LibGuides: Women's History Month: Databases &amp; Journals

Select Databases

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Gale Academic OneFile provides articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals in a variety of different subject areas. Best for academic research.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online contains more than 62,000 video titles covering anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music and more.
Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new window
Essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
GenderWatch focuses on how gender impacts a wide variety of disciplines. Articles contained within this database provide historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years.
Gerritsen Collection This link opens in a new window
The Gerritsen Collection: Women's Online History, 1543--1945, is "the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages...[with] two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works."
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a full image database of back issues of scholarly journals in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.
Latin American Women Writers This link opens in a new window
Latin American Women Writers brings together "the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection [including] ... literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials" from the colonial period to the present."
Latino-Hispanic American Experience This link opens in a new window
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience Leaders, Writers and Thinkers: Arte Publico Series 2 - This resource “presents manuscript, book, and newspaper content in the areas of Hispanic American civil rights, religion, and women’s rights ranging from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. The database features over 250,000 pages of manuscript content, over 100 newspaper titles, and over 400 books.”
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
North American Women's Letters and Diaries "is the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, [it] brings the personal experiences of some 1,325 women to researchers, students, and general readers" via 150,000 pages of letters and diaries.
Women and Social Movements International This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements International "provides an unparalleled survey of how women's struggles against gendered inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues over time and across cultures." The "final release (September 2013) includes about 4,660 sources [and] 25 scholarly essays spanning approximately 150,000 pages, as well as links to 124 online resources."

Select Journals

Psychology of Women Quarterly
sychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) is a feminist, scientific, peer-reviewed journal that publishes empirical research, critical reviews and theoretical articles that advance a field of inquiry, teaching briefs, and invited book reviews related to the psychology of women and gender. Topics include (but are not limited to) feminist approaches, methodologies, and critiques; violence against women; body image and objectification; sexism, stereotyping, and discrimination; intersectionality of gender with other social locations (such as age, ability status, class, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation); international concerns; lifespan development and change; physical and mental well being; therapeutic interventions; sexuality; social activism; and career development.
Women's Studies in Communication
Women's Studies in Communication ( WSIC ) provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. WSIC invites contributions that advance our understanding of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, as well as the articulations between gendered performances, power, and representation in public culture. Topically and methodologically inclusive, WSIC publishes quantitative, qualitative, and critical communication scholarship drawing from a variety of areas including but not limited to interpersonal, organizational, performance, rhetoric, media, and cultural studies. The editor is committed to promoting the best work that falls within these parameters and also to encouraging the development of new voices and new projects that challenge conventions guiding communication scholarship. Feminist studies concerning queer and transgender politics, masculinity, dis/ability, labor, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory are especially encouraged at this time.
Signs - Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Recognized as the leading international journal in women’s studies, Signs is at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. The journal publishes pathbreaking articles, review essays, comparative perspectives, and retrospectives of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and sexuality. Special issue and section topics cover a broad range of geopolitical processes, conditions, and effects; cultural and social configurations; and scholarly and theoretical developments.
Women & Criminal Justice
Women & Criminal Justice is a peer reviewed journal that is published six times per year. Women & Criminal Justice invites articles that critically examine the issues of crime, victimization and the criminal justice system as they pertain to differences among females and males, or as they pertain to the social and cultural construction of gender. Research papers that utilize qualitative and quantitative data analysis are welcomed, as are empirical papers that relate to global concerns for women as victims, offenders or practitioners in the field of criminal justice.
Archives of Women's Mental Health
rchives of Women’s Mental Health is the official journal of Marcé Society, the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology (NASPOG) and the International Association for Women's Mental Health (IAWMH). The exchange of knowledge between psychiatrists and obstetrician-gynecologists is one of the major aims of the journal. Its international scope includes psychodynamics, social and biological aspects of all psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders in women. The editors especially welcome interdisciplinary studies, focussing on the interface between psychiatry, psychosomatics, obstetrics and gynecology. Archives of Women’s Mental Health publishes rigorously reviewed research papers, short communications, review articles, invited editorials, historical perspectives, book reviews, letters to the editor, as well as conference abstracts. Only contributions written in English will be accepted. The journal assists clinicians, teachers and researchers to incorporate knowledge of all aspects of women’s mental health into current and future clinical care and research.