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Women's Rights
This section of the guide is designed to help you find resources specifically regarding Women's Rights.
To find additional information, perform a Subject search using the subject heading WOMEN'S RIGHTS. To explore various aspects related to women's rights, perform a Keyword search using women's rights and a significant keyword.
- For Example: women's rights AND society
To search for women's rights in a specific region or country search for women's rights and then a country name or region.
- For Example: women's rights China or women's rights Middle East
- URI Libraries Search
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Locate books, videos, online resources and more available through the URI Libraries.
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Women's rights by
Call Number: URI REF HQ1236 W65253 2005ISBN: 0824210492Publication Date: 2005Focuses on current issues and social trends in women’s rights, including sex trafficking, Muslim women and the East-West divide, and reproductive rights.
Women's rights : a global view by Call Number: URI REF HQ1236 W6527 2001ISBN: 031330890XPublication Date: 2001Fifteen case studies exploring women’s rights in different countries. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women's Rights by Call Number: URI HQ1236 .W652525 2012ISBN: 9780816083794Publication Date: 2012Provides a history of women's rights, and women's rights movements, as well as primary documents and sources for additional resources. Includes case studies and recent developments from countries around the world.
Feminism and women's rights worldwide by Call Number: HQ1180 F424 2010 Vol 1-3ISBN: 9780313375965Publication Date: 2010Volume 1 deals with heritage, roles, and issues and Volume 2 deals with mental and physical health while Volume 3 deals with feminism as human rights.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Finding Articles
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Citations to and full text of over 8,500 journals and magazines, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Covers a wide range of academic subjects including the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, and more.
- What dates are covered? Coverage varies, but generally covers the mid 1990s - present. Updated daily.
- GenderWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and governmental, NGO, and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues.
- What dates are covered? 1970's - Present
- Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? The international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Citations and abstracts for journals, books, dissertations, and conference papers in areas such as social structure, inequality, social change, and social problems. Updated monthly.
- What dates are covered? 1952 - Present.
- Women’s Studies International (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Sources include journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites, and grey literature.
- What dates are covered? Ranges from 1972 and earlier to the present.
Internet Resources
- Amnesty International: Sexual and Reproductive Rights
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"Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights." - Human Right's Watch: Women's Rights
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"One of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights." Search for publications about the exploitation of women and girls in various countries. - WomenWatch
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Managed by a task force of the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) led by UN Women, this website provides "information and resources on gender equality and empowerment of women." - Women’s Human Rights Resources
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The Women’s Human Rights Resources Programme (WHRR) was created by the Bora Laskin Law Library of the University of Toronto, which collects, organize, and disseminates information on women’s human rights law. Includes a research database, bibliographies, and research guides.