Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Resource Guide: Home

Get reports on today's important issues, Each report covers a single topic, presents pros and cons, and includes a bibliography.

General database of popular and scholarly materials (1887 - Current). Try using the keywords "women", "gender", or "feminism" to get better results.

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. 

The Gender Studies Database is a full-text collection of more than 500 publications including journals, books, magazines, newsletters, dissertations, special reports, working papers and conference proceedings. Coverage for a quarter of the publications included starts prior to 1970. GSD combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. Links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are included where available.

Full-text database for scholarly articles (1655 - 2009). Use the "narrow by discipline" option on the main search screen to limit your results to "Feminist and Women's Studies".

Full text access to peer-reviewed psychology articles (1894 - Current). Use the "Classification Code" option on the main search screen to narrow your results to #2970, "Sex Roles and Women's Issues" or #2980, "Sexual Behavior and Sexual Orientation."

Readers’ Guide Retrospective covers the popular press and offers full coverage of the original paper volumes for nearly 100 years.

Provides extensive coverage of sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, political science and related topics. Provides abstracts for 1,300+ "core" journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, also provides data mined from more than 450 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,900 "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing of books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included, and searchable cited references are provided.

Use the library catalog to find physical books, some eBooks, children's literature, physical journals, and DVDs.

Over 20,000 full-text e-books. Narrow down your search by including the keywords "women", "gender", "feminism", or "sexuality" in your search.

Faculty : request a film for course use from a catalog of 26,000+ feature, documentary and independent films. Please include on the form the COURSE and the DATE by when you would like the film. Films are licensed for a year from the date of order. Please allow at least 10 business days for the film to become accessible.

Contains books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law. Covers the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.

Contains a multitude of eBooks, published by Sage, useful for academic study. Use keywords women, gender, or sexuality in your search. You can limit to more recent resources using the publication date limiter on the left side of page

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A free lightweight online citation generator. Enter the information about your source and create a citation for your bibliography in APA, MLA, or Chicago. Citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor with the "Express" version of this tool. Full functionality requires a personal subscription.

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