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Welcome! This research guide provides starting points for research in the field of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. In this guide you will find suggested books, databases, journals, and other web resources that may be helpful for your projects.
For general help getting started with research, check out our step-by-step guide here.
Find Augsburg's Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies department here.
Search Strategies
You can find relevant materials by combining keywords. When searching through databases or the library website, try out multiple keywords to see what gets you the results you want. Using " " around phrases with multiple words will keep concepts together (so you don't get results that only include "women" or "studies", for example).
Search Term Suggestions:
"women's studies" "gender studies" women feminism
You can pair these keywords with the specific topic of your research using the connector AND:
women AND queer "gender studies" AND classism feminism AND "American history"
Don't be discouraged if you don't find exactly what you want on the first try. Searching often takes many iterations of keywords to get right. Try it out for yourself below!
Databases & Journals
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Premier is the best general database to search, with more than 8,300 journals in all academic disciplines, and more than 4,600 full-text journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles on most academic topics, often spanning the entire run of academic journals.
- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies ResourcesPresents news and reviews of the latest print, audiovisual, and computer resources for research and teaching in women's studies.
- Women's StudiesWomen’s Studies provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. It also publishes poetry, film and book reviews.
- Journal of Gender StudiesInterdisciplinary journal publishing articles relating to gender from a feminist perspective.
Get General Ideas and Information
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society by ISBN: 9781452266022Publication Date: 2008-11-26This comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia covers the major theories, research, people and issues in contemporary gender studies. It is distinguished by a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective providing comparative analyses of life experiences of men and women around the world.
Gender and Identity Around the World by ISBN: 9781440867958Publication Date: 2020-11-09Gender and Identity around the World explores a variety of gender and LGBTQ experiences and issues in countries from all the world's regions. Guided by more than 50 recognized academic experts, readers will examine how gender and LGBTQ identities are developed, fought for, perceived, and policed in countries as diverse as France, Brazil, Russia, Jordan, Iraq, and China.
Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures by ISBN: 9780815333548Publication Date: 1999-12-01Written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new researchers this is intended as a reference for students and scholars in all areas of study, as well as the general public.
Feminist and Queer Theory by Call Number: HQ1190 .F465 2021ISBN: 9780190841799Publication Date: 2020-01-15As women's studies departments and programs undergo rapid transformation in higher education, there has been a burgeoning demand for instructional material that addresses feminist and queer studies at all levels in the curricula. Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader reflects this vibrantly expanding field and meets the urgent need for theory courses.
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies by Call Number: HQ21 .H3234 2022ISBN: 9780367756406Publication Date: 2022-06-07Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level.
Find reports and statistics
- World Bank Gender Data PortalCompiles data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and surveys conducted or funded by the World Bank.
- Woman Stats ProjectThis site compiles information about women's issues from sources such as governmental databases, news, reports, and scholarly articles. The ability to compare many countries at once is very valuable, but you must create a free account to search, and the search is only by specified codes that you need to use.
- World Health OrganizationThe WHO maintains statistics and does policy analysis on all aspects of health. Their Reproductive Health page is good for general information about issues around women's health.
- IPUMS USAIPUMS USA collects, preserves and harmonizes U.S. census microdata and provides easy access to this data with enhanced documentation. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present.