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With any research project, finding background information on your topic can help you narrow your focus and develop a research question or thesis statement. Encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries provide access to a wide array of topics and introduce you to important terms that may be useful when searching for books and journal articles.
Women's Studies reach across disciplines. However, you can locate general reference materials geared toward Women's Studies in the catalog by adding the source type, such as encyclopedia, to a SUBJECT KEYWORD search, like this: women encyclopedias or women handbooks or women dictionaries.
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Below is a selection of some of our reference titles, organized by broad sub-topics. However, it is by no means comprehensive. The above examples may also lead you to titles in our circulating collection. Give it a try!
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