Catalogue
Use these terms in keyword and subject heading searches:
Intercultural communication
Ethnocentrism
Ethnicity
Feminism Cross-cultural studies
Gender identity
Women's rights Cross-cultural studies
Women in politics
Postcolonialism
Feminism......divided by name of country
Women Social conditions.....divided by name of country
Women Legal status, laws, etc....divided by name of country
Prostitution
Sex role
Men
Masculinity
Dictionaries, Handbooks and Encyclopedias
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 2002.
Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge, ed. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 vols. 2000.
Reference collection 305.403 K89r
Routledge international encyclopedia of women, eds. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 2003.
Women in the Third World : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues. 1998.
Reference collection 305.42091724 S921w
Women in the Third World : a reference handbook, K. L. Kinnear, 1997.
Reference collection 305.4091724 K55w
Post-colonial studies : the key concepts, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 2007.
Reserve and Main collection 325.303 A823k.2
Encyclopedia of feminist theories, Lorraine Code. 2000.
Reference collection 305.4203 C669e
The Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism, ed. Sarah Gamble. 2000.
Reference collection 305.4203 G191r
Gender training : the source book, ed. Sarah Cummings. 1998.
Reference collection 305.3 C971g
Encyclopaedia of women in South Asia, ed. S. Mittra, 8 vols, 2004.
Reference collection 305.40954 M6853e
Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies, Ellis Cashmore. 2004.
Dictionary of race and ethnic relations, Ellis Cashmore, 1994.
Reference collection 305.8003 C338d.4
Men and masculinities: a social, cultural, and historical
encyclopedia, ed. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. 2004.
International encyclopedia of men and masculinities, ed. Michael Flood ... [et al.] 2007.
Reference collection 305.3 F6315i
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures, ed. Suad Joseph, 6 vols., 2003-2007.
Reference Collection 305.4869703 J835w
Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women’s biography, comp. and ed.,
Jennifer S. Uglow, 2005.
Reference collection 920.72 U26m.4
International encyclopedia of sexuality, ed. Robert
T. Francoeu, 1997.
If you need background information on a particular country, there are encyclopedias in the Reference collection such as:
China today : an encyclopedia of life in the People's Republic, ed. Jing Luo, 2005.
Reference collection 951.0503 L964c
Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara, ed. John Middleton, 1997.
Reference collection 967.003 M628e
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Trevor Mostyn, 1998.
Reference collection 956 M916c
Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures, ed. by D. Balderston, 3 vols., 2000.
Reference collection 980.003 B176e
Bibliographies
Postcolonial theory : a bibliography, compiled by Joan Nordquist, 1998
Reference collection 306.05 R332 50
Labor abuses in the global economy : women and children, a bibliography, Joan Nordquist, 1998.
Reference collection 305 C7612 51
Women refugees in international perspectives, 1980-1990 : an annotated bibliography, ed. Gertrud Neuwirth, 1997.
Reference collection 362.87082016 N498w
Feminism worldwide : a bibliography, Joan Nordquist, 1996.
Reference collection 305 C7612 44
Muslim women throughout the world : a bibliography, Michelle Kimball, 1996.
Reference collection 305.486971 K49m
Women and work in developing countries : an annotated bibliography, Parvin Ghorayshi. 1994.
Reference collection 331.409172 G427w
Women in India : a bibliography 2001.
Reference collection 305.40954 N396w
Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography.
Vol. 4 (1999) Female Circumcision and Infibulation in Africa
The Men’s bibliography, comp. Michael Flood. 2003.
Databases for journal articles
Women/Feminism
Studies on women & gender abstracts 1995-
African women's bibliographic database
Interdisciplinary, many with full text
Academic OneFile
Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text.
Coverage 1980-
Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers. Covers a wide variety of humanities and social science subjects. Provides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers including university presses and societies.
If your topic is Australian, use this database first:
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT
Newspapers
Factiva is an index to Australian and international newspapers, and includes full text for many titles.
WWW Sites
Intute.... is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database.
Search here for quality www sites on your topic
eg human rights search led me to :
Women's human rights resources, Bora Laskin Library, University of Toronto
and
Women's human rights net..... and many others
........or you can search for the name of a country.
Gender, Ethnicity British-based gateway to web resources from Media and Communication Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwth.
The Gender Relations Centre (GRC), part of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University
African Women and Economic Development: Investing In Our Future
UN ECA / African Centre for Women (ACW), UN ECA , 1998
Papers and proceedings from a conference held in Addis Ababa, looking to develop strategic actions to speed up the socio-economic development of Africa by integrating gender issues into development policies, plans and programmes.
Center for reproductive law and policy
Coalition against trafficking in women
Dimitra Project: gender, rural women and development
EngenderHealth
United Nations
Statistics and indicators on women and men
includes The World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics and The World's women 2000
also in the
Reference Collection 305.4 W927.3
The World's women 2000 : trends and statistics
Women living under Muslim Laws
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