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International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, part of Archives of Sexuality and Gender, examines populations and areas of the world previously underrepresented in prevailing scholarship on sexuality and gender, with a particular focus on southern Africa and Australia. The module also provides significant coverage of lesbian and feminist organizations, and lesbian culture internationally. Including manuscripts, periodicals and other ephemera, International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture totals around 450,000 pages of content dating from the 1820s, with the bulk of the material between 1970–2016.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender also includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 and Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
Bodies and Barriers: queer activists on health by 
The Equal Curriculum: the student and educator guide to LGBTQ health by 
Heart, Brain and Mental Health Disparities for LGBTQ People of Color by 
HIV and Gay Men: clinical, social and psychological aspects by 
Pediatric Gender Identity gender-affirming care for transgender & gender diverse youth by 
Queering Narratives of Domestic Violence and Abuse: victims and/or perpetrators? by 
Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South by 
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by 
Sexual and Gender Minority Health by 
The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning: a guide for faculty development by 
The Manifesto for Teaching Online by 
Pedagogies of Digital Learning in Higher Education by 
Small Teaching Online: applying learning science in online classes by 
Student Engagement Techniques: a handbook for college faculty by 
Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor by 
Teaching Naked Techniques: a practical guide to designing better classes by 
Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains by 
Teaching Race: how to help students unmask and challenge racism by 
Teaching Race in Perilous Times by Off-campus access is limited to current UCB faculty, staff and students. Choose one of the following methods:
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We now have access to two archival collections from Wiley Digital Archives: the Royal College of Physicians Collection and the British Association for the Advancement of Science Collection.
The RCP collection contains manuscripts, maps, photographs, and personal papers from the 14th to the 20th centuries on the RCP’s changing role in setting standards in medical practice.
The BAAS collection documents the 19th and 20th century efforts of the British scientific community to establish science as a professional activity and make Britain into a globally competitive center for science. It includes reports, manuscript materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, brochures and catalogues; field reports and minutes; annual reports.
American Contagions: epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19 by 
The Business of Pandemics: the COVID-19 story by 
The Coronavirus: human, social and political implications by 
COVID-19 : Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing by 
COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age by 
COVID-19 in New York City: an ecology of race and class oppression by 
Emergency Powers in a Time of Pandemic by 
Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary by 
Integrated Risk of Pandemic: Covid-19 Impacts, Resilience and Recommendations by 
Pandemic Risk Management in Operations and Finance: modeling the impact of COVID-19 by 
Pandemics, Publics, and Narrative by 
The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities by 
Unprepared: America in the time of coronavirus by 
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 by 
A World Out of Reach: dispatches from life under lockdown by 
Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean by 
Critical Medical Anthropology: perspectives in and from Latin America by 
Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by 
Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico by 
Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's experiments with disease prevention in the Age of Reason by 
Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean by 
Global Mental Health: Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations by 
An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia by 
Patients, Doctors and Healers: medical worlds among the mapuche in southern chile by 
Peripheral Nerve: health and medicine in cold war Latin America by 
The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana by 
State-Sponsored Activism: bureaucrats and social movements in democratic Brazil by 
State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chávez by 
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