Subject Guides: WGS 103: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies: Home

Possible Books

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises by Jih-Fei Cheng (Editor); Alexandra Juhasz (Editor); Nishant Shahani (Editor)
Beyond the Politics of the Closet by Jonathan Bell (Editor)
The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the Worls by Andrew Reynolds
Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World by Allison Surtees (Ed.); Jennifer Dyer (Ed.)
Sexual Hegemony by Christopher Chitty; Max Fox (Editor); Christopher Nealon (Introduction by)
To Make the Wounded Whole: the African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS by Dan Royles

Body of Knowledge Assignment

Your goal is to come up with a research topic, related to the content we have covered thus far in our course. You need to locate three scholarly sources of information on your topic that would make sense to use together, if you were to actually write a formal research report. Click here for tips on how to go about choosing a topic.

Scholarly Sources

Scholarly sources are those which:

1) are written by scholars
2) vetted in some way for accuracy
3) introduce new concepts, or ways of thinking about existing concepts.

Finding Scholarly Information

URSUS Catalog
Fogler Library's catalog is the place to look for books; use Advanced Search to limit the Material Type to ebooks.

For scholarly journal articles, try using one or more of these databases (in the first five, be sure to limit your results to scholarly articles):

LGBT Life with Full Text
PsycINFO
Sociological Abstracts
America: History and Life
Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada

Google Scholar
To get the most full text, go to the Menu bar in the upper left, click on Settings, then click on Library Links. Choose University of Maine - Full Text.