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Women in Red – Resources
Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), whose objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works, broadly construed. This resource list is intended to support work in those areas.	Women in Red logo

This is a list under development of biographical dictionaries and other resources that contain information about women who may be notable.

Lists of biographical dictionaries

• WiR's list of fully accessible biographical dictionaries.
• List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English

Books

• Annual editions thereafter.
• , under continuing development
• 4 vols.

Resources by continent or country

Australia

• , under development, now over 7,000 items
• The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Canada

• Types of Canadian Women, 1903, ed. Henry James Morgan
• Woman's Who's Who of America, 1915, ed. John William Leonard (Canada and US)

Denmark

• Over 1,100 profiles of qualified Danish women in a variety of sectors, compiled as a basis for furthering their careers and success
• , 1,924 biographies in book form and online (in Danish)

Great Britain

• English Female Artists, 1876, Ellen C. Clayton, Tinsley Brothers. Also Vol 2. See English Female Artists for red links
• The Women of England, their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, 1939, Mrs. Ellis; Fisher, Son, & Co.

Netherlands

• , under continued development in Dutch

Sweden

• , under development since 2018 (in Swedish and English)

Switzerland

• under development in French, German and Italian with many biographies of women

United States

• Hanaford, Phebe (1892), Daughters of America; Or, Women of the Century
• 2 vols.
• Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary (3 vols)
• Leonard, John W. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary ...
• Sewall, May Wright (1894), The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2
• Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895

By state, city or region

• Notable Women of St. Louis, 1914, Mrs. Chas. P. Johnson
• Representative Women of New England, 1904, ed. Julia Ward Howe, New England Historical Publishing Company
• Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America, 1928, Max Binheim and Charles A Elvin, Publishers Press. Now on Wikisource: *Women of the West
• Prominent Women of Texas, 1896, Elizabeth Brooks
• Women of the South Distinguished in Literature, 1860, Mary Forrest
• The Living Female Writers of the South, 1871, Mary T. Tardy

Periodicals

Newsmedia

• The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
• Women's Wear Daily/WWD via EBSCO or ProQuest with Wikipedia Library bundle.

Academic journals

Available in JSTOR with the Wikipedia Library bundle:

• Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity (1987 - 2013)
• Black Women, Gender + Families (2007 - 2012)
• Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal (1990 - 2011)
• Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (1995 - 2017)
• Clio. Women, Gender, History (2013 - 2019)
• Debate Feminista (1990 - 2017)
• DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (2014 - 2019)
• Early Modern Women (2006 - 2017)
• Estudos Feministas (1992 - 2020)
• Feminist Formations (2010 - 2015)
• NWSA Journal 1988 - 2009)
• Feminist German Studies (2018 - 2020)
• Women in German Yearbook (1985 - 2017)
• Feminist Media Histories (2015)
• Feminist Review (1979 - 2017)
• Feminist Studies (1972 - 2021)
• Feminist Teacher (1984 - 2018)
• Frauen und Film (1974 - 2011)
• Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (1975 - 2020)
• Gender and Development (1995 - 2013)
• Focus on Gender (1993 - 1994)
• Gender and Society (1987 - 2017)
• Hypatia (1986 - 2015)
• International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2008 - 2017)
• Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (1985 - 2021)
• Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005 - 2015)
• Legacy (1984 - 2020)
• Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (2000 - 2017)
• Nouvelles Questions Féministes (1981 - 2017)
• Questions Féministes (1977 - 1980)
• Off Our Backs (1970 - 2008)
• Race, Gender & Class (1995 - 2017)
• Race, Sex & Class (1993 - 1994)
• Signs (1975 - 2015)
• Studies in Popular Culture (1977 - 2019)
• Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1982 - 2015)
• U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (2003 - 2017)
• U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement (1991 - 2002)
• Woman's Art Journal (1980 - 2017)
• Women, Gender, and Families of Color (2013 - 2020)
• The Women's Review of Books (1983 - 2017)
• Women's Studies International (1982 - 1984)
• International Supplement to the Women's Studies Quarterly (1982)
• Women's Studies Quarterly (1981 - 2019)
• Women's Studies Newsletter (1972 - 1980)

Available in Project Muse, access by request at the Wikipedia Library:

• Black Women, Gender & Families
• Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
• Camera Obscura
• Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
• differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
• Early Modern Women
• Feminist Formations
• Feminist German Studies
• Feminist Teacher
• Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
• Hypatia
• IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
• Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
• Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
• Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
• Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
• philoSOPHIA
• Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
• U.S.-Japan Women's Journal
• Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture
• Women, Gender, and Families of Color
• Women in French Studies
• WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

Red links

WiR's index of red link lists, both crowd-sourced and drawn from Wikidata. Of particular interest here is:

• Dictionaries and other reference works, some of which are biographies of women

See also

• List of biographical dictionaries
• List_of_online_encyclopedias#Biography
• Help:Find sources
• List of academic databases and search engines
• Wikipedia:Advanced source searching
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
• Wikipedia:Journal sources