Books | Videos Online databases | Internet resources
The LBCC Library catalog is web-based and searchable via the Internet. From the library homepage, click on the link "Library Catalog". The Library's URL is :
Use "Keyword" search or "Subject " search to browse the catalog. For example, you may use keywords such as: suffragettes, women voters, women artists, female circumcision, etc. Consult the Reference Librarian for suggestions of other topics.
Any one Library of Congress Classification Number (or Call Number) will not be inclusive of all books on the subject in this Library. Variances in the focus of books result in their being cataloged with different call numbers. For example, a search on the subject of "women's history" will show books with the following call numbers:
L - Education
R - Medicine
HM - Sociology
BL-BX - Religion
N - Fine arts
The following list is not comprehensive of our resources on women's history. It is but a small sample of what LBCC Library owns. Please search the online catalog for the campus location and the availability of the item.
Susan B. Anthony slept here : a guide to American women's landmark. Sherr, Lynn. E159 S5477 1994
The ABC-CLIO companion to women's progress in America. Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth. HQ1410 F76 1994
They also served : American women in World War II. Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga, D810 W7 G67 1995
Power and gender : issues in sexual dominance and harassment. Skaine, Rosemarie. HQ1237.5 U6 S53 1996
Women's rights in the United States : a documentary history / edited byWinston E. Langley and Vivian C. Fox. HQ1236.5 U6 W68 1994
Women artists in history : from antiquity to the present, Slatkin, Wendy. N43 S57 1997
Women of the Harlem renaissance,Wall, Cheryl A. PS153 N5 W33 1995
Asian-American women writers . PS153 A84 A83 1997
When abortion was a crime : women, medicine, and law in the United States, Reagan, Leslie J. HQ767.5 U5 R378 1997
Toni Morrison's fiction, Furman, Jan. PS3563 O8749 Z65 1996
Women's rights / by Christine A. Lunardini ; foreword by Betty Friedan. HQ1236.5 U6 L85 1996
Toni Morrison's fiction : contemporary criticism. PS3563 O8749 Z915 1997
Women writers of children's literature. PS490 W66 1998
Native American women writers. PS153 I52 N38 1998
Jewish women fiction writers. PS374 J48 J48 1998
Women memoirists / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. PS366 A88 W64 1998-
Contemporary Mexican women writers : five voices, De Beer, Gabriella. PQ7133 D4 1996
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. ML3521 D355 1998
Feminism : a reference handbook, Harlan, Judith. HQ1410 H365 1998
A history of the American suffragist movement, Weatherford, Doris. JK1896 W43 1998
Woman suffrage and women's rights, DuBois, Ellen Carol, HQ1236.5 U6 D83 1998
Modern slavery and the global economy / [edited by] Gary E. McCuen. HT867 M634 1998
A shining thread of hope : the history of Black women in America,Hine, Darlene Clark. E185.86 H68 1999
1001 things everyone should know about women's history, Jones, Constance. HQ1121 J634 2000
Footbinding, feminism, and freedom, by Fan, Hong, GT498 F66 F36 1997
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Videos are available to be viewed in the Library at the Media Services desk in LAC Library.
