SOC 260 Gender Inequality
Fall 2002
Margaret Gardner (x3705) mgardner@wheatonma.edu
TJ Sondermann (x3706) tsonderm@wheatonma.edu
Encyclopedias & Handbooks
These provide summary information giving sociological context to and an indication of the scope of particular subject areas, keywords for further searching, references to additional sources, and statistical information. Browse in nearby call number locations for additional, related reference material.
Christensen, K., et al, eds. (2001) International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports. N.Y., Macmillan. 3 vols. Ref GV709 .I58 2001
Demo, D. H., et al, eds. (2000) Handbook of Family Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press. Ref HQ518 .H1538 2000
Ember, M. and Ember, C.R., eds. (2001) Countries and Their Cultures. N.Y.: Macmillan. 4 vols. Ref GN307 .C68 2001 Look for ≥Gender Roles and Statuses≈ in each country article.
Gorgatta, E. F., ed. (2000) Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. N.Y.: Macmillan. 5 vols. Ref HM17 .E5 2000 The premier source of background information and summaries of concepts and theories in sociology.
Kramarae, C. and Spender, D., eds. (2000) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: global women's issues and knowledge. N.Y.: Routledge. 4 vols. Ref HQ1115 .R69 2000
Lehman, J., ed. (2000) Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale. 3 vols. Ref E184 .A1 G14 2000
Rafter, N.H., ed. (2000) Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Phoenix: Oryx. Ref HV6046 .E56 2000
Stromquist, N.P., ed. (1998) Women in the Third World; an encyclopedia of contemporary issues. N.Y.: Garland. Ref HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998
Sussman, M.B., et al, eds. (1999) Handbook of Marriage & the Family, 2nd ed. N.Y.: Plenum Pr. Ref HQ518 .H154 1999
Worell, J., ed. (2001) Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. 2 vols. Ref HQ1115 .E52 2001
Finding Books On Your Topic in the Wheaton Library
ELIZA, the Library's online catalog, available from the Library Home Page, is the "key" to finding information in the Wallace Library, in all its collections. Use the web version and search by:
- author -- personal and institutional names
- title, if a particular work or periodical title is known
- subject heading, to search by assigned Library of Congress subject heading
- keyword, to combine words and to find LC Subject Headings in records
Finding Articles on Sociological Topics In Scholarly Journals, Magazines & News Sources
Searching in online reference databases by subject heading, subject keywords, or author will yield references, many with abstracts, to articles in journals and magazines or the full-text of the article, itself. The appropriate choice of a database and the terminology used to search within are critical to your success. The list below was selected as particularly valuable for Sociology 260. For a complete list of what is available to you, go to the Alphabetical List or Subject List of Reference Databases on the Library's "Electronic Resources" web page.
For Scholarly Articles
- Sociofile, 1974- . (online via Ovid) Indexes and abstracts sociology journals.
- Wilson Social Science Abstracts. 1983- . (online via Ovid) Index to major social science journals.
For News Articles (useful for ideas, current issues, and names of organizations, researchers, etc.)
- Ethnic NewsWatch. Dates vary. (online) Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America, some dating back to 1985.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic. Dates vary. (online) Full-text news, business, legal, and health information from newspapers, newsletters, trade journals, law reviews, and reference publications.
For Scholarly, News, and General-Interest Articles (Mixed)
- Expanded Academic ASAP. 1980- . (online via InfoTRAC) Abstracts and some full-text articles from scholarly and general-interest publications across all disciplines.
- GenderWatch. Dates vary. Most 1990- . (online) Full text access to a database of books, newsletters, reports, newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals representing gender issues, with emphasis on women's studies.
- Women≠s Resources International. 1972- . (online) Indexes articles/books on subjects related to women's studies particularly from the feminist press.
Getting The Periodicals You Need
After locating bibliographic references to journal articles using online indexes/abstracts (databases) or references in books or other articles, search by title of periodical in ELIZA, the library's online catalog, to determine the availability of a particular periodical and issue in the Wallace Library, regardless of format. (You can automatically search for journal titles in ELIZA from the "Library Catalog Holdings" link in each record generated by a search in the Ovid databases.) ELIZA leads you directly to many electronic journals for full-text articles when they are available in that format. Searches in Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTRAC), for example, often yield full-text articles.
For more detail about locating periodicals, refer to the handout, "Does Wheaton Have the Periodical I Need? Sociology", also located at www.wheatonma.edu/library/helpguides/periodical_soc.html
You can request items that you discover are not available at Wheaton through Interlibrary Loan. Use ILL-LINK from the Library Home Page's "Online Request Forms" or the direct order function within the Ovid databases.
Statistics Sources
Search by keywords women and statistics and consider limiting by "Year of Publication after 1998", in ELIZA to find books in the Library and selected websites. Do the same search in WorldCat and limit to Internet Resource for websites.
Statistical Resources on Women and Gender
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/womensstudies/stats.htm
Gender on the Web
Gender and Inequality (Articles and Links from the Global Policy Forum)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/indexgen.htm#links
Human Development Reports (UN Development Programme) -- links to Global, Regional, and National Reports. "Since the first Report, four new composite indices for human development have been developed ˘ the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index, the Gender Empowerment Measure, and the Human Poverty Index. Each Report also focuses on a highly topical theme in the current development debate, providing path-breaking analysis and policy recommendations." Search by country, regions, and theme.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/default.cfm
SocioSite: Going Dutch Sociology; Sociological Subject Areas -- useful directory of subject areas in sociology. Searchable, browsable.
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/index.html
Subject Listing of Women and Gender Resources (University of Wisconsin System Women≠s Studies Librarian≠s Office)
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/womensstudies/othsubj.htm
United Nations Development Programme Publications (Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century)
http://www.undp.org/gender/beijing5/gen_pub.htm
Women≠s Studies/Women≠s Issues Resource Sites -- "a selective, alphabetical listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies/women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program."
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html
Social Science Information Gateway -- includes access to The SOSIG Catalogue, a directory containing selected, high quality Internet resources and to the Social Science Search Engine, an index of pages from selected social science web sites. Points to thousands of resources selected and described by subject experts; browsable or searchable by subject area.
http://sosig.ac.uk
Guides To Research and Writing
Consult "Guides to Citing Sources".
ASA Style Guide. 1996. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. Ref HN73 .A54 1996
Li, Xia. Electronic Styles: a handbook for citing electronic information. 1996. Medford, N.J.: Information Today. Ref LB2369 .L5 1996
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