LibGuides: Gender Studies: Finding Sources

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Psychology Database
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Power Search Tools

Use these to find all types of source, including research starters (explainers), scholarly/academic sources and popular sources, such as news, magazines, books, and more.

Search Everything
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Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
A great choice for beginning college researchers, this search tool is easy to use and searches all of the Gale tools at once.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
This user-friendly and powerful tool searches all ProQuest content at once, good scholarly sources that "Search Everything" might miss.

Videos

Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online: Premium is Alexander Street's most comprehensive video subscription. Launched in 2013, this expansive resource comprises the full content of dozens of video collections and bonus discipline clusters, and grows by 7,000 titles each year.
Kanopy
Kanopy provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, tv series, and more. The collection of films support a wide variety of subject areas including the arts, media studies, politics, diversity, equity and inclusion, LGBTQAI+, psychology, business, sciences, health, education, history. Over 8,000 titles are available on-demand. Some content requires an additional purchase. Please contact the library for those titles.

Books

The following are some subjects and keywords to use to find books on gender studies topics:

gender relations, man-woman relationships, gender roles, sex roles
women, femininity, older women, married women, feminism
men, masculinity, older men, husbands
lesbians, bisexual women, gay men, sexual minorities, transsexualism
gender identity, gender differences, sex differences, genderqueer, cisgender, transgender*, non-binary, gender-fluid
sexual customs, interpersonal relations, social perception

eBooks

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Scholarly and academic books.
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Books for researchers and general readers.