Architecture and women : a bibliography documenting women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural critics and writers, and women in related fields working in the United States (1988)
AVERY REFERENCE AA705 D74
BARNARD REFERENCE NA2543.W65 D68 1988g

To find other published bibliographies, use the Advanced Search option in CLIO and put the word bibliography in the subject heading (use the pull down menu to choose Subject). Put words like women and architecture either in the Subject Heading, or in Anywhere.

To find more reference works and internet sites about women and architecture, try:
Women and Architecture: Selected Bibliography and Guide to Sources
An excellent research guide for women and architecture, the bibliography lists titles of reference sources, directories, indexes, and internet sites. From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Finding Biographical Information
Try searching in CLIO under the name of specific architects [last name, first name] using a subject search. Examples:

Hadid, Zaha

Lin, Maya

Established architects, or historically important architects, may appear in biographical dictionaries:
Contemporary architects(1990)
AVERY AA40 C76
International dictionary of architects and architecture (1993)
AVERY REFERENCE AA31 In8

This site may help identify some women architects:

Women Architects
A digital imaging project by Mary Ann Sullivan at Bluffton College, this site has a small number of women architects (currently six architects) with images of some of their buildings. Under Julia Morgan there are more than 60 buildings.

Finding Journal Articles

The most widely known periodical index for architecture is
Avery Index
Try searching under specific architects names or the subject heading Women Architects. It's better to search using Keyword or, from the Advanced Search, Subject Word.

For Women's Studies journals, use
Women's Resources International
Useful terms to search: Architecture and Women; Women Architects

For more resources for architecture, explore Columbia University Libraries'
Databases (reference works & indexes): Subject Category: Art, Architecture & Music

Organizations

Association for Women in Architecture
Formed in 1999, the AWA is dedicated to forwarding the positions of women in architecture and its related fields. The AWA web site provides information about the organization, including scholarship information and an event calendar.

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
Established in 1985 as a joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech, the purpose of the program is to "document the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women a rchitects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critic s, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world. The IAWA focuses primarily on collecting the papers of t hose who practiced at a time when there were few women in the field (before the 1950's)." Site includes a guide to the collection and manuscript inventories.

Fine Arts

WSSLINKS : Women and Art Sites.
An excellent starting point for web resources.

WPA women painters, Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St., Boston / RW(?) [monogram] (1938). From American Memory,
By the People, For the People, Posters from the WPA.

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Finding Books

When using CLIO, useful Library of Congress Subject Headings for women and architecture include:

WOMEN ARTISTS	WOMEN PAINTERS
WOMEN CARTOONISTS	WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
WOMEN IN ART	WOMEN SCULPTORS

Another way to identify books and journal articles is to use published bibliographies:

Karla Huebner's Feminist Art History Bibliography
This bibliography includes books, articles, exhibition catalogs, and the like and covers a broad range of periods, countries, and media.

Women artists : an historical, contemporary, and feminist bibliography (1994)
BARNARD REFERENCE N8354 .B32 1994
FINE ARTS REFERENCE N40 B121

Women in the fine arts : a bibliography and illustration guide (1991)
BARNARD REFERENCE N8354 .A47 1991
FINE ARTS REFERENCE N35 An23

To find other published bibliographies, use the Advanced Search option in CLIO and put the word bibliography in the subject heading (use the pull down menu to choose Subject). Put words like women and sculpture either in the Subject Heading, or in Anywhere.

Finding Biographical Information

Try searching in CLIO under the name of specific artists [last name, first name] using a subject search. Examples:

Cassatt, Mary

Gentileschi, Artemisia

Contemporary women artists(1999)
BARNARD REFERENCE N8354 .C66 1999
FINE ARTS REFERENCE N40 C76

Dictionary of women artists (1997)
BARNARD REFERENCE N43 .D55 1997
FINE ARTS REFERENCE N40 D57

Fanny: the Directory of Women Comic Strip Artists, Writers & Cartoonists

IRIS the Women's Photography Project
Based at Staffordshire University, IRIS is an attempt to promote "the work of contemporary women photographers and women writing on photography." This web site links to IRIS' Ariadne, a database which "features images, writing and information on women photographers."

North American women artists of the twentieth century : a biographical dictionary (1995)
FINE ARTS REFERENCE N40 N79
BARNARD REFERENCE N6503 .N67 1995

Varo Registry of Women Artists
"...an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists." Each artist has her own web page which includes some images, background information, and artist's statement. Varo also links to other sites concerned with women and art.

Finding Journal Articles

Art Index
A major periodical index to the arts. This online version is a two- part index to art periodicals in Western European languages: Part 1 (420 journal titles): from 1929-1984; Part 2(376 journal titles): from 1984 to the present. Beginning in 1994, abstracts are included. After the late 1990s, some full text is available (lacking illustrations).

n.paradoxa
"... the only international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices published in two separate editions online (quarterly, since Dec. 1996) and in print (bi-annually, ISSN 1461-0434, since 1998)." The web page provides access to some information from the current issue, but it also has a large number of links to web sites about women and art with great international coverage. n.paradoxa also includes a list or worldwide organizations.

For Women's Studies journals, use
Women's Resources International
Useful terms to search: Art, Women Artists, Women Painters, Women Sculptors

For more resources for the arts, explore Columbia University Libraries'
Databases (reference works & indexes): Subject Category: Art, Architecture & Music

Organizations

Artwomen.org
"We seek dynamic exchanges of views on visual art and feminist cultural production across and between disciplines." Artwomen.org has public forums about a variety of topics.

Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls are a group of women artists and art professionals who make posters about discrimination.

