To locate subject encyclopedias and other types of reference titles, use UMD Discover (the catalog) and the Sage Reference Collection and Sage Knowledge databases (linked below)
Searches in UMD Discover, use your keywords and add the defining terms such as:
dictionar*
encyclopedia*
biography
bibliographies
bibliography
So, your search would look like this:
feminism encyclopedia*
women encyclopedia*
African American women encylopedia*
women biography dictionar*
women politics encyclopedia*
feminism and (encyclopedia* or handbook*)
women and (encyclopedia* or handbook*)
women and stem and (encyclopedia* or handbook*)
women and "sexual assault" and (encyclopedia* or handbook*)
See below for some examples of titles retrieved using these search strategies