UCI Libraries are proud to highlight an extensive collection of books, films, historical archives, and resources focused on womxn and their experiences. Unless they specify a UCI login, these materials are available to the public year-round at no cost.

For research assistance, visit guides.lib.uci.edu for a complete list of Libraries’ Research Guides or schedule an appointment with a research librarian:

• Gender and sexuality studies: Research Librarian for Interdisciplinary Studies Melissa Beuoy, melissa.beuoy@uci.edu
• History: Research Librarian for Student Success and Humanities Nicole Arnold, nsarnold@uci.edu 

Online Resources

• Women’s History Month OverDrive collection (requires UCI login)
• Curated collection of films on Kanopy (requires UCI login)
• Curated collection of documentaries on Docuseek (requires UCI login)
• Celebrating One and All Women’s History Research Guide
• Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Guide
• Everyday Life & Women in America: This digital collection provides access to primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University Libraries and The New York Public Library. It addresses 19th and early 20th century political, social, and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Special Collections and Archives

• Photograph album of International Women’s Day parade in Saigon, Vietnam: Contains 24 black-and-white photographs of ceremonies held in Saigon, Vietnam for International Women's Day in 1959.
• Ariel (Joan) Files on Women’s Political Activism: Documents Joan Ariel's interests in women's political activism, particularly in Orange County, California. It includes newsletters, press releases, and other printed ephemera.
• Women’s Opportunities Center publications (University of California, Irvine): Comprises publications produced by the Women's Opportunities Center (WOC), a division of the University Extension program based on the UCI campus. Established in 1970, the WOC provides career, educational, and personal guidance to community members from diverse backgrounds.

Recent Acquisitions

These recent book acquisitions to UCI Libraries contain topics such as revolutionaries, employment, reproductive health, feminist theory, music, literature, and sports.

• She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World, edited by Marral Shamshiri and Sorcha Thomson, reveals how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the world in endless ways: as leaders, rebels, trailblazers, guerrillas, writers, and revolutionaries, who also navigated their gendered roles as women, mothers, wives, and daughters.
• Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class, edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary Romero, explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women.
• Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement, by Judith A. Houck, examines the emergence, development, travails, and triumphs of the women’s health movement in the United States.
• Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture, edited by Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows, offers an understanding of the place of domesticity in contemporary popular culture whilst considering how these domesticities might be understood from a feminist perspective.
• Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads, by Sarah F. Williams, contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.
• Female Recreation of Music Traditions: Women’s Sounds of the Past and Present, by Kheng K. Koay, traces the ways in which women composers from the early 20th century onward incorporate and reinterpret musical elements of past music in their compositions.
• Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, edited by Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, and Amy L. Montz, investigates cultural assumptions and expectations of adolescent women, considers the various means of resistance and rebellion made available to and explored by female protagonists, and examines how the adolescent female protagonist is situated with respect to the groups and environments that surround her.
• Writing Woman Anthology: Poetry and Visual Art, curated and edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Sue Zhu, Abigail George, and Mona Lisa Jena, tackles what it means to be a woman in Africa and Asia.
• Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance, edited by Marguerite Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, explores the experiences of local women’s groups that have developed to fight war, militarization, political domination, and patriarchy throughout the world.
• Working Women: Stories of Strife, Struggle and Survival, edited by Kogi Naidoo and Fay Patel, contains narratives pertaining to the challenges, struggles, and success stories of women in the workplace who come from diverse cultures and social backgrounds.
• International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports, edited by Karen Christensen, Allen Guttmann, and Gertrud Pfister, covers numerous sports and sports figures as well as health issues such as eating disorders, nutrition and bone density, and social issues such as body image, gender equity, and Title IX legislation.

Diversity of UCI Libraries’ Collections

UCI Libraries collect materials in all formats to support the university’s research, teaching, and public service mission.

We believe it is crucial that our collections reflect the diversity of our students, faculty, staff, and larger Orange County community. Thus, we are making an effort to collect materials that consider the needs and perspectives of historically underrepresented, marginalized, and oppressed groups. For more information, please refer to our Diversity Statement and Plan.

For additional information about UCI Libraries’ efforts to celebrate diversity in its users, staff, collections, and resources, visit the UCI Libraries Diversity webpage.