Research Guides: Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies: Getting Started

Background Reading and Topic Development

Take a look at the Library's guides on choosing a topic and the research process to help you get started. Explore a topic in the resources below.

Gender Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Archives Unbound - Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Multimedia collection of resources for gender, sexulality, and women's studies- documents, photographs, oral histories, transcripts, more.

LGBTQ+ Source (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
LGBTQ+ Source provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers and a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms. It contains all the content of LGBT Life with the addition of approx. 160 full text books and reference material.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Some Full Text
WSI covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. The majority of coverage is from 1972 to the present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, you may want to review additional research guides: