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DBR 300 Feminism: Issues, Beliefs, and Movements

Definitions and Basic Terms

World Health Organization (WHO) Gender Inequality Index (GII) and GII explainer

  • maternal mortality
  • adolescent fertility rate
  • share of parliamentary seats
  • secondary education levels
  • women's participation in the workforce

Google Search Tips

Remember, Google returns the most popular websites or those they think you want, not necessarily the most helpful or trustworthy sites. Use a "site search" in Google to help you find more credible results.

 

SITE SEARCH: Search for your keywords and add one of the following "site" options (i.e.: feminism site:.edu OR feminism site:.gov)

  • site:.edu 
  • Site:nytimes.com
  • Site:wsj.com
  • site:.gov
  • site:.country domain name to search a specific website, in this example, Afghanistan. Example: women site:.af

Online, peer-reviewed, open-access journals

These may already be included in Lynn databases, but you can go directly to them with the links below.
  • Feminist @Law - A peer-reviewed journal that publishes critical, interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged scholarship that extends feminist debates and analyses relating to law and justice (broadly conceived).
  • Feminist Periodicals - An open access repository of digitized contents pages of 150 academic journals and pop culture magazines in the fields of Feminism, Gender and Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, and LGBTQIA+ studies.
  • Feral Feminisms - An independent, inter-media, peer reviewed, open access online journal that takes the feral as a provocative call to untaming, queering, and radicalizing feminist thought and practice today.  
  • Gender Forum - An online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an electronic journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy.
  • Interalia: a journal of queer studies - a peer-reviewed scholarly journal for queer theory
  • International Center for Research on Women - ICRW is the world's premier research institute focused on tackling challenges facing women and girls worldwide.
  • Interpersona - A peer-reviewed, semiannual (June and December), open access online journal on all kinds of human relationships, from weak ties to close relationships, and their relations with society and culture.
  • Journal of International Women's Studies - The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed feminist journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationships among theories of gender and sexuality and various forms of organizing and critical practice.
  • Journal of Positive Sexuality - online peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on all aspects of positive sexuality as described in the Center for Positive Sexuality purpose statement. 
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons™ - The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
  • S&F: The Scholar and Feminist Online - S&F Online is a triannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal of feminist theories and women’s movements from the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
  • Transgender Health - is the first peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to addressing the healthcare needs of transgender individuals throughout the lifespan and identifying gaps in knowledge as well as priority areas where policy development and research are needed to achieve healthcare equity.