Research Guides: Women and Gender Studies: Home

Welcome

Welcome to the Women and Gender Studies Research Guide!

This guide is intended for students and researchers in Women's and Gender Studies of all levels. It lists general resources including books, databases, reference materials and primary sources available at the FSU Libraries as well as other external resources.

If additional help is needed, please schedule a research consultation with subject librarian, Amauri Serrano, for one-on-one assistance.

"Feminists led away by campus police, photo by peter burg"

Florida Flambeau, March 9, 1977
"Feminists protest at hospital"

Key Resources

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is another excellent resource for books, periodicals, manuscripts, newspapers, and archival materials in print, microfilm, and digital formats. FSU belongs to this international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries, which allows FSU patrons to borrow CRL materials via interlibrary loan for extended periods.

One way to identify key collections is through CRL Topic Guides.

GenderWatch*
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.

Coverage Includes

Women studies
Men's studies
Evolution of the women's movement
Transgendered community
(Changes in) gender roles
Femininity
Gender differences
Gender equity
Gender identity
Gender studies
Masculinity
Sociological Abstracts*
Sociology-related topics such as: abuse and neglect, aging, anthropology, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, education, ethnic studies, law and penology, social psychology, urban studies, violence, and women's studies.

Subject coverage
Culture and social structure
Family and marriage
History and theory of sociology
Organizational sociology
Political sociology
Poverty and homelessness
Race and ethnicity
Social change and economic development
Social control
Sociology of health and medicine
Sociology of education
PsycINFO (ProQuest)*
Online version of Psychological Abstracts, 1887 to present. Covers journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations, in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.