| I. Bibliographies & Guides | II. Directories | III. Encyclopedias |
| IV. Case Law | V. Facts & Statistics | VI. Treatises |
| VII. Databases | VIII. Web Sites | IX. Other Campus Library Resources |
Carter, Sarah. Women's Studies: A Guide to Information Sources. New York, NY: Mansell,
1990.
Location: Reference Collection Z/7961/C37/1990
DeCoste, F. C. Feminist Legal Literature: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY:
Garland Pub., 1991.
Location: Reference Collection K/644/A12/D43/1991
Eisaguirre, Lynne. Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Location: College and Memorial Libraries KF/4758/E36/1997
Esser, John and Sherry Sullivan. Women In the Law: A Bibliography. Madison, WI: Institute for
Legal Studies, 1990.
Location: KF/299/W6/E84/1990
Feinberg, Renee. The Equal Rights Amendment: An Annotated Bibliography of the Issues,
1976-1985. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Location: Reference Collection KF/4758/A1/F45/1986
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and Renée Cherow-O'Leary. The State-by-State Guide
to Women's Legal Rights. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1987.
Location: College and Memorial Libraries KF/478/Z95/S73/1987
Ross, Susan Deller. The Rights of Women: The Basic ACLU Guide to Women's Rights. 3rd ed.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Location: KF/478/Z9/R67/1993
Taylor, Betty W. Feminist Jurisprudence, Women and the Law: Critical Essays, Research
Agenda, and Bibliography. Littleton, CO: F.B. Rothman, 1999.
Location: KF/477/A1/T39/1999
Tokarz, Karen. Women, Sports, and the Law: A Comprehensive Research Guide to Sex
Discrimination in Sports. Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein, 1986.
Location: Reference Collection KF/241/S66/T65/1986
Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Edited by Rebecca Mae Salokar and Mary
L. Volcansek. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Location: Reference Collection K/170/W66/1996
Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography. Edited by Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
Yeshiva University. New York, NY: Clark Boardman Co., 1984-1993.
Location: Reference Collection KF/477/A1/W635/1984/v.1-7
Berry, Dawn Bradley. The 50 Most Influential Women in American Law. Los Angeles, CA:
Lowell House, 1996.
Location: Reference Collection KF/353/B47/1996
Directory of Associations of Women Lawyers. Chicago, IL: Division for Bar Services, American
Bar Association, 1985. (Latest update 2003/2004 )
Location: Reference Collection KF/190/D55
Women's Movements of the World: An International Directory and Reference Guide. Edited by
Sally Shreir. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1988.
Location: College and Memorial Libraries Reference Collection HQ/1883/W63/1988
Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Edited by Nicole Hahn Rafter. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press,
2000.
Location: Reference Collection HV/6046/E56/2000
Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Edited by Helen Tierney. Rev. and expanded ed. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1999.
Location: College Library Reference Collection HQ/1115/W645/1999/v.1-3
IV. Case Law
Bartlett, Katharine T. Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary. 3rd edition. New York,
NY: Aspen Law and Business, 2002.
Location: KF/478/A4/B37/2002
Becker, Mary. Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously. 2nd
edition. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2001.
Location: KF/478/A4/B43/2001
ERA Impact Clearinghouse Index and References. New York, NY: NOW Legal Defense &
Education Fund, 1980.
Location: Reference Collection KF/4758/A54/E3
Goldstein, Leslie Friedman. The Constitutional Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social
Change. 2nd edition. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Location: KF/4758/A7/G66/1989
Goldstein, Leslie Friedman. Contemporary Cases in Women's Rights. Madison, WI: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
Location: KF/478/A4/G65/1994
Kay, Herma Hill. Text, Cases and Materials on Sex-based Discrimination. 4th ed. St. Paul, MN:
West Pub. Co., 1996.
Location: KF/4758/A7/K39/1996
Morash, Merry. Understanding Gender, Crime and Justice. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage
Publications, 2006.
Location: Law Library HV/419/M67/2006
Merlo, Alida V. Women, Law and Social Control. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacom,
2006.
Location: Law Library HV/9950/M45/2006
Sullivan, Kathleen S. Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-
Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Location : Law Library KF/478/S85/2007
Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality. Edited by Clare
Cushman. Washington: CQ Press, 2001.
Location: KF/4758/A7/S87/2001
Basic Facts About Women in the Law: A Look at the Numbers. Chicago: American Bar
Association, Commission on Women in the Profession, 1995.
