Search Tips for Finding Books
- Search phrases using quotes "sexual violence"
- Click the call number to view books shelved near that number
- Click the subjects to see more books on that subject (sometimes labeled L.C. for Library of Congress Subject Headings)
- Review how to determine if OSU subscribes to a journal
- Review how to read a book record in OSU Libraries catalog
Finding Books Using Subject Headings
Topics in Women Studies appear throughout the collection, from sociology to psychology to engineering. Besides searching via keyword, you can search for books in the catalog by using the Library of Congress subject headings assigned to them.
Listed below are some Library of Congress subject headings associated with Women Studies in order to get you started:
- Women
- Gender
- Gender Identity
- Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Minority Women
- Black Women
- Asian Women
- Latina Women
- Muslim Women
- Sexism
- Sex Role
- Gay Liberation Movement
- Gays
- Lesbians
- Bisexuality
- Intersexuality
- Cyberfeminism
- Sex discrimination in science
- Computers and Women--United States
- Women Scientists
- Ecofeminism
- Women environmentalists
- Environmental activists
- Sexism in medicine
- Women—health and hygiene
- Equal Rights Amendments
- Abortion
- Civil Rights Movements (use with other keywords, e.g., “women”)
- Reproductive Health
- Work and Family--United States
- Family--sex differences
- Working mothers--United States
