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Sociological Abstracts
Social Sciences content with a significant amount of Women & Gender studies content.

Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Provides interdisciplinary coverage of gender-related topics including women's studies, men's studies, ethnic studies, health issues, and sexual diversity.
Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window
Content focuses on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Features full text for more than 130 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines & regional newspapers, as well as more than 170 full-text e-books.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Contains references & full-text of theoretical & empirical materials in the main areas of women’s studies (social issues, women’s health, gender studies.)

Sage Journals: Gender Equity and Justice
A collection of research that explores themes of gender oppression and inequity, and examines the unjust systems that stifle equality.
Sage Journals: LGBTQIA+ Research
A collection of research, videos, and books that looks at Queer Theory, Gender Identity, Queer Justice, Hegemonic Heterosexuality, Sexual Orientation, and more.
Sage Journals: Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention and Awareness
A collection of research on #MeToo and online disclosures, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, rape culture, assessment of trauma, bystander education, safety and regulations, and survivors.
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Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I This link opens in a new window
Provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Primary source material originating from British archives, including manuscripts, printed works, and illustrations related to issues of gender.
Black Women Writers This link opens in a new window
Gale case studies : intersectional LGBTQ issues digital archive This link opens in a new window
Intersectional LGBTQ Issues is a module in the online resource Gale Case Studies, which offers a closer look into the history of LGBTQ people and activism into the twenty-first century.

Queer Pasts
Queer Pasts is a collection of primary source exhibits for students and scholars of queer history and culture. The database uses “queer” in its broadest and most inclusive sense, to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and to include work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Each of the document collections in the database will include a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources in historical terms and in relationship to previous scholarship.

Gerritsen Collection This link opens in a new window
Documents from Western Europe and English from 1543 to 1945 which trace the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights. Includes monographs, periodicals, and pamphlets in fifteen languages.
Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new window
Examines the foundations and progression of women's movements during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Women's Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Personal writings of New England women from diverse social backgrounds of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

LGBT Magazine Archive
A searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests. Coverage ranges from the 1950s through to recent years.

Women in the National Archives This link opens in a new window
Original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories
Women's Magazine I This link opens in a new window
Women's Magazine II This link opens in a new window
Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new window

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