Scholarly
Resource file
WMST
2010-001, Fall 2000
Bibliographies
DGWS Research Reports: Women in Sports. American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Washington, D.C.: NEA Publication, 1971.
RC 1235.A47
This book presents research on topics of women in sports. The topics covered are kinds of sports, how a woman in sports has impacted society and how competitive sports for women developed. This book has many aspects of women in sports such as the Physiological, Psychosocial, Teaching and Coaching. An example of one of the sections is Research that was done both sexes to see the differences of sports. The researchers who studied about sports only studied on men. Now, they research in sports about women. Cabeza found that both women and men have different skills. Men are better at speed and coordination. Women have better balance compared to men in sports. The writing is directed toward all individuals involved with physical activity programs for girls and women. Even though the book results are published, many of those in a position to use them fail to apply the newly acquired knowledge because they do not understand the implications or are unfamiliar with research terminology. Some do not subscribe to or read research journals. This book can be useful if I want to be a coach. How do I do this? I can go to college and read a lot of this book, read information and train to be the coach. I will be able to make activities for their class better and will be better for women. They would teach you how to play sports. The book is interesting, fun and provides valid information and history. What if I want to know about women in sports and I don’t know anything about it? I can go to the library and find this book that has sports in it. Then I read and learn from it. This book can attract other people to sports. So, the author writes this book to give some more knowledge/awareness about women in sports.
Crystal Fleenor
Biographical Sources
Who’s Who of American Women. New Providence: Marquis Who’s Who, 1998.
This was a very large book that had thousands upon thousands of significant women in the United States. The general format of this resource was minute paragraphs about each important woman. The women are alphabetized in accordance to their last name. The information provided in this resource is as follows: name, occupation, birthplace, birth date, parent’s name, spouse’s name, marriage date, children’s names, where they attended school, where they worked, their accomplishments, and their avocations. Also, some of these women had present addresses, in which an interested person could contact them. This scholarly resource could be useful to a person who is doing research on a particular significant woman in the United States. This resource did not have much information on each women, but it could be used for another resource to add to a bibliography or works cited page.
Sheila Cartwright
A
Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America Since 1850.
New York: Harvest Wheatsheaf, 1990.
REF
N 6757.D86
This
dictionary is about women artists from America and Europe.
The entries are in alphabetical order by the name and the artist most
frequently used. The entries are
fairly short and tell about the life of the artist and her work.
Some entries have pictures, and some do not.
In the middle of the book, there are about 16 pages of artwork, in
color. This book would be useful
for anyone interested in learning about various women, their lives, and their
art. The entries do not go into much detail, so this book would not be useful
for anyone who was researching one specific artist.
Erin Boyes
Notable Black American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.
REF E 185.96. N68
This book contains information on many of the notable black women who lived from the 1730’s to the present, some of whom are still active in our culture. A few examples would be Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Debbie Allen. The book gives background information, lists the accomplishments they had in their lives, and the impact they had on society as black American women for each individual in the book. The women are listed alphabetically. It is easy to use and find information on many black American women. This particular book would be a good and useful source to anyone doing a paper on any of the women in the book. The book may also provide inspirational role models, or give a person more information about a specific role model.
Sally Gardner
Notable
Women in LIfe Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
REF
QH 26.N68
This book told of 97 different women from antiquity to
1996. I tells about these women’s
struggles and strategies to accomplish all that they did.
There were biographies on women from all profession connected with the
life sciences. Physicians such as
Aspasia and scientists like Rebecca Craig Hill are only a few of the women
discussed in this dictionary. There
were bios on women who were Physiologists, Geneticists, Philosophers, and even
Astronauts. This book would be an
excellent resource for a paper. The bios were well written and easy to follow.
Melanie Frerichs
The Advertising
of Men and Women: A Biographical Dictionary.
West, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
REF:
HF 5810.A2A3
A Biographical Dictionary of
Advertising edited by Edd Applegate is a reference that discusses the
greatest minds in advertising. Not
only does it cover those that are in the advertising business today, but also,
the nineteenth century and twentieth century advertising greats. This book has an excellent index and is very easy to read.
