Biographical Reference Works for and about Women, from the Advent of the Women's Liberation Movement to the Present: An Exploratory Analysis
Searing, Susan E.
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Title
Biographical Reference Works for and about Women, from the Advent of the Women's Liberation Movement to the Present: An Exploratory Analysis
Author(s)
Searing, Susan E.
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
Reference books
Women
Biographical dictionaries
Abstract
Hundreds of English-language biographical reference books devoted
to women subjects were published between 1966 and 2006.
These works compensated for underrepresentation of women in
standard sources and responded to the intense interest in women’s
lives on the part of feminist scholars. The findings in this article are
derived from a bibliographic database that includes works limited
by nationality, race, occupation, and other factors, as well as general
biographical dictionaries. A decade-by-decade analysis reveals
trends in subject content that parallel developments in the scholarly
field of women’s studies and the public arena. Problems with
duplicative content, subjectivity, and factual errors are described,
and points for evaluation are recommended. As biographical information
about women is increasingly available on the open Web,
questions remain about the nature and future of this type of information
source.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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