Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
For library research assistance, please email or Ask a librarian.
Library service updates during COVID-19
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)
- 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 102: Feminist Action
- GSWS 205 Gender and Popular Culture
- GSWS 305 Gendering Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour
- GSWS 312 - Immigrants, Women and Transnational Migration
- GSWS 316: Disciplining Sex - Feminist Science Studies and Sociobiology
- GSWS 320 / GSWS 831: Intro to Porn Studies: The Poetics and Politics of Sex
- GSWS 321 - Pandemics and Poverty
- GSWS 350 / GSWS 824 Public Policy for Women (Gender & Social Policy)
- 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
- Fat fashion : the thin ideal and the segregation of plus-size bodies /
- Resist, organize, build : feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s /
- Daily life of women in Medieval Europe /
- Between Muslims : religious difference in Iraqi Kurdistan /
- Street harassment as everyday violence /
- Fighting for empowerment in an age of violence /
- Gender and sexuality in Ghanaian societies /
- The Other Sex Work : The Feminist Academic Pornography Discourse /
- Weibo feminism : expression, activism, and social media in China /
- Femina : a new history of the middle ages through the women written out of it /
- The future of the world is open : encounters with Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, and Rossana Rossanda /
- Gender equity : global policies and perspectives on advancing social justice /
- An angel in Sodom : Henry Gerber and the birth of the gay rights movement /
- Supreme Actresses : Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Hollywood Marcellas Reynolds ; foreword by Gabrielle Union.
- Transnational feminist politics, education, and social justice : post democracy and post truth /
- Supreme models : iconic black women who revolutionized fashion /
- Working 9 to 5 : a women's movement, a labor union, and the iconic movie /
- Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries : a campaign for justice /
- Wild politics : feminism, globalisation and biodiversity /
- Jesus and women : beyond feminism /
- Women and resistance in the early Rastafari movement /
- Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion for women after the COVID-19 pandemic /