LGBTQIA+ Resources
Library resources to help your research
Key Resources: Bisexuality Studies
Bisexuality Studies Databases
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowThis is a database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
- Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAn international abstracting service for research in the following areas of womens' studies: education, employment, women in the family and community, medicine and health, female sex and gender role socialization, social policy, social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism, and historical studies.
Journal of Bisexuality
- Journal of BisexualityThe Journal of Bisexuality is the first professional quarterly to publish both professional articles and serious essays on bisexuality and its meaning for the individual, the community, and society.
Sponsored by the American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB), the journal covers a wide range of topics on bisexuality including:
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new bisexual research
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bisexual issues in therapy
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differences from the heterosexual, lesbian and gay communities
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growth of bisexual movement
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bisexuality and the media
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bisexual history
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different bisexual lifestyles
General Databases
These databases are large and interdisciplinary. Anyone researching a topic that is on the fringe of gender and sexuality studies or not widely documented may wish to seek for information in any of these databases.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
- Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowEssay & General Literature Index Retrospective features content in a wide array of fields including archaeology, architecture, classical studies, drama, folklore, political science, psychology, religion, women’s studies and much more.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowArts and humanities database on language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the study of art and architecture.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowCovers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.