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
- African Diaspora
- Feminism From Around the World
- Films for Social Sciences
- Intercultural Communication, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Training Guide
- Research Methods for Gender, Sexuality. and Women's studies
- Primary Sources for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
- See also SFU Special Collections guide: LBGTQ2S+ materials
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Researching Race and Racism
- Violence Against Women and Children
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- How to Read a Journal Article (pdf) - Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.
Help with course assignments
Fall
- GSWS 100: Sex Talk: Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Studies
- GSWS 101 -- Gender Talk
- GSWS 102: Feminist Action
- GSWS 200: Feminism Without Borders
- GSWS 305 Gendering Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour
- GSWS 306: Mama Mia!: Gender, Sexuality and Autobiographical Media
- GSWS 315 - Critical Disability Studies
- GSWS 316: Disciplining Sex - Feminist Science Studies and Sociobiology
- GSWS 319: Special Topics - Queer Fandoms
- GSWS 320: ST: Cupid Put Down Your Bow! a Critical Look at Romance Fiction
- GSWS 332 / GSWS 831: Intro to Porn Studies: The Poetics and Politics of Sex
- GSWS 388 / GSWS 830 - Queer Relations: Intimacy, Kinship, and Community Across Asian North America
- GSWS 414 Dude, Where's My Body: Biopolitics, Biotechnologies, Bioecologies
- GSWS 416 / GSWS 831: Everyday and Everywhere of Race and Sexuality
Graduate students
- GSWS 822: Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory
- GSWS 826: Graduate Seminar on Queer / Trans Studies
- GSWS 388 / GSWS 830 - Queer Relations: Intimacy, Kinship, and Community Across Asian North America
- GSWS 416 / GSWS 831: Everyday and Everywhere of Race and Sexuality
- GSWS Graduate students Library research guide
- GSWS Graduate Students Library Workshop
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
- SFU's Strategic Initiatives: Aboriginal Strategic Initiative (ASI) Final Report (2023) →
New books
New books purchased for GSWS
- Surviving transphobia /
- Natural : Black beauty and the politics of hair /
- A herstory of economics /
- Fair play : a game-changing solution for when you have too much to do (and more life to live) /
- What she said : conversations about equality /
- Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa : contemporary issues and challenges /
- The sexual economy of capitalism /
- Big friendship : how we keep each other close /
- There she goes again : gender, power, and knowledge in contemporary film and television franchises /
- International conflict feminism : theory, practice, challenges /
- Birthing liberation : how reproductive justice can set us free /
- Abortion : our bodies, their lies, and the truths we use to win /
- The other significant others : reimagining life with friendship at the center /
- Liberating abortion : claiming our history, sharing our stories, and building the reproductive future we deserve /
- Queer transfigurations : boys love media in Asia /
- A complicated choice : making space for grief and healing in the pro-choice movement /
See also books purchased for Sociology / Anthropology
- Toward a New Art of Border Crossing.
- Blackbird : how Black musicians sang the Beatles into being and sang back to them ever after /
- Making the human : race, allegory, and Asian Americans /
- The making of biblical womanhood : how the subjugation of women became gospel truth /
- Refugee cities : how Afghans changed urban Pakistan /
- Rebirth of a nation : reparations and remaking America /
- The good fight : why liberals--and only liberals--can win the War on Terror and make America great again /
- The era was lost : the rise and fall of New York City's rank-and-file rebels /
- Kids in cages : surviving and resisting child migrant detention /
- A concise introduction to mental health in Canada /
- States of return : rethinking migration and mobility /
- Blackness is a gift I can give her : on race, community, and Black women in hockey /
- Multiculturalism.
- Muslim and Catholic experiences of national belonging in France : rethinking boundaries, inequities, and faith in the republic /
- Refiguring in black /
- Africans in diaspora and diasporas in Africa /
- Swing low.
- Complementary and alternative medicine sourcebook : basic consumer health Information about ayurveda, acupuncture, aromatherapy, chiropractic care, diet-based therapies, guided imagery, herbal and vitamin supplements, homeopathy, hypnosis, massage, meditation, naturopathy, pilates, reflexology, Reiki, Shiatsu, Tai Chi, traditional Chinese medicine, yoga, and other complementary and alternative medical therapies ; along with statistics, tips for selecting a practitioner, treatments for specific health conditions, a glossary of related terms, and a directory of resources for additional help and information /
- Black coal and red bandanas /
- Black activist, scientist, icon : the autobiography of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy /
- Labor market dynamics in Turkey during the last 100 years /
- Truffles and trash : recirculating food in a social welfare state /
- Shelter on the journey : humanitarianism, human rights, and migration /
- The color of asylum : the racial politics of safe haven in Brazil /
- Embodied testimonies, gendered memories, and the poetics of trauma : exploring the intersection of deconstructionist and postcolonial trauma theory /
- How migration really works : the facts about the most divisive issue in politics /
- Frantz Fanon /
- African immigrants and the American experience : race, anti-Black violence, and the quest for the American dream /
- Collective memory as currency : the dominance of the past in the present /
- In the shadow of liberty : the invisible history of immigrant detention in the United States /
For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library (all disciplines)