HI 320: Women of the Renaissance

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Keyword searches are very broad and will find every item that mentions the words you searched for. This can be great if you want to browse, but there are other ways to search that can help you narrow down your topic.

Subject headings are the specific way that libraries like to organize works on the same subject, so that way when you find one item, you can easily find all the others with that same subject. Here are some examples you can try searching under subject in the catalog, about women's history:

• Women -- History
• Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
• Women -- Political activity
• Feminism -- History
• Renaissance -- England
• Women artists
• Women -- Social conditions
• Women household employees
• Working class women
• Europe -- History -- 1492-1648
• Europe -- History -- 1648-1789
• Sex role -- History

Keep your search terms very general.

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Explore the additional subject terms inside the record of each item you look at.