Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

An interdisciplinary database combined from Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women's Studies Database (1972-present), New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975-present), and several major bibliographies.
[Coverage: 1972 (and earlier)-present]

LGBT Life contains indexing and abstracts for LGBT-specific core periodicals, in addition to data mined from over 1400 select titles. Also, contains data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies database.

Sociological Abstracts, and its companion file Social Services Abstracts, cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.
[Coverage: 1952-present]

Bibliographic database containing citations to articles on American and Canadian history, including ethnic history and relations, from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals published worldwide.
[Coverage: 1964-present]

Citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: history and life.) Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide.
[Coverage: 1967-present]

A full-text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.

Primary source collection on the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender research covering disciplines such as social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities around the world. Formats include books, articles, images and manuscripts. The archive includes gay and lesbian newspapers from more than 35 countries, reports, policy statements, and other documents related to gay rights and health, including the worldwide impact of AIDS, materials tracing LGBTQ activism in Britain from 1950 through 1980, and more.  Modules include: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture (UC acquired 2021) and LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 & Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries (UC acquired 2019).
[Coverage: 16th-20th Century]

The Women's Studies modules in History Vault consist of records of suffrage organizations and other women's rights organizations; personal papers of women's rights advocates, many of whom were involved in the suffrage movement; and records on women at work during World War II.

Searchable, full-text collection of 5 leading American women's magazines. Better Homes and Gardens; Chatelaine; Good Housekeeping; Ladies' Home Journal; and Parents Magazine.

Includes the full text of diaries and letters of more than 100 women from the 18th and 19th centuries, with biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography on women's narratives.
[Coverage: 1675-1950]

A searchable, full-text collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. The texts, collected between the late 1800s and 1945 are in fifteen different languages and cover four centuries.
[Coverage: 1543-1945]

A series of primary source collections includes manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and images. Focus includes social, political, and professional achievements as well as evolution of social movements by women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. Coverage focuses on women’s political activism such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism across multiple geographic regions. Particular attention has been paid to material produced by women.
[Coverage: 19th century - 20th century]

Full text of Magazines (20), Journals (2), Newspapers (2), and Trade Journals (2) from the 1950s to 2010s.