Guide to Women's and Gender Studies: Home
Feminisms
Use Articles+ to search for scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles on different categories of feminism. Below are some examples:
Essential Databases
The databases highlighted below are essential to Women's & Gender Studies research. You may also want to browse all Women's and Gender Studies databases.
- GenderWatchFull-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
- Women's Studies InternationalInterdisciplinary, international database covering the core literature of the field of women's and gender studies with links to full text.
- Women & Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000Database of women's activism in American public life from 1600-2000, including published histories, records of women's organizations, books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies.
- Alt-PressWatchAlt-Press Watch provides full text access to alternative and independent newspapers, magazines, and journals, publications which bring perspectives, insights, and opinions not often found in mainstream journalism. This product offers over 600,000 articles from over 230 publications.
Bibliographic Database examples
- African Women's Bibliographic DatabaseThis open website indexes six types of [English] materials about African women: books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; theses and dissertations; conference papers; and videocassettes; and has a clickable map.
- North American Women's DramaFull-text of 1,500 plays written from colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.
- Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic NovelsScholarly online collection for researchers and students of adult comic books and graphic novels.
- Women's Worlds in Quajar Iran Digital ArchiveUse this a unique online resource to explore the social and cultural lives of women during the Qajar era (1796-1925) through an array of materials from private family holdings and participating institutions. Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran provides bilingual access to personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, publications, everyday objects, works of art and audio materials.
Data & Statistical Resources
- Genders, Institutions, and Development DatabaseCovers a total of 160 countries and comprises an array of 60 indicators on gender discrimination.
- Social Institutions and Gender IndexComposite measure of gender discrimination based on social institutions.
- GIS & Data ServicesHow to find and evaluate numeric data and statistics at University Libraries.
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