Historical Perspectives on Women: Library Research
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WGST 2P91 LIBRARY TIPS AND TRICKS Jennifer Thiessen, Liaison Librarian for Women’s and Gender Studies February 2013
Transcript of Historical Perspectives on Women: Library Research
WGST 2P91LIBRARY TIPS AND TRICKSJennifer Thiessen, Liaison Librarian for Women’s and Gender Studies
February 2013
Today’s Agenda
Searching for articles Choosing the best database
Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life MLA International Bibliography Feminae Gender Studies Database
Group Work: Explore topic—e.g. witchcraft
Discussion Writing Tips/Help
Group Work
Explore your assigned database by searching for resources on a topic of your choosing Databases:
Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life MLA International Bibliography Feminae Gender Studies
Guiding questions…
Your task as a group: Explore your database using the following questions to guide your investigation.
Ideas for searching: witchcraft, eugenics, suffrage
What is included in the database? Subject coverage? Date coverage?
Can you get peer-reviewed articles? How?
How can you get to the full text of an article?
Other tips on making your search better?
AMERICA: HISTORY & LIFE/HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS America: History & Life
History of Canada and the U.S. Coverage: prehistory – present
Historical Abstracts History of all countries EXCEPT Canada and
the U.S. Coverage: 1450-present (i.e., won’t cover
early middle ages)
Both databases contain journal articles
AMERICA: HISTORY & LIFE/HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS
MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
journals, series, books, working papers, conference proceedings
modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore
FEMINAE
covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages
FEMINAE
Search Results1. Record Number: 28004Author(s): Scudieri, Novello, Contributor(s):Title :A Trial for Witchcraft at Todi (1428)Source: Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation Edited by Katherine L. Jansen, Joanna Drell, and Frances Andrews . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pages 203 - 215. Year of Publication: 2009.
24. Record Number: 9340Author(s): Broedel, Hans Peter.Contributor(s):Title :To Preserve the Manly Form from So Vile a Crime: Ecclesiastical Anti-Sodomitic Rhetoric and the Gendering of Witchcraft in the "Malleus Maleficarum" [Broedel argues that Heinrich Krämer, the author, with the help of Jacob Sprenger, of the "Malleus maleficarum," adopted the language and critiques of sodomy to describe witchcraft, thus making it a crime of deviant sexuality. Since women were naturally p
Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 136-148. Link InfoYear of Publication: 2002.
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GENDER STUDIES DATABASE
Interdisciplinary gender-related
topics: women's studies, men's studies, ethnic studies, health, sexual diversity
Also good for historical topics.
Summary of Search Tips
Use the * symbol to search for alternate endings (e.g., work* = worker, workers, working, etc.) Note: this doesn’t work in Feminae!
Use the ? symbol to search for different spellings (e.g., wom?n = women, woman) Note: this doesn’t work in Feminae!
Pay attention to limits (e.g., peer-reviewed journals, language, historical period)
Narrow/focus your search by using subject terms/descriptors
Questions?
Women’s and Gender Studies Research Guide http://researchguides.library.brocku.ca/WISE
Library Help Help Desk http://brocku.ca/library/help-lib
Jennifer Thiessen [email protected]
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