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Wisconsin/ Local Women
Famous Wisconsin women.
by
State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Women's Auxiliary.
Call Number: HQ1438.W5 W5 Reference
Publication Date: 1971-
Vol. 1-6
Literature (see box to right)
Music (See box to right)
Women
African American Women
by
Dorothy C. Salem
Call Number: E185.96 .A45 1993 Reference
ISBN: 0824097823
Publication Date: 1993
xvi, 622 p. [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
American First Ladies
by
Lewis L. Gould
Call Number: E176.2 .A44 1996 Reference
ISBN: 0815314795
Publication Date: 1996
American Notes and Queries Supplement
by
Carolyn H. Rhodes (Editor)
Call Number: Z7963.A8 F57 Reference
ISBN: 0878751408
Publication Date: 1980
American Women Dramatists of the 20th Century
by
Brenda Coven
Call Number: Z1231.D7 C68 1982 Reference
ISBN: 0810815621
Publication Date: 1982
American Women Speak
by
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: PS663.W65 S56 2017 Reference
ISBN: 9781440837845
v.1-2
American Women Writers
by
Maurice Duke; Jackson R. Bryer; M. Thomas Inge (Editor)
Call Number: Z1229.W8 A44 1983 Reference
ISBN: 0313221162
Publication Date: 1983
American Women Writers
by
Lina Mainiero (Editor)
Call Number: PS147 .A4 Reference
ISBN: 0804431515
Publication Date: 1979
A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers
by
Casper LeRoy Jordan
Call Number: Z1229.N39 J67 1993 Reference
ISBN: 0313276331
Publication Date: 1993
The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American women
by
Cameron, Mabel Ward
Call Number: CT3260 .B5 Reference
Publication Date: 1924
A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
by
Robert W. Dimand (Editor); Mary Ann Dimand (Editor); Evelyn L. Forget (Editor)
Call Number: HB76 .B535 2000 Reference
ISBN: 1852789646
Black American Women in Literature
by
Ronda Glikin
Call Number: Z1229.N39 G57 1989 Reference
ISBN: 0899503721
Publication Date: 1989
Black American Women Novelists
by
Craig Werner
Call Number: Z1229.N39 W47 1989 Reference
ISBN: 0893566551
Publication Date: 1989
Black Women in America
by
Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
Call Number: E185.86 .B542 2005 Reference
ISBN: 9780195156775
Publication Date: 2005
Vol. 1-3
Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras
by
D. Antoinette Handy
Call Number: ML82 .H36 1998 Reference
ISBN: 0810834197
Publication Date: 1998
Celebrating Women Coaches
by
Nena Rey Hawkes; John F. Seggar
Call Number: GV697.A1 H367 2000 Reference
ISBN: 0313309124
Publication Date: 2000
Concise Dictionary of Women Artists
by
Delia Gaze
Call Number: N8354 .D532 2001 Reference
ISBN: 1579583350
Publication Date: 2001
A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800
by
Janet Todd (Editor)
Call Number: PR113 .D5 1985 Reference
ISBN: 0847671259
Publication Date: 1985
Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball
by
Leslie A. Heaphy (Editor); Mel Anthony May (Editor); Laura Wulf (Foreword by)
Call Number: GV880.7 .E63 2006 Reference
ISBN: 0786421002
Publication Date: 2006
Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
by
Victoria Sherrow
Call Number: GV709 .S44 1996 Reference
ISBN: 087436826x
Publication Date: 1996
Encyclopedia of Women in the American West
by
Gordon Morris Bakken (Editor); Brenda Farrington (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1438.W45 E53 2003 Reference
ISBN: 076192356x
Publication Date: 2003
Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World
by
Joyce Salisbury
Call Number: HQ1127 .S25 2001 Reference
ISBN: 1576070921
Publication Date: 2001
European Immigrant Women in the United States
by
Judy B. Litoff (Editor); Judith McDonnell (Editor)
Call Number: E184.E95 L58 1994 Reference
ISBN: 0824053060
Publication Date: 1994
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975
by
Barbara J. Love (Editor); Nancy F. Cott (Introduction by)
Call Number: HQ1412 .F46 2006 Reference
