Simpson Library: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Find Articles

Women's Studies Databases

GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings devoted to women's issues and gender issues. 1970s-present.
Hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging areas of study like women's studies, men's studies, evolution of the women's movement, the transgender community, (changes in) gender roles, femininity, gender differences, gender equity, gender identity, gender studies, masculinity, and more.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Women's studies, including sociology, history, politics, economics, international relations, humanities, business and education. Searchable simultaneously with Academic Search Complete and other EBSCO databases.
Gale Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History Since 1940, Parts I and II
The archive illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community. Historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals are featured, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays, and extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis. The archive also contains personal correspondence and interviews with numerous LGBTQ individuals, among others.

Other Useful Databases

Scholarly journal articles from many different disciplines will include articles that are useful for women's, gender, and sexuality studies researchers. The best place to search will depend on your topic.

Research topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies can be interdisciplinary, and sometimes it's hard to know where to start. In cases like these, you might want to start with the main Library search, Quest.

Quest - The Main Simpson Library Search
A search in Quest will help you find articles from scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects, as well as books and eBooks.
Quest searches most (but not all) of the databases that UMW subscribes to. Since your topic may be interdisciplinary, Quest can be a great place to start your search!

Depending on your topic, you might also want to search in a database covering just one discipline. For example, if you are examining women's voting patterns or the representation of LGBTQ+ individuals in national legislative bodies, you may want to search in the political science literature. If you're interested in the impact of conditional cash transfers on the educational achievement of women and girls, you may want to search in the economics literature. For research on household division of labor and gender dynamics, you may wish to look at the psychology or sociology literature.

APA PsycNET (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Includes PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and PsycTESTS
Gender identity, masculinity, femininity, household division of labor, gender equality, intersectionality, and much more.
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
Offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
Includes dissertations and theses from a wide range of disciplines which may be of interest to researchers studying women's, gender, or sexuality studies.
EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles in Economics, including full text for nearly 600 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the four American Economic Journal titles).
Full text articles on the economic aspects of gender and development, education, economic policy, health, law, housing, social development, and much more.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
A current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Includes articles addressing the intersection of women's, gender, and sexuality studies with cultural and ethnic studies. Includes publications that may not be found elsewhere and provides a unique and valuable resource for minority perspectives
Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals—of which 470 are peer-reviewed—dating as far back as 1984.
Includes articles discussing gender and sexuality in relation to history, language, literature, religion, the arts, and more.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
More than 1,200 journals, as well as books and other sources.
Includes articles discussing gender and sexuality in relation to history, language, literature, religion, the arts, and more.
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals).
Includes articles on the relationship between gender and politics, including gender and political representation, gender and voting patterns, gender inequality, feminism, women's rights, women's suffrage, and much more.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly articles from a number of fields in the social sciences, including sociology, economics, political science, psychology, and more, including articles in all of these disciplines related to gender and sexuality.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Contains full text for more than 860 sociology journals dating back to 1908.
Includes articles on gender, marriage/family, social psychology, and more.

Finding Journals

Find an article citation and wonder if Simpson Library has access to the journal?

Example:

Ready, D. D. (2010). Socioeconomic disadvantage, school attendance, and early cognitive development: The differential effects of school exposure. Sociology of Education, 83(4), 271-286.

Sociology of Education is the title of the journal in which this article was published. This article is published in Volume 83, Issue 4, from 2010.

You need to search the Journal Search using the title of the journal (Sociology of Education), not the title of the article.

Once you find the journal, you will need to see if which database includes the volume / year of the article you want to find.

Simpson Library Journal Search
Search using the title of the journal, not the article title. Use the Journal Search to find which library databases include a journal. The Journal Search will also tell you if we have the journal available in print or on microfilm.