Gender and Sexual Diversity

The following are the main bibliographical databases you can use to find journal articles, conference papers and books on the general social sciences as well as the sociology, politics and psychology relating to gender diversity:

Here are some examples of journals in the field of gender studies which are available on open access.  You can find others, on any subject, by using the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

• Gender Forum: An internet journal for gender studies.
• Journal of Feminist Scholarship
• Masculinities and Social Change
• Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press
  Digital material from the magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries spanning the 1960’s to the 1980’s. Starting with collections by feminists and the GI press, the collection will grow to include small literary magazines, underground newspapers, LGBT periodicals, the minority press (Latino, Black and Native American) and the extreme right-wing press. Includes materials from Northwestern University's Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections.
• Spare Rib (UK)
  Largest feminist circulating magazine of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain of the 1970s and 80s. (239 issues between 1972-93).
• Ling long
  Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China.