Research Guides: *Gender & Sexuality Studies: Resources

Article Indexes

You can do a combined search with both of these by clicking on "Choose Databases" when you're in the EBSCO interface.

Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window

Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window

Book Resources

Handbook of Feminist Research by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (Editor)
Location: HQ1180 .H35 2012
The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology
APA Handbook of Men and Masculinities
Location: BF692.5 .A63 2015
Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance
Location: Available online
Published: 2012
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
Published: 2018

Literature Review Sources

Oxford Bibliographies
Great help when starting to pull resources together even though there is not a gender module yet - women and gender issues, of course, permeate most others.

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Same can be said about this resource - but give it a try!
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences This link opens in a new window
Essays with bibliographies on topics such as "Sexuality, theories of", "feminist legal theory" or "gender and social research".

Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
Location: HQ 23.C68 2014
Genealogies of key concepts with references to the works that transformed scholarship
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
Published: 2016
Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present
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.

Primary Sources

Online collections we own pertaining to women
Widener University Sexuality Archives
Collections related to sexuality, including sex ed curricula. Many can be scanned on request.
Digital Transgender Archive
An international collaboration to increase the accessibility of transgender history. Also includes other relevant links, global terms and a glossary.
Discovering American Women's History Online
Detailed descriptions and links to more than 650 digital collections
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women: Transnational Networks
This is more than just periodicals and includes books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics in one cross-searchable location
Digital Transgender Archive
An international collaboration to increase the accessibility of transgender history. Also includes other relevant links, global terms and a glossary.
Votes for Women
Selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, from the Library of Congress.
HEARTH: Home Economics Archives, Research, Tradition, History
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance from Cornell.
LGBTQ+ Digital Materials at NYPL
Digitized materials from the NYPL collections.
The LGBT Community Center National History Archive
A community-based archive that collects, preserves and makes available to the public the documentation of LGBTQ lives and organizations centered in and around New York.
GLBT Historical Society
Online collections from the archives and museum of the GBLT Historical Society in San Francisco.
Global Feminisms Project
Interviews with activists from a number of countries.

NGO Research Reports

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
over 13,000 reports, books, fact sheets, and policy briefs
Status of Women
Institute for Women's Policy Research's reports are a unique source of comprehensive information on women.

Marianne Williams

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Contact:

Ladd Library 131
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mwillia8@bates.edu

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Subjects: Art and Visual Culture, Classical and Medieval Studies, English, European Studies, French, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German, Greek (Ancient), Hispanic Studies, Languages and Literatures, Latin American Studies, Russian