Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
For library research assistance, please email or Ask a librarian.
Library guides
- Welcome video -- for a quick introduction to using the Library website for research and to get help.
- Library tutorials
- How to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request
Help by topics
- Feminism From Around the World
- Research Methods for Gender, Sexuality. and Women's studies
- Primary Sources for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Violence Against Women and Children
Help with course assignments
- GSWS 100: Sex Talk: Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Studies
- GSWS 101 -- Gender Talk
- GSWS 205 Gender and Popular Culture
- GSWS 320: Critical Studies of Marriage
- GSWS 331: Queer Genders
- GSWS 333 / GSWS 830: The Sexual and Gendered Relations of Property
- GSWS 398: Feminist Currents
- GSWS 399: Gender, Sex and Numbers
- GSWS 411: Everyday and Everywhere of Race and Sexuality
- GSWS 411 / GSWS 823 Feminist Media and Cultural Studies
- GSWS 822: Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory
- GSWS 826: Graduate Seminar on Queer / Trans Studies
- GSWS Graduate students Library research guide
Indigenous
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Studies Research Resources
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre
- SFU’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council’s final report: Walk this Path With Us
New Books
- The beauty paradox : femininity in the age of selfies /
- Hair tells a story : hers, yours and ours /
- A woman's life is a human life : my mother, our neighbor, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice in New York and the nation /
- Fashion and cultural studies /
- Fearless women : feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé /
- Producing knowledge, reproducing gender : power, production and practice in contemporary Ireland /
- From the margins to the mainstream : women in film and television /
- Anthem of misogyny : the war on women in North Africa and the Middle East /
- On the Meaning of Sex : Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman /
- Gender and action films 1980-2000 : beauty in motion /
- The great stewardess rebellion : how women launched a workplace rebellion at 30,000 feet /
- Digital fissures : bodies, genders, technologies /
- Gender, power, and non-governance : is female to male as NGO is to state? /
- Reporting Islam : Muslim women in the New York Times, 1979-2011 /
- Doing the hard work : insights from women leading the commercial vehicle industry /
- Stories of feminist protest and resistance : digital performative assemblies /
- Fashion, identity, image /
- Chasing equality : women's rights and US public policy /
- Goddess lost : how the downfall of female deities degrades women's status in world cultures /
- Where did I go? : reflections on so-called late mothering /
- Now you see her : how lesbian culture won over America /
- A history of women in men's clothes : from cross-dressing to empowerment /
- Fashion in Altermodern China /
- Contemporary Arab women's life writing and the politics of resistance /
- What we bring to the practice of medicine : perspectives from women physicians /
- Women resisting violence : voices and experiences from Latin America /
- Voices from the wreckage : young adult voices in the #metoo movement. /