Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Guide
Selected resources for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Performance, Art, and Media Studies Databases
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Art Full TextThe main database for research in art and art history. Includes both popular and academic titles. Also includes some performing arts and media content
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Index of international publications on music and other performance arts, such as dance. Includes a variety of publication types including journal articles, ethnographic recordings, and reviews. Relevant for research on performance studies, education, literature, and more.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full TextCovers film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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Communication and Mass Media CompleteAccess to research in areas related to cultural studies, communication and mass media studies, rhetoric, speech, and digital, electronic and new media.
Politics and Religion
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS
Access to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.
Interdisciplinary Databases
Alternative Press Sources
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Left Index
Covers the literature of the Left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social, and cultural scholarship both inside and outside academia. Topics covered include labor movements, the environment, race, sociology, art, philosophy, history, education, and globalization.
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Alternative Press Index
Citations to international alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles. Coverage: 1991-present.
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Alternative Press Index Archive
Citations to international alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles. Coverage: 1969-1990.
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Independent VoicesIndependent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Mainstream Scholarly Sources
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Arts and Humanities Citation IndexA subset of Web of Science, this database provides article references for journals across the arts and humanities disciplines, including art and art history, archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Offers cited reference searching.
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Social Sciences Citation IndexA subset of Web of Science, this covers journal information across 50 social sciences disciplines. Offers cited reference searching.
Online Journals to Browse
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Studies in Gender and SexualityStudies in Gender and Sexuality is one of the leading journals in the transdisciplinary field of gender and sexuality studies. Situated at the interface of psychoanalysis and social/cultural theory, it aims to further our understanding of how we live, theorize and transform genders and sexualities.
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Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social JusticeAtlantis is a scholarly research journal devoted to critical work in a variety of formats that reflects current scholarship and approaches to the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies. It incorporates a diversity of feminist, anti-racist and critical identity, intersectional, transnational, and cultural studies approaches to a wide range of contemporary issues, topics, and knowledges. Atlantis is dedicated to the ongoing growth of knowledge in the field of Women's and Gender Studies, as well as to critical reflections on the field itself.
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Culture, Health, and SexualityCulture, Health & Sexuality is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes multi-disciplinary articles analyzing culture and health, health beliefs and systems, social structures and divisions, and the implications of these for sexual health, and individual, collective, and community wellbeing.
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MP: An Online Feminist JournalMP is an online, peer-reviewed, international feminist journal. Our goal is to provide an intelligent forum for feminist discourse in cyberspace, to give voice to a variety of voices on issues of gender and power. We believe that words can change the world!
Open Access Resources
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AfricaBib A collection of Africana social science titles consisting of 2 bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. Check out their section on African Women for information specific to WGSS, although other sections will have relevant information as well.
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BASE A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
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Digital Library of the Caribbean dLOC is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean region that provides access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. Types of materials include; newspapers, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral histories, travel accounts, literature, poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.
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Digital Public Library of America DPLA materials come from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of these are freely available and include; photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, etc.
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Directory of Open Access Journals Access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering a range of topics and languages.
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Dissertations and Thesis - Open Access (Proquest) Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
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HathiTrust Digital Library A digital preservation repository that provides access to millions of digitized materials from libraries around the world. For enhanced access to materials, log into HathiTrust using your Macalester email credentials.
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LLMC Digital LLMC Digital is a searchable, full text collection of material from U.S. federal legislative, judicial and executive branches. LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally.
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MDPI Scholarly OA publisher since 1996. Supports many diverse, peer-reviewed, OA journals with over 35,500 academic editors. Serves scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available.
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Open Book Publishers Find peer-reviewed open access books in a variety of subjects.
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Open Library of Humanities The Open Library of Humanities is a non-profit open access publisher for the humanities and social sciences.
