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The Gender Studies program is a truly interdisciplinary program that in addition to gender explores issues of race, class, religion, and nationality in every context imaginable: ancient, medieval, and modern cultures; the lives of whites and people of color; the study of heterosexuality and homosexuality; every region of the world and every discipline in Arts and Letters. The library collections in Gender studies reflect this interdisciplinarity in that material can be found in every call number range as well as every format.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 43 databases | 57 e-journals )

• Black women writers

  
  
  Brings together more than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, black women have needed to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. Much of the documentation associated with this work is fugitive, lying in rare and hard to find texts, obscure typewritten photocopied journals, and the occasional anthology. With this landmark collection, Alexander Street makes accessing these resources easy at last, bringing scholars the voices of Africana women along with a tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and development of black people in the Diaspora.

• British and Irish women's letters and diaries

  
  
  Spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Includes approximately 100,000 pages of primary materials.

• Contemporary women's issues

  
  

  Coverage:

  1992-
  An electronic database, primarily full text, containing over 1500 sources (including over 150 periodicals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups and government and international agencies) on a broad range of women's issues in over 190 nations worldwide. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

• Expanded academic ASAP

  
  

  Coverage:

  1980-
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.

• In the first person

  
  
  Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.

• Introduction to Gender Studies

  
  
  Selection of resources for research in Gender Studies available through the University of Notre Dame Libraries.

• North American women's letters and diaries

  
  
  Provides access to 120,000 pages of letters and diaries of more than 600 women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.

• PsycINFO

  
  

  Coverage:

  1872-
  Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.Journal coverage list for PsycINFO Online tutorial for searching Guide to searching PsycINFO

• Scottish women poets of the Romantic period

  
  
  Online full-text database of 18th and 19th century Scottish poetry by women authors, plus critical essays.

• Sociological abstracts

  
  

  Coverage:

  1963-
  Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in social and behavioral sciences. Citations to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Other Gender Studies Resources

Organizations: Archives

Places: Canada · United States

Formats: Data, statistics and survey results · Dissertations and theses · Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Manuscripts

Research tools: Bibliographies · Catalogs · Directories · Indexes and abstracts · Newspapers and news sources · Reviews (book, film, etc.)

E-Journal Collections: Annual Reviews · Blackwell Synergy · Cambridge University Press · Duke University Press · Haworth Press · HighWire Press · History Cooperative · Indiana University Press · IngentaConnect · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · MIT Press · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Routledge · Sage Publications · ScienceDirect · Springer LINK · Taylor & Francis · University of Chicago Press

Genres: Collected works · Drama · Fiction · Poetry