For the basic concepts and definitions, consult these resources:
- APA handbook of sexuality and psychology [2v.]
- The Continuum complete international encyclopedia of sexuality
- Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America
HQ76.3.U5 E53 2004 [3v.] - Encyclopedia of sex and gender : men and women in the world's cultures
- The essential handbook of women's sexuality
HQ29 .E87 2013 [2v.] - The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history
HQ21 .G67125 2008 - Handbook of child and adolescent sexuality : developmental and forensic psychology
- Handbook of the sociology of sexualities
- Human sexuality : an encyclopedia
HQ9.H846 - International handbook on the demography of sexuality
- Introducing the new sexuality studies
HQ21 .H3234 2011 - LGBTQ America today : an encyclopedia
HQ73.3.U6 L43 2009 [3v.] - Queers in history : the comprehensive encyclopedia of historical gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders
HQ75.13 .S74 2009 - Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights
HQ21 .R64 2010 - Sex and gender : a reference handbook
- Sex in the ancient world from A to Z
- Sex slang
General
- The history of sexuality
HQ12 .F6813 [3v.] - A nation by rights : national cultures, sexual identity politics, and the discourse of rights
HQ76.5.S79 - Postmodern sexualities
HQ23.S53 - Sexual citizens : the legal and cultural regulation of sex and belonging
HM683 .C67 2007 - Sexual rhetoric : media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity
P96.S45 S49 - Studying sexualities : theories, representations, cultures
HQ21 .R53 2013 - Transmen and FTMs : identities, bodies, genders, and sexualities
HQ77.9.C76
Book Series
Notable
- Bisexual imaginary: Representation, identity, and desire
HQ74 .B54 1997 - Bisexuality and transgenderism : interSEXions of the others
- A brief history of Gay, Canada's first gay tabloid, 1964-1966
HQ76.95.C3 M3 2003 - Challenging the conspiracy of silence : my life as a Canadian gay activist
HQ75.8.E32 A3 1998 - Coming out young & faithful
BV4596.G38 C66 2001 - Coping with HIV infection : psychological and existential responses in gay men
RC607.A26 S3735 1999 - Gay L. A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians
HQ76.3.L7 F33 2009 - Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance : selections from the work of Richard Bruce Nugent
- Gay resistance: The hidden history
HQ76.25 .D424 1997 - Gay spirituality : the role of gay identity in the transformation of human consciousness
BL65.H64 J64 2004 - Handbook of LGBT issues in community mental health
RC451.4.G39 H36 2004 - Handbook of research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations
HV1449 .H36 2009 - Hispanisms and homosexualities
PQ7081.A1 H478 1998 - History of the Quatrefoil Library
- Human sexuality in medical social work
- Human sexuality, ethnoculture, and social work
HV42.5 .H85 1986 - Insane passions : lesbianism and psychosis in literature and film
PS228.L47 C64 2006 - Latina lesbian writers and artists
- Lesbian and bisexual women's mental health
- Lesbian and gay studies : a critical introduction
HQ75.15 .L43 1997 - Lesbian and gay youth issues : a practical guide for youth workers
HV1426 .M344 2001 - Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature
- The persistent desire : a femme-butch reader
PS509.L47 P47 - Qu(e)erying evangelism : growing a community from the outside in
BV652.25 .D56 2005 - Queer tourism : geographies of globalization
HQ75.25 .Q44 2002 - Rebels, rubyfruit, and rhinestones: queering space in the Stonewall South
- Sanctity and male desire : a gay reading of saints
BX4655.3 .B67 2004 - Science, scripture, and homosexuality
BR115.H6 B45 2002 - Serving gay & lesbian youths : the role of child welfare agencies : recommendations from a colloquium, January 25-26, 1991
HV1449 .S47 1991 - Toward Stonewall : homosexuality and society in the modern western world
- Transgender subjectivities : a clinician's guide
RC560.G45 T73 2004 - Understanding homosexuality, changing schools : a text for teachers, counselors, and administrators
HQ76.3.U5 L58 1999 - Willa Cather and others
Subject Headings
Subject headings are 'tags' denoting the themes covered in a resource. Try the following headings in the library catalogue to find relevant resources.
- Bisexuality
- Bisexuals
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)
- Gay culture
- Gay liberation movement
- Gay men
- Gays
- Heterosexism
- Homosexuality
- Intersex people
- Intersexuality
- Lesbianism
- Lesbians
- Outing (Sexual orientation)
- Radical Faeries (New Age movement)
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex customs
- Sex in art
- Sex in music
- Sex in popular culture
- Sex role
- Sexology
- Sexual behavior
- Sexual minorities
- Sexual orientation
- Sexuality
- Transgender people
- Transsexuals
- Transvestites
- Two-spirit people
Other Collections
The Carleton Gender & Sexuality Resource Centre has a library of books. Their catalogue is no longer online, so please visit them to find out what they have.
Try these databases first:
Also consult multidisciplinary databases such as:
or full-text ejournal collections such as:
- Cambridge Journals Online
- De Gruyter Online
- Duke University Press Journals Online
- SAGE Journals Online
- Taylor & Francis Journals Online
- Wiley Online Journals
Consider database lists from other disciplines.
The Summon search engine 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 by its title in the catalogue to 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
- Journal of the history of sexuality
- Journal of sex research
- Law & sexuality
- Psychology & sexuality
- Sex roles
- Sexualities
- Sexuality research & social policy
- Sexuality & culture
- Sexuality & disability
- Social politics: international studies in gender, state and society
- Studies in gender and sexuality
- Theology & sexuality
- Transgender studies quarterly
Also try a subject heading search in the catalogue for:
- 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 [note: connection to this resource can be very slow]
- 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
- Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality (San Francisco State University)
- 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
