RBB Archive Weekly Peek
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
The first few years of the current century saw a publishing flurry of reference works on women. Last week, in honor of Women’s History Month, I wrote a post about some key women’s history resources. Here are a few more.
The four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History was published in 2008. Unlike Gale’s 17-volume Women in World History, its aim was to to be representative rather than exhaustive in its biographical entries, and it covered not only individual women but a wide range of other topics.
A geographical approach was taken by Grolier’s four-volume A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference, which came out in 2003; while a chronological approach was taken by Sharpe’s three-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American History, which came out in 2001.
Two other multivolume sets focused on current issues rather than history: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide (2003), and The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Issues and Knowledge (2000).
In my next post I’ll talk about some smaller, more specialized refrerence works on women’s history.
