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12 - 449 Sexual Life & Sexuality
503 - 1064 Marriage & Families
1075 - 1075.5 Sex Roles
1088 - 1090.7 Men & Masculinity
1101 - 2030.7 Women & Feminism
Other relevant areas include:
HV 1442 - 1449 (Social Welfare and Women & LGBTQ populations)
K - KZ (Law)
BF 692 (Psychology of Sex)
D - F (History & Area Studies)
Gender & Sexuality books are also located in numerous other sections of the library. Contact a Reference Librarian for further assistance locating books on this topic.
The Carol Duin Collection is kept in the Special Collections archive. It contains the papers of an Asheville LBGT activist for whom the collection is named. The papers fill two boxes and contain phamplets, correspondences, brochoures, educational materials and speeches.