Secondary Sources for American History - HIST 4000 - U.S. Gender History - Research Guides at University of Northern Iowa

Find Secondary Sources - Journal Articles

JSTOR
Be sure to limit by publication date (your professor may have a cutoff date - e.g. nothing published before 1985).
If you scroll further down the search page you can limit your results to a specific discipline by checking the box for "History" or "Gender Studies" or "Feminist & Women's Studies"

America: HIstory and Life
This database can be limited by historic time periods (e.g. decades).
Be sure to limit by publication date (your professor may have a cutoff date - e.g. nothing published before 1985).
Use the drop down menus at the end of the search blanks: e.g. SU Subject Terms or TI Title to focus your search.

To focus your search on gender history set your search to SU Subject and try any of the following "subject" terms:

Feminism
Feminists
Femininity
Gender
Gender inequality
Gender role
LGBTQ+
Masculine identity
Masculinity
Transgender
Women's roles

Combine one or more of the above subject terms with your topic. e.g.

Find Secondary Sources - Books

OneSearch
UNI search engine for books and articles.
For books choose "Books/Media" to turn OneSearch into the library catalog and look for books owned by Rod Library. To find primary materials set your search or results ("Publication Date") to the specific years of your study.

Note - for books focusing on U.S. Gender History try adding the search term "Sex role -- United States -- History" to an additional search blank and changing the dropdown menu to "Subject" at the front of the search blank.

In OneSearch you can also focus your search on gender history by:

typing "History" in the first search blank and setting the dropdown menu for that blank to SU Subject

then typing in any one of the following "subject" terms in the second blank and again setting the dropdown menu to SU Subject:

Fatherhood
Feminism
Feminists
Femininity
Gays
Gay rights
Gender identity
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Masculinity
Motherhood
Queer theory
Sex role
Sexual minorities
Transgender