Resource Guide:
Gender in Modern Europe
Digital Open Education Resources
- Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in SE Europe, 1600-1800
- Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830
- Gendered Violence: Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921
- How Welfare States Care: Culture, Gender and Parenting in Europe
- Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries
- Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe: Beyond the Feminization Thesis
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- The Internet Archive (General Primary Source Database)
- Library of Congress--Women of the French Revolution (Research Guide)
- 20th Century Female Inventors
- Internet Sourcebook of Women's History--Primary Source Documents
- People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History--Primary Source Documents
- Old Bailey Criminal Court--Gender in the Proceedings
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Women -- History
- Feminism -- History
- Masculinity -- History
- Men -- History
- Gender role
- Christianity & Gender
- Women -- Europe -- Social conditions
- Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- ArchiveGrid
- Credo Reference
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Handbook of Psychology, 2nd Ed.
- HeinOnline
- Humanities International Complete
- JSTOR
- JURN
- Military & Government Collection
- OAISter
- Oxford Bibliographies Online
- Oxford Reference
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Statista
- Wiley Online Library
- Women’s Studies International
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Gender and class in modern Europe | HD 6134 .C58 1996 |
| Male/Female Roles | HQ 1075 .M355 v.2 |
| Gender : an ethnomethodological approach | HQ 1075 .K47 1985 |
| Masculinities | HQ 1088 .C762 1995 |
| Women Cross-Culturally : change and challenge | HQ 1106.1973 .I57 1975 |
| Colonial masculinity : the 'manly Englishman' and the' effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century | HQ 1090.7 .I4 S56 1996 |
| Gender history in practice : historical perspectives on bodies, class & citizenship | HQ 1121 .C295 2005 |
| Connecting Spheres : women in the western world, 1500 to the present | HQ 1150 C66 |
| Mothers in the Fatherland : women, the family, and Nazi politics | HQ 1623 .K66 1986 |
| The Wall in my Backyard : East German women in transition | HQ 1630.5 .W35 1994 |
| Women: a pictorial archive from nineteenth-century sources | N 7632 .W655 |
| Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England : Bodies, Identities, and Power | eBook 2019 |
| Gendered Violence : Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921 | eBook 2018 |
| The Most Noble of People : Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain | eBook 2016 |
| German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 | eBook 2001 |