Women, Gender, and Sexuality Resources
Subject Guide
What you'll find in this guide
Best Bets for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Databases
Not sure where to start for your research project? These are great databases to get started on a general search for materials about women, gender, and sexuality.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database covers all subjects. Many full-text articles. To limit searches to Gender/Sexuality section of this database, click on "Choose Databases by Subject" at top of screen.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides coverage of journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowLGBT Life with Full Text is the definitive database for LGBT studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowFrom the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research, this database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science and economy, public policy, international relations, arts and humanities, business and education. The nearly 800 essential sources in Women's Studies International include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, websites and web documents and grey literature.
Library Tips
Here is an assortment of tips and tricks for getting the most out of your UVA library.
- Ask a LibrarianQuestions? Ask us! Chat, call, text, or email anytime.
- Off-Grounds AccessHaving trouble connecting to the online articles and books you want? This page describes how to connect to online resources while off-grounds.
- Purchase RequestsDidn't find what you wanted in our VIRGO catalog and think the library should own it? Suggest a purchase here. Select "Studies in Women and Gender" in the dropdown under University Department.