It contains fifty biographical entries, which are listed in
alphabetical order. Out of these
fifty biographical entries, there are only nine women mentioned.
This reference contains further readings and notable clients and
campaigns at the end of each biography.
Patricia
Morton
American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland,
1988-1992. REF RT 34.A44
American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary is a reference book designed to bring attention to the profession of nursing. Normally the accomplishments of women were not recognized. If they were in other biographies, there would be important data missing. The contributors working on this particular book wanted it to contain all of the key information. Therefore, they described what it took to be a nurse, what it was like to be a nurse, as well as the obstacles a nurse faced. The format was designed to allow an individual writeup on each person's life. Before a woman's name could appear in this book, she must have been born before 1890 or be deceased.
Brandy Sullivan
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Directories
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
REF E 185.86 .B542
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia is a very useful piece of research material. Black women, who have made some kind of impact on history, lives are portrayed in this book. Throughout the alphabetized text, almost any black women that you could think of is in this book. Each one has a biography about how they impacted America. In the back of the book there is a time line with when they impacted society. If you were doing a research on a notable black women then this text would be perfect for your research. The book is informative of the hard times that black women faced in the past and the women who helped get black women get rights as citizens and human beings.
Liz Smith
Dictionary of Feminist Theory. Maggie Hunn. Columbus, OH: Ohio State U.P., 1995.
REF HQ 1115.H86
The Dictionary
of Feminist Theory, by Maggie Hunn, is a very broad and international
collection of feminist thoughts and definitions. It mostly concentrates on the French and American definitions
and theories. The purpose of this book is to educate or expand the
knowledge about women and feminism. This
is aimed towards students, feminists, activists, or anyone who might want to
learn more about feminism in general.
Megan Archer
Women and Health (Periodical), Volume 30, November 3, 2000, Published by The Haworth Medical Press
Women and Health is a magazine that deals with topics that women can relate too. Such topics include substance abuse and parenthood, ethnics, society, and occupation reproductive hazards, gender differences in gynecologist communication and also the social and medical construction of women. This magazine is made up of many articles that can help women better understand their problems. There is also a list of resources at the end of each article that the readers can use to help them further their research on a specific topic. As well, this magazine could answer many questions that women have about problems. For example, the difference between women and men gynecologists, and how drug abuse affects pregnancy. Overall this Women and Health magazine covers many realistic issues dealing with the women in this society.
Rachel Shifflett
Women’s Studies Encyclopedia. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989- 1991.
REF HQ 1115.W645
Volume III of the Women’s Studies Encyclopedia was published in 1989, and edited by Helen Tierncy. The book contains articles on topics in women’s history, philosophy, and religion. The articles would be of great help to anyone studying a period of time, a certain issue, or a place. The articles describe the women’s roles in the area or time period being discussed or the majority of women’s opinions on a particular issue. There is a helpful index in the back of the book, which can help narrow your search.
The content covered in this book is very broad. The articles tell about everything from women in Medieval times to the debate women have today over abortion. Many places are also covered in the book such as: Egypt, Africa, Cuba, Rome, Sweden, Britain, etc. Women’s roles in religion are discussed. If a person wanted to study a well-known religion like Christianity or even an unfamiliar religion like the Shakers, he would be able to find the information that he needed in this encyclopedia.
The language and wording used are very easy to understand. I feel that it would be considered "easy reading" by most adults. There is also a list of references after almost every reading. This makes researching the topic even further much easier. I did worry somewhat about the year this book was published; it is eleven years old. The articles that I read did not seem "dated", but in using this book as a reference, the reader would definitely want to keep the publishing date in mind. The information in this encyclopedia is easy to find, read, and understand. Overall, I found the Women’s Studies Encyclopedia to be an excellent research tool.
Melinda Benavides
Government Documents
Your Guide To Women's Health, November 1991
HE 20.4010/4:W84
The issue Your Guide to Women's Health is an FDA Consumer Special Report that is important to women, to their families, and to the Food and Drug Administration. This particular report dealt with a range of controversial questions of whether gender bias exists in drug testing, to telling women about the latest prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
The report also addressed women and nutrition, and eating disorders. Also included were issues concerning women of childbearing age: contraceptives, infertility, and the risk of birth defects from the assumption of the drug Accutane, and TSS (toxic shock syndrome) associated with the use of tampons. Issues addressing older women are menopause and osteoporosis.
The information would be beneficial to women, their families, as well as, any agency or research that wants to review reports that were completed by the FDA.
The goal of the report was to raise the public's awareness of special problems that affect women's health and how to address these problems.
Joy Shepard
Indexes
(Infotrac
SearchBank, National Newspaper Index, Business Index, etc.)
Library databases provide excellent information on more current pieces of work that can be found in periodicals, magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals. The library databases can be found on the internet at the site of the libraries of ETSU (http://sherrod.etsu.edu/) and can be accessed anywhere on campus or at your home computer (provided you have a valid ETSU id). Once on the site, if you click on the word “general” it will take you to Infotrac. This program allows you to search magazines and other sources for current information. Infotrac has several sub-categories tailored to specific needs. For example, if you are looking for the most current information on HMO’s, you might click on the health reference center icon. To search for items, all you need is a keyword. You can also narrow your search by publication, date, or even phrase. Sometimes, you can find the entire article on Infotrac and sometimes only abstracts. But the program does provide enough information to find the magazine in the library. These databases are the best way to find the most current information on every subject imaginable and are very easy to use.
Working Woman
Working Woman appeals to educated businesswomen. The articles and stories featured focus on career development, communication skills, management skills, investment strategies, and new technology. Other highlighted articles include stress management, personal health, fashion, beauty, and diet. “Fast Forward” which includes current interest articles on business trends and people is a regular feature. Another regular feature is “Workshop”, which gives tips on career, management, money, and technology. Working Woman’s cover stories are usually about successful women and their businesses. The Magazine has its own website, www.workingwomanmag.com, which gives the same type of information.
Emily Campbell
"Journal of Women's History" vol. 9 no. 4 (winter)
"Journal of Women's History" contains historical essays and stories about a variety of women's issues from politics to sexuality. It deals with matters of importance to women whether they occurred last century or last week. The journal also deals with concerns of all age groups and life situations, everything from housework to military careers. The Journal is in essay format and is published four times per year: summer, fall, winter and spring. This book would be useful to anyone that needs to follow the history of any specific women's topic, whether it is race, women's rights, ethics or moral issues.
Judy Miles
Web Sites
Women Online Worldwide
Women Online Worldwide is located at http://www.wowwomen.com. The site contains many topics that are found in a neatly organized title page of the website. The topics listed contain chat rooms, message boards, link areas, file libraries of things pertaining to women, articles about women, and a mediasource area in which people can locate audio/video clips, interviews, movies, and music of various women artists. The website also contains two separate magazines: Tapestry and Visions. Tapestry contains articles that are designed for women and their needs. Visions is a magazine aimed towards lesbians. Overall, I think the website is very well organized and it easily useful for any woman. It could be a great resource for any woman who just wants to relax and communicate with other women who have things in common with themselves.
Tina Austin
WWWomen
WWWomen (www.wwwomen.com) is an excellent web site for women no matter what their interest. There is everything from art/entertainment to women in history and anything you could imagine in between! I explored the feminism link and the women in history link. Both links were absolutely fascinating! I spent more time than I had intended to at this web site. The information I obtained was scholarly in content and seemed to be thoroughly researched. In addition to scholarly subjects there were sites of interest for women in other aspects of life such as cooking and home entertaining. I would definitely add this to my favorites list of useful sites.
Peggy Barnett
This web site is one that offers a variety of information for women. From career tips to news and politics this site has a lot of fun and useful tips. The site offers links to magazines articles, newsletters, and even shopping coupons. It is a nice web site set up to help women but it would also be good for men. The site is set up in categories. For example all of the magazine links are together. It also has the major links on the side of the page together so that it is very noticeable for the person viewing.
Amber Woodward