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Contents:

• Find background information
• Find books
• Find articles in key databases
• Key websites
• Evaluating what you find

• $300 award for a paper or project of any length from a 100 or 200 level Wellesley College course (2 awards)
• $750 award for a paper or project of any length from a 300 level Wellesley College course, excluding 360s, and 370s (1 award)
• Deadline: April 1, 2008

• Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories
• Encyclopedia of Social Theory
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide - Clapp Ref 1115 .G74 2003
• Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge - Clapp Ref HQ1115 .R69 2000
• Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women's Rights - Clapp Ref HQ1236 .H85 1995
• A Guide to Human Rights: Institutions, Standards, Practices - Clapp Ref JC571 .G85 2003
• Amnesty International Report: The State of the World's Human Rights - Clapp Ref JC571 .A44a
• Human Rights Watch World Report - Clapp Ref JC571 .H785
• The World's Women, 2000: Trends and Statistics - Clapp Docs U.N. Sales XVII 2000 14
• The World's Women, 2005: Progress in Statistics - Clapp Docs U.N. Sales XVII 2005 7
• Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
• International Migration: A Very Short Introduction
• Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction

Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles).

• use a keyword search to return a broad set of results, or to find resources that reference specific key terms
• use subject headings to identify more books on a specific topic (find them by clicking on the "Full Record" tab in any catalog record) in our catalog and in NExpress and WorldCat
  
  tip: To find additional sources for key concepts, try a keyword search in the library catalog, e.g., decolonization AND feminism

some useful subject headings for this course might be:

• feminist theory
• feminism & related subjects
• transnationalism
• feminism - international cooperation
• women's rights
• women's rights - international cooperation
• women's rights - cross-cultural studies
• feminism - india
• women's rights - india
• women - india - social conditions
  
  

• if our copy is checked out, click on to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days)
• If NExpress doesn't have it, click on in our catalog (2-4 days)
• Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library

women's, gender, and sexuality studies databases

• Women's Studies International
• Gender Watch (1974 - present)
• LGBT Life
  

interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary databases

• JSTOR - articles published up to five years ago
• Project Muse - recent articles; advanced search option also lets you search JSTOR
• Academic Search Premier
• PAIS - Public Affairs Information Service

journals and special issues

• Signs: Globalization and Gender (2001, special issue)
• Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
• differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
• National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Journal
  

check out...

• google scholar
• intute

• Global Women's Activism: Selected Sites (by country/region) - Rutgers University Library
• NGO Research Guide - Duke University
• Global List of Women's Organizations
• Links to Activist Groups - Digital Librarian
• Web Resources in Global Feminism
• Meta Search Engine for Human Rights Sites - U of Minn.
• Women, War, Diaspora and Learning: Research Resources
• WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net - news & analysis
• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
  

Critically evaluate what you find

Criteria to keep in mind when choosing and using soures:

• Accuracy - Does the author cite her/his sources and are they legitimate?
• Authority - Who wrote the source? Are they credible?
• Objectivity - Does the author have a bias, political or commercial or persuasive?
• Currency - Is this information new or based on outdated sources? Can you tell how current it is?

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: February 14, 2008