Women's & Gender Studies: Recommended

The focus for women's studies at Virginia Tech is to present students with new ways of thinking about how race, class, and sexuality shape our society and our experiences in it.

Women studies journals

Recommended online resources

Archives of Sexuality & Gender from Gale
The Archives of Sexuality & Gender provides primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Includes LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 and Sex and Sexuality: 16th to 20th Century.
Defining Gender from Adam Matthew Digital
Defining Gender provides digitized primary sources on gender, leisure, and consumer culture from British archives in history, literature, sociology, education, and cultural studies. Content includes pamphlets, college records and exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, educational practice and pedagogy, government papers from the Home Office and Metropolitan police, illustrated writings on anatomy, midwifery, art and fashion, manuscript journals, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, travel writing, and conduct and advice literature. 1465-1917.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide from EBSCOhost
Family & Society Studies Worldwide indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles (PDFs) from journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses and dissertations, and other sources in the social sciences and education. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1900s-present.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide, produced by NISC, is a core resource providing comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development, and social welfare. FSSW covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice.

Coverage spans publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses and dissertations, and other sources.
Family Studies Abstracts from EBSCOhost
Family Studies Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts of journal articles and book reviews on the social science aspects of families. 1930-present
Gender: Identity and Social Change from Adam Matthew Digital
Gender: Identity and Social Change provides primary sources for the study of gender history, women’s suffrage, sexual orientation and expression, the feminist movement, and the men’s movement. Content includes correspondence, newspapers and magazines, business reports, photos and artwork, polls, and organization papers. 1800s-present.
GenderWatch from ProQuest
GenderWatch indexes citations and full-text articles on gender and women's studies and GLBT research. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government, and special reports. Content is HTML and PDF. 1970-present.
GenderWatch's strong collection of important, current titles provides users comprehensive support for gender, family, ethnic, and societal studies from both academic and grassroots perspectives. Users will find essential titles such as Off Our Backs (1970 to current) and Transgender Tapestry, international titles such as Sister Namibia and the Australian Feminist Law Journal, community newspapers such as Out & About and the Windy City Times, and many other diverse and interdisciplinary publications.
Political Extremism and Radicalism from Gale
Political Extremism and Radicalism is a compilation of rare and unique archival collections that provide insight on unorthodox groups and movements from both the right and left of the political spectrum, supporting the study of activism, cultural studies, political science, policy studies, gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, and other related areas of research.
Sourced from distinguished libraries and archives from across the world, this digital archive offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera.
Sex and Sexuality from Adam Matthew Digital
Sex and Sexuality provides digitized documents including published professional papers, correspondence between professional and private individuals, autobiographical accounts, official records, media coverage, and photographs encompassing all aspects of sex, sexuality and gender identity. Due to the nature of subjects in discussion, please be aware that this resource contains material of a sexually explicit and graphic nature. Content includes, but is not limited to, descriptions and imagery of sexual violence; non-consensual sexual activity; sexual activity including minors; genital mutilation; surgery, and suicide.
Women Working, 1800-1930
Women Working, 1800--1930 provides free digitized manuscripts, personal papers, institutional records, magazines, and photos on aspects of women's history.

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