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Women in the Professions

Subject Librarian

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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

Where are the books?

Using the Online Catalog to find books

Duke Library Catalog
Start here to find books in Duke libraries. Here's a link to our most recent eBooks on the topic of Women in the Professions. 

Search TRLN
Search across the catalogs of Duke, UNC, NCSU and NCCU 

Worldcat
Catalog of libraries in US, Canada and beyond.

Google Books
Includes many online books - mostly older editions that are out of copyright. or excerpts from more recent editions.

Search or browse by subject heading

 Below is a selected list of Library of Congress subject headings to get you started

Women in the professions
Leadership in women
Women executives
Businesswomen
Women-owned business enterprises
Women in economic development
Women – Biography
Women social reformers
Women and Literature
Women scientists
Women authors, American (may substitute other geographic region)
Women’s Studies
Women – study and teaching
Women’s Rights
Women – civil rights
Women–lawyers
Women – legal status, laws, etc.
Women – suffrage
Feminism
Feminism - United States (may substitute other geographic region)
Feminist theory
Feminism and higher education
Feminism – cross-cultural studies