.Gay and Lesbian American Plays: An Annotated Bibliography
Ref PS153 G38 F87 1993
This is a bibliographic work containing listings of gay and lesbian American playwrights. The listings include biographic information, information about the play (number of acts, where performed, etc) and also an annotation. In addition to looking up playwrights by name there are also lists to look up by subject of the play, by theatre and by title of the play.Gay & Lesbian Literature
Ref PN56 H57 G36 1994 and
Volume 2: Ref PN56 H57 G361 1998
This book offers entries on a variety of Gay and Lesbian authors or people that address Gay and Lesbian issues—in fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, editors, etc. It includes a biography of the author, a complete bibliography of all there works and other critical information. This would be an excellent resource as a jumping off point for creating reading lists of Gay and Lesbian writers or simply exploring an author currently known further.Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video
Ref PN1995.9 H55 M87 1994Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States
Ref PS147 O94 1995
This is a huge resource and the book is as big as it is comprehensive. It is encyclopedic in form, simply alphabetically listing authors, poets, terminology, genres, etc. with short entries about each. Each entry also contains reference points as well. It is interesting to flip through since there is so much information but really would be of most help if you knew exactly what you were looking up as a jumping off point. Or if you had a specific question about a subject related to women’s writing in the United States.Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, 1896 to the Present
Ref PN1998.2 A24 1991
This is sort of like an encyclopedia of women in the cinema. It is divided into categories based on jobs in the cinema (producers, directors, etc), women of color, and certain film genres. Within each category are entries of women and lists of their films.St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac
Ref HQ76.3 U5 S75 1998Third World Women’s Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English
Ref PN849 U43 F58 1995
This is an encyclopedic type work about third world women authors providing background information and also bibliographic lists of English translations. Since it is just an alphabetical list, however, you need to know whom you are looking for or it can be used just to flip through to find interesting authors from various countries. In the back there is a listing for anthologies broken down by geographic area in the world that could be useful.Ultimate Guide to Lesbian & Gay Film and Video
Ref PN1995.9 H55 U48 1996Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography
Ref N8354 P48 1994Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas
Ref N8354 W656 1999Women Filmmakers & Their Films
Ref PN1998.2 W66 1998Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
Ref PS338 W6 P48 1997
This book is a biographical encyclopedia of playwrights. In addition, however, there are separate listings for African American, Asian American, Latina and lesbian playwrights at the end. This could be helpful is focusing on a particular group of women. The entries include brief biographies, descriptions of plays, selected production history, play availability, awards and a bibliography of reviews.Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History
Ref PS147 DF38 1996
This book actually was written as an addendum to The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. It takes a much more historical look at women of other eras. It is presented not by subject or theme of the author but on a timeline approach, which is helpful because you can understand the thinking on all subjects at a given time period and see how they all interplayed with one another. It is a long time line that gives the year, the prominent texts and the context in which they were written.The Women’s Companion to International Film
Ref PN1995.5 W6 W65 1990x
DatabasesDatabases
ABELL/Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Offers citations and abstracts to literary journals and articles and full text articles to 60 different journals. The emphasis is on British, American and Commonwealth writing.Art Index
This database includes citations from over 250 publications such as periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews. It also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subjects covered include: advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures and film, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles.BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
This database includes citations and abstracts on articles related to the international history of art from antiquity to present.Contemporary Women’s Issues
This database covers women’s issues from 1992 to current with the option for the article in full text. It covers a variety of disciplines and pulls from 190 different countries. When you search you can do a basic keyword or author search but can also search by topic (i.e. abortion, welfare, etc) or by geographic region (i.e. Afghanistan). It was really simple to use and offered a proliferation of good articles.Humanities Index
This database covers journals in the areas of: archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Thus, it covers areas where women and gender studies are incorporated. It also only offers citations not full text articles, however.International Index to Black Periodicals
This database includes abstracts and citations from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. It also includes the full text articles from 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward). The topics range from cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues. The citations and abstracts are from 1902 forward.MLA/Modern Language Association International Bibliography
Provides citations only for articles relating to literature, modern languages, folklore, and linguistics.RILA: International Repertory of the Literature of Art
This database is citations only to works related to European and American art and architecture. European art is covered from late Antiquity (4th c.) to 1989. American art is covered from the European discoveries (16th c.) to 1989.
