Article Databases
These are just a few of the databases you might use in your research. Still not finding what you're looking for? Consult our database list or ask a librarian!
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowSearch for articles about the history and culure of the United States and Canada. Publications include peer-reviewed journals, magazines, dissertations, books, and more. Access is limited to six simultaneous users. Note: For world history topics, use the Historical Abstracts database. Coverage: 1964-
- Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new windowComprehensive fashion database, includes the Berg Enyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, scholarly ebooks, and images from museums such as the Victoria & Albert, The Museum at FIT, and the Bata Shoe Museum.
- Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowThis database deals specifically with Women's and Gender Studies Issues from 190 countries.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada. For similar coverage of the U.S. and Canada, use America History and Life. Access is limited to six simultaneous users. Coverage: 1954-
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a multidisciplinary database that provides historical coverage for scholarly journals, many all the way back to the first issue, as well as British pamphlets. JSTOR searches the full text of every article, so remember to put phrases in quotations to keep terms together. You can narrow your search further by using the subject areas below the search boxes.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowThe premiere Psychology journal database. Provides comprehensive coverage for the field of psychology. Contains abstracts from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and abstracts to articles published in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Also includes citations to some books and many dissertations. Includes Social Services Abstracts. Coverage: 1952-
- ProQuest Social Science Database This link opens in a new windowContains hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology. Coverage: 1987-
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowIndexes and provides full-text access to scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports across all major subject areas.
Selected Books: Sexuality
To find additional books, visit the ZSR Library Catalog or, for more help, click on the ZSR Library Catalog tab above.
A Global History of SexualityCall Number: HQ21 .G586 2014 WEBISBN: 9781118525890Publication Date: 2013
A Queer History of the United StatesCall Number: HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011ISBN: 9780807044391Publication Date: 2011
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America by Call Number: E184.A1 C592 2016 (Print & Web)ISBN: 9780252040399Publication Date: 2016
Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th CenturyCall Number: HQ76.3.U5 E35 2008 WEBISBN: 9780313071751Publication Date: 2008
The Routledge History of Queer AmericaCall Number: HQ76.3.U5 R697 2018 WEBISBN: 9781317601012Publication Date: 2018
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of HeterosexualityCall Number: HQ23 .B56 2012ISBN: 9780807044599Publication Date: 2012
Selected Books: Women and Gender
To find additional books, search Primo. For more help, click on the Finding Books + More tab above.
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding by Call Number: GT498.F66 K55 2005 (Print & WEB)ISBN: 9780520253902Publication Date: 2007
Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport by Call Number: GV709 .C34 2015ISBN: 9780252039553Publication Date: 2015
Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black counterpublics, and the cultural politics of Black sororities by Call Number: LJ31 .W43 2010 (Print & Web)ISBN: 9781438432724Publication Date: 2010
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Call Number: HQ1426 .E38 2005ISBN: 9781400078004Publication Date: 2005
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America by Call Number: E184.M5 R86 1998 (Print & WEB)ISBN: 0195114833Publication Date: 1998
Gender in History: Global Perspectives by Call Number: HQ1075 .W526 2011 WEBISBN: 9781444325430Publication Date: 2010
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Call Number: HQ1426 .H689 2017ISBN: 9781608468553Publication Date: 2017
Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932Call Number: HQ1742 .A45 2016 WEBISBN: 9781784996987Publication Date: 2016
Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives by Call Number: HQ1122 .M345 2012 (Print & Web)ISBN: 9780814758908Publication Date: 2013
The Mayans Among Us: Migrant women and meatpacking on the Great PlainsCall Number: F675.G82 S57 2016 WEBISBN: 9780803285811Publication Date: 2016
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Call Number: RL92 .H49 2015ISBN: 9781479840823Publication Date: 2015
Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture by Call Number: F1408.3 .R6755 2018 (Print & Web)ISBN: 9781138894952Publication Date: 2018
Students: A Gendered History by Call Number: LA636.8 .D94 2006 WEBISBN: 9780203004289Publication Date: 2006
Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 To 1806Call Number: HQ1460.5 .W627 2018 WEBISBN: 9781624667503Publication Date: 2018
Making the Most of Books & E-Books
- ALWAYS browse the books near the one you are looking for. If there is one book on your topic, chances are there are more and they will all be shelved together. In our discovery catalog, look for the "Virtual Browse" at the bottom of the item record to see both physical and digital items that are "shelved" next to a particular title.
- Briefly look through the table of contents and/or indexes for relevant material for your paper.
- Ebooks are full-text searchable, so search for specific keywords within the text to identify the most relevant sections of the book for your research question.
- Read the introduction, foreword, etc. to get a feel for the book's purpose and point of view. Sometimes the introduction to a complicated topic gives you enough of a summary to help you form your own thesis or structure your own paper.
- Take note of appendices that may contain maps, chronologies, etc.
- Use the notes and/or bibliographies at the end of each chapter or the end of the book to point you to other secondary and primary sources.
- If you're able, download the relevant chapters as PDFs so you can mark them up with notes, either digitally or by printing them out.