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Transgender people - Credo Reference
Reference entry for Transgenderism, as well as related terms and identities

Beyond binaries : trans identities in contemporary culture
Call Number: Ebook
Transgender History, Second Edition by Susan Stryker
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Representing Trans by edited by Evan Hazenberg and Miriam Meyerhoff
Publication Date: 2017
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth by Elizabeth J. Meyer (Editor); Annie Pullen-Sansfaçon
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
Critical Perspectives on Gender Identity by Nicki Peter Petrikowski
Publication Date: 2016-07-15
Transgender Children and Youth by Elijah C. Nealy
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
SCU St. Paul
Transgender Communication Studies by Leland G. Spencer, Jamie C. Capuzza
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
SCU St. Paul
Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery by Randi Ettner (Editor); Stan Monstrey (Editor); Eli Coleman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016-05-27
SCU St. Paul
Transgender Mental Health by Eric Yarbrough
Publication Date: 2018-03-08
SCU St. Paul

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Transgender Law Center

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
An all-purpose academic database that is a good starting point for many topics.
Covers 1975 to the present.
Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index is a database of more than 368,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage, beginning in 1991, is both international and interdisciplinary.
Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index Archive is a database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals covering the period of 1969 through 1990. Includes theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples, and gays/lesbians.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
An Internet search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Our link to Google Scholar enables you to see which documents you can access through St. Kate's.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

JSTOR includes various collections, and the St. Kate's Library has purchased the Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII and the Biological Sciences Collection. These collections include subsets for ecology & botany, language & literature, and music.

JSTOR's agreements with publishers often include a "moving wall," which means that the most recent years (typically 3-5 years) are not available.
PsycInfo & PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
The premier database for psychology research, the online version of Psychological Abstracts; includes PsycARTICLES full text journals.
PsycINFO indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles, books, dissertations, and other publications. PsycARTICLES provides the full text of more than 90 journals published by the American Psychological Association. Besides psychology, this database also covers psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage begins in 1806.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive social sciences database with strong coverage of sociology, anthropology, education, and social work
A comprehensive social sciences research database with full text for more than 1,700 journals dating back to 1908. It also provides full text for more than 830 books and 14,000 conference papers. Subject indexing is based on a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Women's Studies International (WSI) covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research, including the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
WSI combines ten files, including Women Studies Abstracts; Women's Studies Bibliography and Database; Women's Studies Database; Women Studies Librarian; MEDLINE Subset on Women; Women of Color and Southern Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography for a total of over 400,000 records.

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