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Women's and Gender Studies

A guide to assist Washburn University women's and gender studies students and faculty with their library research.

Circulated Reference Books

Basic information on various aspects of human services can be located using a variety of subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks. A sample of these is listed below:

Encore Library Catalog

Reference Books

Basic information on various aspects of family and human services can be located using a variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks. Some of the resources reside on the Reference Shelves in the Mabee Library and are library use only. A sample of these is listed below:

Call Numbers

Mabee Library and the Washburn Law Library are organized by the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Below are links to help you navigate the LCC. Most items for women's studies will be found between HQ1101 and HQ2030.7.

Subject Headings

The Library of Congress Subjects Headings is the controlled vocabulary system used for subjects by the Mabee Library. Below are suggested headings for your subject search; however, this is not a comprehensive list.

  • Abortion
  • Abused wives
  • Abused women
  • Acquaintance rape
  • African american families in literature
  • African american women
  • African american women in literature
  • African americans
  • American fiction
  • American literature
  • American womens periodicals
  • Autobiography
  • Battered women
  • Birth control
  • Business ethics
  • Case management
  • Civil rights movements
  • Clothing and dress
  • Costume
  • Democracy
  • Desire in literature
  • Developing countries
  • Equal pay for equal work
  • Equality
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnology
  • Ethnopsychology
  • Family and marriage
  • Federal aid to maternal health services
  • Female offenders
  • Femininity
  • Feminism
  • Feminism and education
  • Feminism and literature
  • Feminisme
  • Feminist criticism
  • Feminist geography
  • Feminist theory
  • Femmes
  • Gender identity
  • Gender identity in art
  • Gender identity in literature
  • Human reproduction
  • Human rights
  • Lesbianism
  • Lesbians
  • Marriage
  • Married women
  • Minorities
  • Minority women
  • Modern literature
  • Motherhood in literature
  • Muslim women
  • Pay equity
  • Physical education for women
  • Pregnant women
  • Poor women
  • Rape
  • Sex differences
  • Sex discrimination against women
  • Sex discrimination in education
  • Sex discrimination in employment
  • Sex discrimination in sports
  • Sex role
  • Sex role in literature
  • Sex role in the work environment
  • Sexual division of labor
  • Social change
  • Social role
  • Social values
  • Social work with women
  • Sports for women
  • Stereotypes
  • Television and women
  • Welfare recipients
  • Wife abuse
  • Women
  • Women and literature
  • Women and socialism
  • Women authors
  • Women executives
  • Women heads of households
  • Women heroes in literature
  • Women in development
  • Women in literature
  • Women in mass media
  • Women in the professions
  • Women labor union members
  • Women merchants
  • Women on television
  • Women prisoners
  • Women scholars
  • Women slaves
  • Women social reformers
  • Women's health services
  • Women's issues gender studies
  • Women's rights
  • Women's studies
  • Work and family
  • Working class women