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PolS 242 : Women in War and Peace (HC)
Using Background Information:
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. : Online)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1998-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1998-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1998-present.
Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews, Inc.,
Elisabeth Jean Wood, "The Social Processes of Civil War" June 2008 Annual Review of
Political Science
Includes a section "The Transformation of Gender Roles"
Veena Das, "Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity" October 2008 - But available now.
Annual Review of Sociology
Includes a section "War and the Heroic Virtues"
Political Science
Includes a section "The Transformation of Gender Roles"
Veena Das, "Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity" October 2008 - But available now.
Annual Review of Sociology
Includes a section "War and the Heroic Virtues"
Encyclopedias on Issues and Academic Approaches
Encyclopedia of genocide
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999.
Alphabetical entries define names, places, and events associated with genocide, and major sections deal with the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the process, detection, denial, and prevention of genocide.
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Elsevier, 2001.
Twenty-six volume work produced in the Netherlands with an international viewpoint. Good for discussing social theory relevant to specific issues.
Regional Encyclopedias and Handbooks
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture
Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.
Political handbook of the world
Publisher: Washington, DC : CQ Press,
Provider: CQPress
This authoritative reference book provides detailed information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. International organizations, from the African Union to the World Trade Organization, are profiled as well. Good source for information on current events, elections, recent political history, and more.
Web Resources
Gender
Eldis, a development policy group, presents six pages of resources on gender and conflict:
Conflict and Emergencies, Displacement and Refuges, Girls' Education in Emergencies,
Manuals and Toolkits, Peacebuilding and Reconstruction, and Women and Girl Soldiers
Conflict and Emergencies, Displacement and Refuges, Girls' Education in Emergencies,
Manuals and Toolkits, Peacebuilding and Reconstruction, and Women and Girl Soldiers
PeaceWomen
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom maintain this site to track developments worldwide.
Women and War (International Committee of the Red Cross)
A collection of documents, reports, and films about women and war.
WomenWarPeace.org: A Portal on Women, Peace, and Security
The United Nations maintians this site as a place to consolidate data and analysis. Includes external information from NGOs and think tanks as well as U. N. reports and actions.
Finding Journal Articles in Area Studies:
Africa-wide
Provider: Ebsco
Offers access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa including books, journal articles, maps and music recordings. Some materials are in full-text. Covers 19th century to the present.
Bibliography of Asian studies
Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festshriften on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers 1971 to the present.
HAPI
Provider: UCLA
Contains citations to scholarly journal articles published in Latin America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and to materials that address this region and U.S. Hispanic topics. Covers political, economic, and social issues in publications from 1970 to the present.
HLAS online
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes social science and humanities journals and conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations. Also offers links to some full-text articles. Covers 1936 to the present.
Finding Journal Articles in Policy Studies:
Columbia International Affairs Online
Offers full-text journal articles, case studies, scholarly papers, non-governmental organization papers, and conference proceedings that focus on theory and research in international affairs. Covers 1991 to the present.
PAIS international
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915 to the present.
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 to the present.
Worldwide political science abstracts
Provider: CSA
Provides citations and abstracts of journals in political science and related fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975 to the present.
Finding Books, and Other Publications:
Use the Tripod Catalog to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.
rape [Subject Search]
women and war [Subject Search]
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more material.
(peace or resolution*) AND (women* or female* or gender*) AND war* [keyword search]rape [Subject Search]
women and war [Subject Search]
Tripod - For locating books, journals, and other materials held in the Tri-College libraries. Deliveries within the Trico usually arrive in one or two days. Use the "Request" button. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.
WorldCat - An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 62 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.
Finding Reports:
PolicyFile
Provider: Chadwyck-Healey
Provides online access to reports on public policy issues and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics globally and within the United States.
Examples of Recent Reports
Gender, Peace and Peacekeeping. Lessons from Southern Africa
The Institute for Security Studies published this report in 2006.
License to Rape: The Burmese Military Regime's Use of Sexual Violence in the Ongoing War in Shan State
A 2002 report by two Burmese organizations in Thailand.
Role of Women in Stabilization and Reconciliation
The United States Institute of Peace issued this report in 2006. Its goal in part was to outline the actions that the U. S. government should take to involve women in their country's recovery from conflict.
"We'll Kill You if You Cry": Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict
A 2003 report from Human Rights Watch
Women and Nation-Building
A 2008 case report using Afghanistan as a case study.
Sources for Newspaper Articles:
World news connection
Contains hundreds of international news items that are added daily, most translated into English. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
Access world news
Provider: NewsBank
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977 to the present.
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)
Statistics:
United Nations Common Database
Contains many demographic, social, and economic indicators with data availabe at the country-level.
WDI online.
Contains development data covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries,and 18 regional and income groups. An extensive collection of data that includes population, health, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Covers 1960 to the present.