Welcome to the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (GSFS) Research Guide
This guide is designed to kickstart student research in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (GSFS) by highlighting key resources, databases, and strategies in the discipline.
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Key Resources
The following are some best bets for starting Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies research.
For a full list of databases at Oberlin, check out our Databases A-Z.
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Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Covers the full spectrum of sexual diversity issues and gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses and dissertations, and more. Dates of Coverage: 1972 to date
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides full text of some journal articles, and indexing and abstracts for journals, books and conference papers. Covers all sub-fields of sociology, including criminology, gender, marriage & family studies, social work, social psychology, addictions, violence, and more. Covers scholarly publications in sociology, social work, and related fields. Contains 2.3 million articles and other materials (64% in full text) with deep coverage from 1960 and some back to 1882.
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Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Nearly 800 essential sources including journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Dates of Coverage: 1972-
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