Women and Gender Studies

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of women and gender studies topics including sexuality and sexual orientation.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library’s reference area:

Unequal Sisters: an Inclusive Reader in U.S. Women’s History
REF HQ 1410 .U54 2008
The Transgender Studies Reader
REF HQ 77.9 .T72 2006  
Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender
REF HQ 1206 .H2385 2001
Women and the American Experience
REF HQ 1410 .W64 2006
America’s Women; 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines
REF HQ 1410 .C588 2007
Women in American Society
REF HQ 1402 .W653 2008
Dating and Sexuality in America
REF HQ 801 .A3 T87 2003
Gay Rights
REF HQ 76.8 .U5 K73 2005
The Boundaries of her Body : the Troubling History of Women’s Rights in America
REF KF478 .R69 2004
America on Film : Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies
REF PN 1995.9 .M56 B46 2004

 

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations such as:

  •  Gender Studies
  • Gender Identity
  • Gender Based Analysis
  • Feminism
  • Feminist Theory
  • Womanism
  • Women – Social Conditions
  • Sexuality & Culture
  • Women’s Studies
  • Gender & Society
  • Gender & American Culture
  • Gender & Sociology

    • You can also browse the shelves under the following call numbers:

    • HQ1075 Gender Identity
    • HQ 21-30.7 Sexual Orientation
    • HQ 1180 Women’s Studies
    • HQ 1186 Feminist Theory
    • HQ1206 Women- Social Conditions
    • HQ 1236 Women’s Rights

    Here is a list of just some of the books on this topic in the circulating collection:

    • The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, HQ 766.5. D44 G65 2009
    • Young Wives' Tales : New Adventures in Love and Partnership HQ 759. Y66 2001
    • Issues of Gender, HQ 1075 .I77 2004
    • Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity, HQ77.7 .F56 2003
    • Mother-Child Conversations About Gender: Understanding the Acquisition of Essentialist Beliefs, HQ1075 .G45 2004
    • Cross-Border Marriages : Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia,HQ 1032 .C67 2005
    • American Sexual Character : Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports, HQ18 .U5 R48 2005  
    • Geographies of Muslim Women: Gender, Religion, and Space, HQ1170 .G44 2005
    • Female Gladiators : Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, GV709 .18 .U6 F54 2005
    • The Fire this Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, HQ 1111 .F47 2004
    • Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, QH541.15 .B56 .R68 2004

       

      Journals

      The following is a list of just some of the academic journals suitable for gender studies research that are available in print in the library:

      British Journal of Sociology;  Communication, Culture &Critique; Family Relations; Journal of American Studies; Journal of Marriage and the Family; MS. Magazine; Women’s Studies Quarterly

       

      Popular Magazines

      While these materials are not scholarly, they can be used for research.  For example you could examine “representation of women” or “use of sexuality in advertisements:”

        O: the Oprah Magazine, People, Jet, New Yorker, Newsweek, New Yorker, Time

       

      Databases

      • InfoTrac: a comprehensive, interdisciplinary database that has a broad range of full text scholarly publications .  The following is a list of scholarly periodicals available either through InfoTrac or through the GLBT Life & Issues Collection which is part of InfoTrac:

        Annual Review of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Feminist Review, Feminist Studies, Frontiers – A Journal of Women’s Studies, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Sexuality & Culture, Women’s Studies, Gender, Gender & Society, Gender Issues, Journal of Gender Studies, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Nashim: A journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issue, Women’s Quarterly, Women’s Studies Journal, Women: a cultural review, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Feminist Collections: a quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Frontiers- A Journal of Women’s Studies

      • CQ Researcher : contains in-depth articles that examine controversial issues in an unbiased manner Recent articles on the topic of women and gender studies are: Reproductive Ethics, Declining Birthrates, Affirmative Action, Gay Marriage Showdown, Prostitution, Women in Politics, and Gender Pay Gap.  Also try search terms such as “sexuality,” “women and poverty,” “women and power,” “transgender,” and “women’s rights.”
      • LexisNexis Access articles from major U.S. and international newspapers, search terms such as “transgender,” “Title IX,” “heterosexist,” “heterosexual,” or “homosexual” all yield results

         

        Internet Resources

        Women’s Studies/ Women’s Issues Resource Site   Has links to numerous resources for women, gender, and sexuality studies, listed by subject.  The resources are meant to meet the information needs of undergraduate students.  Also provides a list of Women’s studies Programs and research centers.

        Gender and Sexuality     Produced by University of California Santa Barbara, provides annotated links for resources on the topics of gender, sexuality, feminist theory, queer studies, and sexual abuse.

        Kinsey A PBS website on the famous sex researcher Alfred Kinsey who founded the Institute for Sex Research.

        QueerTheory.com Collection of information and resources on queer studies, gender studies & related fields with access to pertinent dictionaries, journals, and articles.

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