Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Biography

Find Biographical Overviews or Essays

Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographical essays on "the world's most influential people," both contemporary and historical, with videos, images, magazine and newspaper articles, and more
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Search within the Biography category
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Search by content type: Biographical Information
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
For introductory, brief (1-3 pp.) biographical summaries; use "biography" publication type limiter

Biographies of Notable Women
Infoplease (Pearson Education); with entries from Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
Biographies of American Women
National Women's History Museum

The Reference Area is on the library's main floor.

Biography Index
Reference CT100 .X2 B2 (1946-2002 only)

Current Biography (and Current Biography Yearbook)
Reference CT 100 .C8 (1942-2010 only)

American National Biography
Reference CT213 .A68 1999 and 2002 supplement

Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biography
Reference CT3202 .C66 1989

Notable American Women 1607-1950
Reference CT3260 .N57

Notable American Women: The Modern Period
Reference CT3260 .N573

Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century
Reference CT3260 .N5725 2004

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Reference HQ1121 .O93 2008

Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World
Reference HQ1127 .S25 2001

Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World
Reference HQ1143 .E93 2000

Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times
General Stacks HQ1123 .I74 1970 (check Status)
Supplement HQ1123 .I74 1988

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for over 12,500 journals plus books, reports, and more; use the "people" field limiter as shown below

Shows search for "eva peron" using adjacent limiter for the "people" field in Academic Search Complete

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for over 700 popular and trade magazines plus some academic journals; use the "subject" field limiter

Sample searches:
   "michelle obama"
    obama michelle   (put last name first if using Subject search)
    women -- biography