Databases
Individual articles are not searchable in library catalogs. Instead, they can be found in our online databases, or located by running a Journal by Title search on the library homepage. The following databases are subject-specific databases to help you get started with your article searching.
- Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowCitations for scholarly articles related to gender and sexuality from 1972-present.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowJournals, magazines, newspapers, and reports from 1970-present, on the evolution of gender roles, LGBTQ+, sexuality, religion, workplace, and family studies.
- Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new windowBooks, pamphlets, and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights from 1543-1945.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowCollection of LGBTQ+ journals, magazines, books, and regional newspapers.
- Struggle for Women's Rights (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new windowRecords of suffrage and other women's rights organizations, such as the National Woman's Party, League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance, as well as personal papers of women's rights advocates.
- Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new windowMaterials focusing on women's voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights in America.
- Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowArchives of leading "women's interest" consumer magazines, from 1846-2005. Twelve magazines, with images and advertisements, are included.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowCitations for articles covering Women's studies and feminist research from 1972-present.
- Women, War, and Society, 1914-1918 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials from WWI cover the contribution of women to the war in Europe, from 1914-1918. The collection includes charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, and press cuttings.
- Women Writers Online This link opens in a new windowWomen’s literary works in the early modern period, from 1526-1850. Texts are of verse, drama, fiction, and non-fiction.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ history and culture since 1940 This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. The content sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more.
- Sex & Sexuality: the Kinsey Institute Papers This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources collected by prominent sex researchers and consists of unpublished professional papers, reports, correspondences, and autobiographical accounts encompassing all aspects of sex, sexuality & gender identity.
