This guide is organised to assist you
in writing your essays, where the topics have an Australian focus.
If you want to take a more international view, a few additional
international databases and sites are included.
For any further help in finding or
using these resources please come in
to see or contact your
Research Librarian for Gender
Studies, Helen Attar ph 8303 5345
Cambridge handbook of social sciences in
Australia, ed. Ian McAllister, 2003
Reference collection 300.994 M114c
Australian feminism : a
companion, B Caine, 1998
Reference colleciton 305.420994 C135a
How Australia compares,
R. Tiffen, 2004
Reference collection 994 T565h
Not specifically Australian, but useful for definition and background. International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral
sciences 2002
Reference collection 300.3
S638i also availalbleonline Routledge international
encyclopedia of women : global women’s issues and knowledge, ed.
C.Kramarae, 4 vols, 2000.
Reference collection 305.403
K89r also available online
Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia : culture and society through space and time, ed.Bill Arthur, 2005
Reference collection 994.0049915 A7911m
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. 2 volumes. 1994
Reference collection 994.0049915 H823e
also available online
Dictionary of globalization, A. Jones, 2006
Reference collection 327.03 J762d
The anti-capitalist dictionary, D. E. Lowes, 2006
Reference collection 330.03 L9179a
Bibliographies
Women, work and the tax transfer system :
an annotated bibliography, D. Encel,
1997. SPRC research resource series no.
14.
Barr Smith Main collection 361.99405 S979.2 14
Spectrum : a bibliography of women in Australia, 1945 to the present, Gisela
Kaplan, 1995
Reference collection 305.420994 K175s
Bibliography of women and work in Australia, C. Fox and K. Gray,
1989
Reference and main collection 305.420994 F791b
Catalogue - searching for books
Use these terms in subject heading and guided keyword searches in the
library
catalogue:
Women Employment Australia......lots to browse
Women Australia Social conditions
Women Australia Economic conditions
Equal pay for equal work Australia
Pay equity Australia.
Sex discrimination in employment Australia
Family taxation Australia
Sexual harassment of women Australia
Sexual harassment Australia
Aboriginal Australians Employment.....browse......especially Statistics
Family policy Australia
Minority women Employment
Women alien labor
Minority women Economic conditions Use these 3 headings combined with the subject heading........
Globalization.
Using the subject heading gets aroung the keyword problem of globlization/globalisation
Parental leave Australia
Maternity leave Australia
Dual career families
Work and family
Databases -
searching for newspaper and journal articles
News - Australian and international
Factiva is a full text database of
Australian and
international
newspapers, news services etc
You can search by region - select Australia , and specify a time period.
ABC
use the search box (top right corner of their homepage) to search for
news and current affairs stories and discussions on your topic.
Academic OneFile
Collection of nearly 20 million international peer-reviewed articles, a large proportion of which are full-text in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals across a wide variety of subject areas.
Coverage 1980-
Academic
Search Premier
Full text for more than 4,000 international scholarly journals,
covering every area of
academic study.
Coverage 1985-
Statistics
Australia
Statistical profile : women in
South Australia, Premier’s Council for Women, 2004
Barr Smith Main collection 305.4099423 P925s
Sydney University Workplace Research Centre , including their recent report Lowering the Standards Report
From Awards to Work Choices in Retail and Hospitality Collective Agreements.
A synthesis report by Justine Evesson, John Buchanan, Larissa Bamberry, Betty Frino, Damian Oliver.