ISBN: 025203189x
Publication Date: 2006
Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
by
Kathleen E. Sheldon
Call Number: HQ1787 .S44 2005 Reference
ISBN: 0810853310
Publication Date: 2005
Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times
by
Norma O. Ireland
Call Number: CT3202 .I73 Reference
ISBN: 0873050975
Publication Date: 1970
Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times: A Supplement
by
Norma O. Ireland
Call Number: CT3202 .I73 sup Reference
ISBN: 0810820927
Publication Date: 1989
The International Dictionary of Women's Biography
by
Jennifer S. Uglow (Editor)
Call Number: CT3202 .I57 1982 Reference
ISBN: 0826401929
Publication Date: 1983
The International Dictionary of Women Workers in the Decorative Arts
by
Alice Irma Prather-Moses
Call Number: HD6069 .P7 Reference
ISBN: 0810814501
Publication Date: 1981
Latinas in the United States
by
Vicki L. Ruiz (Editor); Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Editor)
Call Number: E184.S75 L35 2006 Reference
ISBN: 0253346800
Publication Date: 2006
Vol. 1-3
Modern American Women Writers
by
Elaine Showalter (Editor); A. Walton Litz (Editor); Lea Baechler (Editor)
Call Number: PS151 .M54 1991 Reference
ISBN: 0684190575
Publication Date: 1991
Native American Women
by
Gretchen M. Bataille (Editor); Laurie Lisa (Editor)
Call Number: E98.W8 B38 2001
ISBN: 0415930200
Publication Date: 2001
Second Edition
New books on women, gender and feminism.
by
University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian.
Call Number: Z7963.F44 N49 Reference
Publication Date: 2008
no.52(2008)-no.56/57(2010), no.62/63(2013)-no.68/69(2016)
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
by
Edward T. James (Editor); Janet W. James (Editor); Paul Boyer (Editor)
Call Number: CT3260 .N57 Reference
ISBN: 0674627318
Publication Date: 1971
Vol. 1-3
Notable Black American Women
by
Jessie Carney Smith
Call Number: E185.96 .N68 1992 Reference
ISBN: 0810347490
Publication Date: 1991
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book 2 Call Number: E185.96 .N682 1996 Reference
Notable Hispanic American Women
by
Eva M. Neito (Editor); Diane Telgen (Editor); Jim Kamp (Editor)
Call Number: E184.S75 N68 Reference
ISBN: 0810375788
Publication Date: 1993
Vol. 1-2
Notable Women of China
by
Barbara Bennett Peterson (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1767.5.A3 N68 2000 Reference
ISBN: 076560504X
Publication Date: 2000
Outstanding Women Athletes
by
Janet Woolum
Call Number: GV697.A1 W69 1998 Reference
ISBN: 1573561207
Publication Date: 1998
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
by
Cathy N. Davidson (Editor); Linda Wagner-Martin (Editor); Elizabeth Ammons (Editor); Trudier Harris (Editor); Ann Kibbey (Editor); Amy Ling (Editor); Janice Radway (Editor)
Call Number: PS147 .O94 1995 Reference
ISBN: 0195066081
Publication Date: 1995
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
by
Bonnie G. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1121 .O93 2008 Reference
ISBN: 9780195148909
Publication Date: 2008
Vol. 1-4
The Pen Is Ours
by
Jean Fagan Yellin (Editor); Cynthia D. Bond (Editor)
Call Number: Z1229.N39 Y44 1991 Reference
ISBN: 0195062035
Publication Date: 1991
Poetry by American Women, 1900-1975
by
Joan Reardon; Kristine A. Thorsen
Call Number: Z1229.W8 R4 Reference
ISBN: 0810811731
Publication Date: 1979
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies
by
Eleanor Amico (Editor)
Call Number: Z7961 .R43 1998 Reference
ISBN: 188496477X
Publication Date: 1997
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
by
Cheris Kramarae (Editor); Dale Spender (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1115 .R69 2000 Reference
ISBN: 0415920884
Publication Date: 2000
Vol. 1-4
Subject Guide to Women of the World
by
Katharine Joan Phenix
Call Number: Z7963.B6 P45 1996 Reference
ISBN: 0810831902
Publication Date: 1996
Through a Woman's Eye
by
Patricia K. Addis
