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Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), whose objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works, broadly construed. This resource list is intended to support work in those areas.

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This is a list under development of biographical dictionaries and other resources that contain information about women who may be notable.

Lists of biographical dictionaries

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Books

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  • Bewley, Aisha (2004). Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Ta-Ha Publishers.
  • Booth, Alison (2021). "Collective Biographies of Women". University of Virginia Libraries.
  • Cohen, Aaron I., ed. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. New York, London: Books & Music (USA).
  • Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah (2007). Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.
  • Dimand, Robert W.; Dimand, Mary Ann; Forget, Evelyn L., eds. (2004). A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists. E. Elgar. ISBN 978-1-84376-902-6.
  • Gaze, Delia, ed. (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
  • Golemba, Beverly E. (1992). Lesser-known women: a biographical dictionary. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
  • International Who's Who of Women. London: Europa Publications Ltd. 1992. Annual editions thereafter.
  • Kuhn, Annette; Radstone, Susannah, eds. (1990). The Women's Companion to International Film. Virago Press.
  • Law, Cheryl (2000). Women: A Modern Political Dictionary. ‎I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860645020.
  • Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century.
  • Oakes, Elizabeth H., ed. (2002). International encyclopedia of women scientists. ISBN 9780816043811.
  • Rappaport, Helen; Marian Wright Edelman (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. ABC-Clio.
  • "Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women". Jewish Women's Archive. 2021., under continuing development
  • Smith, Bonnie G., ed. (2008). Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 4 vols.
  • Sparrow, Walter Shaw (1905). Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day.
  • Uglow, Jenny; Hendry, M. (2005). The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.

Resources by continent or country

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Africa

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  • Sheldon, Kathleen (2016). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2nd ed.). Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Talhami, Ghada (2012). Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Scarecrow Press.

Argentina

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Australia

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Austria

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Canada

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China

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  • Lily Xiao Hong Lee; Clara Lau; A.D. Stefanowska, eds. (1998). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911. Routledge.
  • Lily Xiao Hong Lee; Sue Wiles, eds. (2014). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang Through Ming 618 - 1644. Routledge.

Denmark

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  • "Kvinfo Expert Database" (in Danish). Kvinfo. Over 1,100 profiles of qualified Danish women in a variety of sectors, compiled as a basis for furthering their careers and success
  • Møller Jensen, Elisabeth, ed. (2001). Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon. Rosinante & Co., 1,924 biographies in book form and online (in Danish)

Great Britain

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  • English Female Artists, 1876, Ellen C. Clayton, Tinsley Brothers. Also Vol 2. See English Female Artists for red links
  • The Women of England, their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, 1939, Mrs. Ellis; Fisher, Son, & Co.
  • Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân, eds. (2018). New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2nd ed.). ‎ Edinburgh University Press.
  • Gray, Sara (2019). British Women Artists: A Biographical Dictionary of 1,000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River.
  • Oldfield, Sybil (2001). Women Humanitarians: A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Active Between 1900-1950. ‎Continuum. ISBN 9780826449627.

Netherlands

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Sweden

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Switzerland

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United States

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By state, city or region

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Periodicals

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Newsmedia

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Academic journals

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Available in JSTOR with the Wikipedia Library bundle:

  • Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity (1987 - 2013)
  • Black Women, Gender + Families (2007 - 2012)
  • Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal (1990 - 2011)
  • Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (1995 - 2017)
  • Clio. Women, Gender, History (2013 - 2019)
  • Debate Feminista (1990 - 2017)
  • DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (2014 - 2019)
  • Early Modern Women (2006 - 2017)
  • Estudos Feministas (1992 - 2020)
  • Feminist Formations (2010 - 2015)
  • NWSA Journal 1988 - 2009)
  • Feminist German Studies (2018 - 2020)
  • Women in German Yearbook (1985 - 2017)
  • Feminist Media Histories (2015)
  • Feminist Review (1979 - 2017)
  • Feminist Studies (1972 - 2021)
  • Feminist Teacher (1984 - 2018)
  • Frauen und Film (1974 - 2011)
  • Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (1975 - 2020)
  • Gender and Development (1995 - 2013)
  • Focus on Gender (1993 - 1994)
  • Gender and Society (1987 - 2017)
  • Hypatia (1986 - 2015)
  • International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2008 - 2017)
  • Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (1985 - 2021)
  • Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005 - 2015)
  • Legacy (1984 - 2020)
  • Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (2000 - 2017)
  • Nouvelles Questions Féministes (1981 - 2017)
  • Questions Féministes (1977 - 1980)
  • Off Our Backs (1970 - 2008)
  • Race, Gender & Class (1995 - 2017)
  • Race, Sex & Class (1993 - 1994)
  • Signs (1975 - 2015)
  • Studies in Popular Culture (1977 - 2019)
  • Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1982 - 2015)
  • U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (2003 - 2017)
  • U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement (1991 - 2002)
  • Woman's Art Journal (1980 - 2017)
  • Women, Gender, and Families of Color (2013 - 2020)
  • The Women's Review of Books (1983 - 2017)
  • Women's Studies International (1982 - 1984)
  • International Supplement to the Women's Studies Quarterly (1982)
  • Women's Studies Quarterly (1981 - 2019)
  • Women's Studies Newsletter (1972 - 1980)

Available in Project Muse, access by request at the Wikipedia Library:

  • Black Women, Gender & Families
  • Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
  • Camera Obscura
  • Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
  • differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
  • Early Modern Women
  • Feminist Formations
  • Feminist German Studies
  • Feminist Teacher
  • Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
  • Hypatia
  • IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
  • Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
  • Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
  • Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
  • Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
  • philoSOPHIA
  • Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
  • U.S.-Japan Women's Journal
  • Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture
  • Women, Gender, and Families of Color
  • Women in French Studies
  • WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
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WiR's index of red link lists, both crowd-sourced and drawn from Wikidata. Of particular interest here is:

See also

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