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

A Selection of Journals for WGSS from Library Catalog

This section contains a selection of subscribed journals:

Background Information on 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.

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 Database
EBSCO database with indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship from scholarly and popular publications.

Social Science Databases

SocIndex with Full Text
Comprehensive index to the literature on sociology including journals, books, and conference papers.
Social Science Database
Offers full text access to hundreds of academic journals across a wide range of social science disciplines.
Political Science Complete
Covers a range of political and governmental topics through full-text journals and conference papers.

Religion Databases

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS
Worldwide index of books, journal articles, reviews and essays in all fields of religion with some full text from the American Theological Library Association.

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.

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 & ARTSTOR
Hundreds of academic journals available in full text. The Feminist & Women's Studies collection contains 38 journals.
NOTE: Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources).Fordham does not subscribe to the Constellate text/data analytics service. Users can download full datasets with up to 25,000 items. CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION.
JSTOR Subscribed Collections with Access:
Arts & Sciences I through XV, Ireland, Life Sciences, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants,19th Century British Pamphlets.
ARTSTOR notes:
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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 many Sage journals. Click through to check specific access to each title.

History Databases

America: History & Life
Index to history of U.S. and Canada comprising nearly 2,000 journals since 1910.
Historical Abstracts
Abstracts for hundreds of journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding U.S. and Canada).

Literature Databases

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), this subject index dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals and series, as well as book publishers. Covers modern languages, literature, folklore and linguistics. Does not include MLA Directory of Periodicals.

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.

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

Articles & Databases