Research in Gender and Sexuality Studies involves integrating insights from various academic disciplines to gain a comprehensive understanding of how gender and sexuality can impact the world. This guide will help direct you to different resources available at Bates but recognize this may not be exhaustive.
Available online.
Chapters on "waves" of feminism, movements related to specific issues (e.g. workplace issues, reproductive rights, etc.), movement strategies, intersectionality, and women activists within other movements.
"This Handbook presents both a theoretical and practical approach to conducting social science research on, for, and about women."
A unique, state-of-the-art synthesis of the known work, combined with current research trends, in the broad field of gender and psychology.
Historical, conceptual, and methodological issues.
This scholarly work is the most comprehensive existing resource on human physical appearance-how people's outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives. The encyclopedia's 117 full-length chapters are composed and edited by the world's experts.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present.
Genealogies of key concepts with references to the works that transformed scholarship
This reference book provides an overview of the daily life of women through history, and a timeline highlights key events in women's history. It draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women displayed agency by carrying out their daily economic, familial, artistic, and religious obligations.
In GSS, starting your research in LibrarySearch can be helpful, but it will be easier to narrow down your topic to relevant sources if you dive into subject-specific databases, like the ones listed below. You can do a combined search with both of these by clicking on "Choose Databases" when you're in the EBSCO interface.