The Artist Was a Woman, Pt. 1 (106912,16) 1981
The Artist Was a Woman, Pt. 2 (106913,16) 1981
The Babymakers (104309,VH) 1980
Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour (107511,VH) 1998
Battered Women: Violence Behind Closed Doors (106667,16) 1977
Betye & Alison Saar: Conjure Women Of The Arts (105400,VH) 1994
Breast Cancer: Coping With Your Diagnosis (106999,VH) 1998
Breast Cancer: Recovering From Surgery (107000,VH) 1998
Breast Cancer: Understanding Adjuvant Therapy (107001,VH) 1998
Breast Cancer: Working Towards A Cure (106429,VH) 1996
Breast Cancer: Your Ongoing Recovery (107002,VH) 1998
Breastfeeding (106992,VH) 1998
Changing Focus: Women, Children And Aids (105132,VH) 1990
Chlamydia: The Hidden Disease (106427,VH) 1996
Crime Check: Responding To Rape (105312,VH) 1993
Diabetes And Women (106625,VH) 1997
Eat, Drink, and Be Wary: Women and Drinking (107003,VH) 1999
Eating: A Very Serious Comedy About Women And Food (104998,VH) 1991
Effective leadership for all : learning from women - with Sally Helgesen (104829,VH) 1991
Estrogen: Is It For Every Woman? (106598,VH) 1993
Eudora Welty: A Worn Path (107440,VH) 1999
Fire Eyes: Female Circumcision (104263,VH) 1994
Frida Kahlo (106532,VH) 1983
The Gender Tango (106602,VH) 1997
Georgia O'Keeffe - Pt. 1 (104206,16) 1977
Georgia O'Keeffe - Pt. 2 (104208,16) 1977
Gloria Naylor (105166,VH) 1992
Great Black Women (106308,VH) 1991
Hysterectomy: Choices For Women (106604,VH) 1995
Innocent Addicts: Women, Drugs, And The Unborn Child (104528,VH) 1987
Kate Chopin: Five Stories of an Hour (107436,VH) 1999
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women (107506,VH) 2000
Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (107172,VH) 1991
Living With Incontinence (107111,VH) 2000
Love And Sex (104923,VH) 1986
Love, Love Me Do: How Sex Differences Affect Relationships (106283,VH) 1992
Lung Cancer in Women (106990,VH) 1998
Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia (106672,VH) 1975
Memorias De Un Mexicano (104333,VH) 1985
Men And Women: Differences (105372,VH) 1995
Men, Women, And Language (104771,VH) 1990
Men, Women, and the Brain (106892,VH) 1999
Ndebele: Women And Art (106358,VH) 1994
Newswomen (104537,VH)
The Originals: Women in Art (S00127)
Out In Suburbia: The Stories Of Eleven Lesbians (104624,VH) 1990
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The woman's Perspective (106995,VH) 1997
Poverty Shock: Anywoman's Story (104346,VH) 1986
Puberty (106984,VH) 1999
Rape: An Act Of Hate (104315,VH) 1986
Rape Prevention: Trust Your Instincts (104880,VH) 1989
Right Out Of History: The Making Of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party - Pt. 1 (104107,16) 1980
Right Out Of History: The Making Of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party - Pt. 2 (104108,16) 1980
Simone De Beauvoir: The Feminist Mandarin (107431,VH) 2000
To Have And To Hold: Men Who Batter Women (104708,VH)
Toni Morrison (105200,VH) 1992
Victims At Birth (106021,VH) 1990
Virginia Woolf (107438,VH) 1997
Virginia Woolf: "A Room of One's Own" (107437,VH) 1996
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (107439,VH) 1999
Where the Soul Lives (107010,VH) 1989
Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (105086,VH) 1989
Woman And Man (104951,VH) 1986
A Woman's Body (106620,VH) 1991
Women, a True Story: - A Series (S00276)
Women, Drugs and Alcohol (105393,16) 1980
Women In Art (106319,VH) 1985
Women, Work And Babies: Can America Cope? (104485,VH) 1984
Writing Women's Lives (107435,VH) 1999
The Yellow Wallpaper (107429,VH) 1998.
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Searching for periodical articles in general on women's history
These online databases are accessible only with user ID and password. Please ask for the list of passwords at the Reference Desk.
American Women's History On-Line
To search the magazine/newspaper databases listed on LBCC Library homepage (Newsbank, Proquest, SIRS,Facts on File), use words appropriate to the discipline and subfield, including :
- Major disciplines of Social Sciences (i.e., sociology, anthropology, history, etc.)
- Subfield areas (e.g., gender relations, interpersonal relations, etc.)
- Names of experts in the field
- Names of organizations or institutions involved in the field
- Check in the Library of Congress Subject Headings set (the five big red books on the counter),
in dictionaries, thesauri and subject-related books for the right words to use.
Searching for women's history resources on the Internet
Use a Search Engine such as Altavista (http://www.altavista.com) when you know the exact terms or names of your topic.
- Enter two or more related words, each with a + in front of it to specify your search.
- Search for phrases by putting double quotes around two or more words, for example:
- +"women voters"+minority
- +"sexual harassment"+workplace
- Put an asterisk * after the root word to find plurals or other words beginning with the root, for example: comput* will bring articles with words computer, computers, computing.
- Use subject directories such as Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) or Internet indexes such as Librarian’s Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org) for browsing or when you are not sure of the terms or names. Indexes lead you from the general subject to the specific sub-topic.
Great Web sites related to women's history
Distinguished Women.com - http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/
Notable women ancestors - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/
National Women's Hall of Fame - http://www.greatwomen.org/
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Written by Kim Barclay
August 24, 2006