EYE109J - Gender, Representation & Resistance

Introduction | Reference Sources | Indexes & Databases | Books | Internet Resources | Writing the Paper

Reference Librarians Pat Prieto, Bill Grubb, and Zip Kellogg/tel. 780-4272 would be glad to help you find information at any time.

This class is an information intensive one. A facility with proprietary library databases, using URSUS (the book catalog), locating experts, and refined searching of the Net will all work to your advantage. The reference librarians will visit the class and are available to meet with students individually or in groups.

This course guide pulls together most of the links you'll need to find articles, books, and good internet resources for the Gender (EYE 109J) class. Your professors and the librarians encourage you to use it, as it will almost certainly save you time and help you find things that would be acceptable to the professor (some things found on Google would not be acceptable).

Reference sources are useful tools to obtain background information and to develop a vocabulary of possible search terms. They give one the "lay of the land" before delving more deeply into a topic. The following are just a few of the online and print resources available at the University of Southern Maine Libraries.

Atlas of Crime: Mapping the Criminal Landscape
POR Reference HV 6783 A85

Crime in the United States

Encyclopedia of Genocide
POR Reference Hv 6322.7 E53

Encyclopedia of Women and Crime
POR Reference HV 6046 E56

Historical Statistics of the United States

Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice
POR Ref HV 6017 E52

Encyclopedia of the American Left
POR Ref HX 86 E58

Encyclopedia of Rape
POR Ref HV 6558 E53

Medical, Legal, & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation: A Comprehensive Review of Pornography, Prostitution, and Internet Crimes
POR Ref HV 6570.2 C65

The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism
POR Ref HQ 1115 R68

Womanwords: A Dictionary of Words About Women
POR Ref HQ 1115 M55

A Feminist Dictionary
POR Ref HQ 1115 K73

Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America
POR Ref HV 12 E497

Here are a few databases selected specifically because they are likely to be useful for students in the Gender, Representation & Resistance course. These databases will lead you to articles.

Women's Studies International
Index to the interdisciplinary field of women's studies, this database covers material in the fields of arts and humanities, business, economics, education, history, international relations, political science, public policy, and sociology. Covers from 1972 forward, and includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Generally citations.

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Business Source Premier

Provides full text for more than 2,800 scholarly business journals of which 912 are peer reviewed. Coverage includes: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more

America: History and Life
Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.

EconLit
Contains citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. Provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

ERIC - Education

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database. The EBSCO version connects to many full-text journal articles through Linked Full Text and Article Linker. Some full text, some citations.

Historical Abstracts [info]

Index to articles, dissertations, and books on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Works on U.S. and Canadian history are covered in America: History and Life. Citations.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses [info]

Index to dissertations from 1861 to the present, representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Includes the 350-word abstracts written by the author for those dissertations published after 1979. More limited coverage of master's theses from 1962 on (UM theses are not included); citations for those published after 1987 include 150-word abstracts. Database includes full text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996.

PsycINFO

Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly.

Sociological Abstracts [info]

Covers sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, gerontology, mental health, minority studies, political science, public health, social psychology, social work, urban studies, welfare programs, and women's studies. Comprehensive and international in scope. Covers about 2,600 journals in 30 different languages from 55 different countries. Also includes books, conference papers,and doctoral dissertations. Largely citations.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 [info]

A collection of documentary projects pertaining to women and social movements in the United States. Primary source materials include books, images, manuscripts, journal articles, phamplets, letters, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. This database has been made available through USM Faculty Technology Grant awards to the History and Women's Studies programs. Full text.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This database supplies citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law and public administration/policy.

EconLit
A database of the economic literature produced by the American Economics Association. It covers hundreds of journals, books, disserta tions, working papers, etc. If you are taking classes in economics or are an economics major this database may be of great use to you. Primarily citations.

In order to find books and government documents and other materials held in the University of Maine System you will need to consult URSUS, the online catalog.

If you do not know the exact subject terms describing the topic you need, try doing a keyword search.

Here is a sampler of topics you'll find in URSUS. Again, these will link you to books.

To obtain materials not located at your USM, but still within URSUS, you will need to click on the Request button on the URSUS screen and enter your name and barcode number (found under the barcode on your USM Card, which begins with 25022....). Your barcode will need to be activated in the library. If the item is not available through our catalog then try Maine InfoNet. And the library staff will get you books and articles from all over the world (items they don't own) by using Interlibrary Loan (Illiad).

Each of these sites contains a variety of links to excellent resources...this is only a sampler of the good material available on the web.

Women's resources

U.S. Census Bureau

The Civil Rights Movement 

Human rights on the Internet 

Indigenous nations

This category contains information on how to write a paper. The sources listed here provide assistance in this process. Check with the professor or a reference librarian if you have questions about this.

Writing Handbooks

Research and Documentation site by Diana Hacker ( Bedford St. Martin's Press): This site offers examples of term papers formatted in MLA, ALA, APA, and Chicago style.

A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker
POR and GOR Reference PE1408 .H2778
Includes sections on composing and revising, design, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, writing, and documentation.

Citation Style

Online! A Reference Guide Using Internet Resources

Plagiarism

Plagiarism Examples (Indiana University School of Education)

Plagiarism and cyber-plagiarism 

Created by:Pat Prieto, Bill Grubb, and Zip Kellogg
Created on: Oct. 9, 2007