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Gender and Women's Studies

Research resources in the areas of Gender & Women's Studies

Women & Social Movements

Women & Social Movements is a full text database surrounding the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000. The site seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding of U.S. history while providing insights into women’s history by providing access to full text documents.

Suggested Databases

These article databases are the most appropriate ones for general research in gender and women's studies topics. Most of the content you will discover in these databases is peer reviewed, but be sure to evaluate results carefully!

Academic Search Complete -- A multi-disciplinary database that indexes thousands of peer-reviewed journals, many available in full-text.

JSTOR -- Full text from core journals in all subject areas. JSTOR also has hundreds of full text books from academic and university presses.

SocINDEX -- Comprehensive sociology research database with full text. Also strong for anthropology, community development, social work, criminal justice, and other fields related to anthropology and sociology.

These subject-specific databases may also be useful for certain topics.

America: History & Life -- For the history of North America.

Art & Architecture Complete 

ATLA Religion --  Covers the scholarly literature of religious studies: Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. 

Historical Abstracts -- For the history of the world (from 1450) excluding North America

MLA Bibliography -- For topics in language and literature

PsycInfo -- For topics in psychology

When you search these databases, many items in your results lists will have links to the full text. Look for the links to pdf or html full text. If no full text links appear, click on the button/link.

This action takes you to Knox Primo where the citation to the article appears.

You will then be presented with options to get the full text from another source or an option to request the item via Tipasa interlibrary loan.

Independent Voices

Independent Voices is an open access 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.