Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
For library research assistance, please email moninder_lalli@sfu.ca 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
Spring 2025
- GSWS 100: Sex Talk: Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Studies
- GSWS 101 -- Gender Talk
- GSWS 306: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall! Gender, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Media
- GSWS 333 / GSWS 830: The Sexual and Gendered Relations of Property
- GSWS 411: Bodily Ways of Knowing: Women in Dance
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 433 / GSWS 824: Gender and Social Policy -- Gender, Violence, Resistance
- 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
- Algorithmic intimacy : the digital revolution in personal relationships /
- Left feminisms : conversations on the personal and political /
- Embodying Normalcy Women's Work in Neoliberal Times.
- Queering the Asian diaspora : East and Southeast Asian sexuality, identity and cultural politics /
- Immaculate Forms A History of the Female Body in Four Parts.
See also books purchased for Sociology / Anthropology
- Taiwan travelogue : a novel /
- Gigatrends : six forces that are changing the future for billions /
- Technology & society : social networks, power, and inequality /
- Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza : a reckoning /
- Marriages and families in the 21st century : a bioecological approach /
- Suburban refugees : class and resistance in little Saigon /
- Families as they really are /
- Inequality around the world : understanding the rich-poor divide from America to Zimbabwe.
- The mythology of Kobe Bryant : theology and the culture of sport /
- Social media cultures /
For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library (all disciplines)