ABSTRACT

Five important points need to be made when considering issues of access to information for, by, and about women. The first is that information about women is one problem, but feminist or women’s studies information is another problem. The second point is that interdisciplinary approaches to women’s information and feminist information are necessary. A third point is that massive terminology and vocabulary problems are present when working with either women’s or feminist information sources. A fourth point is that the greater proportion of services and indexes of choice for women’s or feminist information are not machine-accessible, but—the fifth point—a few projects have surfaced recently which hint at progress in the area of machine-accessible women’s and feminist information. 1