Topic: Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles and a great starting place for research. Covers literature from 1984 to the present.

ATLA Religion Database

Covers contemporary scholarly journal articles, essays, sermons, and book reviews in the study of religion. Materials cover all religions and all theological points of view.

GenderWatch

Use to access publications- both scholarly and popular – that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1880)

Full text of Godey's Lady's Book, a popular nineteenth century women's magazine published from 1830-1898. Includes a wide variety of fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, music, illustrations, and fashion plates.

Left Index

Database of literature on the political left. Emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia; also includes significant but little-known sources of news and ideas. Coverage begins in 1982 and includes religion.

LGBT Life with Full Text

LGBT Life with Full Text indexes and provides full text for scholarly and popular publications on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender topics, with coverage from 1953 to the present.

Social Science Premium Collection

The ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection provides broad coverage of the social sciences, and includes topics related to religion. It provides abstracts and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, and dissertations.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

An international abstracting database covering key areas of women's and gender studies.

Women's Studies International

Find articles from key women’s studies databases, covering classic works, foundational research, and the latest feminist scholarship across a broad range of interdisciplinary sources.

Archives of sexuality & gender. LGBTQ history and culture since 1940

Primary sources on social, political, health, religious and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world since 1940. Includes documents published in more than 35 countries in more than 15 languages.

Defining Gender Online: Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women (1450-1910)

A vast body of original British source material for those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.

Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920

Use to search primary documents about social and cultural forces that shaped the lives of women and men in America from 1800 to 1920 from the collections of the New York Public Library and Duke University. Topics covered include race and religion.

Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1880)

Full text of Godey's Lady's Book, a popular nineteenth century women's magazine published from 1830-1898. Includes a wide variety of fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, music, illustrations, and fashion plates.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Letters and diaries from more than 600 women writing from colonial times to 1950. Much of the material is in copyright and is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family

A collection of instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. The collection includes fully...

Twentieth Century Religious Thought (Christianity)

Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume I, Christianity includes the complete 17-volume German edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke (DBW) and English edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series (DBWE); an international selection of English...

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

A collection of primary sources for studying the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

LGBT Studies in Video

LGBT Studies in Video is a streaming video collection of documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and feature films on LGBT history, culture, politics, social movements, and religion.

Encyclopedia of Religion

The second edition of a classic reference work covering all aspects of religion. Emphasis is on religion's role in everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. Articles with bibliographies are authored by scholars of religion.

Encyclopedia of Religion in America

Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. Covers early European settlement to the present day.

Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online

This encyclopedia reflects current research on gender studies and the Islamic world across history, geographic borders, and disciplines.

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America

Scholarly essays on the history and state of women's religious experience in North America that focus on institutions, movements and ideas. Content is interreligious, interracial and multicultural. Edited by R.S. Keller and R.R. Ruether.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Provides annotated bibliographies of essential literature on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Guides are updated quarterly, with entries added yearly to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion seeks to provide accurate, scholarly information about the world’s many religions and topics of research and debate. It will grow and evolve continuously, compiling over time an extensive collection of vetted...

Pluralism Project

An ongoing research effort, the Pluralism Project studies and interprets religious diversity and interfaith relations in the United States. The site includes an introduction to the religions of the world through the lens of America, a survey of the...