Women's & Gender Studies

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• Equal treatment
• Feminism
• Gender equality
• Gender identity
• Gender role
• Gender-based violence
• Participation of women
• Position of women
• Rights of the individual
• Sexual discrimination
• Social rights
• Wom?n [for either woman OR women]
• Women empowerment
• Women's position
• Women's rights

Find books by Decimal Dewey Classification

300 Social sciences

• 305 Social groups 
         305.4 Women
         305.42 Role in society, status

323 Civil and political rights

• 323.34 Civil and political rights - Women

331 Labor economics

• 331.4 Labor of women

341 Law of nations

• 341.48 Human rights law
         341.4858 Human rights law - Women

Find books by EuroVoc terms

Legenda

1. MT (MicroThesaurus): subset of a thesaurus, usually containing terms from a subject area narrower than the scope of the whole thesaurus;
2. NT (Narrower Term): used to indicate the relationship of the generic concept to a more specific one, together with an indication of the number of hierarchical steps between the broader term and each narrower term;
3. RT (Related Term): preferred label for a concept that has an associative relationship with the one in question.
    

12 Law

MT 1216 criminal law

• offence
  NT3 femicide
  NT2 sexual offence
  NT3 sexual violence
  NT3 sexual harassment
  NT3 cyber-bullying

MT 1236 rights and freedoms

• social rights 
  NT1 gender equality
• anti-discriminatory measure 
  NT1 protection of minorities
  NT1 sexual discrimination
  NT1 discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
• fundamentals rights
  NT1 sexual freedom
  NT1 women's rights
  NT1 sexual freedom

28 Social questions

MT 2826 social affairs

• social life 
  NT1 social participation
  NT2 participation of women 
• social policy 
  NT1 position of women 
          RT women's movement [0431]

eBook collections

Some portals help the research with thematic reading lists or a simple browsing by subject. See a few examples below.

Cambridge Core Books

• Area Studies - Woman OR Women
• Sociology - Woman OR Women
• Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
• Gender and Power in the Premodern World
• Gender and Race in American History
• Gender in the Middle Ages
• Gender, Theology and Spirituality
• Women and Gender in German Studies

Perlego

• Discrimination & Race Relations
• Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Gender & the Law
• Gender Studies
• LGBT Studies
• Sexuality & Gender in Religion
• Women in Business
• Women in History

Oxford Scholarship Online

• Gender and Sexuality

SpringerLink eBooks

• Culture and Gender
• Development and Gender
• Feminism
• Gender Studies
• Gender, Sexuality and Law
• Gender and Economics
• Gender and Education
• Politics and Gender

Taylor & Francis eBooks

• Gender studies

Scopus

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• KEY ( gender  AND studies ) 

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Web of Science 

The platform easily discovers scientific resources like articles, datasets, conference papers, books, preprints, and patents alongside content from the world’s leading journals also focusing on specific subject areas and regions with an efficient tool to support systematic and literature reviews. See a few examples below.

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• Women's Studies (Web of Science Categories)

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Find journals by Decimal Dewey Classification

300 Social sciences

• 305 Social groups 
         305.4 Women
         305.42 Role in society, status

331 Labor economics

• 331.4 Labor of women

341 Law of nations

• 341.48 Human rights law

Find journals by subject (below a few examples)

• Feminism
• Gender equality
• Gender identity
• Gender role
• Rights of the individual
• Sexual discrimination
• Social rights
• Wom?n [for either woman OR women]
• Women's rights

eJournal collections

Some portals also help the research with thematic reading lists or a simple browsing by subject. See a few examples below.

Cambridge Core Journals

• Politics & Gender

Emerald eJournals Premier

• Gender studies (browse by)

SAGE Journals

• Gender Studies (browse by)

SpringerLink

• Gender Studies (browse by)

Free online portals

• Business | Gender Statistics Database
• Dataset - Gender Open Data
• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Sex, sexual orientation and gender
• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Equality, non-discrimination and racism
• Gender Statistics Database
• GenPORT
• Istat.it Gender
• LGBTData.com
• OECD Gender Data Portal
• Open Access Gender studies Journals
• Open Access in Gender Studies
• OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Gender Equality
• UN Statistics and Indicators on Women and Men
• UN Women Data Hub
• Wikigender - Data and Statistics
• World Bank Gender Data Portal

Subscribed portals

• Statista