Women's & Gender Studies Databases

A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.

A digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.

Provides coverage of the achievements and contributions of African American women in sports, politics, academia, and business throughout history and highlights their contributions in America today.

Provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.

Showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries, c. 1800-1920.

Documents the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Primary sources cover women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism and gender identity.

Covers LGBTQ topics in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.

An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers and magazines produced by feminists, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and the extreme right-wing press.

Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.

Colonial to 1950 - includes the experiences of 632 women as revealed in diaries and letters.

Collection of biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

Draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Articles address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.

This encyclopedia delves into the period from 1750 to the present, providing special attention to social, economic, cultural and political topics applicable to the time.

Comprehensively covers the role women have played throughout world history. Contains biographies of influential women and articles covering geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.

Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Brings together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

Database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles in psychology. These journals also are accessible through PsycINFO.

Provides peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health and is produced by the American Psychological Association.

Covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

This multidisciplinary database includes a citation mapping feature that allows you to track research across time, including almost 1.7 billion cited references allowing for comprehensive searches.

Provides access to newspapers and editorials covering roughly 80 years of the fight for women's voting rights.

This collection uses serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals that center on
gender and class from the late 18th century to the era of suffrage in the early 20th
century.

Includes a finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives (UK) and original documents pertaining to women's suffrage in Britain, the British Empire, and other colonial territories c. 1903-1962.