Location: KF/299/W6/U52/1995
Databook on Women in Law School and in the Legal Profession. Newton, PA: Law School
Admission Council, 2003.
Location: KF/299/W6/D38/2003
Facts About Women and the Law. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, Division for Media
Relations and Public Affairs, 1998.
Location: KF/478/Z9/F33/1998
Women in the Labor Force: A Databook. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. Of Labor, U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics, 2006.
Location: Law Library U.S. Documents, 1st Floor West L 2.71: 996
The World's Women: Trends and Statistics. New York: United Nations, 2000.
Location: Memorial Library Reference and Stacks HQ/1105/W67
Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives: Sex, Violence, Work, and
Reproduction. Edited by D. Kelly Weisberg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
Location: K/349/A67/1996
Atwell, Mary Welek. Equal Protection of the Law?: Gender and Justice in the United States.
New York, P. Lang, 2002.
Location: KF/478/A98/2002
Baer, Judith A. Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Location: K/349/B34/1999
Baer, Judith A. Women in American Law. New York, NY: Holmes & Meier, 1985-1991, 1996.
v. 1. From Colonial Times to the New Deal
v. 2 The Struggle Toward Equality from the New Deal to the Present
Location: KF/478/W67/1985 (v.1) and KF/478/W67/1996 (v.2)
Boumil, Marcia Mobilia. Women and the Law. Littleton, CO: F.B. Rothman & Co., 1992.
Location: KF/478/B68/1992
Chamallas, Martha. Introduction to Feminist Legal Theory. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Law &
Business, 1999.
Location: K/349/C49/1999
Cornell, Drucilla. Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law.
New York, NY: Routledge, 1999.
Location: HQ/1190/C67/1999
Colb, Sherry F. When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers: Distributed by National Book Netowrk, 2007.
Location: Law Library KF/3760/C65/2007
Dale, Charles V. Sexual Harassment and Violence Against Women: Development in Federal
Law. New York, NY: Novinka, 2004.
Location: KF/3467/D35/2004
Directions in Sexual Harassment Law. Edited by Catherine A. MacKinnon and Reva B. Siegel.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
Location: KF/4758/A75/D57/2004
Drachman, Virginia G. Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Location: KF/299/W6/D73/1998
Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna. Who Decides?: The Abortion Rights of Teens. Westport, Conn: Praeger,
2006.
Location: Law Library KF9315/E36/2006
Feminism, Media, and the Law. Edited by Martha A. Fineman and Martha T. McCluskey. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Location: KF/478/A5/F456/1997
Forell, Caroline A. A Law of Her Own: The Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man. New
York: New York University Press, 2000.
Location: KF/9325/F67/2000
Fox, Lorna. Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies. Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart
Pub., 2007.
Location: Law Library K/736/F69/2007
Gender and American Law: The Impact of the Law on the Lives of Women. Edited by Karen J.
Maschke. New York, NY: Garland Pub., Inc., 1997.
v.1 Women and the American Legal Order
v.2 Reproduction, Sexuality, and the Family
v.3 The Employment Context
v.4 Educational Equity,
v.5 The Legal Response to Violence Against Women
v. 6 Pornography, Sex Work, and Hate Speech
v. 7 Feminist Legal Theories
Location: KF/478/A45/G4/1997/v.1-7
Gender and Human Rights. Edited by Karen Knop. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Location: K/3230/W6/G46/2004
Gender and Justice. Edited by Ngaire Naffine. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.
Location: K/349/G46/2002
Gillespie, Cynthia K. Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-defense, and the Law.
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1989.
Location: KF/9246/G55/1989
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader. Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing.
New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Location: K/644/G59/2000
Grana, Sheryl J. Women and (In)justice: The Criminal and Civil Effects of the Common Law on
Women's Lives. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.
Location: KF/478/G69/2002
Gregory, Raymond F. Women and Workplace Discrimination: Overcoming Barriers to Gender
Equality. New Brunswick, NJ: 2003.
Location: HD/6095/G733/2003
Jaspers, Margaret C. The Law of Violence Against Women. New York: Oxford University Press,
2007.
Location: Law Library KF9304 J37 2007
Kerber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of
Citizenship. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Location: HQ/1236.5/U6/K47/1998
Kuersten, Ashlyn K. Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Location: KF/478/K84/2003
Levit, Nancy, Verchick, Robert R. Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer. New York: New York
University Press, 2006.
Location: Law Library KF478/L48/2006
MacKinnon, Catharine A. Sex Equality. Rape Law. University Casebook Series. New York,
NY: Foundation Press, 2001.
Location: KF/4758/A7/M33/2001
Mezey, Susan Gluck. Elusive Equality: Women's Rights, Public Policy, and the Law. Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003.
Location: KF/4758/M49/2003
McColgan, Aileen. Women Under the Law: The False Promise of Human Rights. Harlow:
Longman, 2000.
Location: HQ/1236/M375/2000
Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood. Edited by Martha
Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Location: KF/478/A5/M68/1995
Ptacek, James. Battered Women in the Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1999.
Location: KF/9322/P78/1999
Reagan, Leslie J. When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States,
1867-1973. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.
Location: HQ/767.5/U5/R378/1997 and NetLibrary
Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers. Edited by J. Clay Smith Jr. Ann
Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Location: KF/299/A35/R43/1998
Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism. Edited by Susan Sage Heinzelman and
Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1994.
Location: K/349/R47/1994
Robson, Ruthann. Sappho Goes to Law School: Fragments in Lesbian Legal Theory. New York,
NY: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Location: K/349/R63/1998
Roth, Rachel. Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2000.
Location: KF/481/R67/2000
Schneider, Elizabeth M. Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2000.
Location: KF/9322/S36/2000
Seymour, John. Childbirth and the Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Location: K/4366/S47/2000
Shachar, Ayelet. Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Location: K/644/S53/2001
Violence Against Women: Law and Litigation. Edited by David Frazee, Ann M. Noel, and
Andrea Brenneke. Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1997- (Last updated 1998)
Location: KF/4758/V56/1997
With Justice for All: Minorities and Women in Criminal Justice. Edited by Janice Joseph and
Dorothy Taylor. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Location: HV/9950/W58/2003
Women and International Human Rights Law. Edited by Kelly D. Askin and Dorean M. Koenig.
Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 1999.
v.1 Introduction to Women's Human Rights Issues
v.2 International Courts, Instruments, and Organizations and Select Regional Issues
Affecting Women
v.3 Women and International Human Rights Law
Location: K/644/W647/1999/v.1-3
Women, Law, and Social Change: Core Readings and Current Issues. Edited by Brettel Dawson.
Concord, ON: Captus Press, 2002.
Location: KE/509/W654/2002
Women, the Law, and the Workplace. Edited by Sybil Lipschultz. New York, NY: Routledge,
2003.
v.1 Feminism in the Progressive Era
v.2 Feminism and the Supreme Court of the 1920s
v.3 Defining Labor Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Location: KF/478/W673/2003
Women's Legal Guide. Edited by Barbara R. Hauser and Julie A. Tigges. Golden, CO: Fulcrum,
1996.
Location: KF/478/W674/1996
VII. Databases
Legal
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, 1918 - to date
http://library.law.wisc.edu/elecresources/databases/articles.php
Index to articles from more than 800 legal periodicals and more than 2000 law books.
Covers all areas of jurisprudence, including court decisions, new legislation, and original
scholarship.
Hein Online, From vol. 1 - most current volume allowed under contract
http://library.law.wisc.edu/elecresources/databases/articles.php
Full-text legal periodicals beginning with the earliest volumes. Covers all areas of United
States law.
Women's and Family
Contemporary Women's Issues, 1992 - to date
http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.rdsinc.com/sessions?userid=user83
4&products=CWI
Full-text access to journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, bibliographies, fact sheets,
and other material on a broad array of women and gender-related issues around the world.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide (formerly Family Studies), 1970 - to date
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/familysocietystudies
Electronic version of the indexes Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature and
FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts). It indexes more than 1800 journals,
books, chapters, newsletters, government documents, and dissertations. It covers the
educational, medical, psychological and sociological aspects of family literature.
GenderWatch (previously Women 'R'), 1970 - to date
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=403&DBId=14397&cfc=1
A women's and gender issues database with thousands of full-text articles from about 100
magazines, academic journals, regional publications, and newsletters; thirteen books on
women and gender; and many special reports, including conference proceedings and
government reports. Articles labeled "Diversity Folio" are selected from newspapers and
magazines of American ethnic communities.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, 1999 - to date
http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://swa.metapress.com/
Provides paragraph-long summaries of articles in a variety of English-language journals
from around the world. The articles focus on education, employment, women in the
family and community, medicine and health, female sex and gender role socialization,
social policy, the social psychology of women, women's culture, media treatment of
women, biography, literary criticism, and historical studies. For earlier years, see the print
version and its earlier name, Studies on Women Abstracts.
