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This guide will assist you with finding information about feminist topics for GSWS 200. For more information, you may also wish to consult the more extensive guide, Feminism From Around the World.
Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Liaison Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies by email or Ask a librarian.
Research process
Start Your Research Here -- This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.
Feminism from around the world
Guide: Feminism From Around the World.
Selected handbooks and encyclopedias
Use encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks to obtain definitions and overviews of a topic and also to identify key authors
- Encyclopedia of feminist theories
- Handbook of International Feminisms Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights
- Handbook of Sex Trafficking: Feminist Transnational Perspectives
- Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
- Oxford handbook of transnational feminist movements
- Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
- Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
- Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia
- Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia
- Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge [print]
- Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender
- Sage handbook of feminist theory
- Women in Developing Countries: a Reference Handbook [print]
- Women's Lives Around the World: a Global Encyclopedia
Find journal articles
How to find journal articles
Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases, below.
Use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.
- Women's Studies International -- For issues related to gender, sexuality and women's studies
- Academic Search Premier. Multidisciplinary index to academic & popular journals.
- ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Key database for sociology and anthropology journals and for issues such as structural inequalities
- Social Sciences Full Text Multi-disciplinary database
Find books, book chapters, journal articles
The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more.
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search
Note: In the searches below, search results have been limited to "Online Resources only" and "Resource type" of "Books". You can further limit by using "Subject" (left-hand column)
- (Black* OR African) AND (women OR female* OR girl*) AND (feminis* OR struggl*)
- ("developing countr*" OR "third world" OR "global south") AND (feminis* OR "women's rights")
- (international OR transnational) AND (feminis* OR "women's rights")
- ("Middle East" OR Iran* OR Arab* OR Islam* OR Muslim OR Syria* OR Leban* OR Morroc*) AND (feminis* OR "women's rights")
- (ethnocentrism OR Islamophobi* OR orientalism OR #BlackLivesMatter) AND (women OR gender)
- intersectional* AND (race OR racism OR racial OR "women of color" OR "visible minor* OR indigen*)
- globalization AND (race OR racism OR racial OR "women of color" OR "visible minor* OR indigen*)
- (race* OR racism OR racial* OR "women of color" OR "visible minor*") AND represent* AND canad*
- Indigenous feminist activism - results limited by selected subjects
- (prostitut* OR "sex trade" OR "sex work*") AND (legal* OR decriminal* OR criminal*)
- covid AND canad*
- (Covid-19 OR Coronavirus) AND [name of a group]
- (Covid-19 OR Coronavirus) AND (inequal* OR unequal OR race OR racial OR gender OR minorit*) AND (impact* OR affect*)
- #metoo
- (misgyny OR hate OR rage OR anger OR violen*) AND (feminism OR "women's rights") AND ("popular culture" OR media)
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Use pulldown menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
Selected books
- Arab and Arab American Feminisms Gender, Violence, and Belonging
- Axis of Hope : Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders
- Asian Canadian studies reader
- Challenge of local feminisms : women's movements in global perspective
- Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
- Cost of racism for people of color: Contextualizing experiences of discrimination
- De-whitening intersectionality : race, intercultural communication, and politics
- Diversity Counts: Gender, Race, and Representation in Canadian Art Galleries
- Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms: Visions of Feminism. Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements
- Empowered : popular feminism and popular misogyny [print]
- Feminist theory today an introduction to second-wave feminism
- Feminist thought : a more comprehensive introduction
- Gender, Orientalism, and the ‘War on Terror’: Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics
- Global currents in gender and feminisms : Canadian and international perspectives
- Globalization and feminist activism [print]
- Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives
- Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
- In good relation : history, gender, and kinship in indigenous feminisms
- In their time : a history of feminism in Western society [print]
- Intersectionality in feminist and queer movements : confronting privileges
- Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism Through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth
- Islamic feminisms : rights and interpretations across generations in Iran
- Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa : Human Rights, Society, and the State
- Logics of gender justice : state action on women's rights around the world
- Making space for Indigenous feminism [print]
- #MeToo movement
- Maternal Transition: A North-South Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth
- New feminisms in South Asia : disrupting the discourse through social media, film and literature [print]
- Race and media : critical approaches
- Race, ethnicity, gender and other social characteristics as factors in health and health care disparities
- Racial mosaic : a pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism
- Racial prescriptions : pharmaceuticals, difference, and the politics of life
- Racialized bodies, disabling worlds storied lives of immigrant Muslim women
- Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History
- Reconfiguring Islamophobia: A Radical Rethinking of a Contested Concept
- Review of Feminism and Feminists after Suffrage
- Separate roads to feminism : Black, Chicana, and White feminist movements in America's second wave
- Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History
- Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
- Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
- Violence Against Indigenous Women : Literature, Activism, Resistance
- Woman movement : feminism in the United States and England
- Women and the vote : a world history [print]
- Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Women, gender and everyday social transformation in India
- Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia
- Women's activism and second wave feminism : transnational histories
- Women's activism, feminism, and social justice
- Women's human rights in India
- Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms
- Women's rights after the Arab Spring : buds without flowers?
- Women's rights in authoritarian Egypt : negotiating between Islam and politics
Subject headings
Browse Books in the Library Catalogue Using Subject Headings
Catalogue Search / Browse then change "Title" to "Subject" and enter your subject term, for example:
- Epidemics -- Social aspects
- Feminism
- Feminism -- [name of country or region]
- Feminism -- Canada
- Feminism -- India
- Feminism -- Iran
- Feminism -- International cooperation
- Feminism -- Canada
- Feminism -- United States
- Feminist theory
- Feminist Theory -- Developing Countries
- Indigenous women
- Indigenous women -- Canada
- Race in mass media
- Racism -- Canada
- Second-wave feminism
- Third-wave feminism
- Women -- Black
- Women immigrants -- Canada
- Women's rights
- Women's rights -- [name of country or region]
- Women's rights -- Africa
- Women's rights -- India
- Women's rights -- Iran
Searching using Google
Search Tips for Google and Google Scholar
Search results limited to words in the title of document, using "intitle:". Use capital "OR" for synonyms. Put braces "(__ OR__ )" around words with the same meaning (synonyms). "AND" is assumed by Google so you don't need to include it in your search strategy.
E.g.
Search for documents from a particular country's domain. Web country codes
- From a Canadian website
Library guides
- Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles.
- Annotated bibliographies
- Evaluating sources
- How to find journal articles
- Library Catalogue search guide
- What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
- What is plagiarism? Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them
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