National Museum of Women in the Arts
The Museum is " dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. Includes some images and information about artists in the collection.

Women Artists Archive
"The Women Artists Archive is a special collection in the Ruben Salazar Library at Sonoma State University and is open for public use. It contains information on over 1,000 women artists from the Middle Ages through the present day."

Women Photographers
UCR / California Museum of Photography's website is "an extensive survey project drawing on images from UCR/CMP's collections, associated with the exhibition Independent Visions, January 23, 1999 through May 2, 1999. It is curated by Karen Barber, with support from UCR/CMP staff."

Women's Studio Workshop
A not for profit artists' space located near Kingston, NY. The WSW home page provides information about its activities, programs, and internships.

[Portrait of Doris Day and Kitty Kallen, Central Park, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947]

FILM and TELEVISION

WSSLINKS : Women and Film Web Sites.
An excellent starting point for film, if you're using the web for research.

[Portrait of Doris Day and Kitty Kallen, Central Park, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947]. William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, LC-GLB13-1075 DLC (b&w film neg.). From American Memory.

Finding Books

When using CLIO, useful Library of Congress Subject Headings for women and film/television include:

MOTION PICTURE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES	WOMEN IN THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
TELEVISION ACTORS AND ACTRESSES	WOMEN ON TELEVISION
WOMEN IN MOTION PICTURES	WOMEN TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
WOMEN IN TELEVISION BROADCASTING	WOMEN TELEVISION PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS

Another way to identify books and journal articles is to use published bibliographies:

Women and film : a bibliography (1976)
BARNARD REFERENCE PN1995.9.W6 .K68 1976g
BUTLER STACKS Z5784.M9 K68

Finding Biographical Information

Try searching in CLIO under the name of the actress/director/producer [last name, first name] using a subject search. Examples:

Guy, Alice

Moore, Mary Tyler

Riefenstahl, Leni

Women in film : an international guide (1991)
BARNARD REFERENCE PN1995.9 .W6 W652 1991g
BUTLER STACKS PN1995.9 .W6 W652 1991g
Short biographical entries as well as brief topical and geographical entries.

Finding Journal Articles

Humanities Abstracts
Useful terms to search: Gender, Motion Pictures, Sex Role, Television, Women.

International Index to the Performing Arts
Includes the broadcast arts. Useful terms to search: Film, Gender, Television, Women.

Women's Resources International
Useful terms to search: Broadcasting, Film, Films, Television.

Film Reviews

Feminist Film Reviews

For newspaper reviews (New York Times, Los Angeles Times) of specific films, try
LEXIS/NEXIS.
For general magazine reviews (Newsweek, Time) try either
Proquest or
Reader's Guide Abstracts
Also, Yahoo! Movies and Internet Movie Database are good, free resources for information about films.

Filmographies

To find filmographies using CLIO, try filmograph? as a keyword search (the question mark will look for either filmography or filmographies). Alternatively, in the Advanced Search use the word Catalogs as a Subject Word. Remember to combine either of these terms with other useful keywords that describe your topic.

Films and Video on Women, Gender, and Feminism (Northern Arizona University)is an extensive listing of films on women, gender, and feminism held in the state Arizona State University library system. Once you've identified the titles, check in CLIO to see if the film is available at Barnard or Columbia. The list is arranged alphabetically by film title; each entry includes a short description of the film.

Organizations

Feminale: Frauen Film Festival-Koln
Covers 1984 to the present. There is an English language site available also.

Music

WSSLinks : Women and Music.
An excellent starting point for web resources.

[Portrait of Nellie Lutcher, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948].. William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, LC-GLB13-1363 DLC (b&w film neg.). From American Memory.

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Finding Books

When using CLIO, useful Library of Congress Subject Headings for women and music include:

FEMINISM AND MUSIC	WOMEN COMPOSERS
GENDER IDENTITY IN MUSIC	WOMEN IN MUSIC
MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS	WOMEN MUSICIANS
	WOMEN SINGERS

Another way to identify books and journal articles is to use published bibliographies:

Women and music : a selective annotated bibliography on women and gender issues in music, 1987-1992 (1995)
MUSIC REFERENCE ML128.W7 E75 1995
BARNARD REFERENCE ML128.W7 E75 1995

Finding Biographical Information

Try searching in CLIO under the name of musician or composer [last name, first name] using a subject search. Examples:

Beach, Amy

James, Etta

Vaziri, Qamar al-Muluk

International encyclopedia of women composers (1987)
BARNARD REFERENCE ML105 .C7 1987
MUSIC REFERENCE ML105 .C7 1987

Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography (1993)
MUSIC REFERENCE ML105 .H6 1993
BARNARD REFERENCE ML105 .H6 1993

Finding Journal Articles

Humanities Abstracts
Useful terms to search: Feminism, Sex, Women Musicians.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Current indexing for over 300 periodicals beginning in the mid-1990s. Retrospective coverage as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century for an additional 165 titles. Full text for over 40 titles.
Useful terms to search: Gender, Women.

Women's Resources International
Useful terms to search: Composers, Musicians, Singers.

Organizations

The International Alliance for Women in Music
The International Alliance for Women in Music connects to a multitude of online sources for women and music; it provides bibliographies, discographies, information about events, and the texts of articles appearing in its publications.

Women's Studies Home Page

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ArchitectureImage: Art & Handicraft in the Woman's Building (1893), book cover, from IAWA images housed at the Virginia Tech Imagebase

Fine Arts

FILM and TELEVISION

Music

Architecture
Image: Art & Handicraft in the Woman's Building (1893), book cover,
from IAWA images housed at the Virginia Tech Imagebase