Women's and Gender Studies 214:
Women, Reproduction and Health

Fall 2009 · Professor Charlene Galarneau

Contents:

• Find background information
• Find books
• Find scholarly journal articles
• Find articles in the alternative press
• Key websites
• Evaluating what you find

• Concise Medical Dictionary (Oxford)
• CQ Researcher - In-depth, unbiased background and analysis on timely political topics, 1923 to present
• Encyclopedia of Bioethics
• Encyclopedia of Population
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Biomedical Policy - Clapp Ref RA395.A3 E545 1996
• Encyclopedia of American Social Movements - Clapp Ref HN57 .E594 2004
• Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z - Clapp Ref RA395.A3 R685 2003
• Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States
• The New A to Z of Women's Health: A Concise Encyclopedia - Clapp Ref RA778 .A494 2000, Science Ref RA778 .A494 2000
• Portrait of Health in the United States - Science Ref q RA407.3 .P67 2001
• Praeger Handbook of Black American Health: Policies and issues behind disparities in health - Clapp Ref RA448.5.N4 H364 2004
• Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine - Science Ref q RA564.7 .P7545 2004
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Clapp Ref R121 .S8 2000, Science Ref R121 .S8 2000
• Women of Color Health Data Book

Guides and handbooks to women's health

• Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health - Science Ref RG103 .H27 2002
• The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health - Science Ref q RA778 .C2164 2004
• Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era - Science Ref RA778 .N49 2005 (also on reserve in Clapp)
• The Yale Guide to Women's Reproductive Health - Science Ref RG121 .M667 2003

Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles).

a few tips:

• use a keyword search to return a broad set of results, or to find resources that reference specific key terms (e.g., health disparities, reproductive health latina)
• use subject headings to identify more books on a specific topic (find them by clicking on the "Full Record" tab in any catalog record) in our catalog and in NExpress or WorldCat

some useful subject headings for your research might be:

• Women's health services -- United States
• Women's health services -- Political aspects -- United States
• Pregnancy -- Political aspects
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects

• Health care reform -- United States
• Insurance, Health -- Social aspects -- United States
• Health services accessibility -- United States
• Right to health care -- United States
• Health status indicators -- United States

• Minorities -- Medical care -- United States
• Health and race -- United States
• Racism -- Health aspects -- United States
• Discrimination in medical care -- United States

• Women -- Violence against
• Women -- Violence against -- United States
• Abused women -- United States
• Wife abuse -- United States -- Prevention
  
  

• if our copy is checked out, click on to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days)
• Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library

Relevant databases

• Women's Studies International
• Academic Search Complete
• Web of Science
• PubMed
• Health Reference Center
• Project Muse (recent articles) / JSTOR (older articles)

Find more databases on the Databases A - Z page

Journals pertaining to women's health
These journals are available online, in full-text, via the library catalog.

• Alternative Therapies in Women's Health
• BMC Women's Health
• Canadian Women's Health Network Newsletter
• Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Research Bulletin
• Harvard Women's Health Watch
• Health Care for Women International (Print issues: Science Library - RG1 .H42)
• Journal of Women's Health (Print issues: Science Library - q RA564.85 .J68). This journal became...
• Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine (Print issues: Science Library - q RA564.85 .J68)
• Network News: The Newsletter of the National Women's Health Network
• On the Issues (1995-1999)
• Radiance (1986-1990; 1992-2000)
• Reproductive Health Matters
• Women & Health (Print issues: Science Library - RG1 .W64)
• Women's Health Activist
• Women's Health & Urban Life: An International Interdisciplinary Journal
• Women's Health Issues
• Women's Health Journal - Isis International, Latin American and Carribean Women's Health Network
• Women's Health Law Weekly

• Alt-Press Watch
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• GenderWatch
• LGBT Life with full text
  

• Women's Health websites
• Web Sites for Women’s Health

• Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Women’s Health Information Center
• UNAIDS
• USDHHS Office of Women’s Health
• WHO, Dept of Gender, Women and Health

• Black Women's Health Imperative
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective aka Our Bodies Ourselves
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Feminist Women’s Health Center
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Lesbian Health Research Center
• MySistahs
• National Indian Women's Health Resource Center
• National Latina Health Network
• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• National Women’s Health Network
• National Women's Health Organization
• Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
  

Criteria to keep in mind when choosing and using soures:

• Accuracy - Does the author cite her/his sources and are they legitimate?
• Authority - Who wrote the source? Are they credible?
• Objectivity - Does the author have a bias, political or commercial or persuasive?
• Currency - Is this information new or based on outdated sources? Can you tell how current it is?

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: September 29, 2009