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Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies: Articles

Serves both the department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and the Graduate Certificate in Sexuality & Queer Studies

General Databases for GWSS Articles

Academic Search Complete
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Scholarly articles and general interest sources in all fields.
Web of Science
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Citation index for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Subject Specific Databases for GWSS Articles

Alexander Street Press: LGBT Studies
LGBT Studies feature award-winning films, documentaries, interviews, and archival footage exploring the social, cultural, and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Includes LGBT Thought and Culture article collection and LGBT Studies in Video.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Parts I & II
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Articles, reports & manuscript material illustrating LGBTQ history and culture since 1940.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
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Index to books and journal articles on all aspects of women's studies.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
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Primary sources dealing with women's history from 1600 to 2000
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820
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Explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through womens voices.
Women and Social Movements, International
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Primary materials of women activists including personal letters, diaries, and conference proceedings of important international social movements.

More Databases for GWSS Articles

Alt-PressWatch
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Selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990
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ACLU clippings, correspondence, subject files, case files and administrative documents covering major civil liberties issues of the 20th century.
America: History & Life with Full Text
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Scholarly articles on American and Canadian history
Historical Abstracts
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Index to scholarly articles covering world history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Human Rights Documents
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Wide variety of documents from hundreds of non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights and social justice around the world.
Latin American Women Writers
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Prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Left Index
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Articles by and about the political left, with an emphasis on economics, society, and culture.
PsycInfo
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Academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines, 1872 to present.
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974
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Memoirs, manifestos, memorabilia & more illustrating the history & culture of this pivotal period in history.
Sociological Abstracts
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Journal articles in the field of sociology, including international literature and other related disciplines.
Vogue Archive
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Digitized, full-color images of every issue of Vogue magazine from 1892 to the present

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