Women's and Gender Studies Research

Dorothy got its start as Women’s AudioVisuals in English (usually called WAVE), a printed collection of English-language media begun in 1985 that became an online database covering everything from filmstrips and slide shows to regional television programs, US congressional testimony, global conferences, and news reports from other countries. Dorothy builds on a strategy to make visible the complex lives of women, girls, and transgender people by collecting film, television, and streaming video content that will remain useful to a broad audience over time.

Reprints on a quarterly basis table of contents pages from magazines and journals such as Signs and Feminist Studies that cover issues not found in other sources.

Sylvia is a digital extension of New Books on Women, Gender, and Feminism, a bibliography that was published for 30 years. Its first issue was a typed newsletter copied onto colored paper, stapled, and handed from person to person—immediately and directly connecting readers with resources. Through its updated format, Sylvia can increase access to this long-standing project, and scholarship should get into even more hands.

Created in 2015, Women's Knowledge Digital Library (WKDL) is an online repository of information by and about women and girls. The goal of the project is to provide users with trusted information that is easily and efficiently accessible and that which can be used in the education and empowerment of women and girls worldwide. Our focus is to amplify women's voices and include resources that women can learn from and adapt to suit the work being done within their own communities.

Visit the main website for current information and a full-list of publications from this office.

The National Archives Library Information Center's curated lists of materials related to women's history in the United States.

Bibliographies on Jewish women, and Jewish feminist activism.

List of women's history institutions and organizations, archival and library collections, and links to Internet resources on women's history.

This is a digital bibliography created by the the University of Wisconsin System Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. It contains a director of LGBTQ+ popular and scholarly publications.