LAMP: Gender Issues Research
NAME:
1. Locate a book by Linda Brannon:
A. What is the title?
B. Where is the book located?
C. What is the call number?
D. What is the checkout status and is it available for checkout?
E. If you wanted other books like this one, what is one subject heading that you could click on to
find more?
2. What is one limitation when using ONLY the web for research?
3. From Electronic Resources – E-books, browse the Gale Virtual Reference Library publication categories and
click on ‘Social Science.’ Scroll down to Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources and go to the e-Book
Index:
A. Type the word workplace and then follow one of the hyperlinks.
B. Who is the author of this section?
4. From Electronic Resources – E-Journals, go to CQ Researcher. In the Quick Search box type the word gender,
and click on Go. Select on one of the top 6 reports listed. Who authored it?
5. From Electronic Resources – Periodical Indexes, go to Academic Search Premier. In the search box, type
glass ceiling. Place a check by the Full Text box, and one by the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals box. Click
Search, and then select one article:
A. What is the title of the periodical (source)?
B. What is the title of the article?
C. When was the article published?
D. Who wrote the article?
6. From Electronic Resources – Periodical Indexes, go to All EBSCO Databases. Place a checkmark before
Academic Search Premier, AND one before Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Press on the Continue
button. In the first box type, gender identity; in the box below it type, children.
A. What is the number given for results?
B. What are two ways to reduce the number of these results?
i)
ii)
7. To help organize your works cited pages in MLA format, go to Electronic Resources - Reference
Resources – Noodletools and establish a free account. “Create a New List” using the MLA Advanced list
style. Select the template for a book, and make your first entry for your Works Cited page by referring to the
title projected on the screen. Copy and paste your citation below:
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Gender Studies Research Guide
Books
Go to LAMP, the RCC Library web site, located at: http://library.rcc.edu/riverside/
Useful terms
Androgyny (psychology)
Gender identity
Masculinity
Men
Men -- psychology
Pay equity
Sex differences
Sex role
Sexual division of labor
Sexism
Transsexuals
Women
Women -- psychology
Women -- socialization
Selected Web Sites (Click on one site and write some notes about it.)
About Face [fights media images about women]
http://www.about-face.org/
American Psychological Association: Topics: Women and Men
http://www.apa.org/topics/topicwomenmen.html
Feminist Women’s Health Center
http://www.fwhc.org/
Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories
http://genders.org/
Gender Ads Project [from Lake Tahoe Community College]
http://www.genderads.com/
Glass Ceiling Commission
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/glassceiling/
Men’s Health Network
http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/
National Center for Men
http://www.nationalcenterformen.org/
National Committee on Pay Equity
http://www.pay-equity.org/
PLAG: Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=194&srcid=-2
United Nations Development Fund for Women
http://www.unifem.org/
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