WGSS 2350 - Introduction to Women's Studies

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This guide will help you find resources for your topics on the various aspects of women's studies. It also includes research and writing tips, and guides related to this course.

Databases, Websites, and Journals

These various resources will help you find background information on your research topics. (Please note: if you are off campus, you will need to log in with your Cougarnet password for full access.)

GenderWatch
This 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.
JSTOR
Arts and humanities database on language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the study of art and architecture.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a streaming video resource available to instructors wishing to use streaming video in their courses. To request access please use the Streaming Media Request form.

SocINDEX with Full Text
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.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

Special Collections at UH

The Special Collections department on the second floor of the M.D. Anderson Library contains a wealth of primary source material, including books, maps, ephemera (postcards, posters, playbills), art works, oral histories, etc. The Carey C. Shuart Collection contains many interviews and primary documents related to women's archives. There are also many primary resources for those researching Houston's LGBT community.