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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Webster University Library

Department of Law, Crime and Social Justice

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Library of Congress call numbers group books by topic. The HQ call number range is the primary location for Women's & Gender Studies, which is located on Level 3 of Emerson Library. However, because WGST is interdisciplinary, you may find other call number ranges (subject areas) useful.

Call Number Subject
BF 692-692.5 Psychology of sex. Sexual behavior
BJ 1395 Feminist ethics
BL 458 Women in comparative religion
GN 301-674 Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
HM Sociology. Social Psychology
HN Social history. Social problems. Social reform
HQ The family. Marriage. Women. Feminism
HQ 19-30.7 Sexual behavior and attitudes. Sexuality
HQ 74-74.2 Bisexuality
HQ 75.76.8 Homosexuality. Lesbianism
HQ 77-77.95 Transexualism
HQ 503-1064 The family. Marriage. Home
HQ 767.8-792.2 Children. Child development. Including child rearing, child life, play, socialization, children's rights
HQ 1075-1075.5 Sex role
HQ 1088-1090.7 Men
HQ 1101-2030.7 Women. Feminism
HT Communities. Classes. Races
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
K 670-709 Domestic relations. Family law
RG Gynecology and obstetrics
UB 416-419 Minorities, women, etc. in armed forces
VB 320-325 Minorities, women, etc. in navies

About call numbers

Libraries use a system to organize materials so that books on the same topic are grouped together on the shelves. To learn more, see https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit03/libraries03_04.phtml