A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, books, ebooks, reports, and conference proceedings.
Digital image collection of world leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists covering topics such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Fashion & Costume, Literature, Religion, Theater, and World History. NOTE: Users are required to create an Artstor account using an @ilstu.edu email. If you already have an Artstor account with an @ilstu.edu email address, choose “LINK EXISTING ACCOUNT."
Online content of world dress and fashion including the The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, articles, ebooks, images, lesson plans, and museum exhibitions. Also called Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
Written by leaders within the black community, this database includes books, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews from authors such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Booker T. Washington.
Includes information from journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies. Updated every two weeks. Includes citations, abstracts, and full text.
This free resource, on transgender history, is an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. This resource focuses on collecting materials created before the year 2000.
Streaming video collection focused on human culture and behavior including themes like family and race, material culture, marriage, gender, and family roles among others.
Full text interdisciplinary database including articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
Archival material dates back to 1970 and includes authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. The combination of academic, gray, and popular titles encompasses:
Women's studies
Men's studies
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) studies
A wide range of full text materials including books, articles, letters, speeches, interviews, memoirs, biographies, poetry, and fiction illuminating the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community.
Essential content for cultural studies, history, womens and gender studies, political science, American studies, social theory, sociology, and literature.
Full text scholarly journal database focused on the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
This is a general database that contains publications related to a variety of subject areas, including many resources related to Women's and Gender Studies. From the main page it is possible to limit the search results to journals specific to these subject areas by selecting "Women's Studies, Gender, and Sexuality" from the search menu.
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, and more. The database also features over 25,000 author profiles. SocINDEX includes full text for 777 journals dating back to 1908, and full text for more than 820 books and 14,000 conference papers.
An archival collection, focusing on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, includes full-text documents, reviews of books and websites, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
An archival collection, focusing on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, includes full-text documents, reviews of books and websites, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Call Number: Ref Z 7962 .W65 Floor 2 (print index)
A major index to Women's Studies journals. Arranged by subject in approximately 20 categories including education, employment, health, history, literature, art and media from 1973 to the present.
Call Number: Ref. Z 7962 .W66 Floor 2 (print index)
Each annual volume indexes approximately 80 Women's Studies periodicals, both scholarly and popular. All entries for authors and subjects (including people), are in one alphabetical sequence. Includes reviews of books, plays and films for the years 1989-2000.