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
- Films for Social Sciences [new, Sept 2023]
- Research Methods for Gender, Sexuality. and Women's studies
- Primary Sources for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
- 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
- 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 210: Gender Today
- GSWS 305 Gendering Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour
- GSWS 306: Gender, Sexuality and Autobiographical Media
- GSWS 314 - Race, Class and Gender
- GSWS 318: Research and Resistance - Social Policy, Social Movements and Social Justice
- GSWS 319: Special Topics - Global War on Terror
- GSWS 319: Special Topics in GSWS - Queer Fandoms
- 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 388 / GSWS 830 - Queer Relations: Intimacy, Kinship, and Community Across Asian North America
- GSWS 411 / GSWS 831: Everyday and Everywhere of Race and Sexuality
- GSWS 822: Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory
- GSWS 826: Graduate Seminar on Queer / Trans Studies
- GSWS Graduate students Library research guide
- GSWS Graduate Students Library Workshop [Fall 2023]
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 for GSWS
For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library