General

American masculinities: a historical encyclopedia, ed. by Bret E. Carroll. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. 562 p.
Widener | WID-LC | HQ1090.3 .A453 2003

A companion to gender history, ed. by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Malden, MA: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Pub., 2004, 676 p.
Schlesinger | 305.309 M481c
Widener | WID-LC | HQ1075 .C655 2004
--Includes several essays on various geographical regions.

A companion to gender studies, ed. by Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, and Audrey Kobayashi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005, 561 p.
Schlesinger | 305.3072 E78c
Widener | WID-LC | HQ1075 .C656 2005

Encyclopedia of sex and gender, ed. by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008, 4 v.
Schlesinger | Ref. | 306.703 M261e
Widener | RR 4760.10

Encyclopedia of sex and gender: men and women in the world's cultures, ed. by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. 2 v.
Tozzer | REF | HQ16 .E53 2004

Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender, ed. by Judith Worell. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001. 2 v.
Gutman Education | Ref. | HQ1115 .E52 2001
Schlesinger | Ref. | 305.303 W929e
Widener | RR 4761.60
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Biology

The Oxford Companion to the body, ed. by Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett et al. Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, 753 p.
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The Routledge history of sex and the body: 1500 to the present, ed. by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher. Abingdon, Oxon; NY: Routledge, 2013, 579 p.
HOLLIS Record with detailed contents and Google Books version

Contemporary subject encyclopedias and dictionaries are useful in interpreting primary sources. They can be found by an Expanded Search in the HOLLIS Catalog with, e.g., Medicine dictionaries [Keyword search], limited by year range.

Gould, George M. An illustrated dictionary of medicine, biology and allied sciences ... 3d ed. rev. Philadelphia, Blakiston, 1897.
Subject: Medicine--Dictionaries. Natural history--Dictionaries.

 

Women in Science

Encyclopedia of gender and information technology, ed. by Eileen Trauth. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference, 2006. 2 v.
Cabot Science | REF | HD6060.6 .E53 2006
Schlesinger | Ref. | 331.481004 T777e, oversize
Widener | Harvard Depository | HD6060.6 .E53 2006

The Ashgate research companion to women and gender in early modern Europe, ed. by Allyson Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine McIver. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013. 554 p.
Widener | Harvard Depository | HQ1587 .A79 2013
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The History of women and science, health, and technology : a bibliographic guide to the professions and the disciplines, ed. by Phyllis Holman Weisbard et al. 2nd ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin System, Women's Studies Librarian, 1993, 100 p.
Schlesinger | Harvard Depository -- contact library to request | 016.5 W426h
Widener | WID-LC | HQ1397.Z99 H57 1993x
Wolbach Library | HQ1397.Z99 H57 1993
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American women in technology: an encyclopedia, by Linda Zierdt-Warshaw, Alan Winkler, and Leonard Bernstein. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000, 384 p.
Schlesinger | Ref. | 604.82 Z66a
Widener | WID-LC | T36 .Z54 2000
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Women in medicine: an encyclopedia, by Laura Lynn Windsor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2002, 259 p.
Cabot Science | R692 .W545 2002
Schlesinger | Harvard Depository -- contact library to request | 610 W766w
Widener | WID-LC | R692 .W545 2002
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