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About Contemporary Women’s Issues

Access to reports on a wide range of women’s issues. Suitable for professional or tertiary research.

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Key features

Contemporary Women’s Issues compiles into a single full text collection information on critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in over 190 countries. This resource features:

  • Mainstream journals;
  • Hard to find newsletters;
  • Non-governmental research reports;
  • Ephemeral literature from research institutes and grass roots organizations;
  • "Gray" literature: information from groups that are not distributed by commercial publishers. Many of these documents are difficult to locate and obtain.

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This resource covers social, reproductive, developmental and workplace issues. All of which are searchable by keyword or through combinations of broad categories. Titles include:

  • Advocate: The National Gay & Lesbian News magazine;
  • In Focus: The legacy of Roe v. Wade (Report);
  • Journal of International Women’s Studies;
  • News from the homefront (Newsletter);
  • PMS: Symptoms and solutions (Pamphlet);
  • Teen dating violence resource manual (Guide).
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