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Women in the Professions

Dictionaries and Enyclopedias

Historical Dictionary of Feminism
Lilly Reference & Perkins/Bostock Reference

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
Perkins/Bostock Reference

Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography

Perkins/Bostock Reference

Encyclopedia of Women’s History in America
Lilly Reference & Perkins/Bostock Reference

International Encyclopedia of Women’s Suffrage
Lilly Reference & Perkins/Bostock Reference
Full text available in History Reference Online

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge
Perkins/Bostock Reference

International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950

Perkins/Bostock Reference
Full text available in History Reference Online

Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century

Perkins/Bostock Library & Perkins, Lilly, Divinity and Special Collections Reference
Full text available in Credo Reference.

Women, a Modern Political Dictionary
Library Service Center

Women’s Studies Encyclopedia
Lilly and Perkins/Bostock Reference

Subject Guide

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Danette Pachtner
she/her/hers
Contact:
My location: danettep@duke.edu
Call me: 919.660.5886
Lilly Library
Room 108
East Campus
Email me
My areas:
Film, Video & Digital Media; Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies; Theater Studies
919.660-.5886

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