The NWHP started by leading a coalition that successfully lobbied Congress to designate March as National Women's History Month, now celebrated across the land. It is the National Women's History Project that establishes the national theme for the month-long celebration. Search the collections in the Boston College Libraries to facilitate your studies in Women's history.
Journals are good places to start.
The BC Libraries subscribe to several databases that cover Women's studies exclusively or with a particular focus. The GenderWatch database covers the areas of Women s Studies and Gender Studies. The database currently contains over 40,000 full text articles from more than 125 international journals, books, magazines and newsletters, plus unpublished papers and conference proceedings as well as nearly 1,000 special reports devoted to gender and women's issues. GenderWatch also contains archival materials dating back as far as 1978 in some cases. Click on the publication Name on the search screen page to browse a list of the sources covered by the database.