New Books
Classics in WGSS & LBGTQ Studies
Gender Trouble by Call Number: Audio book; click to accessISBN: 9781541498709Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Teaching to Transgress by Call Number: Ebook and Print, click to accessISBN: 9780415908078Publication Date: 1994-09-14
The well of loneliness by Call Number: PR6015.A33 W4 2015 (DP)ISBN: 9781473521612Publication Date: 1928
Related Research Guides
Background Information Databases
- Encyclopedia of Gender in Media This link opens in a new windowOffers critical examinations of the role of the print and electronic media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social construction of masculinity and femininity in our society, and introduces media and feminist theorists in the social sciences, humanities, and visual studies (including cinema studies and new media).
- LGBTQ+ Studies AVON Academic Videos Online - ASP This link opens in a new windowProvides a searchable online collection of recent documentary, performance, animation, and biographical videos about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender political, cultural, and social movements.
- Credo Reference - All Subjects Search This link opens in a new windowContains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowProvides a collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document women's activism in American public life.
WGSS Databases
- LGBTQ+ Source EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers and videos.
- Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new windowFull-text database that covers the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America
- SocINDEX Full Text EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides more than 860 full-text titles including core sociology peer-reviewed journals.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowProvides a collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document women's activism in American public life.
WGSS and LBGTQ+ Select Journals
The following journals are core journals in the field based on a survey conducted by The American College and Research Libraries WGS Section of scholars, teachers and practictioners in the field. See link below.
To request an article that we do not have access to, use the InterLibrary Loan Request form below.
- Feminist StudiesFrom 1990 to 35 months prior to current date.
- Feminist TheoryFeminist Theory is an international peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminism.
- "Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies"Original articles covering contemporary and historical social issues in women's studies.
- Gender & Society (SAGE Journals) This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed, official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society; focused on the study of gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces.
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay StudiesPublishes scholarship, criticism and commentary in the rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field of gay and lesbian studies.
- InterAlia: A Journal of Queer StudiesInterAlia, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal for queer theory, is open to submissions from a wide range of fields, written in English, Spanish or Polish.
- Journal of Popular CultureArts & Entertainment (General); Ethnic & Cultural Studies; Social Commentary & Opinion; Social Sciences & Humanities (General)
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & SocietyFrom 1990-one year prior to current date.
More info about core journals below
- Interlibrary Loan Request FormThis form is *only* for articles that we do not have access to at Oakton. If you're not sure, reach out the library before submitting the request.
- List of Core Journals in WGSSIn 2014, members of ACRL's WGSS Collections Committee conducted an online Core Journals Survey of scholars, teachers, and other practitioners in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and related fields in order to discover high-use journals.