Guides: Women's, Gender and Sexuality

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Websites & Archives

Digital Transgender Archive: The DTA is an international collaboration among dozens of colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.

Discovering American Women’s History Online: This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons: is an open-access digital repository that provides free access to thousands of scholarly articles, theses, and dissertations from institutions worldwide. It serves as a comprehensive discovery tool for interdisciplinary research covering topics such as queer studies, women’s history, and the social construction of identity.

GLBT Historical Society: The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.

Homosaurus.org: an international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) terms. This vocabulary is intended to function as a companion to broad subject term vocabularies and to support LGBTQ research by enhancing the discoverability of their LGBTQ resources.

Iowa Women’s Archives: The Iowa Women’s Archives holds more than 1,200 manuscript collections that chronicle the lives and work of Iowa women, their families, and their communities. These personal papers and organizational records date from the 19th century to the present. Together with oral histories, they document the activities of Iowa women throughout the state and beyond its borders.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives: The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. Doing this also serves to uncover and document our herstory previously denied to us by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence of the Archives will thus enable current and future generations to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience.

Library of Congress Women’s History Collection: Browse the freely accessible maps, images, and files making up the digital collections of The Library of Congress.

Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930: This collection of Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1931, 1955 features copies of original postcards held by Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection, part of Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Queer Zine Archives Project: The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.

Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History: Founded in 1942, the Sophia Smith Collection (SSC) is one of the most significant collections of women’s history in the United States that focuses on women working on behalf of other women and gender minorities. The SSC has substantive strengths in women’s reproductive rights and justice, women’s liberation movements, suffrage and civil rights, community activism, iconoclast creators, women’s economic justice, lesbian and queer communities, and women’s environmental justice. It is a collection that reflects the diversity and complexity of women’s lives and identities through the lens of social, political, and cultural change, and gender justice.

Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture: This collection contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women’s Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

Women Working, 1800-1930: The collection is an exploration of women’s impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

Reference

A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms : Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. / e-book

Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit : Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore / BL795.H6 C65 1997

Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture. / e-book

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society / e-book

Encyclopedia of Gender in Media / e-book

Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education / e-book

A Glossary of Feminist Theory / HQ1190.A53 1997

Feminist Philosophies A-Z / e-book

Key Concepts in Gender Studies / e-book

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume 13, Gender. / e-book

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies / e-book

Books

Books from Lane Library

Ripon College Catalog: Find books, e-books, journals and other resources at Lane Library.

A Black Women’s History of the United States / E185.86 .B475 2020
Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies : Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches / HQ1180 .I5757 2021
Just Methods : An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader / HQ1180 .J87 2014
The Myth of Seneca Falls : Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 / JK1896.T48 M97 2014
Queer : A Graphic History / HQ76.25 .B37 2016
Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies : Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing / HQ1180 .L38 2018

Books from other libraries

FirstSearch: Access to WorldCat and ArticleFirst. Search for items not available through Lane Library (learn more about interlibrary loan).

Humanities eBook Project: A fully searchable collection of over 3,000 e-books in the humanities.

Articles

The following databases are useful places to search for WGS-related articles. Contact a librarian if you would like more information on how to search for articles on your specific topic.

Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO): Covers a wide range of academic disciplines, with more than 8600 periodicals available in full text.
ProQuest Research Library: Includes both popular and scholarly periodicals covering a variety of subjects, with over 3300 titles available in full text.
JSTOR: Full text access to the archive of over 400 journals. The most current 3-5 years may not be available due to JSTOR’s publisher-defined moving wall.

Journals

Search for journals that cover WGS topics by using our Publication Finder tool. You can search for specific journals by title, subject, and more.

Feminist Formations: a leading journal for innovative work in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
Journal of Gender Studies: Interdisciplinary journal publishing articles relating to gender from a feminist perspective.
Journal of the History of Sexuality: An interdisciplinary, global journal featuring scholarly research and reviews on the history of sexuality in all its expressions, time periods, and cultures.
Women, Gender, and Families of Color: A multidisciplinary journal that centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families.

Get articles from other libraries

If you cannot find a full-text version of the article you need, request it through interlibrary loan. Interlibrary loan is a free service that allows you to borrow books and articles from other libraries.