Call Number: Z7963.B6 A32 1983 Reference
ISBN: 0810815885
Publication Date: 1983
A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists
by
Donna Langston
Call Number: HQ1412 .L36 2002 Reference
ISBN: 0816044686
Publication Date: 2002
A to Z of Greek and Roman Women
by
Marjorie Lightman; Benjamin Lightman
Call Number: HQ1136 .L54 2008 Reference
ISBN: 9780816067107
Publication Date: 2007
Who's Who among African Americans
by
Tara E. Atterberry (editor)
Call Number: E185.96 .W52 Reference
current ed. in Reference;
1975/76- in Reference Compact
The Women's Chronology
by
James Trager
Call Number: HQ1122 .T73 1994 Reference
ISBN: 0805029753
Publication Date: 1994
Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters
by
Cheryl Cline
Call Number: Z7963.B6 C55 1989 Reference
ISBN: 0824066375
Publication Date: 1989
The Women's Sports Encyclopedia
by
Robert Markel; Markel Robert
Call Number: GV709 .W589 1997 Reference
ISBN: 0805044949
Publication Date: 1997
Women's Studies
by
Linda Krikos; Cindy Ingold
Call Number: Z7963.F44 K75 2004 Reference
ISBN: 1563085666
Publication Date: 2004
Women and Music in America since 1900
by
Kristine H. Burns (Editor)
Call Number: ML82 .W625 2002 Reference
ISBN: 157356267x
Publication Date: 2002
Vol. 1-2
Women Artists
by
Sherry Piland
Call Number: Z7963.A75 B32 1994 Reference
ISBN: 0810825597
Publication Date: 1995
Women at Work, 1880-2004
by
Scott Derks (General Editor)
Call Number: HD8066 .D47 2000 Reference
ISBN: 1592370632
Publication Date: 2005
Working Americans Vol. 2-8, Vol. 10
Women at Work Vol. 6
Women Composers
by
Susan Stern
Call Number: ML105 .S7 Reference
ISBN: 0810811383
Publication Date: 1978
Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the Twentieth Century
by
Jane W. LePage
Call Number: ML82 .L46 Reference
ISBN: 0810812983
Publication Date: 1980
Women in Congress, 1917-2006
by
Matthew Wasniewski (Editor); Committee on Indian Affairs (Prepared for Publication by); House (U.S.), Committee on House Administration Staff
Call Number: JK1030 .W66 2006 Reference
ISBN: 0160767539
Publication Date: 2006
Women in Modern American Politics
by
Elizabeth M. Cox
Call Number: Z7963.P64 C69 1997
ISBN: 156802133X
Publication Date: 1997
Women in Particular
by
Kali Herman
Call Number: HQ1412 .H47 1984 Reference
ISBN: 0897740882
Publication Date: 1985
Women in the American Civil War
by
Lisa Tendrich Frank (Editor)
Call Number: E628 .W655 2008 Reference
ISBN: 9781851096008
Publication Date: 2007
Vol. 1-2
Women in U. S. History
by
Lyda Mary Hardy
Call Number: Z7964.U49 H364 2000 Reference
ISBN: 1563087693
Publication Date: 2000
Women in World History
by
Anne Commire (Editor); Deborah Klezmer (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1115 .W6 1999 Reference
ISBN: 078763736X
Publication Date: 1999
Vol. 1-17
Women Novelists, Eighteen Hundred Ninety-One to Nineteen Hundred Twenty
by
Doris Robinson
Call Number: Z7963.A8 R62 1984 Reference
ISBN: 0824089774
Publication Date: 1984
Women of Achievement
by
Susan Raven; Alison Weir
Call Number: HQ1123 .R38 1981 Reference
ISBN: 0517539829
Publication Date: 1981
Women of Classical Mythology
by
Robert E. Bell
Call Number: BL715 .B445 1991 Reference
ISBN: 0874365813
Publication Date: 1991
xii, 462 p. ; 27 cm.
Encyclopedia of American Women in Business
by
Carol H. Krismann
Call Number: HD6054.4.U6 K753 2004
ISBN: 0313327572
Publication Date: 2004
v.1-v.2
Women Composers and Songwriters
by
Charles Eugene Claghorn
Call Number: PS21 .D5
ISBN: 0585031622
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Irregular
Began with: Vol. 1, published 1978.
Sports
American Women's Track and Field, 1981-2000
by
Louise Mead Tricard
Call Number: GV1060.8 .T752 2008 Reference
ISBN: 9780786429738
Publication Date: 2007
American Women's Track and Field
by
Louise Mead Tricard
Call Number: GV1060.8 .T75 1996 Reference
ISBN: 0786402199
Publication Date: 1996
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