The databases listed here are just a selection of what is available through Wellesley. Some of them have content in Italian as well as English. See our Research Databases list and browse by Subject or Content type to find other databases relevant to your research.
Full-text peer-reviewed articles on gender, sex, and sexuality in history, sociology, psychology, education, art, and more.
The Location limiter can be helpful in focusing a search in GenderWatch. To find sources about Italy, enter italy in the search box and choose Location from the drop-down menu next to the search box.
Peer reviewed journals, magazines and regional newspapers on topics pertaining to sexuality and gender identity, and includes the full text of many historically significant LGBTQ+ publications.
Dates: 1917 CE-Present
Peer reviewed articles on women's and gender studies, drawing on gender studies, education, sociology, history, and more.
Scholarly articles on literature, languages, linguistics, film, folklore, and rhetoric, from all cultures.
Full-text scholarly journal articles and books on all aspects of literature, along with literary reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and topic overviews) and the full text of thousands of literary works from the 8th century to the present.
Articles on film and television from scholarly and popular film journals as well as a selection of encyclopedia articles and other reference sources.
Scholarly and popular articles and book chapters on film and television history, theory, writing, production, cinematography, reviews, and more. Includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present.
Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of world history (excluding the US and Canada), 1450 CE to present and searchable by historical time period.
Peer-reviewed articles, scholarly books, and academic theses published from 1859 to present on all aspects of medieval and Renaissance life (400 CE to 1700 CE).
Dates: 1859 CE-Present
Articles from an international array of publications covering topics in art and architectural history, archaeology, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, urban design, photography, costume design, film, non-western art and more.
Scholarly peer-reviewed articles and books on music and musicians. Covers all genres of music from all over the world.
Scholarly journal articles and books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Does not include the most recent 3-5 years of many journals.
Full-text scholarly articles in all disciplines.
Find articles published in over 6000 scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications in the humanities and social sciences in over 60 languages, reaching back to 1665.
Dates: 1665 CE-present
These tips work in SuperSearch, the catalog, and most databases.
Use quotation marks " " to search words as a phrase. This will narrow your results.
"birth control"
Use AND to combine multiple concepts in your search. This will narrow your results.
"birth control" AND medieval
Use OR to find different ways your topic could be expressed. This will expand your results. Group these related terms in parentheses, so the database interprets them first. The following search will find results that have any one of the terms in the first set of parentheses along with any one of the terms in the second set.
("birth control" OR contraception) AND (medieval OR "middle ages")
Use an asterisk * to find variant endings. This will expand your results.
("birth control" OR contracept*) AND (medieval OR "middle ages")
You can use the Wellesley Library Catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles). A few tips:
gender renaissance italy
leads to linked subject terms and more books related to different aspects of this topic:
Women > Italy > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Can't find what you're looking for at Wellesley? You have the world at your fingertips through WorldCat, a catalog of libraries throughout the country and the world! WorldCat is a great place to find books that we don't have in our library, including books in Spanish and other languages. You can request them through Interlibrary Loan with the click of a button.
Use WorldCat Discovery to search and request directly from libraries worldwide via Interlibrary Loan.
Questions? Interlibrary Loan Guide