Guides: Women and Gender Studies: Find Scholarly Articles and Books

Scholarly Research Databases

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text access is available to over 380 journals and over 13,000 scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage from 1993 - present.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Sage provides current access to around 800 electronic peer-reviewed journal titles across many disciplines. Particular strengths include Criminology, Education, Industrial Relations and Labor, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Sociology and Urban Studies.
Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1,500 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities areas.

General WGS Journals

Area Studies and WGS

Journal of Middle East women's studies

Indian journal of gender studies

Humanities and WGS

Nashim

A journal of Jewish women's studies & gender issues

Journal of feminist studies in religion

Race and Gender Journals

Palimpsest

A journal of women, gender and the black international

Women, gender, and families of color

Social Sciences and WGS

Signs

A journal of women and culture in society

Heresies

A feminist publication on art and politics

Journal of the history of sexuality

Social Politics

International studies in gender, state and society

Other WGS Journals

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How do I find books on this topic?

Did you know that you can use Subject Headings to search for books? A subject heading is like a tag that pulls together books on a subject, regardless of what specific words or terms the author used. So different authors may use the term "gay" or "homosexual man" or "MSM" to refer to a group of people, but all of those books would be under the subject heading "Gay men". If you only did a keyword search, you might not get all the results.

To search by subject heading, type in SU: before the term. Examples:

SU: Gay Men

SU: Lesbians–United States–Biography.

SU: Heterosexism in medical care

For a list of LGBTQ-related subject headings, visit this website: https://secularlibrarian.com/lgbtq-lcsh/.

Caveat: Subject headings can be complicated when talking about LGBTQ topics, because sometimes the nuances of terms can be lost. Changes in subject headings are also slow, so there may be some terms that are no longer considered respectful or accurate still used as subject headings.