For the basic concepts and definitions, consult these resources:
- APA handbook of sexuality and psychology Volume 1 and Volume 2.
- Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America
- Handbook of the sociology of sexualities
- Introducing the new sexuality studies
- Queers in history : the comprehensive encyclopedia of historical gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders
- Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights
- Sex in the ancient world from A to Z
- Sex slang
Here is a short list of books in the library collection
- A brief history of Gay, Canada's first gay tabloid, 1964-1966
- Bisexuality and transgenderism : interSEXions of the others
- Challenging the conspiracy of silence : my life as a Canadian gay activist
- Gay resistance: The hidden history
- Gay spirituality : the role of gay identity in the transformation of human consciousness
- Handbook of LGBT issues in community mental health
- Postmodern sexualities
- Sexual rhetoric : media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity
- Studying sexualities : theories, representations, cultures
- The history of sexuality
Book series
Other collections
The Carleton Gender & Sexuality Resource Centre has a library of books.
Try these databases first:
Also consult multidisciplinary databases such as:
Consider database lists from other disciplines.
Omni, the search tool on the Library's home page, uses information from most of our databases. Searching individual databases permits you to take advantage of the organization of information within, and unique features of, each database.
If you find that, when searching the databases, articles are returned from certain journals more than others, you may wish to look more closely at articles within these journals. Look up the journal using the search tool on the Library home page find all relevant coverage for that journal.
These journals focus on specific aspects of sexuality:
- Archives of sexual behavior
- Canadian journal of human sexuality
- Culture, health & sexuality
- Electronic journal of human sexuality
- International journal of sexuality and gender studies
- Journal of bisexuality
- Journal of homosexuality
- Journal of lesbian studies
- Law & sexuality
- Psychology & sexuality
- Sex roles
- Sexualities
- Sexuality & disability
- Studies in gender and sexuality
- Theology & sexuality
- Transgender studies quarterly
- Les Archives gaies du Québec
- Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT)
- Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives
- Gerber/Hart Library and Archives (Chicago)
- Hudler Archives (Pride Library, Western University
- Leather Archives & Museum (Chicago)
- Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York)
- LGBT Community Center National History Archive (New York)
- Marc Stein: U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit
- Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Gender Diversity (University of Saskatchewan)
- ONE Archives (University of Southern California Libraries)
- Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights
- Bisexual Resource Center
- Canadian Centre for Gender+Sexual Diversity
- Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
- Centre de la Fierté / Pride Centre (University of Ottawa)
- Digital Transgender Archive
- EGALE Canada
- Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Gender & Sexuality Resource Centre (Carleton University Students' Association)
- GLBT Historical Society
- kind
- LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory
- Kelly McGinnis Library
- Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (United States)
- OUTHistory.org
- Pride Library (Western University)
- Quatrefoil Library and catalogue (Minneapolis)
- Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)
- Sexual Health and Sexually-Transmitted Diseases (Public Health Agency of Canada)
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
- Sex and U
