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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/4587
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| Title: |
Biographical Reference Works for and about Women, from the Advent of the Women's Liberation Movement to the Present: An Exploratory Analysis |
| Authors: |
Searing, Susan E. |
| Keywords: |
Reference books
Women
Biographical dictionaries |
| Issue Date: |
2007 |
| Publisher: |
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Information: |
In Library Trends 56(2) Fall 2007: 469–493. |
| Abstract / Summary: |
Hundreds of English-language biographical reference books devoted
to women subjects were published between 1966 and 2006.
These works compensated for underrepresentation of women in
standard sources and responded to the intense interest in women’s
lives on the part of feminist scholars. The findings in this article are
derived from a bibliographic database that includes works limited
by nationality, race, occupation, and other factors, as well as general
biographical dictionaries. A decade-by-decade analysis reveals
trends in subject content that parallel developments in the scholarly
field of women’s studies and the public arena. Problems with
duplicative content, subjectivity, and factual errors are described,
and points for evaluation are recommended. As biographical information
about women is increasingly available on the open Web,
questions remain about the nature and future of this type of information
source. |
| URI: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/4587 |
| ISSN: |
0024-2594 |
| Type of Resource: |
text |
| Genre of Resource: |
article |
| Publication Status: |
published or submitted for publication |
| Appears in Collections: |
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Library Trends 56 (2) Fall 2007: Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services
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