Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
For library research assistance, please email or Ask a librarian.
Library guides
- Welcome video -- for a quick introduction to using the Library website for research and to get help.
- Library tutorials
- How to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request
Help by topics
- Feminism From Around the World
- Films for Social Sciences [new, Sept 2023]
- Research Methods for Gender, Sexuality. and Women's studies
- Primary Sources for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
- See also SFU Special Collections guide: LBGTQ2S+ materials [NEW Dec 2023]
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Researching Race and Racism
- Violence Against Women and Children
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- How to Read a Journal Article (pdf) - Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.
Help with course assignments
- GSWS 100: Sex Talk: Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Studies
- GSWS 101 -- Gender Talk
- GSWS 102: Feminist Action
- GSWS 204 Sex and the City
- GSWS 212 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia
- GSWS 215: Introduction to Indigenous Feminisms and Global Indigeneities
- GSWS 312 - Immigrants, Women and Transnational Migration
- GSWS 312 Library workshop presentation [Feb 2024]
- Library Worksheet for Research Concepts [Feb 2024]
- GSWS 315 - Critical Disability Studies
- GSWS 320: Critical Studies of Marriage
- GSWS 320: Genealogies of Resistance - Queer, Feminist, and Trans Archives
- GSWS 321: Global Trans Health
- GSWS 331: Queer Genders
- GSWS 388 / GSWS 830 - Queer Relations: Intimacy, Kinship, and Community Across Asian North America
- GSWS 398: Feminist Currents
- GSWS 431: Local Sex on Global Screen
- GSWS 433 / GSWS 824 - Gender, Violence, Resistance
- GSWS 822: Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory
- GSWS 826: Graduate Seminar on Queer / Trans Studies
- GSWS 830 - Queer Relations: Intimacy, Kinship, and Community Across Asian North America
- GSWS Graduate students Library research guide
- GSWS Graduate Students Library Workshop [Fall 2023]
Indigenous
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Studies Research Resources
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre
- SFU’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council’s final report: Walk this Path With Us
New books
New books purchased for GSWS
- What Iranians want : women, life, freedom /
- Abortion and women's choice : the state, sexuality, and reproductive freedom /
- African womanhood and the feminist agenda /
- Gendered Islamophobia : my journey with a scar(f) /
- Chinese empresses : the nature of female power /
- Gender : what everyone needs to know /
- The beauty paradigm : gender discourse in Indian advertising /
- A history of women in 101 objects /
- Defiant bodies : making queer community in the Anglophone Caribbean /
- Gender-critical feminism /
- "Sluts" on the small screen : female promiscuity in scripted American television series /
See also books purchased for Sociology / Anthropology
- #Sayhername : Black women's stories of police violence and public silence /
- Europe and the Roma : a history of fascination and fear /
- Theories of the policy process /
- Muslim and British post-9/11 : identities in reflexive modernity /
- Clinical anthropology 2.0 : improving medical education and patient experience /
- Contextualizing Angela Davis : the agency and identity of an icon /
- Roots and rebellion : personal stories of resisting racism and reclaiming identity /
- Being Muslim in Indonesia : religiosity, politics and cultural diversity in bima. /
- Metaracism How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives--And How We Break Free.
- It's not about whiteness, it's about wealth : how the economics of race really work /
- Insurgent Communities How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora.
- Accidental sisters : refugee women struggling together for a new American dream /
- Skin colour politics : whiteness and beauty in India /
- Social research methods : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches /
- At the edge of mangrove forest : the Suku Asli and the quest for indigeneity, ethnicity, and development /
- Our data, ourselves : a personal guide to digital privacy /
- All she lost : the explosion in Lebanon, the collapse of a nation and the women who survive /
- 1934 : the Chatham Coloured All-Stars' barrier-breaking year /
- Qualitative research with diverse and underserved communities /
- Reform and Development of the Old-Age Security System in China.
- Looking through the speculum : examining the women's health movement /
- The Black box : writing the race /
- Exploring the ambivalence of liquid racism : in between antiracist and racist discourse /
- Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir /
- Critical participatory inquiry : an interdisciplinary guide /
- Defying Displacement : Urban Recomposition and Social War /
- So We Can Know : Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth.
- The transgender encyclopedia /
- Abortion pills go global : reproductive freedom across borders /
- Brown skins, white coats : race science in India, 1920-66 /
For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library (all disciplines)