GLOBAL PRIORITIES FOR WOMEN - A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES AND RESEARCH STRATEGIES

The objective of this bibliography is to illustrate the diversity of l ibrary resources on the global issues affecting women addressed by the United Nations' sponsored Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 4-15, 1995. Originally developed in 1994 for a forum held at San Francisco State University to increase awareness of global women's issues and to provide input to the official U.S. delegation t o the Beijing conference, this guide covers the topics addressed by th e U.N. conference and those that were presented to the workshops at th e San Francisco State University forum. We have arranged this bibliogr aphy according to the following broad categories: reference sources, U .N. conferences on women, economics, education, environment health, hu man rights/law,immigration/ migration, politics/power, violence, and t he information highway. A wide range of library resources, both in pri nted and electronic formats, is emphasized. Importantly, various searc h strategies which enable the researcher to find relevant books, artic les, reports, and statistics on global issues affecting women are high lighted. This bibliography of resources and strategies is intended to point the way rather than provide a comprehensive list of titles. At t he end of the bibliography is a list of the print and electronic sourc es used to identify the publications cited. These sources are represen tative of those typically found in medium to large academic libraries in the U.S. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.