I copied what is written in the outline and I am adding some more
information about your library assignment.
Library research: This assignment will be centred on a topic relating to gender
and the body or on a topic which you would like to investigate. Your topic
SHOULD be APPROVED by the instructor. You are required to use your
readings and our discussions in class as a starting-point for finding further
relevant work in the literature. You will define a problem or topic and will conduct
a library (not internet) research as if you are going to write an essay on the topic.
You can use the internet to identify literature and review online version of hardcopy articles but you are not asked to find internet only sources You are required
to find at least SIX periodical articles and at least THREE books or chapters of
three separate books or three articles in edited books. You will browse through
the texts in order to determine whether they look relevant to your topic. You are
then required to write a page or two (minimum 300 words, maximum 700 words)
about your library research experience. You will explain your topic in one or two
paragraphs. Then you will describe how you narrowed your topic down, which
source led you to another source etc. On the second page you are required to
compile a perfect bibliography (in a format as you would do at the end of an
essay).
Suggestions for library research: If you have a vague idea of what you might
be working on go to the library, browse through some journals, look what kind of
topics are in the agenda currently. If you make a library inquiry through a
computer
(By
using
WEB
Science
–
Social
Science
citation
index,
anthropological abstracts etc.) use several key words to look for a topic. If you
are interested in eating disorders you would not find much anthropological under
that heading but under "body", "female body" etc. Look at the references of the
articles we have in the course package or in the Ward book (she has a section
telling about important books to read) if you think that you are inspired with
anything you have read in the course.
Ask a librarian help you to find resources, how to use the journal catalogues.
Look in journals such as American Anthropologist, Sex Roles, American
Ethnologist, Gender and Society, Signs, Etnos
Very general example topics: Gender and nationalism, women as the ethnic
markers, gender and law, prostitution, gender and space, sport-masculinities and
femininities, Barbie dolls, race and gender, religion, healing and gender, women
as the perpetuators of religion and tradition, transsexuality, gender and state,
beauty pageants, body building (among men and women), women and poverty,
welfare state and gender, gender and power, varieties of feminism, women, men
and revolutions, colonialism and gender, first nations, gender and power