Research Guides @ Fordham: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS): Articles & Databases

A Selection of Journals for WGSS from Library Catalog

This section contains a selection of subscribed journals:

Searching for Journals, Newspapers, and Magazines

This section will help you find an article from a citation or check to see if Fordham subscribes to a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper.

Searching Periodicals (Video)
Part of the Library Instructional Bibliographic Series, this video will show you how to look up newspapers, magazines, and journals individually at Fordham University Libraries.
Newspapers at Fordham University Libraries
Provides a listing to Fordham's electronic newspaper subscriptions and databases with both historical and current newspapers.

Gender & Sexuality Databases

Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile)
Gale database with full text access to popular and scholarly articles, books, news, images, and videos.
GenderWatch
ProQuest database with an index of scholarly and community publications from 1970 to present relevant to gender, women's, and LGBTQ studies.
Gender Studies
EBSCO database with indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship from scholarly and popular publications.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary full text database with thousands of periodicals and other publications.
ProQuest Research Library
Full text of articles on broad range of subjects since 1971.
JSTOR (EXPANDED COLLECTIONS & JOURNALS) - ENDS 6/30/22
Hundreds of academic journals available in full text. The Feminist & Women's Studies collection contains 38 journals.
Project MUSE - Premium Collection
Full text of hundreds of journals including current issues. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies collection contains 23 journals. No access to books.
SAGE Journals Collection
Full text of over 700 journals.

Understanding Social Issues

CQ Researcher
Offers in-depth, authoritative reports on political and social-policy issues that study the evolution of various topics over time with an archive from 1923-present.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
Premier online resource for helping students explore today's hottest social issues from all perspectives. * Note: Only 85-90% of each Reference title is included in the database.

Additional Databases & Research Guides

Your entry point into Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies might come from History, Literature, Economics, Humanitarian Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, Theology, etc. Try using additional subject-specific library databases and research guides as resources.

Primary Source Collections

Routledge Historical Resources: The History of Feminism
Covers the subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928) with a range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, journal articles, and more.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (scholar's edition)
Thousands of documents, images, bibliographies and teaching aids.

Requesting Articles Through InterLibrary Loan

Articles from journals that Fordham does not subscribe to can be requested through InterLibrary Loan. If the library is able to get access, these articles will be delivered to researchers electronically.

ILLiad
Open an account with InterLibrary Loan to request access to books, articles, etc. that Fordham does not own.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS): Articles & Databases

Articles & Databases