gender studies — gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender/LGBT studies

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Academic OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For a less broad search of first tier sources only, use Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC).
Alternative Press Index Citations and some full text articles in the alternative and radical media.
Contemporary Women's Issues Citations and full-text access to global information about women in over 150 countries from journals, newsletters and research reports. Subjects include development, education, family life, gender equity, human rights, and others.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910, online When complete (in 2007) will have over 60,000 images of primary documents and rare printed literature for men and women in five areas: (I) Conduct and Politeness; (II) Domesticity and the Family; (III) Consumption and Leisure; (IV) Education and Sensibility; and (V) The Body. Fields of study include economics, education, history, the history of medicine, literatures in English, performance arts, philosophy, psychology, and religion. May trace changes over-time in, for example, advice literature, consumer consumption, the position of men within the family, and perceptions of the body, beauty, education, and the mind.
Documentary Films Hundreds of gender studies, women's studies, and sexual orientation studies documentaries are available for check-out through the Library's Mitchell Multimedia Center. Click on the link to the Center or see specific lists through these links:
- Gender Studies and Women's Studies Documentaries
- Sexual Orientation Studies Documentaries
Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development, etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed. For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources, see Academic OneFile.
Gay & Lesbian Abstracts, See Sexual Diversity Studies.
Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections An extensive, annotated, comprehensive and excellent bibliography of resources (up to 1998). See, too, Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections. Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender periodicals A collection of periodicals located in the Special Collections section of the Library.
Gender Issues & Sexuality "... primary source documents... on the issues of gender and sexuality in the last three centuries. International in scope, this volume contains approximately 200 documents, such as speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays... "
Gender Studies Database: The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
GenderWatch: Full-text articles from scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters, etc., including ethnic and minority presses. Coverage of regional, national, and international issues from 1980 to the present.
Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections "This guide identifies and classifies over 900 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library that deal primarily with lesbian themes. It is largely a subset of the Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago Library, compiled in 1998; but it has been updated by the addition of approximately 180 lesbian-themed titles acquired in late 1997, in 1998, and in early 1999." See, too, Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections. Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America 3 volumes, 2004. "Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS."
Men's Studies Database: Accessed via: Gender Studies Database. Contains over 45,850 citations & abstracts. MSD covers 250 core and hundreds more important periodicals providing access to the full diversity of literature including journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and numerous other sources on men's studies from 1990 to the present.
QWEER Literature Web "is designed to provide access to queer resources in Romance language countries in Western Europe" for the fields of language and literature.
QWEER Literature Web: Other Subjects Emphasis is on cultural and film resources in Western Europe.
Queer Science Read Only Text available through MIT CogNet.
Sex & Sexuality, 1640-1940 Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives Microform collection in four parts: (1) body and medical related topics; (2) romantic friendships and lesbian relationships in literature and history; (3 & 4) Erotica, 1657-1908. For other large microfilm sets of related primary materials, see Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies in the NU Library.
SEXBIBLIO – Bibliography of the History of Western Sexualtiy, 1700-1945 A rich database that contains "about 23.000 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 2004. Beyond this the database offers important titles of the sexual history of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including non-Western societies." (Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna)
Sexual Diversity Studies: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Abstracts [formerly Gay & Lesbian Abstracts]: Access via: Gender Studies Database
Citations and abstracts of articles in the scholarly and popular press of interest to and about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community.
Sociological Abstracts: Citations and abstracts of articles in sociology journals and related fields.
Women Advising Women, 1450-1837 See the online guide to contents on the publisher's website at AMP Digital Guides. Microform collection in 7 parts with early primary sources related to women’s rights and status, health, marriage, the law, daughters, education, religion, morality, women writers, women as translators, household management, domestic economy, and much more. For other large microfilm sets of related primary materials, see Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies in the NU Library.
WSSLinks: Lesbian plus some Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Web Sites

For further information, contact:

Kathleen E. Bethel
African American Studies Librarian
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
:847.491.2173; fax: 847.491.5678
kbethel@northwestern.edu