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Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Articles

A guide to library resources for doing research in women's, gender, and sexuality studies. You'll find indexes to the popular and scholarly literature, as well as film, images, statistics, and research databases.

Scholarly Articles

General Interest & Community Magazines & Newspapers

Baker-Berry Library has a small sampling of general-interest magazines, many of which get labelled as "men's magazines" or "women's magazines". Traditionally these have not been included in academic library collections, but in recent years we've seen increased demand for these magazines as primary documents. Public libraries often own a larger selection of popular press titles, but note that there is usually little if any back issue archive.


For mainstream newspapers, see the library's Newspapers & News research guide

In the library catalog

At present, subject headings are a bit inconsistent.  The subject heading "Women's periodicals" is used for books about these periodicals, and often the periodicals themselves.  There is a similar heading "Men's magazines" assigned to books about them, but not the magazines themselves. [For feminist publications, search the subject "Feminism -- Periodicals" (or "Feminism -- [country/region] -- Periodicals).]

Consider using bibliographies or secondary sources such as:

See linked catalog records for specific locations, formats, and years owned.
Note: Some years are available only in microfilm/fiche. 
Note: Online access is often text-only (no graphics)

Essence

Esquire

Glamour

Godey's Magazine

Good Housekeeping

Ladies' Home Journal

Playboy

Playgirl

Self

Vogue