About This Guide
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This guide is designed to support academic and personal research on the topics of issues surrounding gender in a variety of contexts: political, historical, personal, among others.
Women's and Gender Studies is continually updated with links to new library materials and other relevant web resources. Use the tabs to navigate through a variety of research tools and selected content.
Recommended Resources
- Gender: Identity and Social ChangeThis collection of primary sources is ideal for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics. Content spans from the nineteenth century to present and documents the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations.
- Gerritsen Collection - Women's History OnlineThe Gerritsen Collection is an electronic collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights.
- Social Issues POWERSEARCH This link opens in a new windowThe Social Issues PowerSearch searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and PAIS International.
- Gender Studies POWERSEARCH This link opens in a new windowThe Gender Studies Powersearch searches the following databases simultaneously: Gender Studies Database, Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson), PsycARTICLES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycINFO, Social Sciences Abstracts, SocINDEX, and Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson).