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Resources Related to Roles of Women
Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides information relating to the roles of women. Remember, you can do a keyword search or a subject search to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can make use of Boolean searching by combining your search words with the words and, or, not. Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with their call numbers and the floor location.
The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy. NetLibrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy. HQ1237 .E58 1994, 4th floor.
The Creation of Patriarchy. HQ1121 .L47 1986, V. 1, 4th floor.
Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance. HM136 .F43 1988, 4th floor.
From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990, JV6601.W7 G331994, 4th floor.
Gender and Immigration. ELibrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. ELibrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century. HT1521 .E44 1996, 4th floor.
The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy. HQ518 .H57 1995, 4th floor.
Immigrant Women. HQ1412 .I45, 4th floor.
In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey. HQ1170 .F48 1998. 4th floor.
Islam, Gender, and Social Change. ELibrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein
Masculinity and Power. HQ1090 .B75 1989, 4th floor.
Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. HQ1170 .M53, 4th floor.
Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East. HQ176.5 .M64 1993, 4th floor.
Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War. ELibrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
Post-Migration Economic Role of Females and Patriarchy in Migrant Iranian Families. E184.I5 A39 1986, 4th floor.
Pray God and Keep Walking: Stories of Women Refugees. HV640 .H291996, 4th floor.
Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patrarchal Society. HQ759 .R68 1989, 4th floor.
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. ELibrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
Women and the Koran : The Status of Women in Islam. BP134.W6H45 1997, 4th floor.
Women in the Middle East : Perceptions, Realities, and Struggles for Liberation. HQ1726.5 .W1993, 4th floor.
Women in the Muslim World. HQ1170. W59, 4th floor.
Violence Against Wives: A Case Against the Patriarchy. HV6626.D6 1979, 4th floor.
Research Databases:
Click on the above link for the complete list of the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed below.
Academic Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
Alternative Press. An index to over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
America: History and Life. Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
ArticleFirst: Describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,600 journals in science, technology, social science, business, the humanities, etc.
Contemporary Women's Issues: Focuses on timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more.
CountryWatch: Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information.
CQ Researcher: The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources.
SIRS Government Reporter: The ideal resource to locate information issued by the U.S. government on domestic and international affairs, scientific research, business developments, government procedures and military issues.
Social Science Full Text: Part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile. Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc.
Sociological Abstracts: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc.
Internet Resources Relating to Roles of Women:
Human Rights in Iran: Derechos Human Rights is an international organization working for the respect and promotion of human rights all over the world. Our work consists on educating the public about human rights and human rights violations; on investigating human rights abuses, including their causes, development and consequences; on contributing to the development of international and national human rights law and the rule of law; on preserving the memory of the victims of human rights violations and fighting against the impunity of human rights violators; and on carrying out hands-on projects of assistance to human rights NGOs, activists and victims of human rights or humanitarian law violations.
Irananian Cinema: The Role of Women in Iranian War Movies, Film International Quarterly.
Asian Social Issues Program: Women and Social Change in Iran. Asia Society has launched a long-term initiative called the Asian Social Issues Program (ASIP). The ASIP initiative has a five-year agenda that will take up the following kinds of issues: communities and conflict resolution, the environment, migrations across and within national boundaries, globalization and its impact, and human rights.
Iran Society and Culture: Women: An Open Directory Project site. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Middle East and Jewish Women: Women in the Middle East.Columbia University Library site.
Middle East Network Information Center: MENIC is an online guide to Middle East-related websites and databased that can be accessed via the World Wide Web. It is created by a staff of editors who visit and evaluate web sites, and then organize them into subject-based categories and sub-categories.
Middle East Society: This site provides links to resources of the Middle East.
Persian Web: Persian/Iranian World Wide Web and Internet Resources, Services and Products - a bibliography of websites.
Zan: is an interactive Directory / Anthology of the arts and ideas of Iranian Women by Iranian women, free from any political or religious affiliations. It is inclusive of all ages, religions, races, colors, classes, sexual orientations, and anything else that you can think of!!
World Report: Women's Human Rights in Iran.
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