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

Provides an overview of resources at Fordham University Libraries covering women, gender, and sexuality.

Articles & Databases

This page highlights databases and selected journals used to help find articles at Fordham University Libraries. 

  • A periodical is a journal, magazine or newspaper published regularly on a schedule. Researchers can look up periodicals individually or search on a topic across many periodicals through a database.
  • Library databases may contain a combination of peer-reviewed articles as well as reports, book reviews, opinion pieces, datasets, images, videos, archival content, and more.

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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.

Gender & Sexuality Databases

Social Science Databases

Background Information on Social Issues

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.

Multidisciplinary Databases

History Databases

Literature Databases

Additional Databases & Research Guides

stars 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.

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