Library Research Guides: FREN 323: Liberté, Egalité, Sexualités: Home

Key Databases

OpenEdition
OpenEdition est un portail de ressources électroniques--revues (journals) and livres (books) qui a l’accès ouvert (free access), la plupart d'en français.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1955.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Index to literature on topics pertaining to sexuality and gender identity, including full text for over 140 of the most important and historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines, and regional newspapers.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
With a focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas, this collection gathers historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community, and changes in gender roles, including articles dating back as far as the 1970s.

See French Modern News & Historical News tabs for more primary source options.

Gallica
The digital presence of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It contains millions of digitized newspapers, magazines, images, and sound recordings relating to France and French history and culture.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works, dating from B.C.E. to present.

Requires creation of an Artstor account to download images. This account also grants you off-campus access for 60 days. If your account is inactivated or you need to create an account, make sure to use a library link (such as this one) to get to Artstor so that you will be recognized as a Wellesley user.

WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
A database of the contents of thousands of library catalogs worldwide that can be searched to find and request books and other materials not owned by Wellesley.

You can also search WorldCat using FirstSearch.