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.

Selected encyclopedias

• Domestic violence and abuse : a reference handbook
• Encyclopedia of human rights
• Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence
• Encyclopedia of Rape and Sexual Violence [2 Volumes]
• Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict
• Handbook of child sexual abuse identification, assessment, and treatment
• Handbook of Sex Trafficking: Feminist Transnational Perspectives
• Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention
• Online encyclopedia of mass violence
• Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence
• Routledge international handbook of crime and gender studies
• Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking
• Routledge handbook of human trafficking
• Routledge handbook of the politics of the #MeToo movement
• Routledge international handbook of human trafficking : a multi-disciplinary and applied approach
• Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies
• Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present

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.

Find books in the Library

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 can be limited to "Resource type" of "Books", and by "Subject"

• "intimate partner violence" OR OPV OR "wife abuse" OR "spousal abuse" OR "wife batter*") AND femini* AND theor*
  (results limited by selected subjects)
• (abuse* OR assault" OR batter* OR violen* OR rape) AND (women OR wife OR girl* OR female*)
• "#MeToo"
• misogyn*
  • Results limited to "Resource type" of "Books" and selected "Subjects
• "rape culture"
  • Results limited to "Resource type" of "Books"
• feminis* AND (rage OR anger OR violen* OR harrass* OR bully* OR racis*) AND (ads OR advertis*)
• (Child* OR adolescen* OR youth OR teen* OR girl* OR boy*) AND (abuse OR incest* OR rape OR assult*)
• (women OR girls) AND genocide
• (women OR girls) AND (genocide OR war)

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

Women

• A blueprint for Canada's national action plan on violence against women and girls
• Attitudes Related to Gender-Based Violence and #MeToo in Canada
• Beijing + 25, the fifth review of the implementation of the Beijing platform for action in the EU Member States: area D, Violence against women : response and eradication
• Building a National Narrative : A Select Review of Domestic Violence Policies, Legislation, and Services Across Canada
• Cyberbullying : dealing with online meanness, cruelty and threats
• Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture
• Disrupting rape culture : public space, sexuality and revolt
• Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny [print]
• Global perspectives on violence against women and girls
• Impact of Trauma on Adult Sexual Assault Victims
• International law and violence against women : Europe and the Istanbul Convention
• International sex trafficking of women & children : understanding the global epidemic [print]
• It’s Time : Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence
• Just sex? : the cultural scaffolding of rape
• Keetsahnak : our missing and murdered Indigenous sisters
• Macho Paradox : Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help
• Making Sense of a Global Pandemic: Relationship Violence & Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society (2020) [OPEN ACCESS]
• #MeToo Movement
• #MeToo, Weinstein and feminism
• Missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada [film]
• Preventing sexual violence : interdisciplinary approaches to overcoming a rape culture
• Rape culture on campus
• Sexual assault in Canada : law, legal practice, and women's activism
• Sexual harassment online : shaming and silencing women in the digital age
• Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities : Activism, Institutional Responses, and Strategies for Change   [print]
• Sexual violence on campus : power-conscious approaches to awareness, prevention, and response
• Social dynamics of family violence
• Social Work and LGBTQ Sexual Trauma Casebook : Phenomenological Perspectives
• Surviving Abuse and Building Resilience : A Study of Canada's Systems of Shelters and Transition Houses Serving Women and Children Affected by Violence
• Surviving domestic abuse : formal and informal supports and services
• Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse
• Voices of #MeToo : from grassroots activism to a viral roar / Carly Gieseler [print]
• We believe you : survivors of campus sexual assault speak out [print]
• Women and gendered violence in Canada : an intersectional approach
• Women and Genocide Gendered Experiences of Violence, Survival, and Resistance [print]
• Women and genocide : survivors, victims, perpetrators

Children

• Bullying scars : the impact on adult life and relationships
• Cyberbullying bullying in the digital age
• Cyberbullying : empowering children and youth to be safe online and responsible digital citizens
• From marginalized to magnified : youth homelessness solutions from those with lived expertise
• Helping children learn about domestic abuse and coercive control : a professional guide
• Invisible chains : Canada's underground world of human trafficking [print]
• Moving Forward in the Fight Against Human Trafficking in Canada
• Paedophiles in society : reflecting on sexuality, abuse and hope
• Parents killing children : crossing the invisible line
• Practical Approaches to Bullying
• Rape of childhood : developmental, clinical, and sociocultural aspects of childhood sexual abuse
• Tell me what happened : questioning children about abuse
• Too many victims : sexualized violence in the lives of children and youth in care : an aggregate review
• Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma

Subject headings

Use "Browse by subject" to find books by topic (use the pull-down menu and change "title" to "subject"). Also try searching for "Subject heading" -- [country or region]

• Abused Wives
• Abused Women
• Acquaintance rape
• Bullying
• Child prostitution
• Child slavery
• Child sexual abuse
• Children and violence
• Children -- Violence against
• Cyberbullying
• Date rape
• Domestic violence
• Family violence 
• Girls -- Crimes against
• Homeless youth
• Human trafficking
• Human Trafficking -- International Law
• Indian women -- Violence against -- Canada -- Prevention
• Indigenous women -- Abuse of
• Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- Canada
• Intimate partner violence
• Marital violence
• Rape
• Rape -- Prevention
• Rape -- Psychological aspects
• Rape as a weapon of war
• Rape in mass media
• Rape in universities and colleges
• Rape trauma syndrome
• Rape victims
• Sex crimes
• Sex crimes -- Canada
• Sex crimes -- Prevention
• Sexism
• Sexism -- [name of country]
• Sexism in language
• Sexual harrassment
• Sexism in Language
• Spouse abuse
• Spousal abuse
• Teenage girls -- Violence against
• Victims of family violence
• Violence in video games
• Wife abuse -- British Columbia
• Women -- Crimes against
• Women -- Violence against
• Women's shelters
• Young women -- Violence against

Find journal articles

How to find journal articles
Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases, below. 
Use the "Get@SFU" icon will to find copies of articles which are not full-text within the database or to request the article through Inter-Library Loans.

• Women's Studies International  Major index for Women's Studies
• Sociological Abstracts -- Indexes Sociological journals
• CBCA Complete -- for Canadian topics. Indexes scholarly journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
• Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text - Index to all aspects of criminal justice, including psychological
• CanLII  Canadian case law and statutes
  Canada Commons (formerly, Canadian Electronic Library from desLibris) - for public policy documents from Canadian institutes, think-tanks and research groups.
• ELDIS Gateway to Development Information - Fulltext of research & policy documents on ageing, gender, globalization, health and more.

Government

Canada

• Government of Canada.  House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO)
  • Violence against young women and girls in Canada

• Statistics Canada Online Catalogue of Products and Services
  • Family violence in Canada
  • Measuring violence against women: statistical trends

United States

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Violence Prevention
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Violence Against Women

United Nations

• The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) is a network of Gender Focal Points in United Nations offices, specialized agencies, funds and programmes and is chaired by UN Women. UN Women also serves as the Secretariat for the Network.
  • Digital Library
  • Global Knowledge Platform to End Violence against Women
  • Report: In-depth study on all forms of violence against women
  • UN Women Watch
    • Task  forces
      • Violence Against Women
      • Women, peace and security
      • Tools and indicators for gender impact analysis and monitoring and evaluation.
  • Links
• World Health Organization 
  • Global and regional estimates of violence against women
  • Violence against women

Feminist theory website

• Feminist Theory Website - "provides research materials" - fields within feminism; national and ethnic feminisms; Individual feminists

Other websites

• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
  • The Gap in the Gender Gap: Violence Against Women in Canada
• Canadian Women’s Foundation (http://www.canadianwomen.org/facts-about-violence)
  • Facts about violence against women
• Canadian Women's Health Network
  • Domestic violence in Canada
  • Get Help: Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters & Transition Houses
• Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence
• FREDA Centre for Violence Against Women
• Maquila Solidarity Network - solidarity with grassroots groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia
  • Our Voices, Our Safety: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Speak Out
• National Association of Women and the Law
  • Publications on Violence
• National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC)
• National Organization for Women- the largest feminist activist organization in the United States
  • Global Feminism
• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
• Network to Eliminate Violence in Relationships (NEVR)
  • Gurm, B., Salgado, G., Marchbank, J., & Early, S. D. (2020). Making Sense of a Global Pandemic: Relationship Violence & Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society. Kwantlen Polytechnic University: Surrey, BC. Ebook ISBN 978-1-989864-14-2 or Print ISBN 978-1-989864-13-5. https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/nevr/
  • Domestic Violence and Screening
    • Future Without Violence
    • Positive and supportive relationships tips and strategies 
    • Responding to Gender Based Violence: The Role of the Medical System
• ROSE (Remember Our Sisters Everywhere)
• University of Western Ontario. Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC)