Research Guides @ Fordham: Human Rights: Women

Best Databases

Academic Search Complete
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary full text database with thousands of periodicals and other publications.
ChildInfo
UNICEF website providing statistics and data on the situation of children and women throughout the world. Some data is downloadable to MS Excel.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile)
Full text access to publications from domestic and international organizations.
EBSCOhost Databases List
Collection of full text and bibliographic databases covering every area of academic study. Mobile users will be automatically recognized.
Gender Studies Database
Combines the Women's Studies International Index and Men's Studies Index and contains almost 1 million records dating from the 1970's up to the present. Index with some full text.
GenderWatch
Provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the subject of gender roles. Covers both men and women, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. The collection represents multiple viewpoints from a wide variety of publications.
JSTOR & ARTSTOR (WITH AI RESEARCH TOOL - BETA)
NEW AI RESEARCH TOOL (BETA) Hundreds of academic journals in full text from v.1: n.1. Primary source materials include 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Artstor database of visual media is now accessible from the JSTOR platform. NOTE: Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources). To use the new AI Research Tool, first select a subscribed journal article, Open Access book chapter, or research report.
NOTE: Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources).Fordham does not subscribe to the Constellate text/data analytics service. Users can download full datasets with up to 25,000 items. CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION.
JSTOR Subscribed Collections with Access:
Arts & Sciences I through XV, Ireland, Life Sciences, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants,19th Century British Pamphlets.
ARTSTOR notes:
To go directly to Collections, use the Browse function dropdown (upper right corner) or filtering on the left side after doing a search.
Policy File Index
Now on the Proquest platform! Online access to public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
ProQuest Research Library
Full text of articles on broad range of subjects since 1971
Routledge Historical Resources: The History of Feminism
Covers the subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928). Contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes.
Scopus
Abstract and citation database covering thousands of titles in Science, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Science, and Arts & Humanities going back to 1960.
Social Work Abstracts
Offers extensive coverage of hundreds of social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
SocIndex with Full Text
Comprehensive index to the literature on sociology including journals, books, and conference papers.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (scholar's edition) - Access Ends 7/31/25
Thousands of documents, images, bibliographies and teaching aids.

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Library books - Women

Find other material by using the Fordham Library Catalog.

ABC of Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality by International Labour Office Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: E-book
Geneva: International Labour Office, 2007.
2nd ed.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
Call Number: E-book
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Gender and Power Relations in Nigeria by Ronke I. Ako-Nai (Ed.)
Call Number: E-book
Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2013.
On Norms and Agency: Conversations About Gender Equality With Women and Men in 20 Countries by Ana Maria Munoz Boudet
Call Number: E-book
Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013.
The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voices by Kristin A. Goss
Call Number: E-book
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Reckoning by V. (formerly Eve Ensler)
Call Number: (RH, LC) PS3555.N75 Z46 2023
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023
Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Rickie Solinger
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies by Chitra Raghavan (Ed.)
Call Number: E-book
Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2012.
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Staff
Call Number: E-book
Washington, DC: World Bank, [2012].

Web Content

Children, Victims and Women's Issues
By the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation
From the American Civil Liberties Union
End FGM : A Human Rights Violation
From Amnesty International
The End of China's One-Child Policy
By Feng Wang, et al. from Brookings, March 30, 2016.
Equal Pay and the Wage Gap
From the National Women's Law Center
Facts About the Gender Pay Gap
From the White House, April 14, 2015.
Health Care and Reproductive Rights
From the National Women's Law Center
Human Rights and the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women Living With HIV: A Literature Review
By Kumar, S., et al. in Journal of the International AIDS Society, Vol. 18, 2015. From PubMed Central, US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Human Rights: FBI Reaching Out About Female Genital Mutilation
From the Federal Bureau of Investigation site, May 13, 2016.
The Human Rights of Women: A Reference Guide to Official United Nations Documents
Third posting March 1998; Rita Maran, Editor; posting on the Internet is supported by the Amnesty International USA Special Initiatives Fund
Pakistani Girl Set on Fire for Refusing Marriage Proposal
By Meira Svirsky on June 7, 2016; from the Clarion Project.
Sex-Based Discrimination
From the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Sihem Bensedrine -Tunisian Civil Rights Activist
Human Rights Watch; August 13, 2012.
Stop Violence Against Women
A project of The Advocates for Human Rights
Unpaid Work, Poverty, and Women's Human Rights
By United Nations Human Rights (See related 4-min. YouTube animated video under the Video tab in this guide).
UN Women
In July 2010 the UN created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
Violence Against Women Information
From Amnesty International USA
Voices of Faith Challenge Violation of Women's Rights
From the World Council of Churches; July 4, 2013.
Will China's Two-Child Policy End Forced Abortions and Other Women's Rights Violations?
From the North Carolina Journal of International Law - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law; posted by Madison L. Beveridge on November 11, 2015.
Women's Empowerment Principles
From the United Nations Global Compact
Women's Rights are Human Rights
From United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, 2014
National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)
Mission: Established as a 501(c)(3) non-profit advocacy organization in 2001, NAPW works to secure the rights, health and welfare of all people, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women and those most likely to be targeted for state control and punishment: low income women, women of color, and drug-using women.

Human Rights: Women

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