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:

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.

Finding Full Text Journals & Periodicals (Video)
This short video will show you how to look up magazines, journals, and newspapers 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) This link opens in a new window
Gale database with full text access to popular and scholarly articles, books, news, images, and videos.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to the literature on sociology including journals, books, and conference papers.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Offers full text access to hundreds of academic journals across a wide range of social science disciplines.

Background Information on Social Issues

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
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.

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 This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary full text database with thousands of periodicals and other publications.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles on broad range of subjects since 1971.
JSTOR (EXPANDED COLLECTIONS) This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of academic journals available in full text. The Feminist & Women's Studies collection contains 38 journals.
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
Project MUSE - Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 700 journals.

History Databases

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

Literature Databases

Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 This link opens in a new window
A still-growing list of known and newly recovered writers and texts.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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