Women in Politics Bibliographic Database, 1948 - to date
http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp
Women in Politics
is an international database on women in politics, created and
maintained by the Inter-Parliamentary Union with contribution from the United Nations
Development Programme. It contains citations (many annotated) to articles, books,
reports, brochures, legal instruments, and other types of material dealing with women's
participation in political life.
Women's Studies International, 1972 - to date
http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll
A composite of ten contributing databases covering women's studies, women's issues, and
gender-focused scholarship from throughout the world. Corresponds to Women's Studies
Abstracts (1984-); New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-); Women of Color and
Southern Women (1989-); WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint
Resources in Women's Studies, and other databases and print publications. [Formerly
Women's Resources International.]
Guides
Core Lists in Women's Studies: LAW from the Association of College and Research
Libraries Women's Studies Section
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ACRLWSS/
Bibliography of sources on women and law in the United States.
Law About... Feminist Jurisprudence from Cornell's Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/feminist_jurisprudence.html
Introduction to feminist jurisprudence as a philosophy of law based on the political,
economic, and social equality of sexes. Includes links to federal judicial decisions,
constitutional amendments, and other Internet sites.
Lawtopic.org - A Clearinghouse for Legal Paper Topics from the UCLA Law School
http://lawtopic.org/
Suggested legal paper topics submitted by law professors, judges, and attorneys.
Selected Women and Gender Resources on the World Wide Web from the UW System
Women's Studies Librarian
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/
Includes links to women's studies resources on the Internet and instructional guides.
Undergraduate Research Guide. Women's Studies. Madison, Wis: College Library,
University of Wisconsin -Madison, 2002.
Location: http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/resources/subject_guides/women.htm
Women and the Law from Hieros Gamos
http://www.hg.org/women.html
Includes a list of women's law associations and discussion groups. Full text resources
include international treaties and national human rights documents.
Women's Legal History Biography Project from Stanford's Robert Crown Library
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/
A collection of educational materials aiming to record the history, lives, work and careers
of pioneering women lawyers in the United States, derived from a course on women's
legal history at Stanford Law School. Materials offered by the site include: articles,
research guides and bibliographies, biographical profiles, photos of early women lawyers.
Organizations
National Organization for Women (NOW)
http://www.now.org/
NOW is dedicated to making legal, political, social and economic change in our society
in order to eliminate sexism and end all oppression.
League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org/
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the
informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase
understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through
education and advocacy.
National Women's Law Center
http://www.nwlc.org/
The mission of the National Women's Law Center is to protect and advance the progress
of women and girls at work, in school, and in virtually every aspect of their lives.
Women's Law Initiative
http://www.womenslaw.org/
A non-profit organization providing state-by-state domestic violence legal information for
women and their advocates.
Women's Law Project
http://www.womenslawproject.org/
The Women's Law Project engages in high-impact litigation; leads advocacy, education,
and public policy efforts on behalf of women and their families; and provides direct
services to thousands of women each year through its Telephone Counseling and Referral
Service.
IX. Other Campus Library Resources
College Library's Women's Collection
Helen C. White Hall
College Library - Room 3250
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Email: helenc@library.wisc.edu
Web site: http://college.library.wisc.edu/collections/womens/
Hours: The collection is available any time that College Library is open
College Library's Women's Collection provides books and videos emphasizing current women's
issues of interest to undergraduates. The collection includes titles about women's health concerns
and topics such as abortion, women and welfare, body image and women-related family issues.
Works by and about women authors, artists and musicians are collected as anthologies or
criticism identified as pertaining to women's or feminist issues. Books by or about individuals in
the literary and fine arts are only selected if they are considered seminal works. Critically
acclaimed lesbian fiction is included in the collection as well.
University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian
430 Memorial Library
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-5754
Email: wiswsl@library.wisc.edu
Web site: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
The Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian was created in
1977 to serve students, faculty, librarians, and administrators across the UW System. Located on
the Madison campus, the office reaches out to all UW campuses through its many regular and
special publications, reference assistance, and professional presentations and consultation.
Website also offers links to numerous resources in women's studies.