Gender Studies: Find Articles
How to Use and Navigate the Library Databases
Gender Studies Databases
- GenderWatchGenderWatch is a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional public.
- Women Writers OnlineThis is a full-text database of pre-Victorian women's writing. The initial release of Women Writers Online includes over 200 English texts by women written before 1830, with a broadly interdisciplinary range of subjects and genres.
- Women's Studies Encyclopedia OnlineThe Women's Studies Encyclopedia contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study, written in nonspecialist language and in a style accessible to all readers.
- Women's Studies InternationalWith coverage from before 1972 to the present, this index of the feminist press covers nearly 3,000 sources in the core women's studies areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
General Databases
- Ebsco Host Web DatabasesDatabase interface to both Ebsco's proprietary databases (e.g. Academic Search Premier) and third-party content (e.g. PsycInfo). Always select ASP, then add others related to your topic.
- JSTORJSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.