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Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies by email moninder_lalli@sfu.ca 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.
Selected encyclopedias and handbooks
Use encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks to obtain definitions and overviews of a topic and also to identify key authors.
- Bloomsbury handbook of 21st-century feminist theory
- Encyclopedia of feminist theories
- Oxford handbook of intellectual property law
- Routledge handbook of contemporary feminism [2019]
- Routledge handbook of property, law, and society
For more, try Background information
Find journal articles
Databases let you easily to search for articles from within scholarly journals for a discipline.
If the full-text of the article is not available within the database then use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.
- Women's Studies International -- scholarly feminist literature
- Academic Search Premier -- (multidisciplinary) covers many GSWS journals in full text.Limit your search results to "Academic" or "Scholarly" sources.
- Sociological Abstracts - for any social issue including includes marriage and family studies
- Social Sciences Full Text - for any social issue including includes marriage and family studies
- America: History and Life - Literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistory to present.
- CBCA Complete -- Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete. Limit your search results to "Academic" or "Scholarly" sources.
- Canada Commons (formerly, Canadian Electronic Library from desLibris) - full text of public policy documents
- Canadian Newsstream - for articles from Canadian newspapers
For more, try Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Databases
Find books in the Library
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue: Advanced keyword
For the searches below, you can limit the search results by "Subject" or "Resource type" (such as "books)
- (women OR gender*) AND (propert* OR land OR residential OR intellectual OR commercial) AND (own* OR legal OR law OR legislation) AND (Canad* OR BC OR British Columbia OR Ontario)
- (women OR gender*) AND ( propert* OR land ownership) AND (own* OR legal OR law OR legislation) AND (Canad* OR BC OR British Columbia OR Ontario)
- (women OR gender*) AND ( propert* OR land ownership) AND discrimination AND (Canad* OR BC OR British Columbia OR Ontario)
- (women OR gender*) AND (gentrif* OR "public space" OR "property crime") AND (Canad* OR BC OR British Columbia OR Ontario)
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
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
Look at the titles in the "results list" and for those books that look relevant, click on their subject headings.
Selected books
- A Silent Revolution?: Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
- Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege
- Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership
- Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships
- Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies
- Gender, sex and the law in Canada [print]
- Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History
- Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
- Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario
- Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities
- The right to say no: marital rape and law reform in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi
- Unstable properties : aboriginal title and the claim of British Columbia
- Urban Aboriginal women in British Columbia and the impacts of the matrimonial real property regime
Browse by subject
Browse by subject (change the default "Browse by title" to ""Browse by subject" using the pull-down menu)
Library guides
- Finding and evaluating resources on the web
- Evaluating sources [video from Western University 2:16 mins]
- Avoiding plagiarism
- What is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal?
- How to write an annotated bibliography
- How to place an Inter-Library Loan request
- Search tips for Google and Google Scholar
- Citation or reference management tools (Zotero or Mendeley) - use these tools to manage your citations and to create bibliographies for your papers. For assistance with Zotero or Mendeley, email, citation-managers@sfu.ca.
- Library Tutorials
Presentation skills
- Resources on developing your participation skills
- Resources to help you improve your presentation skills