LibGuides: Sociology: Sex and Gender Studies

Sex and Gender

Gale OneFile: Gender Studies This link opens in a new window
Covers gender studies, sexual behavior surveys, family & marital issues, conversion therapy, gay & lesbian rights, health aspects, and other issues.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
1972-present. Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases, with coverage of sexual diversity issues, and the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside & outside academia.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Full text database on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets, and NGO, government, & special reports. 1970-present.
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family This link opens in a new window
Brings together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of conduct.
Searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books of instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

Women and Social Movements (Alexander Street text & video) This link opens in a new window
Primary documents from the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present.
Includes these collections:
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
- Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present
- Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019
- Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
1972-present. Covers sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education.
Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Its sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Women's Studies International includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Indexes the popular and scholarly literature addressing issues related to the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community.
1997-present (varies by title). Indexes 600 popular & scholarly publications (including journals, newspapers, magazines, and books) addressing the social, legal, economic, political, cultural, historical, literary, & health concerns of the Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender community. Includes Sexual Diversity Studies. Excludes fiction & erotica. Includes full text of more than 130 journals and more than 170 books.